(You Can't Blame It On) Anybody Lyrics

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Cover art for (You Can't Blame It On) Anybody lyrics by Phoenix

pretty obvious.

you can't blame it on anybody, some things they don't last.

starts off telling us the moral of the story. it was just a ride of a relationship, there's no one to blame, it could happen to anybody, but that anybody was the "you" he's talking to in the chorus. Nice name for the song too, a song about this certain Anybody.

Fallin down I couldn't notice She had some glasses on Few broken bones in the process I tried to keep my attitude

So he met her by falling down, someone broke some bones, maybe he broke her glasses, and he tried keeping his cool, or his pride or whatever attitude he had. I can just imagine it, "Hey, watch where you're going! [Oops, she has glasses]"

words of love in broken english they have a lonesome tone

She was Italian, so they first communicated together through broken English.

didn't under stand, must be italian must be good looking undressed.

cultural stereotyping.

lil' care & lil' practice= a little italian practice she sings light baritone in a choir with a bunch of guys out of tune as a side hobby.

day is night, right is wrong, failure notice, I'm giving up I'm tired.

ugh, don't we all get this way? when up feels like it's down and a relationship is just not working out and there's nothing there with a person who you thought had everything. so you declare it a failure, to yourself and her and you both give up on the relationship.

love is all, love is evil.

people say love is everything. but right now, it feels evil. Like a way to get you to hate someone you once loved. very confusing, very upside down. this is the way a bad "close" relationship makes you feel.

You can't blame it on anybody Some things they don't last You can't blame it on anybody I thought I'd entertain you Let me take you to the heart of the city Let me misunderstand you

as a recap, this type of bad relationship between two people who don't speak the same language happens. no one is to blame. at the time, he just wanted to entertain her, show her around Paris, and misunderstand her Italian and broken English.