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Coming Second: Lyrics
Found a hole and slipped on through
Kissed the stone and learnt the lines
Jumped the cue all the time forgetting you
Best dishevelled lover 3 years running
Coming second to
A picket fence white 9-5
Whos just alive
Beyond repair, there is nothing to say
Save some fading regrets
Yet I can't be without this
I want you to be around
I need you to be around
I need you to say you'll be around
I need you to be around
Spit-shone lies, juggled debts
Planted flags and made regrets
Muddled through all the time
Forgetting you
I need you to be around
I want you to say you'll be around
I need you to be around
Cut your teeth and breezed on to
Another brothers fickle ways
So why amazed when it don't
Come / turn out your way
I want you to be around
Kissed the stone and learnt the lines
Jumped the cue all the time forgetting you
Coming second to
A picket fence white 9-5
Whos just alive
Save some fading regrets
Yet I can't be without this
I want you to be around
I need you to be around
I need you to say you'll be around
I need you to be around
Planted flags and made regrets
Muddled through all the time
Forgetting you
I want you to say you'll be around
I need you to be around
Another brothers fickle ways
So why amazed when it don't
Come / turn out your way
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This song, to me anyway, conjures up images of a man having an affair with a married woman - her husband being a man who's "just alive" - and the "picket fence white 9-5" being their domestic life together, as opposed to the life she leads with the singer of the song.
The found a hole part deals with the singer finding the thing that was missing in this woman's relationship and providing it for her - thus finding a way into her heart, as it were.
Anyone think this sounds like Beetlebum by Blur?
YES! I knew it reminded me of something.
YES! I knew it reminded me of something.
overwhelming fear of descending into desperate lonelieness? or not? the buzzing at the end is awesome though.
i think its about living with someone and forgetting them, suburban life, growing old i.e "white 9-5 Whos just alive" also-lies, juggled debts Planted flags and made regrets
Coming second - it's about not coming in first. That is, his partner has moved on from him and his bohemian ways and settled for a 'normal' 9-5 kinda guy. He's jealous, he's hurt and he's working hard to cover it all up, but he can't hide some yearning for the new relationship with 'some other fickle brother' to fall apart.
Best song on "Asleep In The Back".
I love the little guitar twang.