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Slow Motion Lyrics
What's all that commotion going on?
The boy in the back on his second attack wants his baby back
Wants his baby back
What's all that commotion that you hear?
The girl in the back who was doing the quake got a belly ache
She can't concentrate
Pick up the beat you can move like you're made out of vapor
"Catch me if you can", is what she said with her hands
Come on and take me back
Can you take her back?
When she gives you the beat and you get the shine
The world slows down and she stops on a dime
Got a number when you close your eyes like a real magician
Still she knows she'll never lose a thing
She can put you up on a shelf until she wants to pull the string
Still you know she'll never slip away
Keep time in your head counting in your head
Slow motion
I can play with time
I can keep today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and look at the pictures rolling in your head
Slow motion
You can play with time
You can leave her today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and live in your dreams at night rolling in your bed
Slow motion you can stop on a dime
Slow motion you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion you can pick up the beat
Slow motion you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
The boy in the back on his second attack wants his baby back
Wants his baby back
What's all that commotion that you hear?
The girl in the back who was doing the quake got a belly ache
She can't concentrate
Pick up the beat you can move like you're made out of vapor
"Catch me if you can", is what she said with her hands
Come on and take me back
Can you take her back?
When she gives you the beat and you get the shine
The world slows down and she stops on a dime
Got a number when you close your eyes like a real magician
Still she knows she'll never lose a thing
She can put you up on a shelf until she wants to pull the string
Still you know she'll never slip away
Keep time in your head counting in your head
Slow motion
I can play with time
I can keep today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and look at the pictures rolling in your head
Slow motion
You can play with time
You can leave her today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and live in your dreams at night rolling in your bed
Slow motion you can stop on a dime
Slow motion you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion you can pick up the beat
Slow motion you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
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This song is awesome! I can't believe no one has commented on this song :) I have no idea what this song is about, but it's one of my favorites. I reminds me of my neighborhood, like all the crazy that that goes ob between my neighbors and stuff.
It kind of sounds like being at a high school dance going on in the 1960's.
@mrkenny It's essentially a song about youth and that 'BANG!' moment when you recognise attraction to the opposite sex, and it becomes impossible to resist. And it's this time in your life when you know that you're going to live forever and time is immaterial.
@mrkenny It's essentially a song about youth and that 'BANG!' moment when you recognise attraction to the opposite sex, and it becomes impossible to resist. And it's this time in your life when you know that you're going to live forever and time is immaterial.
Agreed, it's awesome. Extremely infectious melody that can play and play in my head for months until something else takes over. Very intriguing lyrics. Such a shame so few comments, was it never a single? That might go some way toward explaining, I think this and Union City Blue top my Blondie list.
I'm only playing around here, but I like to think...just going through it...
Commotion - nightclub/drug house overdose situation, with inevitable panic Boy in the back - of ambulance? Second attack - of the heart? Wants baby back - wants life back, wants his girlfriend's life back, she's got problems of her own... Quaking - shaking? Belly ache - too many pills? Can't concentrate - you bet. Pick up the beat - pulse? lack of it? Vapour - drifting away from the body, ghost/spirit? Catch...hands - desperate gesticulating, unable to speak Take me back - back to life, to be together again? Beat, shine - pulse restarting, colour in the cheeks? World slows...stops - strange things happen to time perception when pulse stops. Number, eyes, magician - ? mystical visions as life slides away? And onward in similar vein.
As I said, only playing here, I wonder if anyone else has thought this way.