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Señorita, well you need not come coke-head close to me
'Cause I can hear you perfectly clear from here The Last Shadow Puppets – Aviation
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Miles uses “coke head” as an adjective here to describe a girl that is getting right up in his grill when she talks to him. Cocaine addicts are known to be close talkers.

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Continuing with my theory posted in previous comments…

if I am right Miles says “Señorita” beacuse as I said she is a pre-pago latina and unfortunately she is an addict of cocaine(coke-head) and because they have a secret relationship,when she gets high she can’t help to get closer to Miles because she loves him so he is saying that she has to take some distance in order to not get caught by her future husband (the Drug Dealer)

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If the chorus does mean to pretend that the relationship won’t last in order to be happy, wouldn’t “coquette” make more sense? Coquette means a flirty woman, so he’s trying to tell her not to be all flirty with him and instead tries to keep his distance so that he doesn’t get too attached

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So what's the wish? He'll make it come true
Simple as a line out of a doo-wop tune
He'll make the moves The Last Shadow Puppets – Miracle Aligner
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Doo Wop is a genre based almost entirely on harmony rather than lyrics. Doo wop songs often integrate nonsense phrases like “doo wop” with short and straightforward lines about love, as in doo-wop classic “In The Still of the Night.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

As such, this miracle aligner is so competent that making your wildest dreams come true is as simple to him as following along to the lyrics of a doo wop song.

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The line reference is deliberate too- its another suggestion that getting a line is easy for the miracle aligner because they deal cocaine, so providing lines for people is easy for him/he makes it look easy because he’s always got a supply.

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Gongasoso
7 years

JS might be on to something here… As in this song establishing a parallel between Jesus and something more mundane, like a lover or a drug dealer. Perhaps even make us wonder which of those it really is about…

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I interpret this song as a criticism of religion. Here, they’re criticizing the simplistic view of Jesus – aka the Miracle Aligner – as a kind of all-purpose wish-granter, a genie who will answer all your prayers and give you whatever you ask for. They’re couching these criticisms a little deceptively in the fun, peppy language of a pop tune – “make the moves” (aka Jesus answering your prayers) and references to Doo-Wop, the lyrically insubstantial dance music of the fifties.

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Miracle Aligner The Last Shadow Puppets – Miracle Aligner
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Alex and Miles remained as cheeky as ever when asked to explain this song’s lyrics for its world premiere on Beats 1 Radio. Alex first said it was about a yoga instructor, then Miles instantly contradicted him and said it was about a wrestler.

Given the Spiderman reference and nature of the miracle aligner’s superpowers, it seems the song is mostly about a well-intentioned man who is so gifted that he makes things difficult for the women whose hearts he wins.

In a 2016 interview in Coup de Main with Alexandra Savior, a cowriter and friend of Alex’s, she reveals not only that it was originally written for her upcoming album Strange Portrait, but that the song is about a cocaine dealer as well.

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Come on, miracle aligner, go and get 'em, tiger The Last Shadow Puppets – Miracle Aligner
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“Go get em tiger” are Mary Jane’s words of encouragement for Peter Parker/Spiderman in the Sam Raimi Spiderman series. The phrase is an idiom that basically means “good luck.”

The miracle aligner’s lover seems to be equally supportive, but his powers (“fifty feet tall”, “he’ll walk through the walls and creep up behind”) are a bit stronger than proficiency in gymnastics and ability to shoot webs.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: Okay I have a bit of a radically interpretation here, where I think this whole song is a criticism of religion. So here the “miracle aligner” is Jesus/God, and the person praying to God expects Him to fulfill his or her prayers. “Go and get ‘em tiger” sort of mocks people’s belief in the efficacy of prayer, and the term “miracle aligner” itself kind of mocks a simplistic view of God as a being that will just string together miraculous events as long as you pray hard enough.

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I guess, this line along with “get down on your knees” are about asking the girl to get down on her knees and snort the cocaine lines that the guy drug dealer has aligned for her.

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Bob
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Don’t you forget that drug dealer is a very dangerous “job” so, good luck

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Little Miss Sweet Dreams, Tennessee The Last Shadow Puppets – Sweet Dreams, TN
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While Alex’s girlfriend when this song was written, Taylor Bagley, was actually born in Oklahoma, she was raised in Nashville, TN and considers herself a Nashville native.

