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Spider icicles are Halloween decorations where plastic spiders dangle down from a “icicle string” light.
It seems, however, that Miles may be comparing his current predicament to an actual spider trying to climb up an icicle and failing.
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This is for the real Gang Starr fans, not the ones who call us P-Rhyme (Word)
One come from Massachusetts, the other from Texas PRhyme – Black History
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Through Sheffield City Centre
There was palm tree debris everywhere
And a Roman Colosseum
Isn’t it boring when I talk about my dreams? The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis
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While Alex presents this anecdote as an excerpt from one of his dreams, the lyrics bear similarity to the night time adventures he detailed on the Arctic Monkeys' first album Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not.
The verse’s closing line – “isn’t it boring when I talk about my dreams” – may explain why Turner’s songwriting has gradually veered away from stories specific to his own experiences in Sheffield since Whatever People Say I Am.
The palm tree debris may be a result of Turner’s dreams becoming a melting pot of his home city of Sheffield and his new and current residence in Los Angeles (known for its palm trees) blurring together.
The ‘Roman Colosseum’, as well as being so bizarrely out of place in Sheffield that it could only be there in a dream, is a metaphor for how severely the gale ripped through Sheffield in Alex’s dream.
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Turner also begins to question his sanity after a bad break up that he believes he is to blame for in the Arctic Monkeys song “Cornerstone” (Humbug, 2009), where he sees his ex-girlfriend’s face everywhere until he begins to think he imagined her all along.
Maybe a reference to Arctic Monkey’s song R U Mine? She used to be his but not anymore. Now that she vanished completly from his life he’s starting to think if she even existed at all or if he imagined her all along.