Phoenix – 1901 Lyrics

Counting all different ideas drifting away Past and present, they don't matter now the future's sorted out

Watch her move in elliptical patterns Think it's not what you say, what you say is way too complicated

For a minute, though, I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds 'til the last call Calling hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Lie down, you know it's easy Like we did it all the summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

It's not a miracle we needed No, I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling Falling, falling, falling, falling

Girlfriend, oh, your girlfriend is drifting away Past and present, 1855, 1901

Watch them build up a material tower Think it's not gonna stay anyway, I think it's overrated

For a minute, though, I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds 'til the last call Calling hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Lie down, you know it's easy Like we did it all the summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

It's not a miracle we needed No, I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling Falling, falling, falling, falling Falling, falling, falling, falling Falling, falling, falling, falling

At the start of the song it is

about living in the here and

now, not being concerned

with the problems of the

future, thus the lyrics ‘Past and present, they don't matter now the future's sorted out’.

Although the song the chorus

is written in the in the past

tense, for example ‘Like we did it all the summer long’which is talking about

past events, dwelling on the

good times of his failed

relationship.

As the song continues, the

lyrics change to how not

sorting problems start to

mean you lose things,

sometimes things you love,

thus the lyrics ‘Girlfriend, oh, your girlfriend is drifting away’, in this

case it is how he let his

girlfriend ‘Drift away’ from

him.

The Final verse is again

talking in the present and

he is sing about what he

will do to get her back,

emphasised by the lyrics

‘And I'll be anything you ask and more’suggesting that he

is willing to change to be

with her.