Lyrics for Not A Job as interpreted by bloodflower

Not A Job Lyrics
Pull the final splinters
Of missing picture winters
You have to give yourself a break
What’s the fascination
With lovers at the station
You have to tear yourself away

The dream again nobody understands
Walking through the long grass on your hands
It’s not a job to do today
Sleep it off

Words to make her stay: you said
Leave me and the plants die
A panic smile across your face
Corrugated browline
The hissing bitter punchline
Call when you can tie your lace

The dream again nobody understands
Walking through the long grass on your hands
It’s not a job to do today
Sleep it off

You rule my world my brother
You rule my world compadre

The dream again nobody understands
Walking through the long grass on your hands
It’s not a job to do today
Sleep it off


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Phrogex
06-10-2004

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This song, i think, is about a man who can't get over a girl. He must have written this right after a break-up with his girlfreind, and is lovesick. I do notice that whoever wrote these lyrics missed the lines in the background before "You rule my world...", there should be something else. I can't quite decipher them myself, but it sounds like he's saying "kissing in the porch light" over and over again, or maybe "he sings in the porch lamp", or "she stands in a porch light", I don't know. It wouldn't make very much since, but I can't think of anything else he's saying.

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faded24
06-15-2004

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i think that he's repeating the line "bitter punchline" over and over. at least, that's what i (want to) hear.

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pumkinhed
12-08-2004

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it sounds like he's singing "hissing bitter punchline" before "you rule my world my brother." Actually I'm very sure of it. Also, this sounds like it could be a pretty good single.

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vger100
10-01-2005

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This is such a beautiful song, think it should be way more listened to. To me its about a damaged relationship with a woman, a dream that the relationship should be perfect - like you imagine others have when you see lovers at the station. but it's not, and that is the bitter punchline so many of us have had in our lives. Ending it is the job that is so hard, every day is not the day to do it.

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louisagiffard
09-14-2006

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Haha the video for this. At the end Elbow are at a cemetary pretending to be all sad. They're doing a very good job, but I heard in an interview that Guy was having a lot of trouble stopping himself sniggering.
(You don't want to try and get the video off limewire. Think of the dirty stuff that comes up when you type in "not a job.)

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humanoftheyear
03-20-2009

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I have officially lost my copy of this album, had to buy it off of iTunes so I could go straight to this song for this very moment:
"A panic smile across your face
Corrugated browline
The hissing bitter punchline
Call when you can tie your lace"
what a beautiful picture of desperation and the heart breaking exploitation of someone's vulnerability. All in 4 lines.
Genius.
Loved Wembley too.


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