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1.  take me to the sun

2.  not the one

3.  something has got to you

4.  abundant lack of motivation

5.  vulnerable

6.  gotta give it up

7.  it’s not funny

8.  habit

lovely lady

listen to this song

 

you're a woman that stays up at night

your tv is my only light

i stay awake for you

your window offers quite a sight

your lovers have an appetite

i would too

 

you're a lovely, lovely lady

your life is entertaining

 

some mornings while i sit outside

you walk your dogs, those lucky guys

they get to be with you

i wonder why you don't ask why

i stare at you, why don't you try

i want to get with you

 

you're a lovely, lovely lady

your life is entertaining

 

   i'm not your league

   it's not my speed

   and i don't think that i could call

   i'd cross the street

   i'd love to meet

   but i don't think that you would fall

   or anything at all

 

your glamour has a darker side

i wonder how you sleep at night

somehow you make it look alright

you carry on without a fight

 

you're a lovely, lovely lady

you're life is entertaining

     I've been in some apartments in NYC where you can see directly across into other people’s places and see everything. 

This storyline is made up.  It's perhaps a cryptic song, but with a little set up, I think you'll get the picture.

 

     OK, so picture a man eager to come home from his late evening shifts.  Every night, he cracks a beer, grabs a chair, turns off the light, and sits in front of his bedroom window.  By the flicker of late night TV that emanates from the bedroom across the street, he can spy everything that goes on in there - I mean everything.

 

     This song is rich with double entendre metaphor.  She's an affluent woman on the go.  Those lucky dogs, for example, could either be her set of pedigree Pekinese, or her "clients".  You pick.

10. can’t go

 

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