Текст песни: Sophistication + перевод

Your brother’s just grown out of shoplifting

And gotten into girls

Your mum is just a stranger bookending the day

Sat at the table with her head in her hands

After you dad left for the late shift girl in the Yellow River Chinese

She’s only 22, and he says she’s warmed to you

Oh that afternoon your mum went in and tried to break her nose

It’s a rubbish month and everyone at school knows I suppose

But tonight, there’s something in the air

Is it the carbon monoxide settling just inches above you around here?

You get a lift to Ciara’s and you both get dressed together

You’ve got a new concoction

You can make the doubt fade out

Just like some soap, you can bring the theme song on

And the song you’ve got on is sophistication

It’s easy to forget in the mass exodus

To the toilet’s to do make up, «Anthony's making me blush»

She says «he bought me a drink and said we should do shots together

Well I don’t know, he’s nice and all but I much prefer Trevor

With his kind-of shy demeanour»

«Ah, yeah, but his dad’s a mentalist»

She says «I don’t care, I want to get myself into this

Oh, how I’d like to lose myself to him, he is the one I know it»

She says «Well if he’s the one

Then I’m Olivia Newton John»

And then she says «Ciara? Won’t you roll a fag for me?

I’m going to make him want me, come on ladies, let’s do sophistication»

He’s in the smoking shelter with his stupid gangly friends

Two of them she’s kissed before and one of them

For weeks on end they thought had got Sarah pregnant

But she was just late

She nearly told her mum and everything

(Here's tempting fate)

You spark it up, start coughing

(Thank god nobody’s watching)

And the rain is beating on the corrugated plastic awning

And there’s an irritating man requesting identification

But he doesn’t ask you because he knows

That what you’ve brought tonight’s sophistication

«Hi, hi I’m Eloise

Do you have a light perchance? A lighter for me?

A light for my cigarette?

A light so I can light my cigarette?

Because god knows that I need that nicotine!»

‘Oh, god, I’m blowing it' she thinks

And as he says «sorry, no», she nearly knocks Christopher’s drink out of his

hand

Those hands that snaked their way up her tights

One night last August

And when they’d kiss he’d thrust and thought that they were making love she

thinks

That’s Rebecca’s theory anyway

‘Cause she got with him last Sunday

He did the same to her when they were kissing in the woods

And were discovered by some children on an egg hunt

So much for sophistication

Now she’s talking fast about how she

Might have left her straighteners on but

Surely Ciara’s mum would have rang to say the house burnt down?

And then he says «Oh, Eloise?»

And she says «Yeah, Trevor that’s me»

«Is your dad the one in prison or the one that’s banging Xian Lee?»

Oh no! It’s followed you here, it’s got its fingers on the lower of your back

The fear is here, it found you here

You thought that you could change your clothes

Smoke a fag, drink a beer, strike a pose

And finally that you could wipe the slate clean with some sweet sophistication

Oh this could have been your chance

Yes, this could have been your chance

But that stupid boy had to ruin it

You’ll fancy someone else tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

But you don’t want to go home

You’d prefer to stay forever in this three walled cubicle oh yeah

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