Piledriver Waltz Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lisasonoda 

Cover art for Piledriver Waltz lyrics by Alex Turner

love this one, can't wait for submarine to come out.........

is a piledriver some kind of trash pickup or maintenance sort of truck? and by waltzing it was driving by early in the morning(which is the time they do it around me)and woke him up? if so, then it's like the garbage or crap in life is interrupting his life.

there are a lot of depressing references in this one: unhappy ending, leaving, annoying garbage truck(if accurately interpreted..), heartbreak hotel, how to lose, miserable waitress/food...

"If you're gonna try and walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes" To make this fit the theme of the rest of the lyrics, this could be about suicide, by drowning.

I'm not sure about the meaning behind the following lines:

"Mysteries flashing amber Go green when you answer But the red on the rest of the questionnaire never changes

I heard the news that you're planning To shoot me out of a cannon"

perhaps this last part alludes to some sort of volatile situation ending with a blowup against the protagonist.

The following, although it revolves around time, i'll conjecture that it's the imminent end of the relationship mentioned in the following line when "you're leaving". seems plausible. "I etched the face of a stopwatch on the back of a raindrop And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass"

overall about a crap situation, end of a relationship, being miserable, disliking everything, thoughts about suicide, so depression.

catchy though.

Amber is the warning stage of driving through an intersection, so perhaps there is risk involved with the mysteries of this relationship and with finding out more about how she feels. When she answers, he'll be able to move forward, but by doing nothing (and stopping at red), things remain stagnant. I don't know, I'm stumped too haha

The cannon one, I think you're correct and that he heard the news that she's planning to get rid of him (in dramatic fashion?).

A Piledriver is a machine that's used to drive piles into the ground, most frequently down into riverbeds to build bridges. A 'pile' is a long post, like a telephone pole.