I Know You Cant Afford Like That Tattoo
Ever listen to a song, maybe even sing along with it, and something in the lyrics gets you wondering what the artist Really meant? That happened to me with that song "Closer" past The Chainsmokers, featuring Halsey.
For those that aren't familiar, hither are The Chainsmokers… Andrew Taggert and Alex Pall.
If yous're however unfamiliar with them, I guarantee you've heard their song "Closer" considering unless you spent 2016 living under a rock, believe me, you've heard that song many, many times. Just in case though, here's a link to the song on iTunes. But heed to the preview for a few seconds and you'll know exactly what song I'm talking near.
I mean there was no escaping that song. There would be days that I would be passing through a mall going from shop to store, to kill some fourth dimension. And in each and every shop, coffee store, etc. within ii minutes of my archway, "Closer" would exist playing on the store's sound system. I mean each… and every… unmarried… one. There was NO escaping this song.
Listening to it that much, information technology was just a affair of time earlier I started paying attention to the lyrics. The lyrics are rather touching actually. Information technology'due south essentially a dainty, picayune, dearest story virtually boy meets daughter, boy loses girl, boy randomly finds girl in a bar, and they shag in an SUV.
Plus information technology has i of those chorus' that sticks in your head for days. "Baby pull me closer in the backseat of your Rover, that I know you can't afford by that tattoo on your shoulder."
It'south this very chorus that got me thinking, "Expect, what? Did I hear that right?"
The next time the chorus plays, I endeavour to listen more closely to see if that little detail I thought I heard was really what I heard. And once more, it comes and sounds like….
"Babe pull me closer in the backseat of your Rover, that I know you tin can't afford Past that tattoo on your shoulder."
What?! And then, if I'yard understanding this correctly, he knows she tin can't afford the Rover that they currently are kissing inside "By THAT TATTOO" on her shoulder?
This kind of stumped me. Two questions come to mind immediately:
one. Tin can someone actually tell something like that? Like, tin can someone encounter your tattoo and remember to themselves? "Yeah, this car isn't yours, is it?" Is that even a thing among people with tattoos?
I'm non a tattoo aficionado, per say. At all-time, I can probably tell the deviation between outstanding work and first fourth dimension start time trying to draw a lion. But I'd all the same have a hard time telling the divergence between a Range Rover owner's tattoo and that of a Hyundai.
Also… 2. Is he saying this out loud during foreplay? I mean, he starts off the line with "Baby, pull me closer…" That doesn't quite sound similar inner monologue. Considering he makes a number of judgemental statements in the chorus, perhaps the whole song is ane big Freudian skid.
When information technology comes to said car, I always figured a Rover, whether Range or Land (the vocal never really specifies) would be a priced on the college side. At least information technology would be for my upkeep. Either mode, definitely less affordable than, say, the kind of second-hand Toyota Corolla that I've known many a musician to bulldoze.
I tried looking up what's the price of a typical Rover. According to TrueCar.com, the Country Rovers start almost $36,000 USD, merely the Range Rover models are considered "high end luxury SUVs" and, when fully equipped, can conduct a half dozen figure price tag. Wow!
Ok, and then information technology might be surprising for him to meet his one-time flame in such a fancy ride, particularly since the lyrics in the poesy go far clear that the last time they saw each other, she was moving to the urban center in a bankrupt-down car. Expect, was it him or her that drove off in the broke downwards ride? Withal, by the chorus, both the guy and girl are talking about the tattoo instead, so at present I'm thinking "how bad was this tattoo?"
I all of a sudden remembered the tattoo from that episode of Jackass with Henry Rollins. They were driving a big Humvee over sand dunes while Steve-O getting tattooed in the backseat. The end event was this…
OK, so it's highly hundred-to-one that he tattoo looked that bad. Still, considering that the vocal actually tries to have this romantic, song of the summer kind of vibe to it, The Chainsmokers were probably trying to make people visualize this while listening…
Simply instead, I hear the chorus and all I could film was something similar this… 
Suddenly, something occurred to me and it all made sense. This is no ordinary tattoo on her shoulder… it's a prison tat!
Ah hah! That's why he knows she can't afford the Rover. He know's it's stolen and she'south fresh out of a four year stint in the big house. That's why it'south been and then long and no calls. It fifty-fifty says later in the chorus, "Pull the sheets right off the corner of that mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder". I mean, who steals a mattress from their roommate? I'll tell you who… Orange is the New Black, that's who.
At this point, I figured I'one thousand getting ahead of myself and letting my imagination run too wild. I wanted to find out the real story nearly the Girl with the crappy tattoo.
"Bite that tattoo on your shoulder"
I looked upwardly online, figuring there must be some really crazy and amazing story about a dude who's girlfriend ran off in a broke down car, concluded up in jail, got out on probation, stole her roommate'due south mattress and Range Rover, and stopped off in a bar where they have one last chance encounter before she races for the Mexican edge, Tommy Lee Jones looking Federal Marshall hot on her trail.
Yeah, none of that happened.
I institute the lyrics for "Closer" on Genius.com with commentary past The Chainsmokers, describing their inspiration for the vocal and the story behind it. The girl, Halsey's character, wasn't in prison house. She didn't accept a prison tat. She wasn't even the one who drove abroad in the broke down car. Information technology was Andrew's character, the guy, who collection the bankrupt downwardly automobile abroad and didn't call for four years. The girl didn't steal the Rover, she'southward really supposed to stand for the kind of rich, bratty girls that alive off their parents' allowances and get gifted Mercedes Benz's and Range Rovers.
And to top it all off… . It wasn't "by that tattoo on her shoulder" it was "Bite that tattoo on her shoulder." The idea was that he was so in the heat of passion that he bites her shoulder. That'south right… I misunderstood that lyic.
So if you're let down past the whatever-ness of the true story vs. the action packed, rollercoaster ride of a story that I got myself thinking, y'all are not alone folks. I read that and remembered the feeling I had when I watchedShutter Island.
For those that haven't watched Shutter Island, let me SPOIL that for you lot right at present.
An FBI agent, hard on the trail of a busting open a behemothic conspiracy involving the KGB and evil experiments conducted on a psychiatric facility, takes usa on nail bitter, edge of your seat quest for the truth that turns out to be…. eh, the guy'due south merely crazy. He's not an FBI agent, he'south only a crazy guy…. Right. Thank you foe action packed thrill ride, simply to dump all over it.
In either case, the vocal threw me for a lilliputian loop and I was disappointed that it wasn't more than.. merely more.
But, in a all fairness, maybe I was taking this too difficult. Afterall, information technology was my fault for hearing it all wrong, which is ironic because one of the repeated lines of the vocal is "We ain't always getting older."
Well, permit me tell y'all something Chainsmokers, directly from a guy who ever insisted, "I ain't always getting older." One day it's going to happen. And on that day, you're going to exist listening to some new song on the radio, and a line of lyrics volition get you saying "what? Huh? What did he just say?"
In the meantime, check out the lyric video for the song right here… it'due south be viewed about 2 billion times.
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Source: https://joefiorello.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/misunderstood-lyrics-closer-by-the-chainsmokers/
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