Radiator
Dancing Memories: Nostalgic Romance and Bittersweet Longing
Lyrics
Hey you with the blank stare
Addressing someone with a distant or vacant expression
You know who you are
Acknowledging the person's self-awareness
Top down with your windows
Noticing the person with their convertible car's top down
I see you from afar.
Observing from a distance
And you’re talking with your friends and
Noticing the person talking with friends
You ask who I am
Being inquired about by the person
New girl in town and
Introduced as the new girl in town
She’s already in with
Already accepted by the person with blonde hair
You with the blonde hair
Inviting the person with blonde hair to come over
Can you come over here?
Requesting the attention of the person with blonde hair
And it’s a happy ending
Expressing a desire for a positive outcome
If I think you think of me
Linking mutual thoughts as a condition for a happy ending
I’ll pay the price of being nice and you’ll get me for free
Willing to pay the price of kindness for a connection
Oh it’s a happy ending everybody wants to believe Believe
Highlighting the universal desire for a happy ending
Believe
-That
We are dancing in your room
Imagining dancing together in a room
And you say to me
Recalling a compliment about the view
"Baby I love the view"
Sensing a connection
I can feel it
Proposing to dance like they used to
Can you too? oh
-Let’s just dance like we used to do
-Follow you bout anywhere
Expressing willingness to follow and miss the person
Ya I would go to any place
-Leave you for a weekend
-And then I will start to miss your taste
-I can feel it when we move
-Let’s just dance like we used to do
-We are the cool kids golden like the stars
Describing themselves as cool kids watching from a distance
Sit on the radiator
-As we watch from afar
-And I know I loved you first from a mile away
-And twenty years from now ya we’re going to say
-I loved every second of that like hell ya
-We are dancing in your room
Repeating the desire to dance and follow the person
And you say to me
-"Baby I love the view"
-I can feel it
-Can you too? oh
-Let’s just dance like we used to do
-Follow you bout anywhere
-Ya I would go to any place
-Leave you for a weekend
-And then I will start to miss your taste
-I can feel it when we move
-Let’s just dance like we used to do
-I was captain of your shore, but I think you wanted more
Reflecting on being captain of the person's affection, ending in a breakup
Ya I think that I was sure of that
-So hey let’s be friends
-Isn’t that the most stupid scared shit
-Lie that you’ve ever said?
-I was captain of your shore
-But you pushed me overboard
-Now you’re drowning cause you let go of my hand
-Was that the plan?
-Cause now you’re drowning and
Expressing a sense of finality and separation
You’re drowning and
-You’re never gonna see me again
-We are dancing in my head
Imagining dancing in the mind, expressing longing and the desire to return to past dances
I wish that you would take back the things you said
-I still feel the space of you oh
-Let’s just dance like we used to do
-Follow you ‘bout anywhere
-Ya I would go to any place
-Leave you for a weekend and then
-I will start to miss your taste
-I feel myself reach for you
-Wish we could dance like we used to do
Expressing the wish to dance like before
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