Album: Daylight (2002)

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• You see them everywhere
  You know those magazines
  Yeah, I've bought a few
  They show you everything
  
  So many news stands
  As I'm passing by
  But rows and rows of you
  Are bound to catch my eye
  
  Now everyone can gaze upon your body
  It's good for you, I guess you have no shame
  I never knew if how I acted
  Would make you seek revenge
  And now I know
  And you're in magazines
  
  But is it really you
  In the empty world?
  I shouldn't be surprised
  You're an ambitious girl
  
  With all that naked skin as sweet as honey
  Maybe you just really needed money
  I wondered if I would be punished for
  My voyeuristic pleasure
  
  And now I know
  And you're in magazines
  And now I know
  And you're in magazines
  Now I know
  
  I tear through pages
  Of every kind of pose
  But it's not really you I see
  When I look real close
  No, you're a little bit different
  You're a little bit different
  You're a little bit different
  
  And now I know
  And you're in magazines
  Now I know
  And you're in magazines
  I'm alone
  And you're in magazines
  So, it never was you
  No, it never was you
  It never was you
  In magazines Writer/s: DUNCAN SHEIK
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• David Brazil from BrazilI think you didnt get the sarcasm... "You're a little bit different" is him being nasty, as this pictures are always "corrected" with Photoshop
• Andrew from Houston, TxIn a first person song, the (young, male) narrator describes his shock at seeing an ex-girlfriend on the cover of a skin mag. He’s not a prude (“yeah, I’ve bought a few… they show you everything.) But he jumps to the conclusion that she’s done it to pay him back for the break up, or maybe she’s just in it for money. He should have known she’d have behaved like that.
  
  He pulls the magazine off the shelf, and leafs through the pictorial (“all that naked skin, as sweet as honey”). But as he examines every photograph he comes to the realization that it isn’t his ex after all (“you’re a little bit different… it never was you”).
  
  There’s a humblebrag - yeah, my ex really was that hot. But his jealousy and shallowness (and sexual objectification) might just be why she broke up with him in the first place. And the rest of us men, we’ve bought a few, know what I mean? How well do we know the women we say we love, or loved once?
• Sarah from Madison, Wii thought this song was about one of his old girlfriends who wanted revenge and got into playboy magazine. "now everyone can gaze upon your body" and "all that naked skin as sweet as honey" makes it pretty obvious to me. he talks about how she has completely changed from when he once knew her "its not really you i see when i look real close"

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