That all I want now is happiness for you and me
What I used to be will pass away and then you’ll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me
What I used to be will pass away and then you’ll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me Elliott Smith – Happiness
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And put it all back in
You've got to understand that you can never beat the bandit, no Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon
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Most British pubs have fruit machines, (slot machines) usually called one-armed bandits.
On a typical night out you’d probably have a go on the bandit, win a couple of quid then lose it again. Even if you get lucky once in a while, the odds are not in your favor.
Of course it's fancy dress
And they're all looking quite full on in bunny ears and devil horns and how Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon
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Our narrator is checking out some ostentatiously dressed girls riding around in a limousine, probably someone’s birthday party or a Hen Party.
“Lairy” is British English for aggressive and obnoxious – especially after drinking too much.
Tonight there'll be a ruckus, yeah, regardless of what's gone before Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon
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However, our narrator thinks tonight will be different. Regardless of his past failures, he’s positive he’s coming home with a babe tonight.
Perhaps a metaphorical response to the hype that surrounded the Arctic Monkeys before they even released an album. They’re not just a hype machine.
For disappointment in evening entertainment, but Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon
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A classic Elliott Smith song featured both on a Kill Rock Stars 7" and his eponymous second LP. Smith employs heroin as a metaphor here and on many songs on the album. As he told the zine Spongey Monkey (as quoted in the book Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing:
“Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, the second [album] is all about drugs and stuff,’ and it’s not about drugs. It’s a different angle or topical way of talking about things. Like dependency and mixed feelings about your attachment.”
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Smith draws out the “s” in “marks,” evoking the hiss of heroin cooking in a spoon.
This line is a bitter pun: the marks in question could be grades in school, track marks from shooting heroin, or both.
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The opening track from Whatever, “The View From the Afternoon”, sets the stage with dead-end dive-bar lyricism:
The lyrics talk about a man who goes out to drink and get stoned to forget his ex lover that has been on his mind. You can see this in verses like “And you can pour your heart out around three o'clock”.After getting high he starts texting his ex which blocks him and leaves him alone.