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You're pink, you're young, you're middle-class
They say it doesn't matter
Fifteen blue shirts and womanly hands
You're shooting up the ladder
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something
Sometimes you stay in bed
Sometimes you go, la, di, da, di, da, di, da, da
Till your eyes roll back into your head
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
you're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
you're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
They say it doesn't matter
Fifteen blue shirts and womanly hands
You're shooting up the ladder
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something
Sometimes you stay in bed
Sometimes you go, la, di, da, di, da, di, da, da
Till your eyes roll back into your head
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
you're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
Your mind is racing like a pro now
Oh my God, it doesn't mean a lot to you
One time, you were a glowing young ruffian
Oh my God, it was a million years ago
you're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
You're dumbstruck, baby, now you know
You're dumbstruck, baby
Lyrics submitted by lampada, edited by rockaction
Track duration: 03:24
"Racing Like a Pro" as written by Aaron B. Dessner Bryce D. Dessner
Lyrics © BUG MUSIC
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The days of working as a laborer seem very long ago to this man, although he is still very young he is feeling detached from his earlier experiences.
This man is just going through the motions in both his professional and personal life. The stanza that starts with "Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something" lists the meaningless things he does to fill his time. He is ambivalent about his very existence and this has left him "dumbstruck". The end of the song is the young man realizing that he is totally clueless as to how to proceed with or view his life.
Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something, sometimes you stay in bed
Sometimes you go la di da di da di da da 'til your eyes roll back into your head
-- suggest a herbal rather than an injectable substance.
That's why he hates the things he does (going la-di-dah til his eyes roll back). He feels divorced from the life he's leading. He should be down the working man's club with his mates not living a middle class life. They say it doesn't matter, but it does, because he's depressed and feels trapped.
Mind racing like a pronoun would be a great lyric. I'm goign to keep believing it's that, because it's better.
(Wife)You're pink, you're young, you're middle-class
(Husband) They say it doesn't matter
(Wife) Fifteen blue shirts and womanly hands, you're shooting up the ladder
(W) Your mind is racing like a pro, now
(H) Oh my god it doesn't mean a lot to you
(W) One time you were a glowing young ruffian
(H) Oh my god it was a million years ago
(H) Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something, sometimes you stay in bed
(W) Sometimes you go la di da di da di da da 'til your eyes roll back into your head
chorus
The "dumbstruck" part is sung by both.
Or maybe my mind has been polluted by Glee, with all it's show choir and Broadway duets. :)
and now with my luck there'll probably be a glee/national crossover episode to punish me for saying that...
I still feel like it's a dialogue, but the script is a bit different in my head now. Now the husband says "They say it doesn't matter. Fifteen blue shirts and womanly hands." And the wife says, "You're shooting up the ladder" as encouragement. Then, the guy says "Your mind is racing like a pro now," and the woman says "Oh my God it doesn't mean a lot to you (making money, getting ahead in the world), one time you were a glowing young ruffian (you used to be determined and full of hope) and the guy says "Oh my god it was a million years ago." There. Fits much better ;) No Glee references this time...how embarrassing lol
I see this song from the perspective of an outsider or a friend of hers commenting on this transition and tells of how know that she is not happy.
but then again, maybe i am just saying that because that is how i feel every night when i go to bed and don't fall asleep for hours.
Sometimes you get up and bake a cake or something
sometimes you stay in bed
sometimes you go la di da di da di da da
til your eyes roll back into your head
I think these lines are the key to understand the whole song... the protagonist acts like he lost a sense for his life, probably he's depressed as he sleeps a lot... and what does he do to have his eyes rolled back into his head? drugs...
i just LOVE all tha national lyrics... they are so obscure... meaning they are difficult to understand, but also meaning Dark...