Bingo. I transcribed it.
'I'd like to tell you a little bit about the woman in this song and I'd specifically like to tell you what she's doing on a friday night. And what she's doing on a friday night is; it's still early but she went to bed an hour and a half ago, because she has a job that makes her lots of money and she goes there and she gets home and she's too tired to do anything but watch TV and go to sleep. But somewhere in the back of her head she thinks, "There was something...
Bingo. I transcribed it.
'I'd like to tell you a little bit about the woman in this song and I'd specifically like to tell you what she's doing on a friday night. And what she's doing on a friday night is; it's still early but she went to bed an hour and a half ago, because she has a job that makes her lots of money and she goes there and she gets home and she's too tired to do anything but watch TV and go to sleep. But somewhere in the back of her head she thinks, "There was something that I actually wanted to do, but I got sidetracked along the way. I got a job in a field that was sort of like the thing I wanted to do, and then I got an apartment that was too expensive so I had to keep getting promoted and I had to keep taking more responsibility and one day I woke up and I hated my life." So now she can't sleep, she goes downstairs and she turns on the TV and she turns on David Letterman and the curtains open, the velvet curtains that, the purple velvet curtains open and comes striding through an old boyfriend of hers that she used to date, like 10 years ago. He was such a dufus, he was such a shithead, he had no idea what he was doing, and he had these dreams of being a movie star. But who knew? Here he is, he really is a movie star. He's in a big big budget movie that they're promoting on all the big channels. He runs through those curtains, and he knows exactly what he's supposed to be doing, he knows where he is, he doesn't have his fly unzipped. He's not a clown just there trying to make people happy. He's a guy who's serious, he's trying to make big money. He goes and he sits, in his expensive pants, down in that expensive chair, and he spins his yarns for David Letterman that he's gone running through with a guy a day before hand. It's all stories that she had a part of, but she's been cut out of them. She just sits there, watching the TV, and she feels like shit, but she also thinks, "Wow, this guy is such a fucking loser... I don't know I guess we both kinda suck." Anyway, if there's one thing, I really mean it. If there's one thing I'd say to the woman in this song, the thing that I'd want to say is'
Was he small and cold!
I think this is just about someone becoming famous, leaving their friends, but ultimately destined to burn out.
He is, literally, "light thats not yet dead" and if we were to "wait two hours" then he'd have burnt out.
Bingo. I transcribed it. 'I'd like to tell you a little bit about the woman in this song and I'd specifically like to tell you what she's doing on a friday night. And what she's doing on a friday night is; it's still early but she went to bed an hour and a half ago, because she has a job that makes her lots of money and she goes there and she gets home and she's too tired to do anything but watch TV and go to sleep. But somewhere in the back of her head she thinks, "There was something...
Bingo. I transcribed it. 'I'd like to tell you a little bit about the woman in this song and I'd specifically like to tell you what she's doing on a friday night. And what she's doing on a friday night is; it's still early but she went to bed an hour and a half ago, because she has a job that makes her lots of money and she goes there and she gets home and she's too tired to do anything but watch TV and go to sleep. But somewhere in the back of her head she thinks, "There was something that I actually wanted to do, but I got sidetracked along the way. I got a job in a field that was sort of like the thing I wanted to do, and then I got an apartment that was too expensive so I had to keep getting promoted and I had to keep taking more responsibility and one day I woke up and I hated my life." So now she can't sleep, she goes downstairs and she turns on the TV and she turns on David Letterman and the curtains open, the velvet curtains that, the purple velvet curtains open and comes striding through an old boyfriend of hers that she used to date, like 10 years ago. He was such a dufus, he was such a shithead, he had no idea what he was doing, and he had these dreams of being a movie star. But who knew? Here he is, he really is a movie star. He's in a big big budget movie that they're promoting on all the big channels. He runs through those curtains, and he knows exactly what he's supposed to be doing, he knows where he is, he doesn't have his fly unzipped. He's not a clown just there trying to make people happy. He's a guy who's serious, he's trying to make big money. He goes and he sits, in his expensive pants, down in that expensive chair, and he spins his yarns for David Letterman that he's gone running through with a guy a day before hand. It's all stories that she had a part of, but she's been cut out of them. She just sits there, watching the TV, and she feels like shit, but she also thinks, "Wow, this guy is such a fucking loser... I don't know I guess we both kinda suck." Anyway, if there's one thing, I really mean it. If there's one thing I'd say to the woman in this song, the thing that I'd want to say is' Was he small and cold!
Err, I meant that as a reply to JeremyB1's comment about this video where Will Sheff explains the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhnHAPDmmvg
Err, I meant that as a reply to JeremyB1's comment about this video where Will Sheff explains the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhnHAPDmmvg