Fluorescent Adolescent

Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
Charted: 5
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  • You used to get it in your fishnets
    Now you only get it in your night dress
    Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
    Landed in a very common crisis
    Everything's in order in a black hole
    Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
    That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
    Remember when you used to be a rascal?

    Oh, the boy's a slag, the best you ever had
    The best you ever had is just a memory and those dreams
    Weren't as daft as they seem, not as daft as they seemed
    My love, when you dream them up

    Flicking through a little book of sex tips
    Remember when the boys were all electric?
    Now when she's told she's gonna get it
    I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
    Clinging 'til I'm getting sentimental
    Said she wasn't going but she went still
    Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle
    Was it a Mecca Dauber or a betting pencil?

    Oh, the boy's a slag, the best you ever had
    The best you ever had is just a memory and those dreams
    Weren't as daft as they seem, not as daft as they seemed
    My love, when you dream them up

    Oh, Flo, where did you go?
    Where did you go? Where did you go? Oh

    You're falling about
    You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
    Just sounding it out
    But you're not coming back again
    You're falling about
    You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
    You were just sounding it out
    But you're not coming back again

    You used to get it in your fishnets (falling about)
    Now you only get it in your night dress
    Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness (you took a left off Last Laugh Lane)
    Landed in a very common crisis
    Everything's in order in a black hole (we're sounding it out)
    Is everything as pretty as the past though?
    That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco (but you're not coming back again)
    Remember when you used to be a rascal? Oh Writer/s: Alex Turner, Johanna Bennett
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Nicolas Oe from BrazilCan someone tell me if there is any relation between the "Remember when you used to be a rascal" phrase and Miles Kane? Was wondering after read this https://www.songfacts.com/facts/arctic-monkeys/505
  • Eve from Ringwood, United KingdomFantastic! Man, I can't get this song outta' my head and it's so damn catchy! I knew the words to it the 2nd time I listened to it!
  • Chloe from St. Louis, MoSounds like the story of a girl who can't get good sex, ahaha.
  • Indigo from Adelaide, Australiadefinately my favourite arctic Monkeys song
  • Jared from Perth, Australiaprobably the best rock song of the past 10 years
  • Marina from Winnipeg, Canadaarctic monkeys are truely unforgetable.
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