With Just One Glance Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lisasonoda 

Cover art for With Just One Glance lyrics by Nicolas Jaar

love this song too, can't believe it's bruce willis' daughter.. anyway.

This person maintains a specific persona/reputation/image (look like my name) that includes a corset, diamonds, pearls, and a skirt. I'm guessing she's around lots of money, so she could be a celebrity, prostitute, or just a girl from a high profile family.

When I see you standing there The evening sun upon your hair Covered up with garden dirt With just one glance you tear my skirt

This part makes me more inclined to believe it's a prostitute... but that might be too literal of an interpretation. So there's this person, covered with garden dirt, perhaps a gardener or at least someone who isn't clean, and definitely not from her class/status, that turns her on with just one glance. Overall, I think this song is about the struggle to keep up one's seemingly perfect appearance while having a little rendezvous...

One blog very fittingly called this Jaar's most seductive track yet. I love the saxophone after she says 'And I say...'.

My Interpretation