I'm not in love
I'm not in love
I'm not in love Crystal Castles (Ft. Robert Smith) – Not in Love
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You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to howl
My fingers claw your skin, try to tear my way in
You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to Florence + the Machine – Howl
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That evokes a heavy sexual image, like someone in so much pleasure clawing someone’s skin and trying to get in them.
Also the feeling of devotion: her lover is the moon that breaks the night for which she has to howl, is somehow a necessity to worship her lover.
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And tutting my heel and strutting my feet Adele – Hometown Glory
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Adele walks the streets of West Norwood. She avoids the cracks in the pavement when she walks as a schoolchild might, in line with the schoolyard rhyme “step on a crack, break your mother’s back.”
This could be difficult, as London (of which West Norwood is a suburb), has some pretty old streets. Her hometown’s age is one of many aspects on her mind.
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“Hometown Glory” is Adele’s debut single, released on October 22, 2007. It is also the final track on her first album, 19. An understated love song to her hometown of West Norwood, South London, the singer wrote it in just 10 minutes at age 15 after having an argument wherein her mother tried to convince Adele to leave home to go to university in Liverpool.
The song was rereleased as a single on July 22, 2008 with this alternate cover:
Watch them built up a material tower
Think it's not going to stay anyway, think it's overrated Phoenix – 1901
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1855 refers to the first Exposition Universelle which took place in Paris. Between 1855 and 1901, Paris has hosted 5 Expositions Universelles and a lot of monuments were built for those fairs : Grand Palais, Eiffel Tower (in 1889) … The peace and prosperity in Paris allowed the arts to flourish, and many masterpieces of literature, music, theater, and visual art gained recognition.
In a performance recorded for Spin, Thomas Mars said:
“It’s a song about Paris. Paris in 1901 was better than what it is now. It’s still nice, but 1901 was better. This is a fantasy about Paris.“
Furthermore, the lines "Watch them built up a material tower/Think it’s not going to stay anyway, think it’s overrated” are most likely a reference to the opinion Parisian citizens had of the Eiffel Tower when it was first erected. Most weren’t pleased with it, as it was supposed to be deconstructed after the World Fair had ended.
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