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with a septum piercing The Last Shadow Puppets – Sweet Dreams, TN
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Taylor Bagley, Alex Turner’s girlfriend at the time the song was written and the inspiration for this song, has a septum piercing. She announced her decision to get the piercing to Instagram with the caption

A person told me many moons ago not to pierce my septum because it would make my “pretty face not so pretty.” Fuck the noise. Do what makes you happy 😊

https://www.instagram.com/p/7V-0zyHLfS/?taken-by=thetaylorbagley&hl=en

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the whole chorus is about “love” in an inconvenient way
they way he says that love like a tongue in a nostril and like ache in the jaw
then he talks about how they are also the “first day of spring” but “with a septum piercing”
usually the septum piercing has a strong smell most people dont like it or could be annoying, in this case it’s related to the whole chorus topic about being in love even with the inconvenience that about being in spring but can’t really smell the flowers but smelling raw flesh of the septum

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i think he’s not only describing a facial feature but also her remarkable personality because of the contrast between the adjectives on previous line (“the first day of spring”) and this

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i think he’s not only describing a facial feature but also her remarkable personality because of the contrast between the adjectives on previous line (“the first day of spring”) and this

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And furthermore, to highlight the contrast – the words “spring” and “piercing” are quite similar

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While the previous line is as poetic as possible (“You’re the first day of spring!”), this line throws it hard back to earth, a septum piercing is not poetic nor sexy (although looking a that girl…). But yes, the beauty is that something as beautiful as the first day of spring can wear a septum!

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She made us all think that song is about her. and this piercing….
this last line make it clear: song is NOT about Bagley

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It's love like a tongue in a nostril The Last Shadow Puppets – Sweet Dreams, TN
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“Love like a tongue in the nostril” may seem like type of a metaphor, but is taken pretty literally by members of the Arctic Monkeys. AM drummer Matt Helders famously took a picture of him licking his then-girlfriend’s nostril at a party, and Alex’s girlfriend Taylor posted a picture to her Instagram of someone (presumably Alex?) licking her nostril.

https://www.instagram.com/p/7jFmsqHLb-/

The lick can be found in the bottom left corner.

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I think that “tongue in a nostril” is a metaphor for weird,specific love in a relationships,that can cause inconvenience and at the same time be pleasant

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Lola
6 years

I thought it was like a love you can’t suppress or ignore, like you couldn’t ignore someone’s tongue in your nostril, or an ache in your jaw because you use your jaw for so mu ch (eating, talking)

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rori
8 years

I thought it was more like how sticking your own tongue in your nostril is something not many people can do. So he’s saying that this love is something rare and not a lot of people can find something like it. I could be wrong though.

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Baby, we ought to fuck
Seven years of bad luck out the parlour room mirror
Could I have made it any clearer? The Last Shadow Puppets – Sweet Dreams, TN
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Superstition states that breaking a mirror gives you seven years of bad luck, but Alex wants to have rough sex in his girlfriend’s powder room until the mirror breaks anyway.

To answer his question, yes, he could have made his intentions clearer by ditching the “seven years of bad luck” reference.

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Seven years of bad luck out the powder room mirror

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judoapples
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Also, Alex dated Alexa Chung for four years and Arielle Vandenberg for three, thus seven years of bad luck. Could be a stretch though.

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The powder room mirror means a mirror in the ladies bathroom so they might had se I the ladies bathroom in front of a mirror

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The most mysterious season of Game of Thrones yet is also the best — that’s according to the HBO drama’s Emmy-winning showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss. Normally the writer-producers are pretty cautious about making statements that raise fans’ already astronomic expectations for their international hit series. But they recently watched the near-final... 'Game of Thrones' showrunners: Season 6 'the best one we've done' | EW.com

it also showed up to spring training “in the best shape of its life”

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Baby, it's a never-ending spiral
Looks a little bit like Paris The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come to Expect
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Paris’s 20 arrondissements (districts) are arranged in a clockwise spiral, which is why this relationship’s downward spiral is compared to the city.

The Shadow Puppet’s first album, The Age of the Understatement was recorded in France, which could be why they’re referencing Paris.

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This could also be a reference to how in pop culture Paris is the ideal location. Turner is mocking his “never-ending spiral” and pop culture by saying the darkest and most tedious facets of his mind “look a little bit like Paris.”

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