Anyone else attempted to, or know what all the lyrics to the tracks mean? :lol:

 

Would be nice if the booklet came with song lyrics! :arrr: I think i've manged to work out what This House Is A Circus and Old Yellow Bricks is about, not too sure at all about the others though. :lol:

Some of the songs are less obvious than others, but this member of SongMeanings.net successfully decyphered 'Fluorescent Adolescent':

 

Anyone else think its about a relationship getting old? And then the woman in the relation ship cheats on the man in order to gain back some excitement in her life

 

You used to get it in your fishnets

(Which is sexy)

 

Now you only get it in your night dress

(Typical and boring)

 

Discarded the naughty nights with niceness

(Less sex more jsut being nice, perhaps having tea with the neighbours or something $h!t like that.)

 

Landed in a very common crisis

(This happens to most relationships)

 

Everything's in order in a black hole

(Relationship is comapred to a black hole its in order but its lifeless and dull and sucks everything that ever was into it)

 

Nothing seems as pretty as the past though

(It was better in the past)

 

That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco

(Looking for more kicks in life than the same old boring relationship like adding more tabasco to the bloody mary)

 

Remember when he used to be a rascal?

(thats what he used to be like)

 

Oh that boy's a slag

The best you ever had

The best you ever had

 

(This is the woman looking back on the man and waht he used to be like this is apprent because of the last line of the first verse which tells the woman to remember.)

 

Is just a memory and those dreams

Not as daft as they seem

Not as daft as they seem

My love when you dream them up...

 

(What he used to be like is just a memory and she dreams that he'll be the same again there not that daft but shes just making them up.)

 

Flicking through a little book of sex tips

(Trying to spice things up)

 

Remember when the boys were all electric?

(When she used to get all the boys)

 

Now when she tells she's gonna get it

(she thinks hses going to get sex)

 

I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget i

(sarcastic comment by the narrator she dosent want to forget it she wants to live it)

 

Clinging to not getting sentimental

(she dosent want to cling on for someone, settle down, she wants to relive the hayday when she was a 'fluroscent adolescent'.)

 

Said she wasn't going but she went still

(Perhaps she goes to cheat on her fella?)

 

Likes her gentlemen to not be gentle

(Everything in this relationship is just too comfy she wants excitement)

 

Was it a megadobber or a betting pencil?

(Ha don't know what this is about. But the first thing i thought of was that it was some sort of sex game or something and i dont know here the megadobebr or the betting pencil are going. Maybe shes comparing the size of her partners dick to this new fellas. No idea)

 

Falling about

(Shes drunk)

 

You took a left off Last Laugh Lane

(Turns down the road and laughs. She's ahd the last laugh at her boring fella)

 

You just sounded it out

(She just got it all out of her by having a bit of excitment with another guy not leading the boring drab lifestyle)

 

You're not coming back again.

(However she's not doing again... she dosen't need to shes had her fun its back to her normal life.)

 

I think she hit the nail right on the head on this one ^_^

Well here's my theory on Old Yellow Bricks:

 

Old yellow bricks,

Love's a risk,

Quite the little Escapologist

Looked so miffed,

When you wished,

For a thousand places better than this,

 

The narrator is giving a brief outline of what’s happened. The girl in the story has become an Escapologist, so it means she’s gotten away from something, and now she’s away from what something it’s not all she seemed.

 

You are the fugitive,

But you dont know what you're runnin from,

You cant kid us,

And you couldnt trick anyone,

Houdini, love you dont know what you're runnin away from,

 

She’s running away from something which is shown by the fugitive mention, but she doesn’t know what yet. Again the Escapologist reference is there with Houdini but it’s not clear what she’s running from.

 

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

Blinded by nostalgia,

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

 

I think this is what she was running from. The place where she used to live was a dead end and she needed a new challenge.

 

She was enraged by the way,

That the emperor put traps in the cage,

And the days she being dull,

Lead to nights readin beer bottles,

 

This is the verse that confuses me most. Not too sure what the emperor reference is too, might be someone trying to get her back to where she belongs.

