Do Me a Favour Lyrics

Lyric discussion by arns 

Cover art for Do Me a Favour lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

The song describes a break-up scene. He drives up the hill to tell her he wants to end it. She asks questions as "why?" and maybe he doesn't have a good reason for it, he would prefer it if she would just stop asking questions and tell him to go away or break his nose. He feels that even a "fuck off" would be too kind.

"Ask anyone, they'll tell you that It's these times that it tends To start to breaking up, to start to fall apart Hold on to your heart"

If you ask anyone who's ever been in his shoes, driving up that hill, he is about to ruin everything between them and break her heart but you have to hold on to your heart, do what it tells you to do. He dares to say that they're equally as bleak, he feels guilty and he is scared he is making the wrong decision. But he is curious for more, perhaps they've been together for too long and he feels the need to explore something else, even though he doesn't know where that leads... Curiosity becomes a heavy load, too heavy to hold.