Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Well I've been up to Paris
And I've slept in a park.
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
Took the train down to Athens
And I slept in a fountain.
Some Swiss junkie in Turin
Ripped me off for my cash.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
The C-R-S on the metro
Shook me down for a bribe.
On my knees for the sergeant
When my passport arrived.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Called my mom from a payphone
I said "I'm down to my last."
She said "I sent you to college
Now go call your dad."
And the waitress that he married
Well she hung up the phone.
Ya know she never did like me
But I can stand on my own.
Sold my plasma in Amsterdam.
Spent it all in a night
Buying drinks at the Melk Weg
For a soldier in drag.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
My Euro-trash Girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Got a tattoo in Berlin
And a case of the crabs.
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
And I've slept in a park.
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
Took the train down to Athens
And I slept in a fountain.
Some Swiss junkie in Turin
Ripped me off for my cash.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
The C-R-S on the metro
Shook me down for a bribe.
On my knees for the sergeant
When my passport arrived.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Called my mom from a payphone
I said "I'm down to my last."
She said "I sent you to college
Now go call your dad."
And the waitress that he married
Well she hung up the phone.
Ya know she never did like me
But I can stand on my own.
Sold my plasma in Amsterdam.
Spent it all in a night
Buying drinks at the Melk Weg
For a soldier in drag.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
My Euro-trash Girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl
Got a tattoo in Berlin
And a case of the crabs.
A rose and a dagger
On the palm of my hand.
And I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Euro-trash Girl
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For my angel in black.
Yeah, I'll search the world over
For a Euro-trash Girl.
Lyrics submitted by XorcistVAC
Euro-Trash Girl Lyrics as written by David Allen Faragher David Faragher
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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$50 says you have no idea where this actually originated..
Way to belittle strangers. It's a Cracker original, right? He wasn't exactly obscure, you know.