 

You're such a fugitive,

But you dont know what you're runnin from,

You cant kid us,

And you couldnt trick anyone,

Houdini, love you dont know what you're runnin away from,

 

This is the same as the previous chorus only now there seems to be a more violent tone from the narrator. Instead of “You are” it’s now “You’re”.

 

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

Blinded by nostalgia,

Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?

 

Again the reference to what she might be running away from.

 

You're at a loss,

Just because,

It wasnt all that you thought it was,

 

Now the narrator is telling her that what she ran away from and what she eventually found was not what she thought it was gonna be.

 

You are a fugitive but you dont know what you're runnin away from,

 

She said I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up,

And revel in nostalgia,

I know I said he wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up but,

 

Now instead of the she, there is a mention of a he. Maybe this might be what tempted her to run away? Not too sure though.

 

Dorothy was right though

 

This line gives away everything about the deeper meaning to the song. The Dorothy reference has got to have some meaning to The Wizard Of Oz. Maybe this story is more of a modern day spin on TWOO. To get home Dorothy has to follow the yellow brick road, much like the girl has to find her way home by the old yellow bricks maybe? In the film though to actually get home, Dorothy had to realise that there was on other better place other than home and I think this song is telling the story that the girl has realised that actually there is no place like home

 

 

I think This House Is A Circus is all about fame as well and that it's actually like and The Bad Thing is about what happens when you're put in the position to cheat on someone.

balaclava=?

balaclava=?

 

 

Teenage pregnancy/unprotected sex. Balaclava in this context is NOT the thing one wears on one's face (I almost said head :P )

Teenage pregnancy/unprotected sex. Balaclava in this context is NOT the thing one wears on one's face (I almost said head :P )

 

So it's about that sort of Balaclava? :o Can't say I figured that one. :lol: But then again for Balaclava, I always find i'm more interested in the track rather than the lyrics. :(

So it's about that sort of Balaclava? :o Can't say I figured that one. :lol: But then again for Balaclava, I always find i'm more interested in the track rather than the lyrics. :(

I was thinking it might be but I wasn't sure :lol: I'm trying not to look at these things for now so I can try and work out what they all mean myself.

 

That's strange because for me personally the reason why I like the Arctics so much is because of their lyrics :unsure:

I was thinking it might be but I wasn't sure :lol: I'm trying not to look at these things for now so I can try and work out what they all mean myself.

 

That's strange because for me personally the reason why I like the Arctics so much is because of their lyrics :unsure:

 

The song lyrics this time are a lot harder to work out. They're all a lot deeper, and not all about going out at the weeked and getting blathered or whatever.

 

The actual tracks and lyrics appeal to me. The tracks though are normally so catchy that I just forget about the lyrics a la Mardy Bum, but on this album i'm paying more attention to the lyrics instead of the actual track. Is very confusing for me to say the least. :lol:

That's what's making it so good for me! The fact that I really have to listen and think about what it means and then spend ages talking about them with other people :lol: Problem is though they're all so good I can't listen to one over and over as I want to hear the next one :lol:

 

Meanwhile the last one had Mardy Bum and I Bet You Look Good which I did end up listening to over and over and were so good I still listen to them a lot now :D Brianstorm is in my all time top ten most played on iTunes already btw :lol:

That's what's making it so good for me! The fact that I really have to listen and think about what it means and then spend ages talking about them with other people :lol: Problem is though they're all so good I can't listen to one over and over as I want to hear the next one :lol:

 

Meanwhile the last one had Mardy Bum and I Bet You Look Good which I did end up listening to over and over and were so good I still listen to them a lot now :D Brianstorm is in my all time top ten most played on iTunes already btw :lol:

 

I know the feeling. :lol: The thing is what i'm finding with this album though, is that all the tracks I didn't like too much to begin with I LOVE now, is all very confusing. :( I do think Do Me A Favour is probably the most powerful thing they've done so far though...

 

Both Brianstorm and FA are on my top played list. :lol: I have a feeling that eventually a lot of the tracks will make my top 25 most played though. ^_^