Canopies and Drapes
Emmy the Great Lyrics

I wanna see you tonight
I yearn to meet you in person, tonight

What's the point?
What's the use in meeting when we only fight?

All we do is fight
Our conversations only lead to arguments and clashes

I've loved you
I have feelings of love towards you

So long
For a long duration of time

I don't know who I'd be without
I cannot imagine a life without you

My head hurts
I am experiencing severe headache

I wish I'd never woke up
I regret waking up from sleep

I feel worse
My current condition is worse than before

Than when S Club 7 broke up
My current condition is worse than the time when S Club 7 disbanded

I hate the day
I loathe the daytime period

It hates me
The day time period does not seem to favor me

So does everybody else
Other people also seem to dislike or hate me

I sit here drooling on my own again
I am sitting alone and drooling, as if I am mentally incapacitated

And like a routine episode of Friends
This situation seems to happen repeatedly, like a regular episode from the TV show Friends

What does it mean to be American?
What are the true attributes of an American identity?

Is it
Does being American involve traits such as

Feelings, coffee and
emotional expression and coffee consumption?

I'll be there for you?
Being a dependable companion?

Later on me and a bottle will hook up to have some fun
I will engage in heavy drinking later tonight

Then I'll call your house at twelve to let you know
At midnight I will contact your residence to inform you

That I'm drunk
I will inform you that I have consumed alcohol and am in an inebriated state

Say I'm sorry Mr C, I was just looking for your son
I will offer an apology to your father for troubling him looking for you

How are you, incidentally, do you know if he's out
By the way, how are you doing and do you know if your father stepped out?

Alone?
Is he by himself?

There is this book he lent to me something like seven
Your father lent me a book around seven months ago

Months ago
The book was borrowed a few months back

I'm gonna burn it in the street be so kind as let him
I am planning to burn it outside, please inform him

Know
To inform him of my actions

That I'm dealing
To inform him that I am experiencing

With this badly
difficulties dealing with the situation

And
In addition,

Could he please get back to me?
Kindly inform him to respond to my messages and calls

Since you've gone my only friends are Billy Bragg and
My only remaining companions after you left are Billy Bragg and

The Jam
The Jam, the British band

Though my time with you has got me feeling oh so k.d.
Despite feeling infatuated with you, listening to

Lang
The Canadian singer, K.D. Lang

I think you're right about the New Kids on the Block
I concur with your viewpoint on the music group, New Kids on the Block

And I agree now Billy Joel does not rock
I now believe Billy Joel is not as great as I previously thought

Wish I could tell you all the things that Woody Allen
I yearn to share every detail that Woody Allen

Helps me see
assists me in seeing and understanding

How Annie Hall is starting to seem quite a lot like you
The movie character Annie Hall is becoming like you in several ways

And me
And like me

It took a while to come around to David Bowie's new CD
It took some time for me to appreciate David Bowie's latest album

And it's much too late to give back your Magnetic
I cannot return your

Fields EP
Magnetic Fields EP that you lent me earlier

Can I keep it
May I hold onto it?

By my pillow?
Keep it near me at all times, perhaps by putting it on my pillow

Fucking loved it
I enjoyed it a lot

How I long to tell you so
I yearn to express this to you

When I get to sleep I'll dream again of canopies and
When I fall asleep, I will dream about the

Grapes
canopies and grapes, possibly referencing ideal romantic situations

And wake shaking from the knowledge that the mattress
However, I will awaken with a shiver knowing that the bed

Holds your shape
retains and reminds me of your physical impressions and presence

I assume my phone is dead because it hasn't rung for
I suspect my phone is not working since it has not rung for

Months
Months, implying a long time frame

If tomorrow is the funeral do you think that you could
If the funeral happens tomorrow, do you think it would be possible for you

Come?
to attend?

I could give you back your music and your t-shirts and
I could return all your possessions like clothes and music collection

Your socks
including your socks

Walk to Jazz's house in SOHO cry into her letter box
Seeking solace, I will walk to Jazz's residence in Soho and cry by her mailbox

Spend some time out to resuscitate my soul
Take a break from everything to rejuvenate and heal

Take up smoking and drink carrot juice and grow
I will adopt habits like smoking and drinking carrot juice and try to grow as a person

Teach the mattress to expel you from its folds
Try techniques to eliminate and discard any memories of you from my mind and surroundings

Then dry my eyes and keep on walking til the motion
Gradually improve and continue walking until

Makes me strong
I gain strength and resilience from the act of moving forward

Until one day I realise I don't remember that you're
Eventually, I may realize that I have forgotten entirely about

Gone
you

We'll be strangers
We will become strangers to each other

Who were lovers
Even though we shared a love life in the past

I'll recover
I will eventually move on and heal from this situation

It's so weird how time goes on
I find it strange how time moves on despite everything that has happened