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I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7-hour flight or a 45-minute drive
In my imagination, you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs
Stop and wait a sec
Oh, when you look at me like that, my darling, what did you expect?
I'd probably still adore you with your hands around my neck
Or I did last time I checked
Not shy of a spark
A knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark
Frightened by the bite, no, it's no harsher than the bark
The middle of adventure, such a perfect place to start
I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7-hour flight or a 45-minute drive
In my imagination, you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs
But I crumble completely when you cry
It seems like once again you've had to greet me with goodbye
I'm always just about to go and spoil the surprise
Take my hands off of your eyes too soon
Well, I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7-hour flight or a 45-minute drive
In my imagination, you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs and a smile
| k_trout (Dream State) | Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 16:25 First listen - wow! |
| adroc (left of centre) | Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 11:10 This song just keeps getting better after every listen. The driving beat and instrumentation + lyrical imagery + passionate vocals = great fuckin' song. |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 11:07 Love it ..  |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 11:06 I like it too EssexTex wrote: Great band..freshest sound for a long time |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 23:30 Really not bad!! |
| MannAudioltd (Worcester England) | Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 08:16 a good day! |
| 4merdj (donde el viento se devuelve) | Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 08:16 Pr33ty solid!  |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: May 19, 2010 - 16:59 We will certainly here lots from the Monkeys the next years! CERTAINLY!!! |
| rumblekg | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 08:41 yes! a good monkey's song. |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 08:40 Plain Rocks |
| bam23 (Berkeley) | Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 18:18 Sometimes a song succeeds by virtue of a great driving beat and really good instrumentals. In this case it would make the grade without any lyrics. |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:51 jools wrote: Don't care what some of you muso-snobs say - this is a great track. So there   |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:49 FlatCat wrote: Such a harsh, unpleasant sound. WOW! That's a harsh critique from someone who rates the harsh unpleasant sounds of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited as GODLIKE, I can't get through 4 bars of that piece, this is wonderful. |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:44 so many teenage feelings 'round there. like it |
| AdyMiles (Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 04:06 i just don't 'get' this band. seem highly overrated to me. different league to Franz Ferdinand, for example |
| bhallmark (The Administrative Zone of the District of Columbia) | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 15:58 MusicRookie wrote: Sort of reminds me of one of the bands that you would hear while watching "The Young Ones" Here is a link that has all the songs and bands that I am talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) Sort of an 80's British band sound..... Agreed. I know exactly what you are talking about - it gives me the same vibe. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 15:58 "i'd prolly still adore you with your hands around my neck, or i did last time i checked" yikes! diving head first into destructive relationships seem to be a theme with this band... but the instrumentation is always top notch. :) |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 05, 2009 - 03:18 MusicRookie wrote: Sort of reminds me of one of the bands that you would hear while watching "The Young Ones" Here is a link that has all the songs and bands that I am talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) Sort of an 80's British band sound..... ??  I listened to a lot of music in the 80s, popular and alternative, and the Arctic Monkeys wouldn't fit into any 'genre' from that period. There are influences from 80s (and current) bands (The Fall comes to mind) but that could be said about many modern bands. AM are very much of our modern times, IMO. I love the way that they're unapologetically South Yorkshire Tykes, and sing about life in Sheffield, 'appen, in proper Sheffield accents, without morphing into some kind of mid-Atlantic genericity (is that a word) that so many other Brit bands have done. |
| SparkyMarky (SE England) | Posted: Jun 06, 2009 - 13:04 jools wrote: Not heard this for a while! Reminds me of last summer....! Great lyrics! I love Alex Turner's vocal - and lyrics. Did you hear the Last Shadow Puppets album he did? Really good |
| flyboy (Sarah Palin's Hometown) | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 15:30 d00kie wrote: 7 => 8! ditto |
| jools (Brighton UK) | Posted: Mar 31, 2009 - 09:20 Not heard this for a while! Reminds me of last summer....! Great lyrics! |
| d00kie (In Cubicle Hell!) | Posted: Mar 31, 2009 - 09:19 8  9 |
| Jazbo (Beautiful Valparaiso IN.) | Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 13:23 "With your 'ans between your thighs," Love it. Summer 2008 |
| Carl (The Summit City) | Posted: Dec 26, 2008 - 16:13 Nadine wrote: cool! More like "iPlays." didn't know rp airplays this song!  |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 00:42 just one word: awesome! |
| Nadine (Germany) | Posted: Nov 08, 2008 - 11:36 cool! didn't know rp airplays this song! |
| ALive (earth) | Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 21:15 BRMC then AM? perfect for tonite...thank you~ |
| laroue (Tennessee) | Posted: Sep 26, 2008 - 17:45 I likey |
| gloriajanell | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 08:23 great song!!! |
| timc (Waterloo, ON (2512 miles/4043 km from Paradise, CA)) | Posted: Aug 22, 2008 - 08:23 jpfueler wrote: Same for me upped it to 8 Ditto! |
| jpfueler (South o' Ft Worth) | Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 08:52 d00kie wrote: 7 => 8!
