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This is a love song about a toxic relationship. They are too focused on each other to notice the destruction they cause each other.
The title “Robbers” refers to how the lovers are robbing each other of happiness and chances in this world apart from one another. They can’t move on and grow in love...
[Verse 1]
She had a face straight out a magazine
God only knows, but you'll never leave her
Her balaclava is starting to chafe
And when she gets his gun, he's begging, "Babe, stay, stay
Stay, stay, stay"
[Chorus]
"I'll give you one more time
We'll give you one more fight
Said one more line
Will I know you?"
[Verse 2]
Now if you never shoot, you'll never know
And if you never eat, you'll never grow
You got a pretty kind of dirty face
And when she's leaving your home, she's begging you to stay, stay
Stay, stay, stay
[Chorus]
"I'll give you one more time
We'll give you one more fight
Said one more line
There'll be a riot 'cause I know you"
[Bridge]
Well, now that you've got your gun
It's much harder now the police have come
And I'll shoot him if it's what you ask
But if you just take off your mask
You'd find out everything's gone wrong
[Outro]
Now everybody's dead
And they're driving past my old school
And he's got his gun, and he's got his suit on
And she says, "Babe, you look so cool
You look so cool
You look so cool
You look so cool (One more time)
You look so cool (One more fight)
You look so cool (One more line)"
('Cause I know you)
Robbers was written by Ross MacDonald & Adam Hann & Matty Healy & George Daniel.
Robbers was produced by Mike Crossey & George Daniel & Matty Healy & Ross MacDonald & Adam Hann.
Matty Healy, lead singer of the group, has said:
‘Robbers’ was originally inspired by my love of the Quentin Tarantino film True Romance, the story of an Elvis-obsessed loner who falls in love and marries a prostitute. In the movie the couple run away to California after killing her pimp and steali...
Robbers was written around 2007 when The 1975 were still performing under the name “Drive Like I Do”. The old version is noticeably different, and even comes with its own music video-
Matty shared some insight about what he’d do differently for the music video at their show in Toronto, stating:
I love “Robbers”… but If I could do it again, I would do it without guns. because retrospectively it feels a bit weird watching that, seeing as I’m all like, “I stand for all that stuff”...
“Robbers” and “Sex” were the only songs we took from Drive Like I Do to be part of The 1975. It was the first BIG song we had written. I was 19 when I wrote it. It felt like the moment where we stepped out of being just an emo band, like we were reaching for something bigger than the scene or even b...