No real backstory (to be shared) for this one, just another fun song from Motion City Soundtrack. I can’t really figure out if he’s singing about the same girl throughout this song of if he’s singing about one girl first, and then a different one in the subsequent verses. Either way, it makes for some fun (mis)interpretation and those squirmy things in your tummy (like the feeling you get before a stage performance of a play you don’t know the lines for, not to mention that you had some bad yogurt with purple orange juice for breakfast). Click “Read More” for the lyrics (do read them! I spent quite a large insignificant amount of time splicing, formatting and punctuating them).
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I get lost, messed up and bored
When I’m alone too long.
I can’t sleep, function or eat
When I’m not with someone.
Late last fall, she ended it all
And moved to Who-Knows-Where.
Just like that, she vanished and packed
And never even called.
Do you feel a certain sense of synergy
Between yourself and me?
A kind of macabre-somber-
Wonder-Twin type of harmony?
What if it was you,
You that I needed all along?
I felt like a fool,
Kicking and screaming,
Pretending we were wrong.
Let’s get wrecked on Pop Tarts and sex
And see the Taj Mahal.
Let’s save birds from Prince William Sound
And skateboard through the mall.
Let’s fight crime with mangoes and limes
And join the PGA.
Let’s win big with every spin
But hurry, I can’t wait.
Do you spend a fortune on those
Late-night, prepaid television scams,
In search of the perfect blend of
Steak-knife and non-stick frying pan?
What if it was you,
You that I needed all along?
I felt like a fool,
Thinking we were completely wrong.
It seemed like a dream,
A beautiful scream,
That echoed forever
And made us not afraid to feel a thing!
And after it ends
We’ll try to be friends.
They say that what doesn’t kill us
Makes us who we are.
All this time and everything’s changed
But I still feel the same.
All good things eventually end
And get washed down the drain.
What a disaster it would be
If you discovered that I cared,
A little too much for friends
But not enough to share…
What if it was you,
You that I’ve needed all along?
I felt like a fool,
Now that I’m sure that I was wrong.
It had to be you…
I knew it was you.
- Motion City Soundtrack, It Had to Be You