What strikes me most about this song is that it's a rather needy & lonesome song, but the singer isn't really begging - he's not saying, "I want you to come over so much that my life depends on it," he's saying, "whenever you want." He loves it that she's so polite, but he's really the polite one. I'm afraid I'm never that considerate of others' feelings when I'm that desperate.
This song contains one of the Lucksmiths' greatest turns of phrase:
"I said your driving couldn't be worse
But I really meant just the reverse."
As well, it contains a veiled reference to a famous Smiths lyric in "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." That song says:
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
This song says:
I was drunk in the haze of happy hour
Heaven knows the narrator of this song sounds miserable!
What strikes me most about this song is that it's a rather needy & lonesome song, but the singer isn't really begging - he's not saying, "I want you to come over so much that my life depends on it," he's saying, "whenever you want." He loves it that she's so polite, but he's really the polite one. I'm afraid I'm never that considerate of others' feelings when I'm that desperate.
This song contains one of the Lucksmiths' greatest turns of phrase:
"I said your driving couldn't be worse But I really meant just the reverse."
As well, it contains a veiled reference to a famous Smiths lyric in "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." That song says:
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
This song says:
I was drunk in the haze of happy hour
Heaven knows the narrator of this song sounds miserable!