Do Me a Favour

Hmm I dunno zagadooga. I reckon the guy cheated on her and he had to tell her and nothing she could say to him was on the same level as what he'd done "Perhaps fuck off might be too kind"

And he feels guitly hence the "DO me a favour, break my nose"

He cheated cause he was curious "Curiosity becomes a heavy load. Too heavy to hold"

But that's just me

I agree with the person above- this song is very visual, and I always picture the story in my head when I listen to it. I also always picture it in black and white- does anyone else get this from this song? hahaha.

I agree that it's a song about cheating, but I also think the guy who cheated ended up falling for his lover, and he now has to tell his significant other that he's cheated on her and fallen for the other girl. I don't know, I got that because he says, "and the eyes were all red, you could see that we'd cried." I mean, he was crying 'cos it was hurting him to tell her that he had found someone else. If he had just been with someone else for one night because he was itching for a woman, then he would've been begging for forgiveness, telling his girlfriend it meant nothing, not crying along with her.

And he doesn't get mad at her (and he really has no right to be mad at her either, cheating scum!), he tries "forcing a smile" as she leaves. And then he says "do me a favor and ask if you need some help," as if she needed help moving on from him, since apparently he had already moved on from her. She's kind of offended and says, "stop flattering yourself." The fact that he's found someone else while being with his girlfriend does make him feel bad though, and he says that to tell him to fuck off would be too nice of a reply. He knows he's a jerk.

My interpretation is probably a little too deep, but a few lyrics here and there lead me to that conclusion. And if this song is about one of the guys in the band, I could see it being true, because when there's a distance in a relationship, guys tend to get curious and stray a lot. Lots of the songs this time around are personal...Like I'm reading Alex Turner's journal entries turned into songs or something. Weird.

It looks to me like he's telling the end of a relationship, the final minutes, when after the conversation he was driving her back home. it probably ended cause she found out something after questionating him even when he asked her not to, he was feeling guilty and prefering to be punched. and the last minutes, when they get to her home, he's watching her walking away, they both had cried, and then he says to her look for him when she needs help and she got angry, told him to stop flattering himself. And so they can tear apart the ties between them.. nothing better than a 'Fuck Off'..

I think it's sort of a stream of consciouness of a tormented young man. I think he's fallen in love with someone who he shouldn't/can't/doesn't really want to. Hence the "do me a favour and break my nose/Do me a favour and tell me to go" He's just saying he wants the subject of the song to do something to make him hate her, to give him an excuse to leave.

"As she walked away Well her shoes were untied And the eyes were all red You could see that we'd cried"

I think this is just her running out on hi as he tries to get her to make him hate her. their both crying because neither wants to part, but both feel it's necessary

This song is clearly about breaking up, and I think most people here have got that already. I also got it before but saw it more clearly when my boyfriend dumped me a month ago. This song really means something to me now, and this is how I've interpreted it.

He is breaking up with his girlfriend, he has found another girl, "curiousity becomes a heavy load" and he wants to know what the other girl is like, maybe he could get it better with her? He sees his current relationship disappearing like the car around the bend. He's feeling guilty and wants her to hit him so that he will feel the pain she's feeling. He wants to do something for her because he still respects her, "ask if you need some help". And she sais "stop flattering yourself" cause there's nothing he can do to make her feel better, he has already hurt her enough by not loving her anymore. Not even telling him to fuck off makes her feel better so she ends up saying nothing.

This song, to me, seems to be about the end of a new relationship due to falling out of love, not cheating. I get the sense that the narrator of the song doesn't want to be with his girl anymore, but she still wants him. It's like he's seeing the end of everything just as it's started: "the morning was complete" , "it's the beginning of the end", "went up the hill and disappeared around the bend". And she's asking him all these questions, maybe Why? Why? Why!? And he's like damn just punch me, tell me to fuck off, just stop asking questions!

When he says "Curiosity becomes a heavy load, too heavy to hold...will force you to be cold," I think he's referring to that change from childhood naivety into experienced adulthood. It's like when you don't know anything everything is fine, but clearly in order to grow you must ask questions and discover things for yourself. But no one really knows what they're in for. It's too much of a weight and you become so cold from all the indecent exposure. It's like you don't even care about anything anymore.

Clearly, this guy and girl love each other, but he wants it to end (he just sees the signs in everything around him), but he doesn't care that much--he wants her to punch him, say fuck off, act like she doesn't care, anything! to alleviate his own guilty pain. And she's all disheveled, shoes untied, eyes red, broken heart and still she says "Stop flattering yourself" when he offers help. I Like the last line because it's like after you've been through some stuff with someone, you really need to find the right words to let them know it's over, you've probably said "fuck off" to each other many times before, so how do you know when it's really over? "How to tear apart the ties that bind"?

Sigh...another beautifully written song by Alex Turner

well, i see this song in many different perspectives. And I usually think by alex's point of view. I reckon by the time when he wrote it that tune he was getting really famous, and though he loved his girlfriend he wanted to break up with her to be free, and enjoy the perks of his new status.

"Curiosity becomes a heavy load, to heavy to hold, will force you to be cold" i don't think that was about cheating, i really think this is about him getting curious, wanting to see the world and so he tried to end things by being cold hearted.

"Do me a favour and break my nose, do me a favour and tell me to go away. Do me a favour and stop asking questions'

I think he felt pretty guilty about leaving the poor girl for no reason. He just really wanted to get out of this relationship, and therefore he'd do anything to "tear apart the ties that bind".

call me crazy, but i related that song with fluorescent adolescent, and by the time those songs were released alex was ending his relationship with johanna bennett, who co-whote FA.

The song describes a break-up scene. He drives up the hill to tell her he wants to end it. She asks questions as "why?" and maybe he doesn't have a good reason for it, he would prefer it if she would just stop asking questions and tell him to go away or break his nose. He feels that even a "fuck off" would be too kind.

"Ask anyone, they'll tell you that It's these times that it tends To start to breaking up, to start to fall apart Hold on to your heart"

If you ask anyone who's ever been in his shoes, driving up that hill, he is about to ruin everything between them and break her heart but you have to hold on to your heart, do what it tells you to do. He dares to say that they're equally as bleak, he feels guilty and he is scared he is making the wrong decision. But he is curious for more, perhaps they've been together for too long and he feels the need to explore something else, even though he doesn't know where that leads... Curiosity becomes a heavy load, too heavy to hold.

apparently its about the same girl as mardy bum

shoelia is spot on i think. it just about the guy whos obviously screwed a good relationship up (curiosity. . ) and he feels like an ass because shes done nothing wrong and he's crushed.