“Part of the Band” is the lead single from The 1975’s studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
The song is a playful folk-rock piece that contains themes of self-deprecation, drug abuse, reflection, and sarcasm.
During a surprise opener for Phoebe Bridgers in 2021, frontman Matty Healy per...
[Verse 1]
She was part of the Air Force, I was part of the band
I always used to bust into her hand
In my, my, my imagination
I was living my best life, living with my parents
Way before the paying penance and verbal propellants
And my, my, my cancellations, hm, yeah
[Verse 2]
And I fell in love with a boy, it was kinda lame
I was Rimbaud and he was Paul Verlaine
In my, my, my imagination
So many cringes in the heroin binges
I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes
Of my, my, my imagination, oh, yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
Enough about me now
"You gotta talk about the people, baby"
(But that's kind of the idea)
[Chorus]
At home, somewhere I don't like
Eating stuff off of motorbikes
Cumming to her lookalikes
I can't get the language right
Just tell me what's unladylike
[Verse 3]
I know some Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas
Sitting in east on their communista keisters
Writing about their ejaculations
"I like my men like I like my coffee
Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won't offend anybody"
While staining the pages of The Nation, oh, yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
A Xanax and a Newport
"Well I take care of my kids", she said
[Chorus]
The worst inside of us begets
That feeling on the internet
It's like someone intended it
(Like advertising cigarettes)
A diamond in the rough begets
The diamond with a scruff you get
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke?
Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke
Calling his ego imagination?
I've not picked up that in a thousand four hundred days
And nine hours and sixteen minutes, babe
It's kind of my daily iteration
Part of the Band was written by Jamie Squire & Matty Healy & George Daniel.
Part of the Band was produced by George Daniel & Jack Antonoff & Matty Healy.
The 1975 released Part of the Band on Thu Jul 07 2022.
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