The song is about two people who can't quite sync, sexually -- but the sexual relationship is surely a metaphor for the broader personal relationship. "I saw you down there I know you were tired I saw you You looked like a swimmer" is a reference to oral sex (as is "I was going down.") BSS has a penchant for blunt, even crude, sexuality sometimes, and it comes out here. Some of the lyrics are wrong above. Per the Broken Social Scene webpage lyric book, it's: "you look good, but you smell bad." In a nutshell: Performing oral sex on one another might be good ("you're the best"), but it isn't satisfying. She wants the emotional side of it too -- face to face, in sync, simultaneous bliss. More broadly, she wants a more fulfilling relationship.
The song is about two people who can't quite sync, sexually -- but the sexual relationship is surely a metaphor for the broader personal relationship. "I saw you down there I know you were tired I saw you You looked like a swimmer" is a reference to oral sex (as is "I was going down.") BSS has a penchant for blunt, even crude, sexuality sometimes, and it comes out here. Some of the lyrics are wrong above. Per the Broken Social Scene webpage lyric book, it's: "you look good, but you smell bad." In a nutshell: Performing oral sex on one another might be good ("you're the best"), but it isn't satisfying. She wants the emotional side of it too -- face to face, in sync, simultaneous bliss. More broadly, she wants a more fulfilling relationship.