The song is a continuation of a theme that plays it out through a lot of Franz Ferdinand's music. There's this image of the main character--presumably Kapranos--fighting these conflicting urges, one to be strong, stoic and hedonistic and the other to give in to his desire for emotional closeness. Songs like Walk Away and Come On Home give us lyrics like,"I must be strong, stay an unbeliever, and love the sound of you walking away," and "Don't forget, we are so strong, so bloody strong." The two versions of the same lyrics play the duality out perfectly. No You Girls is a dance track. It's sexual and electric, and quite frankly, sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd listen to on a night out like the one the album is supposed to portray. It's all about sex with no emotional connection, thus, "Kiss me where your eye won't meet me/Meet me where your mind won't kiss me." But the song is upbeat, which means that in this case, no one really minds.
By the end of the night, though, Kapranos is drunk, tired and lonely. The dance track has turned into a sweet, crooning love song. He tries to connect with her ("Yes I love you, I mean I--I mean I need to love.") It's sad and beautiful. With all the emotion in his soul, he professes his love to some girl distractedly jacking him off in a dirty alleyway somewhere in Edinburgh, with a bunch of bar-goers looking on. He's satisfied his sexual urge, but he still longs for someone to care about him. In the end, no matter how hard he tries to disconnect himself emotionally in order to conform to a world that makes the random fuck and the midnight dance floor connection a logical way of life, he's needs to love.
The song is a continuation of a theme that plays it out through a lot of Franz Ferdinand's music. There's this image of the main character--presumably Kapranos--fighting these conflicting urges, one to be strong, stoic and hedonistic and the other to give in to his desire for emotional closeness. Songs like Walk Away and Come On Home give us lyrics like,"I must be strong, stay an unbeliever, and love the sound of you walking away," and "Don't forget, we are so strong, so bloody strong." The two versions of the same lyrics play the duality out perfectly. No You Girls is a dance track. It's sexual and electric, and quite frankly, sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd listen to on a night out like the one the album is supposed to portray. It's all about sex with no emotional connection, thus, "Kiss me where your eye won't meet me/Meet me where your mind won't kiss me." But the song is upbeat, which means that in this case, no one really minds.
By the end of the night, though, Kapranos is drunk, tired and lonely. The dance track has turned into a sweet, crooning love song. He tries to connect with her ("Yes I love you, I mean I--I mean I need to love.") It's sad and beautiful. With all the emotion in his soul, he professes his love to some girl distractedly jacking him off in a dirty alleyway somewhere in Edinburgh, with a bunch of bar-goers looking on. He's satisfied his sexual urge, but he still longs for someone to care about him. In the end, no matter how hard he tries to disconnect himself emotionally in order to conform to a world that makes the random fuck and the midnight dance floor connection a logical way of life, he's needs to love.