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=BOOKS FROM BOXES - MAXIMO PARK=

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=SUMMARY: =

=INTRODUCTION: =

Maximo Park are a British alternative rock band, formed in 2000. The group is made by Paul Smith (singer), Duncan Lloyd
=== (guitar), Archis Tiku (bass), Lukas Wooller (keyboard) and Tom English (drums). The band was formed in Tyne and Wear which is a metropolitan county in north east England by guitarist and founding member Duncan Lloyd with bass player Archis Tiku in 2000.They are named after Maximo Gomex Park, also known as Domino Park, located in Little Havana, Miami. In 2005, Maxïmo Park released their debut album, A Certain Trigger, which sold over 300,000 copies and was nominated for the Mercury Price in July 2005. ===

LYRICS:
//**Night falls and towns become circuit boards **// //**We can beat the sun as long as we keep moving **// //**From the air, stadium lights stand out like flares **// //**And all I know is that you're sat here right next to me **//

//**We rarely see warning signs in the air we breathe **// //**Right now I feel each and every fragment **//

//**This paper trail leads right back to you **// //**You say you need me to step outside **// //**You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes **// //**You passed me up so as not to break a promise **// //**Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run **// //**Said you knew that this would happen **//

//**Well this is something new but it turns out it was borrowed too **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Why does every let down have to be so thin? **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Rain explodes at the moment that the cab door closed **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I feel the weight upon your kiss ambiguous **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">You have to leave, I appreciate that **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">But I hate when conversation slips out of our grasp **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">You passed me up so as not to break a promise **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Said you knew that this would happen **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Two bodies in motion **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This is a matter of fact **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">It wasn't built to last **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Two bodies in motion **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This is a matter of fact **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">It wasn't built to last **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">You passed me up so as not to break a promise **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Said you knew that this would happen **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The pounding rain continued it's bleak fall **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">And we decided just to write after all, after all **//

//**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The pounding rain continued it's bleak fall **// //**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">And we decided just to write after all **//

=<span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; margin: 24pt 0cm 0pt;">LYRICS MEANING: =

The lyrics of the song can be divided in two parts.
=== To start with the interpretation of the lyrics, I am going to point out the key sentences of the first two paragraphs that sing about the memories of the time spent together. The sentence “We can beat the sun as long as we keep moving” seems to me that the singer is trying to tell her that if they really want to stay together this can be done with their personal effort by solving the problems inherent to the complex situation. Even in these words there is an underneath message which shows that the relationship isn’t going to last forever. “We rarely see warning signs in the air we breathe” ===

=== The second half is about how she is definitely leaving him and despite that he still remark about remembrances of their passionate sexual relationship. To begin with the second part of the lyrics the sentence “This paper trail leads right back to you” shows how the singers is leaving the final decision on the relationship to her, forcing her choose between her fixed couple or himself. === === Going along the lyrics we find “You passed me up so as not to break a promise". This might not make sense to everybody, but I see the song a little differently. It sounds to me that the song may be about a man who likes a girl who is in a relationship, and she's realized what is happening is wrong, and is letting him go. This is reinforced by the previously quoted words. The promise would be her being in a relationship with someone else. ===

=== But also underlying this song is a sense of sexual passion for someone “two bodies in motion”, a sexual passion that ends up with two people that don't know what to say to each other anymore “pounding rain continued its bleak fall” ===

=<span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; margin: 24pt 0cm 0pt;">MAIN MESSAGE: = === The main message of this song is not really easy to explain since the words of the lyrics might be interpreted in different ways, either a relationship with a girl that already has a partner, or a relationship that for any reason from the beginning it’s not predestinated to be long lasting. The paradox comes from the girl leaving the boy alone and at the same time “unpacking books from boxes”. Definitely my own opinion is that the girl is unpacking her belongings to stay with her fixed partner instead of moving to live with the singer. ===

=<span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; margin: 24pt 0cm 0pt;">TASK: =