Monday, March 21, 2011

Alex Turner - Stuck on the Puzzle

http://www.last.fm/music/Alex+Turner/_/Stuck+on+the+Puzzle

Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys fame recently released a short EP for the British indie film "Submarine" and I think this is the highlight from it. I've always liked his lyrical ability. He has a certain conversational way of singing that borders on bloody poetic. Very image oriented. I can only wish of coming up with some of his lyrics. I hate to sound like some sentimental indie hipster wuss, but if i had to pick a song to fall in love with my dream girl to, it would be this one.

I'm not the kind of fool 
who's gonna sit and sing to you, 
about stars, girl. 
But last night I looked up into 
the dark half of the blue, 
and they'd gone backwards. 

Something in your magnetism 
must have pissed them off, 
forcing them to get an early night. 

I have been searching from 
the bottom to the top, 
for such a sight 
as the one i caught when I saw your... 

Fingers dimmed in the lights 
like your used to being told that you're trouble 
and I spent all night 
stuck on the puzzle 

Nobody I asked 
knew how he came to be the one 
to whom you surrendered 

Any man who wasn't led away 
into the other room 
stood pretending 

But something in your magnetism 
hadn't just made him drop 
whoever's hand it was that he was holding. 

I have been searching 
from the bottom to the top, 
for such a sight 
as the one I caught when I saw your... 

Fingers dimmed in the lights, 
like your used to being told that you're trouble, 
and I spent all night, 
stuck on the puzzle. 

I tried to swim to the side, 
but my feet got caught in the middle, 
and I thought I'd seen the light, 
but oh, no. 
I was just stuck on the puzzle. 
Stuck on the puzzle.

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