Everything Everything – My Keys, Your Boyfriend (Youtube)

I last featured Everything Everything on this blog back in May, when they released the excellent Photoshop Handsome. Four months on, they’ve trawled the festival circuit and are to begin a headline tour  this Autumn. Moving pretty fast for these boys, and that’s on the basis of great live shows and tracks like My Keys, Your Boyfriend.

The song, in the band’s own words:

…imagines what it would be like to try and have any kind of normal relationship if your country was being bombed constantly by an occupying nation, from the point of view of a self-obsessed, post-traumatic stress disordered R&B lothario.

And here be the lyrics:

Lucifer you’re landing
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
Barb-wire in the bathroom
I can’t make new memories since

Flashbacks to the time
this shell-shocked apartment was the place
i met with your boy
it’s a mortal thing, yeah it’s a mortal thing
oh! he looked at me funny and a
oh! oh! think our secret’s out and a
oh-ooh-oh i try to explain
but then munitions rain, and we’re the epicentre

It’s like I’m watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine,
It’s like I’m watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like “woah..!”
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can’t forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it’s like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

i fly through the walls
all pieces colliding and i
see raymond apart
he’s a frowning now, wagging a finger at me
“boy!” his knees bend the other way and
“boy! boy!” are you guys together honey?
“b..b..boy!” oh but now i can’t find his torso, mmhmmhmm i guess you’re separated ooh,
Monica i just wanna know…ooh

It’s like I’m watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine,
[Monica I just wanna know..]
It’s like I’m watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like “woah..!”
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can’t forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it’s like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

Lucifer you’re landing (6 cars the driveway oh i do believe it will be business inside)
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink (it’s a real spanner into my works i think i kicked the bucket)
Baby’s on the bullseye (…do believe it will be business inside..)
I can’t make new memories since, ..ries since, ..ries since.

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like “woah..!”
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can’t forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it’s like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

And now everybody gotta go hungry
and everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven’t seen the body count lately
but looking at your faces it must have been bad
and if everybody answered their phonecalls..
but people say the army’s on fire
it’s like we sitting with our parachutes on
when the airport’s gone

It’s a great little track, and once you can get through the occasionally indecipherable lyrics, a well put together piece of indie R&B pop.