Well, not really it seems
I was listening to my Franz Ferdinand CD on the way to work this morning and it struck me how much I like their music. The vocals are kind of raw in some places and amazingly gentle and warm in others. Their lyrics are simple and repetitive, but they either have an awesome sound engineer or they play their instruments like geniuses. And while their lyrics may be simple, there are some lines that just hit me between the eyes.
I really like the last line of this segment from the song “Matinee”:
You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes
Of course I totally misheard my favorite lyrics of theirs. The song “Darts of Pleasure” contains the lyrics:
Words of love and words of leisure
Words of poisoned darts of pleasure
But what I was hearing this morning was:
Words of love and words of leisure
Words are poisoned thoughts of pleasure
I think I like my imaginary lyrics better. But that’s just me.