Same for me upped it to 8 |
| d00kie (In Cubicle Hell!) | Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 15:45 7 => 8! |
| jools (Brighton UK) | Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 15:40 Don't care what some of you muso-snobs say - this is a great track. So there |
| MusicRookie (Fort Worth Texas) | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 13:37 Sort of reminds me of one of the bands that you would hear while watching "The Young Ones" Here is a link that has all the songs and bands that I am talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) Sort of an 80's British band sound..... |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 13:36 nice power pop |
| ltbluesoda | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 13:36 A song about his gal waiting in room 505 with "her hands between her thighs" and he'll do anything he can to get back to the hotel room... that's hot. Fantastic song with great lyrics. |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: May 19, 2008 - 18:02 Such a harsh, unpleasant sound. |
| Martino | Posted: May 03, 2008 - 03:32 jools wrote: Great - hasn't been played for a while!!!
there's a good reason for not playing this.....it sucks! ;-) |
| jools (Brighton UK) | Posted: Apr 05, 2008 - 07:38 Great - hasn't been played for a while!!! |
| Boston_Ed (Boston) | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 13:26 EssexTex wrote: Great band..freshest sound for a long time
Ditto! |
| EssexTex (Texas) | Posted: Feb 15, 2008 - 07:00 Great band..freshest sound for a long time |
| cactusmatador | Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 09:06 Dragonfly_Launch wrote: I need you to understand what an assinine comment this is. And if you are judging a song on this basis? WTF? I'm sure your accent grates on most of the population of Australia and China. Mine as well. Especially if I sang something. If your accent grates on them, especially if you sang something, they probably wold not want to listen to you sing. Just a guess. |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Jan 29, 2008 - 16:17 Me too !  DoctorHooey wrote:I just added this album to my "must buy" list. |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Jan 24, 2008 - 08:08 I just added this album to my "must buy" list. |
| Dragonfly_Launch (Conway, Ar) | Posted: Jan 18, 2008 - 15:31 jone_ston wrote: I just can't get past the singer's horrible accent. I have nothing against that sort of accent in general, but when sung it really grates on me for some reason.
I need you to understand what an assinine comment this is. And if you are judging a song on this basis? WTF? I'm sure your accent grates on most of the population of Australia and China. Mine as well. Especially if I sang something. |
| hippiechick (Weekendland) | Posted: Dec 14, 2007 - 09:48 I like their more mature sound. |
| RussNelson | Posted: Dec 14, 2007 - 09:48 Can we please take this song out of rotation? I could stand to hear it once a month, tops. |
| lily34 (derby, ny) | Posted: Dec 05, 2007 - 18:50 damn monkeys! |
| adroc (T dot O dot) | Posted: Nov 22, 2007 - 11:37 Awesome tune. The best selection from this album. |
| jone_ston | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 19:05 I just can't get past the singer's horrible accent. I have nothing against that sort of accent in general, but when sung it really grates on me for some reason. |