“Red Socks Pugie” could be about love, recklessness, and regret. Or it might be just an abstract mess of exciting imagery that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. For Foals it seems to be the latter. In an interview with The Stool Pigeon magazine Yannis was asked if he intentionally kept things vague...
[Verse 1]
In context, she said, these terminals once again
Wasp's nests, these terminals once again
These heart swells, these contexts in your head
[Chorus]
Oh, hell no, these vessels
Our heart swells up these vessels
Our heart swells up, which make us explode
Oh, hell no, these vessels
Our heart swells up which welcome these
Heart swells up, which make us explode
Oh, what the hell, we should have said no
Oh, hell, we should have said no
Heart swells which make us explode
[Verse 2]
She said, these wasp's nests in your head
These wasp's nests, these contexts in your head
Once again
[Pre-Chorus]
We could set it on fire for them
We could set it on fire for them
We could set it on fire for them
We could set it on fire for them
[Chorus]
Oh, hell no, these vessels
Our heart swells up which welcome these
Heart swells up, which make us explode
Oh, what the hell, we set it on fire
Oh, hell, we set on fire
Heart swells, which make us explode
Oh, hell no, these vessels
Our heart swells up these vessels
Our heart swells up, which make us explode
Oh, what the hell, we set it on fire
We set it on fire
We set it on fire
Red Socks Pugie was written by Jimmy Smith (UK) & Yannis Philippakis & Walter Gervers & Jack Bevan & Edwin Congreave.
Red Socks Pugie was produced by David Andrew Sitek.
Foals released Red Socks Pugie on Mon Jun 09 2008.