Sunday, 14 December 2014

Lyrics analysis

Someday -The Strokes

In many ways I'll miss the good old days

Someday
Someday.
It hurts to say but I want you to stay

Sometimes
Sometimes
When we was young, oh man did we have fun

Always
Always
Promises they break before they're made
Sometimes
Sometimes

My ex says I'm lacking in depth
I will do my best
You say you want to stand by my side
Darling your heads not right

I see alone we stand, together we fall apart
Yeah I think ill be alright
I'm working so I won't have to try so hard
Tables they turn sometimes

Oh... someday
I ain't wasting no more time

Trying, trying

And now my fears they come to me in threes
So I 
Sometimes
They fade, my friend, you say the strangest things
I find

Sometimes
Oh my ex says I'm lacking in depth
Still I will try my best
You say you want to stand by my side

Darling your heads not right
You see alone we stand together we fall apart
Yeah I think ill be alright
I'm working so I won't have to try so hard

Tables they turn sometimes
Oh someday
Still I ain't wasting no more time.

The repetition of "Someday', adds emphasis that the band are remembering their adolescent years, and wish they could relive those moments. This suggests that the band will have a fun nature, in the sense that they wish they could still be young and immature, conveyed by the opening line "In many ways I'll miss the good old days" and the line "when we was young, oh did we have fun". This line is followed by the repetition of "always" further portraying the band's lust for the past. This song also focuses on a break-up, and contrast to the earlier feel to the song, the band seem more mature over this issue, by not getting back with the "ex" as "Darling your heads not right". This maturity contrasts the bands lust to be young and youthful, as they recognise that a relationship is not what they need. The ellipsis in the line "Oh...Someday", takes the songs meaning back towards being young again. The ellipsis creates a pause, as if a pause for thinking and remembering the past. The colloquial term "ain't" also emphases being young, as this is a term usually used by the young, not by older, more mature and sophisticated adults. The four lines, starting with "And now my fears they come to me in threes", don't link. This suggests that the band are getting so caught up in the memories of the past, that it is hindering their thought process, and they no longer are making any sense because of it. However, the last line of the song "Still I ain't wasting no more time." conveys how the band have realised they now have to leave their past in the thoughts, and move on and just live for the future; a sign of their newfound maturity.

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