have you actually heard the song? its brilliant and one of the sweetest things I've ever heard... they're a really strange band, its an amazingly talented pop songwriting black dude and these two emaciated sort of indie hipster kids... its the perfect band for a girl like me who's two favorite bands are wu tang and belle and sebastian, if i'm not too lazy i'll post more lyrics, they have like 4 albums out its stupid only this song is posted
as for the meaning... he loves a girl who loves him too, but stubbornly refuses to get off her high horse about everything. shes the kind of girl who has a "place in the sun." he simultaneously needs her to be the good one who holds things together ("don't forget to mention/ to your friend that i need work") and wants her to let go of herself ("join me while i'm drowning")
i read that this was about his ex-wife, so maybe all the animosity at the beginning means that their not together anymore... but hes singing these cruel things in the sweetest possible melody, so i think there's some ambivalence
have you actually heard the song? its brilliant and one of the sweetest things I've ever heard... they're a really strange band, its an amazingly talented pop songwriting black dude and these two emaciated sort of indie hipster kids... its the perfect band for a girl like me who's two favorite bands are wu tang and belle and sebastian, if i'm not too lazy i'll post more lyrics, they have like 4 albums out its stupid only this song is posted
as for the meaning... he loves a girl who loves him too, but stubbornly refuses to get off her high horse about everything. shes the kind of girl who has a "place in the sun." he simultaneously needs her to be the good one who holds things together ("don't forget to mention/ to your friend that i need work") and wants her to let go of herself ("join me while i'm drowning")
i read that this was about his ex-wife, so maybe all the animosity at the beginning means that their not together anymore... but hes singing these cruel things in the sweetest possible melody, so i think there's some ambivalence