The panic will fall down around you, if you don’t do what I say
Yes yes, it’s cliche to post subjectively meaningful lyrics on a tumblelog, but I don’t use this as a tumblelog, so fuck you.
Temptation Greets You (Arctic Monkeys) is a song that’s been jammed in my head recently. I can sort-of relate to the awkwardness and the want-of-will in the Arctics B-side. The song describes a close friendship between a dude and a woman, and how one of them kinda wants something to happen, but at least one of them (the narrator in this case) has decided that it would be a bad route to take. It compares the situation to that friend everyone had in school that was always persuading them to cause a little too much mischief.
“Temptation greets you like your naughty mate. The one that made you steal and set things on fire, the one you haven’t seen of late.”
Also, there’s a Dizzee Rascal bit in there for some reason. Very underexposed and underrated song, and probably the best of the Sheffield band’s B-sides.
1 year ago