Fol Chen - Cable TV
Let me first start off by pasting the lyrics all at once:
Now you've been working so hard
Running in circles
Like a robot shorting circuits
Like it's set to blow
I've gotta make an appointment
Just to kiss you
Baby I'm not complaining
But I've got to know
Won't you come away with me
I'm not rich
But the first night is on me
You know I just got paid baby
I know a place and they got Cable TV
Now here we are
By the pool of this motel
Getting dizzy from the spritzers
And the desert heat
I'm getting tired of waiting
Fuck the hot tub
Let's go back to the room
And watch some Cable TV
Won't you come away with me
The carpets filthy but the ice is free
You know I just got paid
So we can order Pay-Per-View
If nothing's good on TV
It's getting late hit the lights
But leave the TV on
And put in the dance mix
Let the boom box boom
I thought that I knew what love was
Then I saw you
Dancing in your underwear too
And I think of you
When I think of you baby
My heart just triples in size
When I think of you baby
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Alright, let's begin.
I believe this is the most romantic love song that best captures the current era.
The overall vibe of the song gives off a very average, common, and simple situation found in a lot of people these days.
The highest rated comment on the video best says it, "For some reason, this song makes me appreciate being just an average person." Not for some reason, but for many.
Now you've been working so hard
Running in circles
Like a robot shorting circuits
Like it's set to blow
The first stanza sets up the guy and how hard he has to work just to make ends meet. The singer describes her lover's work ethics as very hectic and on the edge of a tipping point. He's in a similar situation as most people between the ages of say 20 - 30.
I've gotta make an appointment
Just to kiss you
Baby I'm not complaining
But I've got to know
The guy is so busy that the girl has to "make an appointment just to kiss" him, not literally obviously, but she's just again emphasizing how busy he is. She understands and loves him so much that she doesn't complain the fact that she needs to schedule around his work just to be with him. She's also gotta know...
Won't you come away with me
I'm not rich
But the first night is on me
You know I just got paid baby
I know a place and they got Cable TV
...if he wants to come away with her to a run down motel. She flat out states that she isn't rich, but she's willing to pay for the first night because of how much she wants to be with him. And the reason she wants to go to a motel with him is obvious: sex. But why a motel and not her/his place? Well, that's because they're either living with their parents or with roommates and there just would not be as much privacy if they went there. Also, she's living from paycheck to paycheck because she said that she just got paid and is willing to spend it, meaning she has little to nothing saved up otherwise she would just ask him to go anytime instead of after being paid. Plus, Cable TV.
Now here we are
By the pool of this motel
Getting dizzy from the spritzers
And the desert heat
Daytime, just chilling by the pool and getting a little drunk of spritzers and the heat. SEXUAL heat perhaps? Haha, a bit of a stretch, but still, they're just waiting for the daylight to end and night to begin.
I'm getting tired of waiting
Fuck the hot tub
Let's go back to the room
And watch some Cable TV
This is a very interesting verse because it's the only one to contain any kind of vulgarity: fuck. She's tired of waiting (to fuck), so forget the hot tub, she wants to go back to the room (to fuck) and watch some Cable TV (euphemism for fucking). At first, I thought she really did want to just go back to the room because it was too boring outside, but then it dawned on me that this is the ONLY time where any kind of explicit word comes up so perhaps there's more than meets the eye.
Won't you come away with me
The carpets filthy but the ice is free
You know I just got paid
So we can order Pay-Per-View
If nothing's good on TV
The chorus again, this time describing just how run down and cheap the motel they're staying is. She really wants him to come away with her by telling him that though the carpet is filthy, but the ice is free. She also bribes him with pay-per-view as well.
It's getting late hit the lights
But leave the TV on
And put in the dance mix
Let the boom box boom
Night time. They're totally gonna have sex and that's why she wants the TV on, for both the ambient noise and lighting. She also tells the guy to put in the dance mix in order to further drown out the noises they'll be presumably making.
I thought that I knew what love was
Then I saw you
Dancing in your underwear too
And I think of you
The best part. She thought she really knew what love was (by merely being with him) but then she saw him dancing in his underwear too (meaning they're both down to their unmentionables, "dancing") and she thinks of him...
When I think of you baby
My heart just triples in size
When I think of you baby
...and when she thinks of him, her "heart just triples in size." So yes, by merely being with him, she is in love. But when she thinks of him, she really knows what love is. The song ends with just "When I think of you baby..." almost abruptly. This is most likely because she has become so enamored that just thinking about him makes her lose her train of thought, or something.
IN CONCLUSION, this song is the ideal love song for me. Just two very average people who are deeply in love get together at a motel and are reminded of why they love one another: simply because the other person is who they are. This couple isn't the most expressive in their love (he doesn't give her some roses or some shit, and she doesn't give him anything either), but as long as they're together, that's all they need. Their life might not be the best either (dude works long and tough hours, girl living from paycheck to paycheck, they can't afford to live together), but again, as long as they have each other and can have their getaways at the sleazy motel every once in a while, they're set.
And to think, I was supposed to be writing my paper, pfft.
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