Arctic Monkeys
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Arctic Monkeys
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“Old Yellow Bricks” is the 11th song on the Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) album. The song is about a young girl leaving her hometown to move to New York City. It makes many references to “The Wizard of Oz” and how leaving from all you’ve known may be thrilling at first, but later on you may reali...
[Verse 1]
Old yellow bricks, love's a risk
Quite the little escapologist
Looked so miffed when you wished
For a thousand places better than this
You are the fugitive but you don't know what you're running from
You can't kid us and you couldn't trick anyone
Houdini, love, you don't know what you're running away from
[Chorus]
Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia
Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?
[Verse 2]
She was enraged by the way
That the emperors were trapped in the cage
And the days she deemed dull
Leading to nights reading beer bottles
You're such a fugitive but you don't know what you're running from
You can't kid us and you couldn't trick anyone
Houdini, love, you don't know what you're running away from
[Chorus]
Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia
Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?
[Verse 3]
You're at a loss just because
It wasn't all that you thought it was
You are the fugitive but you don't know what you're running away from
She said, "I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up
And revel in nostalgia"
I know I said, "Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?"
But Dorothy was right though
Old Yellow Bricks was written by Jon McClure & Alex Turner & Jamie Cook & Matt Helders & Nick O’Malley.
Old Yellow Bricks was produced by Mike Crossey & James Ellis Ford.
Arctic Monkeys released Old Yellow Bricks on Wed Apr 18 2007.