What's been happenin' in your world?
What have you been up to?
I heard that you fell in love, or near enough
I gotta tell you the truth, yeah
[Chorus]
I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
I get the feelin' I left it too late, but, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
If that watch don't continue to swing
Or the fat lady fancies havin' a sing
I'll be here, waitin' ever so patiently for you to
Snap out of it
[Verse 2]
Forever isn't for everyone
Is forever for you?
It sounds like settlin' down or givin' up
But it don't sound much like you, girl
[Chorus]
I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
I get the feelin' I left it too late, but, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
If that watch don't continue to swing
Or the fat lady fancies havin' a sing
I'll be here, waitin' ever so patiently for you to
Snap out of it
Under a spell, you're hypnotised (Ooh)
Darling, how could you be so blind? (Snap out of it)
Under a spell, you're hypnotised (Ooh)
Darling, how could you be so blind?
[Chorus]
I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
I get the feelin' I left it too late, but, baby
Snap out of it (Snap out of it)
If that watch don't continue to swing
Or the fat lady fancies havin' a sing
I'll be here, waitin' ever so patiently for you to
Snap out of it
About
“Snap Out of It,” one of the poppiest and most instantly accessible songs on the record, describes Alex Turner trying to tell a girl that she should forget about him.
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I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a song called “Snap Out of It” already. That was dead in the water a bit, that tune. It was just the germ of an idea. And then Matt, our drummer, broke his hand, and we weren’t going to lose two weeks, so just to keep working on ideas and stuff, we got our friend Pete Thomas, who plays drums for Elvis Costello, to come down to the studio a bit and play along with us. And if it hasn’t been for Pete’s enthusiasm for that “Snap Out of It” idea, I don’t think it would have come to fruition. I owe him one for that. He was just like, “Oh, yeah! This is great!” and he was singing it. And we went and rewrote it. Sometimes you’re like, “I don’t think anyone has written a song called ‘Snap Out of It.’ There needs to be one of those.”
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- 4.Arabella
- 7.Mad Sounds
- 8.Fireside
- 10.Snap Out of It
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- 12.I Wanna Be Yours
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