Lyrics for Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Do... as interpreted by NewWaveMonkay

Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Do... Lyrics
When she walks down the street
She knows there's people watching
The building fronts are just fronts
To hide the people watching her

But she once fell through the street
Down a manhole in that bad way
The underground drip
Was just like her scuba days

Days
Daze
Days
Daze

She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She is all right but she can't come out tonight, she broke away
She was all right, yeah, the sea was so tight, airtight
She broke away, broke away

At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
Her caresses caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells
Stella, Stella, oh Stella
Stella I love you, Stella I love you, Stella I love you

She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She is all right but she can't come out tonight, she broke away
She was all right, yeah, the sea was so tight, airtight
She broke away, broke away

Well, she was my catatonic sex toy, love-joy diver
Well, she was my catatonic sex toy, love drug diver
She went down, down, down there into the sea,
Yeah, she went down, down, down there
Down there for me, right on

So good, oh yeah, right on

(There's something that's invisible,
There's some things you can't hide
Try detect you when I'm sleeping
In a wave you say goodbye . . .)

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impact
10-14-2002

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well she was my catatonic sex toy love drug diver
she went down down down there into the sea
she went down down down there down there for me


Haha. Sexy.

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Kid_Handsome
03-05-2003

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Both the best and worst song EVER.
Great depressing tune, but droning

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versus
03-06-2003

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this song was bad ash!!! i love this song, well crap i love the whole cd. the sound, lyrics, melody, mood are just phenomenal!!

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PoizonComeUndone
03-17-2003

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I have a distinct feeling at least part of this song was inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire. The constant yells of "Stella" and "Stella I love you" were also some of the most powerful lines in both the play and the movie.

I'm always reminded of the movie when I hear this song... which is a good thing.

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artblot
03-17-2003

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the pitchfork interview w/ interpol says:

Pitchfork: Who's Stella, if anybody? I was wondering if it was a reference to, or was inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire.

Paul: Which is one of my favorite movies. It's not, and I don't know when we wrote that if I had really seen it. I probably had seen it, but no, it's not. I love the name. I went through a phase where I was fixated on girls names that, for me, kind of represented something. So in "Precipitate", Daphne is the character. It was actually more to do with certain female names that were really interesting to me. I had another song about a girl named Kat, too, but no, I don't know [a Stella] and it's not directly related to that film, even though I love that film.

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Gren901
04-14-2003

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I think it's about a chick he only uses for oral sex. But maybe I'm just dense.

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procrastinatingbum
04-19-2003

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Maybe my interpretattion is clouded by my own neuroses but I think Stella is this girl who just feels like people are always looking at her in a negative, judgemental way, even strangers. I think she secludes herself from people in the "tight" "sea" so she won't be looked at and then she's alright. I dunno if we can even try to understand what any of Interpol's songs mean anyway b/c Paul Banks has said he uses free association and half the time he can't even articulate the songs' meanings.

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Stella The Diver
04-22-2003

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according to interpolny.com the lyrics go something like this...

When she walks down the street,
She knows there's people watching.
The building fronts are just fronts
To hide the people watching her

But she once fell through the street
Down a manhole in that bad way
The underground drip
Was just like her scuba days

Days
Daze
Days
Daze

She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She is all right but she can't come out tonight, she broke away
She was all right, yeah the sea was so tight, air tight
She broke away, broke away

At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
From crevices caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells
Stella, Stella, Stella, Stella I love you

Chorus

Well, she was my catatonic sex toy, love-joy diver
She went down down down there into the sea,
Yeah she went down down down there, down there for me, right on

So good, oh yeah, right on

(There's something that's invisible,
There's some things you can't hide,
Try detect you when I'm sleeping,
In a wave you say goodbye...)

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Lorna450
05-04-2003

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....Amazing....

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once_i__
06-30-2003

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beautiful song. it reminds me of "where is my mind" by the pixies a little. i think it's just about this girl stella escaping the trivialities of the world and finding something thrilling within herself.

