Lyrics for Help the Aged as interpreted by typo

Help the Aged Lyrics
Help the aged
One time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue
Help the aged
Don't just put them in a home
Can't have much fun when they're all on their own
Give a hand, if you can
Try and help them to unwind
Give them hope and give them comfort
Cos they're running out of time

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away
When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough.
Funny how it all falls away

Help the aged
Cos one day you'll be older too
You might need someone who can pull you through
And if you look very hard
Behind those lines upon their face
You may see where you are headed
And it's such a lonely place

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever.
No big deal so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away
When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough.
Funny how it all falls away

You can dye your hair
But it's the one thing you can't change
Can't run away from yourself

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away
When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough
Funny how it all falls away
Funny how it all falls away
So help the aged

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roger wilco
05-13-2002

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nobody respects old folks anymore. it's about growing old, dying and karma.

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dansr
06-22-2003

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this has got to be the best song. i guess it has a message, but i just like how it goes so much

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fluffycloud
10-19-2004

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I have a feeling Jarvis is taking the piss out of a girl who likes to get laid with older men, maybe for money or stuff like that. How about that?

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hastalavictoria
08-09-2005

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Like so many of Pulp's songs, this conveys how everything we hold dear will wither and die, and we are destined for a "lonely place". All the romances, joys and sorrows we have are temporary, and will be worn away with time. We "try to forget that nothing lasts forever", because we don't want to see that nothing is eternal. I think that, like "Glory Days", it is a call to people to enjoy life while they are young, because it's all the time we really have.

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massive100th
12-25-2005

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perhaps he got sad to realize that when he was young he didnīt care bout his parents-grandfathers.........or he visited an elder people assylum and felt the lonelyness of it, and he saw himself being there

beautiful song indeed, and itīs a message to all youth, telling them "you idiots, appreciate old people, they were just like you, and you will all be like them, so.....fucking respect them and help the, spend time with them"

and itīs an everyday thing in europe.......old people abandonned in an appartment by their sons.....left alone and dying slowly.....so cruel....that when they die, sometimes, neighbours only realized the really died when their bodies start to decompose and the smell coming from their appartments is damn strong.

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GranEle
04-02-2006

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It's about Jarvis's own conflict of getting old and be left alone.

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xinnerx
10-30-2006

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It's about an older man trying to convince a younger woman that she should be with him. I work in a bar and I see it all the time. They try to brag that they are better and more accomplished because they are older rather than actually trying to seduce them properly. It's a pathetic plea that usually backfires.

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xinnerx
10-30-2006

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It's about an older man trying to convince a younger woman that she should be with him. I work in a bar and I see it all the time. They try to brag that they are better and more accomplished because they are older rather than actually trying to seduce them properly. It's a pathetic plea that usually backfires.

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pringles76
01-26-2007

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today i heard this song after a long time period and in blew me away again like it did back then.
one of the greatest lines ever is: 'One time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue'. you can't have any humour if you do not like this one! simply great kind of dealing with a problem that wil occur to the most of us.

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thebatgirl
01-26-2007

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Actually in a interview, he said he wrote it as a semi-midlife crisis. He wrote it at thirty-three/thirty-four, and its basically to feel sorry for himself that he was getting older.

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Boourns
11-13-2007

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"Me nan's 63 her name be Sheila. She always on da phone to her mutha fuckin deala. She work da ghetto star, she always wear Fila. She still get jiggy in her boyfriend's three wheela. Said O.A.P."
"Yeah you know me!"

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Santiagof
02-27-2008

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It's one of the centerpieces of "This Is Hardcore", seemingly a concept album about reaching thirty and beyond and suddenly realizing you're not young anymore, that what you did maybe didn't lead you to what you expected, and its consecuences... if not one, the closest thing to a middle-age crisis.
In "Help The Aged", Jarvis pretty much materializes his fears and uncertainties typical of this crisis ("the sound of someone losing the plot", as stated on "The Fear") through a feeling of sympathy for "the aged", old people. He urges (seemingly, to the youth) for them to be cared, to be given comfort... " 'cause one time they were just like you"... Of course, he realizes he's becoming one of those "aged" ones, that's what generates his sorrowful sympathy towards them. "Funny how it all falls away", he sighs in an ironic resignation, contemplating his own aging. He's just discovered, much against his own will, that "nothing lasts forever", not even youth. He himself has seen in the eyes of the aged his own future, "where he's headed", and he warns the youngsters the bad omen: "and it's such a lonely place".
As for the verse naming "an older lover", he's simply recommending to some girl to pick up an older lover, since he can offer "experience", despite "looking rough". Probably it's a pick-up speech he tries to use on a girl to woo her. Since he's not considered young anymore and knows it, he looks at the aged and tries to emphasize whatever virtues he sees on them.

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Santiagof
02-27-2008

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An instant masterpiece, must add.... So is the album, a really dark record exploring a subject usually not covered in rock... And the music is top notch!

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Santiagof
05-11-2008

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It also begins like a "second part" to This Is Hardcore. Up to this song, the characters and stories portrait uncertainty and strangeness to this state, they've just discovered they're aging and don't quite understand it. From this song on up to Seductive Barry, Jarvis explores stories when the characters are quite conscious about it, their reactions going from anger ("I'm a Man") to regret ("A Little Soul"), and desperate lust ("This Is Hardcore"), finally falling to the point of pure lack of dignity ("Seductive Barry"). From "Sylvia" to its end the album tries to find a happy ending for it all, kinda like a change of attitude.

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dross
05-16-2008

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A hilarious and sad song about helping old people get off sexually "cause one day you'll be older too and you might need someone who can pull you through".

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