Arctic Monkeys - Their 15 Best Lyrics

5. "Everything's in order in a black hole, nothing seems as pretty as the past though" Song: Fluorescent Adolescent Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare The song focuses around a middle aged woman trying to regain some of the excitement of her youth in fear of aging further and falling into a monotonous lifestyle. She primarily goes about this by trying to reinvigorate her sex life, which the comparison in the quotation is like a "black hole" at the current stage in her life, suggesting a very unexciting/inescapable nature to it as it has become more mechanical and less pleasurable with age. She is also stuck in her own mind as she reminisces upon past experiences, hoping to recapture at least some of the excitement she once felt but falls further into a depressive state when she cannot, making her believe that she has past her prime and life will continue to degrade from this point on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw 4. "Yeah, but his bird thinks it's amazing so all that's left, is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf" Song: Fake Tales Of San Francisco Album: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Taken from what is arguably the best song on the band's debut record is this spectacularly brutal insult, aimed towards the fictional band whom Turner antagonsies throughout the song. He does so for the singer lying about visiting America in order to create a cooler and more interesting aura around himself. Naturally this fails, and Turner goes on to detail the lack of excitement in the gig as people begin to look for excuses to leave and wish for the singer to stop wasting his breath. The quoted attack comes half way through, when it is described that the singer's girlfriend is the only person there even mildly excited by the band, and the only way Turner can see this as being possible is that she must be so utterly in love with him that instead of being able to just see past his looks, she also must have the remarkable ability to ignore the lies that he's spouting on stage to the audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePg1tbia9Bg