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rengalous
05-10-2004

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i agree with once i, however it would be foolish to ignore the sex play

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incu
05-10-2004

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this song is about a hooker

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tiki_12
05-16-2004

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i think incu is right, but maybe not a full blown hooker, just a girl with low-self confidence/self-esteem who lives in Paul's neighborhood. Everytime a man wanted some action they would find "Stella" who would use these intamate sessions to make herself feel loved.

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heartcooksbrain
05-23-2004

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haha great song.

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ladyboygrrl
05-30-2004

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i adore the way 'stella, oh stella, oh stella' is sung. it sounds really honest.

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x.sweetie.emo.x
06-14-2004

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i love it, even if im not a whore.. ahaha :) i love the tearing sound of his voice..

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venusvsariadne
07-03-2004

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the last relationship i was involved in reminds me alot of this song. it was with someone who was and is basically a sociopath. he dosen't really posess feelings, though i think the closest he came was with me. one day, we were lying on the sofa hooking up, and listening to this song, and he asked me to go down on him, which seems ridiculously ironic. i didn't do it that day, however when i finally did, he broke up with me the next day. it's so illogical, and yet so heartbreaking for me. at the end, when he's saying "right on," and "so good," it reminds me of the noises some guys make when they are recieveing oral sex. this song is ALL ABOUT a girl he used for oral sex. the funny thing is, when i was performing "it" on him, he kept telling me he loved me. often, males can become carried away in the moment when they are recieveing oral sex. this is a perfect example of that.

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GoldenX
09-17-2004

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I agree, at first I thought Stella was a whore, but I think she is more like the "town bicycle", everyones had a ride. He used her for oral sex, but he doesnt feel bad. Instead, he shows appreciation, which may bring up her self-esteem.

The question is: does he actually love her? Or does he love what she does? I think it started out as loving the oral sex, but by the end he related sex and love and thought he was in love with her. But everytime they did it, she would leave during the night. He wants to keep her for himself, but she keeps "breaking away".

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aCrowdisUntruth
09-18-2004

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its about that girl you feel bad for taking advantage of, but you just cant help your own biology.

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Michael746
10-04-2004

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probably about a prostitute who the singer sees about/knows and eventually ends up sleeping with.. by the way the song ends.. sounds like its talking about sex directly

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capriciouspoet
10-19-2004

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nice song.... yes.....

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joefox
10-27-2004

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I think this song is about a woman the singer loved so much that he killed her and drowned her as this was the only way he could put himself at ease. some of us are familiar with the phrase "I LOVE IT SO MUCH I WANT IT TO DIE" and i thing this is what this song deals with.

the man in love with Stella is not evil, just unbalanced by his love for someone he cannot attain. "she knows there's people watching her" tells us that she is aware of her beauty and indicates the singer is out of her leauge so to speak.

"She cant come out tonight, cause the sea was so airtight", "bottom of the ocean she dwells" point towards him drowning her.

THE SONGS CLIMAX - IT'S MEANING

She went down down down there into the sea,
Yeah she went down down down there, down there for me, right on

So good, oh yeah, right on
For me this is the man recollecting the way her dead body sank to the ocean floor, and how he was satisfied and found peace. I know this is a morbid interpretation but i believe with aman as complex as Paul Banks and band as 'Dark' as interpol it is feasible that the characters in these song's are not all innocent lovers, save that for pop music. Interpols lyrics if they can teach us anything (they are, let's be honest fairly ambiguous) teach us that love is not for a select group of society, and perhaps the things we do for love are not always wholsome or traditonally good, such is it's nature.

Shakespeare described his tragic hero Othello as "One that lov'd not wisely but too well." Othello loved his wife so much that he was blinded by it and killed her in vain. Interpols hero in this song however doe's not regret his killing, perhaps it is his way of showing love. who knows. hehe.

peace drama and skateboarding!! o(-<]:

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orangeorli
11-02-2004

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^ right up there, thank you. genius. (joefox)

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Bertxx
11-04-2004

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ur welcum

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playgroundlove
11-07-2004

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i think its about some everyday girl that is terribly insecure-- about the 'people watching' behind the 'building fronts' that are 'just fronts' to her

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