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I met you on the palisades
The sun was spilling kerosene
And I was feeling wide awake
Girl, you can be so obscene
And when you sang a lullaby
A missionary called your name
You disappeared and hopped a flight
For the Serengeti plain
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This is a song for no one
This is a song for no one
I think I own a photograph
That shows her in the freezing rain
With the Italians on the bank
They know how to entertain
A string of pearls behind your hair
A music box to catch your tears
Now call your mother in L.A.
She hasn't heard your voice in years
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This a song for no one (x3)
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This a song for no one
You can jump a ride
But don't ask why
And don't close your eyes
This a song for no one (x3)
The sun was spilling kerosene
And I was feeling wide awake
Girl, you can be so obscene
And when you sang a lullaby
A missionary called your name
You disappeared and hopped a flight
For the Serengeti plain
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This is a song for no one
This is a song for no one
I think I own a photograph
That shows her in the freezing rain
With the Italians on the bank
They know how to entertain
A string of pearls behind your hair
A music box to catch your tears
Now call your mother in L.A.
She hasn't heard your voice in years
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This a song for no one (x3)
When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This a song for no one
You can jump a ride
But don't ask why
And don't close your eyes
This a song for no one (x3)
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(I met you on the palisades
The sun was spilling kerosene
And I was feeling wide awake
Girl, you can be so obscene)
I met my ex-girlfriend in California. I had just moved from Kentucky and everything was so different here. I guess you could say i felt wide awake when i was with her. One thing i loved about us was our strong Catholic faith. She was like none of the girls back home.
(A missionary called your name
You disappeared and hopped a flight
For the serengeti plain)
Then one day she met the morman missionaries. They talked to her about their church and after months of meeting with them she got baptized and we broke up. She is in love with one of those missionaries now. She plans on moving to Utah and marrying there.
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
(When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This the song for no one
This the song for no one)
I can't believe she would give us up for mormans. how could she easily be manipulated by them? she is no one to me now.
(I think I own a photograph
That shows her in the freezing rain
With the the Italians on the bank
They know how to entertain)
she may be happy now but sooner or later she will come back. those missionaries manipulate people like her to get converts, they don't care.
(Now call your mother in L.A.
She hasn't heard your voice in years)
What's ever worse, she has kept this from her parents. Her parents are hardcore Catholic and she pretends to go to mass so they won't know she has converter morman.
(I met you on the palisades
The sun was spilling kerosene
And I was feeling wide awake
Girl, you can be so obscene)
I met my ex-girlfriend in California. I had just moved from Kentucky and everything was so different here. I guess you could say i felt wide awake when i was with her. One thing i loved about us was our strong Catholic faith. She was like none of the girls back home.
(A missionary called your name
You disappeared and hopped a flight
For the serengeti plain)
Then one day she met the morman missionaries. They talked to her about their church and after months of meeting with them she got baptized and we broke up. She is in love with one of those missionaries now. She plans on moving to Utah and marrying there.
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
Tell everyone you know
Open up the door
(When your love has gone
You carry on
This is her song
This the song for no one
This the song for no one)
I can't believe she would give us up for mormans. how could she easily be manipulated by them? she is no one to me now.
(I think I own a photograph
That shows her in the freezing rain
With the the Italians on the bank
They know how to entertain)
she may be happy now but sooner or later she will come back. those missionaries manipulate people like her to get converts, they don't care.
(Now call your mother in L.A.
She hasn't heard your voice in years)
What's ever worse, she has kept this from her parents. Her parents are hardcore Catholic and she pretends to go to mass so they won't know she has converter morman.
If intentional, Miike Snow's would be a brilliant homage to the Beatles song. Moreover, it enhances and extrapolates: where "For No One" ends on melancholic, tragic, even hopeless overtones, this song carries more hope both in its tonic qualities and in its lyrics. Overall, clever, cryptic, catchy, and cathartic songwriting.
I think the singer is dedicating this song to his love in order to "carry on;" through artwork and expression, he finds solace and rejuvenation.
Oh, and this is easily my favorite Miike Snow song. So damn good.
This is a time for the lyricist when everything was at its height between him and his girl, but at the same time this girl could never be the “one” it’s a nostalgic song for me at least, and a song of loss which cant be talked about for the sake of the speaker.
He met her at the border of the city ( his security?)
the sun outlined her perfectly in the most beautiful reds and yellows
When he talks about “ I was feeling wide awake” and “girl you can be so obscene” it seems to me he’s insinuating that they were not only intimate but also demonstrating this in public places aka the palisade. But maybes that’s just me
Just as she made him feel secure “ sang him a lullaby”
She vanished without a trace, leaving him for something more exciting than him or even her normal life “for the Serengeti plains” and something that hit her to her core “missionary”
She couldn’t be happy with what she had
and maybe she never will be
Convince everyone you know/meet
To let you inside “open up the door”
(even though it wont mean anything to you and you will just leave)
but when you take your love away
it’s hard to forget but its hard to care
I’ll always love you but
I’ll never talk about it or you
Because I have to carry on.
He thinks of a picture
“a shelter in the freezing rain” I take this to mean being with these men ( the Italians on the banks who know how to entertain) was a temporary respite from the loneliness aka freezing rain she was used to. (even though she could be with him…)
(made me think of the lyricist writing this as he’s looking at a picture on facebook of her in italy lol)
“ A string of pearls”, and “ the music box to catch your tears” especially translated to me that she was letting materialistic and superficial actions and items dominate her life.
He finally asks her to call her mother in l.a. Who she hasn’t talked to in years.
This line further reinforces my belief this girl has lost her moral center and this is why the lyricist is singing a song for "no one".
A person who isn’t a person.