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Greg Lead Player |
#1 by Greg Marshall at Apr 20, 1971 at 3:03 AM EST |
| i've had this album for over a year but i never really listened to this song that much, but the other day i heard ::one day we'll live together and life will be better:: and i can definitely relate to that line ;-) Excellent song. | |
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Joe Average |
#2 by Joe Farr at Nov 18, 1975 at 1:15 PM EST |
| Has anyone else heard Paul whisper " Oh my God..." in the interlude between the last chorus and that incredible riff at the end. It's really eerie..almost like Paul can see this violent change in the song coming. It's like a warning. Seriously, turn up the volume and hear it. It really freaks you out in the dark. | |
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Mike Average |
#3 by Mike M at Mar 2, 1976 at 7:31 PM EST |
| And speaking of Google, I googled the exact phrase I said the song was and got like 100+ lyric pages. yah you tried hard. | |
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Slapsta Rhythm Player |
#4 by Slapsta Masta at Feb 9, 1980 at 11:37 AM EST |
| I love how this song changes without you really noticing. Seems pretty clear it's about a guy who wants to settle down properly with a girl who either wont slow down (into a more serious relationship) or doesn't treat him how he wants (ie maybe he's obsessing over someone who doesn't really respect him or want to be with him), and she's really hurting him. For me the guy comes across as kind of psychotic, like how he wants everything to be perfect and simple and when she starts hurting him and things don't go his way he gets really violent and emotional. I think the lines "You're looking alright tonight, I think we should go" sound abit like he wants to leave (the restaurant or something, due to how he seems to be complimenting her) and take her home and kill her because he can't stand the pain she keeps causing him. Or maybe (while he watches her sleep perhaps: "you're looking alright tonight") he's considering killing her and then himself and they will both "go." Long shot I know but I can't really think of what else the ending means. This does seem to be an underrated song by Interpol, maybe it's just cause no one wants to post here because the lyrics are relatively simple. | |
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billy Professional |
#5 by billy purkiss at Jul 17, 1984 at 3:03 AM EST |
| Pizeach, you are right. Everything IS about drugs. Everything IS a drug: music, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, sugar, coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, redbull, music, religion, relationships...anything you can lose yourself in, affects you like a drug. You can lose yourself at moments and enjoy the beautiful drugs of life, but you can't lose yourself forever...that's when it becomes an addiction or obsession or what a lot of people perceive as "love." "I wish I could live free/I hope it's not beyond me" In an exclusive relationship you are not "free". You are WITH someone. You are "theirs". They are "yours." People "wish" they were free, but it seems to be beyond their power. It's much easier for most to lose yourselves in someone or something you usually get along with instead of seeking out other loves and expressing free love because it is so looked down upon...like "men are pigs" and girls who enjoy multiple relationships are sluts. "Settling down, it takes time" Settling down and learning to adapt yourself to your drugs, addictions, obsessions, religions, and LOVES takes time and effort "One day we'll live together/And life will be better/I have it here, yeah, in my mind" Good thing it's in your mind since it's not in your life "Baby, you know someday you'll slow" People always say this about men and "wild girls" who will eventually settle down "Baby, my heart's been breaking" People break each other's spirits in relationships, they break themselves down to become one, and they break their own hearts "I gave a lot to you/I take a lot from you too" People give and receive the good and the bad "You slave a lot FROM me" Self-explanatory "Guess you could say/I gave you my edge" Misery loves company, so that's what they share...the edge...the poorer qualities...the bitterness...the misery "I can't pretend/I need to defend/Some part of me from you" Some parts of a person are theirs. They don't need to change it or hide it from ANYONE. Stop pretending in order to protect the pride of another, by letting parts of yourself get taken away by them (I know a woman, a thirty-something-year-old woman in an adult, exclusive relationship who asked me to re-compliment her hair-cut in front of her partner because he said she looked like a little boy. If he loved her and fully believed in her beauty, no hair-cut could change that, and the pride he holds in having "his woman" look a certain way disgusts me) "I know I've spent some time a-lying" I know people who lie about things they FEEL (love for others, or simple things like a girl hanging out with me--another girl, friend--and "HAVING" to lie about it to her boyfriend) because they "HAVE" to be a certain way in relationships...they "HAVE" to dedicate themselves to their drug "I can't pretend" Stop fucking pretending "I don't need to defend/Some part of me from you/I know I've spent some time a-lying" I shouldn't have to defend myself from someone I love. Maybe he's talking about how he lies about not wanting others when he really does "Why am I doing it" (Maybe, "Why am I doing this"; "What am I doing"; "What am I doing here"; or "Why are we doing this") Basically he questions why he's letting the DRUG ABUSE continue. I think he is also ending it. "You're looking alright tonight/I think we should go/You're looking alright tonight/I think we should go" Since the song is titled "The New", I bet he found a NEW girl and has that sexy Paul Banks desire to go home with her. He will either fix himself up and learn to be free or continue the cycle again just with a NEW girl. How most people do. | |
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Person Average |
#6 by Person at Dec 21, 1986 at 5:12 PM EST |
| this is a good underrated song by interpol. the lyrics make more sense than a lot of their other lyrics, at least to me. | |
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DEMENTED KID Average |
#7 by DEMENTED KID at Oct 31, 1999 at 1:26 PM EST |
| Wow nevermind, that's not even the right song. Excuse everything I said on this whole page. FUCK! | |
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Nick Rhythm Player |
#8 by Nick Carrasco at Dec 19, 2005 at 5:32 PM EST |
| this song is hot..and so true....*sighs* | |
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