Song For Whoever Lyrics
I love you in the songs, I write and sing
And I love the PRS cheques, that you bring
I'll sing you songs till you're asleep
When you've gone upstairs I'll creep
And write it all down
I wrote so many songs about you
I forget your name (I forget your name)
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
I forget your name
I love the way you never ask me why
I love to write about each wrinkle on your face
And I love you till my fountain pen runs dry
Depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovey cry, cry, cry, cry
You made me so much money, I wrote this song for you
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
I wrote this song for you
Turned her grief into glory
Late at night, by the typewriter light,
She ripped his ribbon to shreds
great song, I love the way the verses go into the chorus with the dual vocals, creates a great "layered" feeling when the piano line locks in. Overall, a very cool, very early 90's piece of work, witha good video too.
I think this song is taking a dig at those commercial pop love songs where artists sing shallow love songs proclaiming love etc etc to whoever whatever and then make lots of money out of it
@oosh Yep, it's in the same line as Robbie Williams' Come Undone bit in the bridge: So write another ballad Mix it on a Wednesday Sell it on a Thursday Buy a yacht by Sunday It's a love song A love song
@oosh Yep, it's in the same line as Robbie Williams' Come Undone bit in the bridge: So write another ballad Mix it on a Wednesday Sell it on a Thursday Buy a yacht by Sunday It's a love song A love song
Do another interview Sing a bunch of lies Tell about celebrities that I despise And sing love songs We sing love songs So sincere
Do another interview Sing a bunch of lies Tell about celebrities that I despise And sing love songs We sing love songs So sincere
It's poking fun at the industry, but you have to understand English humour to get it completely, it's very cynical if you look at it closely.
It's poking fun at the industry, but you have to understand English humour to get it completely, it's very cynical if you look at it closely.
I think this is about all the girls he fancied at school.
And maybe some other stuff as well.
I think think this song is about the one woman he loved. There were others who were flings and didn't mean anything to him ("I love you from the bottom of my pencil case.") They provided material for songs but nothing else because he couldn't remember their names. But he loved Mary and she killed herself ("Turned her grief into glory") and that ended his inspiration to write songs. ("She ripped his ribbon to shreds.")
@Milkman82 I think you got the wrong song. No grief into glory, no shredding ribbons in this song.
@Milkman82 I think you got the wrong song. No grief into glory, no shredding ribbons in this song.
beautiful. paul just has a wonderful voice.
this is about all the girls he's had relationships with, whom he writes songs about and then sings them to them(they think it's romantic, so they never question it - "I love the way you never ask me why I love to write about each wrinkle on your face") and then he earns money from these songs. when he says "the number one I hope to reap Depends upon the tears you weep" i think this is having a deep emotional relationship with someone that he can then write about the relationship in a song and get a number 1 hit with the song. it's quite comical really...
He emotionally abuses the women he dates (or dates one's previously abused) to find the inspiration for his songwriting - to make lots of $$. very sarcastic (along the lines of "36D")
It's about how love songs are often written to thicken the wallet and not spill out the soul...
I think that this song is a criticism of Pop stars who start shallow, futureless relationships simply for inspiration for songwriting, with no consideration of the girls' feelings, hence the "I forget your name" line.
The pencil case line makes me think he's addressing a school crush. Perhaps it's the names of all the girls he's had crushes on throughout schooling?