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Fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely
She's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings
Can be so misleading
She turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now
Red hair with a curl
mellow roll for the flavor
and the eyes for peeping
can't keep away from the girl
these two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
Fell in love with a girl
i fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
but sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
she turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
I fell in love once and almost completely
She's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings
Can be so misleading
She turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now
Red hair with a curl
mellow roll for the flavor
and the eyes for peeping
can't keep away from the girl
these two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
Fell in love with a girl
i fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
but sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
she turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Track duration: 01:50
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"Fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely"
Obviously, her fell in love with her. The word "once" implies that he's left behind scarred and has had it with relationships.
"Almost completely" means that he was willing to die for her, while on the other hand she probably didn't even remember his birth date.
"She's in love with the world"
She messes around with many different guys, love is really just a platitude here. The more you share your love with the world, the less every individual gets. It waters down to nothing but shallowness when shared with the whole world / countless guys. Or do you really think a girl can have meaningful relationships with 8 different guys at the same time?
"But sometimes these feelings
Can be so misleading"
This means that guys, in this case him, falsely interpret her shallow attention and affection as love, and by that I mean exclusive love, just him and her. But that is not the case, since she has many guys. He could have known better, but was maybe always hoping for her to realize that him and her belong together, which never happened.
"She turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"
She is obviously aware of the fact that she is causing him emotional damage, but probably doesn't really care about it. He is aware of the harm she is causing him but because he does not want to lose her he sticks around anyway.
"Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now"
To make up for the pain she caused she offers him to make out. But then at the same time she turns around bringing up Bobby, probably her current 'main' boyfriend, implying that this kissing won't really lead anywhere. I mean is this what you want to hear when you are about to kiss the girl you love? That it is fine for her boyfriend? Probably not.
The fact that she offers kissing rather than more serious activities makes me believe they are teens.
The chorus just goes over describing what he loves about her outward appearance and that he knows she is poison for him, but at the same time he cannot make a clean cut and shove her away for good.
His left and right sides of the brain, the two hemispheres, are battling. Often (yet scientifically doubted) associated with the left side being more rational and analytical, the right side being emotional.
"she just looking for something new"
Means that she really doesn't care about the individual and just does whatever she feels like at the moment, leaving broken hearts behind everywhere.
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I like the song, yet is the only song I know from this band. Obviously I went trough all this with a girl and I will just warn all those guys out there, BE AWARE because the sweet little girl you just adore might just like to keep you around to play with for years for whenever she is bored or her 'boyfriend' is on vacation or something.
Do not buy into that whole best friends bs and find a real girlfriend that loves you unconditionally. Do not waste several years on a person like that.
Especially young girl like to test out what they can do with the "female power" and only later in life they learn what harm it causes.
This song cannot have another meaning. :-)
It might be a boy or a girl "singing" this song, because "girl" is "in love with the world".. It probably includes any gender, sexuality etc
"Fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely
She's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings
Can be so misleading"
This is just setting the scene between lovers. Maybe the 4th and 5th lines is him feeling a little betrayed that she would leave his side to travel. He's thinking their love isn't real if she would just up and leave him.
She turns and said "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now
I see "she" in this part of the verse as being the new girl. They might of just fooled around or something and he might feel a little guilty and she can tell so she askes if he's alright. Then you get his answer. Now the infamous Bobby line!!!! To his friend bobby or whoever he is, it's not cheating because "shes in love with the world", she left the relationship to go see the world so in a way it's not really cheating even though their relationship is not technically over yet.
Some have said this is about a girl who falls for a girl who just wants to fool around. That is like 99% true, but there is the line "She's just looking for something new," which doesn't defeat this interpretation, but to me this line rings truer for another interpretation.
You can't find all meaning in songs alone. Sometimes songs meanings are only obvious once you've experienced it for yourself.
But also poetry is subjective and maybe interpretation is more important than intent. Here's how I feel about the song:
The object of the storyteller's unrequited love is in love with love itself. "She's in love with the world." She is adventurous and curious more than she is interested in "happily ever after." She does not call anyone her boyfriend who would be offended by her nomadic flings, which manifest as travel as often as her casual affairs.
The storyteller falls in love at "once and almost completely." Why? She has something most women do not: curiosity, intelligence, a desire to learn and experience. It is unattainable, but men with a predilection for women who are learned and can converse in a broad range of complex subjects cannot resist the draw of a woman who can they instantly connect with.
He knows "these feelings can be so misleading." She is perceptive and considerate within limits: "Are you alright?" The storyteller is forced to admit to her and to himself that he is will take what he can get, a casual affair: "I must be fine because my heart's still beating," a line that also suggests his excitation overpowers his sense of mourning for the love he thought he'd found.
He doesn't know what he can do, and gives into impulse:
"Can't think of anything to do. My left brain knows that her love is fleeting. She's just looking for something new. I said it once before but it bears repeating"
The frustration never ends, but impulse wins over.
this song just injects you with energy and spirit, it's fantastic, and it makes you feel fantastic!
I love this song. It's epic.
The girl is telling the guy how girl looks that she fell in love with:
"Red hair with a curl
mellow roll for the flavor
and the eyes for peeping
can't keep away from the girl."
The guy freaks out LOL:
"These two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
can't think of anything to do yeah
my left brain knows that our love is fleeting
she just looking for something new
and I said it once before but it bears repeating now"
The girl says to the guy:
"Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now"
To comfort him. Bobby is probably a friend of them both :P
the song is from a young boy's perspective. (re-occurring theme in Jack White songs) he is in love with a girl, possibly for the first time and the girl is probably older than him however they have a relationship that allows him to be in contact with her.
Boy: She turns and said
Girl: "are you alright?"
Boy: "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating..."
Girl: "Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah, Bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating now".
the girl is either 'looking for something new' or she feels obliged or she is keeping him dangling (etc)
the latter part of the song is the classic and brilliantly displayed Heart v Mind parable. he knows that it will be temporary, as 'all love is fleeting' however the unmentioned right side of his brain (the id) wants the girl with the curl now!
Meg's hair is dyed red in the Icky Thump vid
In a Coca-Cola commercial aired in Australia there is a redheaded woman featured throughout most of the commercial. The commercial is set to the tune of a song Jack White wrote and performed, "Love is the Truth"
Mentioned in this song "red hair with the curl"
Icky Thump "Red-head señorita, Lookin' dead"
Take Take Take "She walked into the bar with her long, red, curly hair"
300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues "There's all kinds of red-headed women, That I ain't supposed to kiss"
Little Acorns "Cut up your hair, Straighten your curls| Well, your problems hide in your curls"
The Blue Orchid and Hotel Yorba videos (others might too) feature a redheaded woman who I've heard is now Jack's wife.
And "Suzy Lee" is also a reccuring theme-the only mentions I've found though are a song by the same title on The White Stripes album, mention in We're Going to be Friends ("walk with me Suzy Lee"), and a dedication: "To Suzy Lee wherever she may be..." (or something like that) in the cover of Get Behind Me Satan.