क्रेडिट्स
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Stephan George Mors
Songwriter
Charanjiv Singh Lalli
Songwriter
Lisa Limon Jones
Songwriter
Eva Gnatiuk
Songwriter
Simon James Shaw
Songwriter
गाने
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
I first encounter my plastic likeness
In a shop window
On a friendless afternoon in 1980
I am fourteen, she is a US Size Four
I wear a tracksuit patterned with cartoon mice
She wears a fishnet dress
Over a fluorescent swimsuit
I hide under matted hair
She stares eyelessly
Through smash-proof glass
As overheating spotlights
Bounce off of her bald head
It is something
To aspire to
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Eight years later I am charged
With stockroom duty in the same store
My daydream souring as I grapple
With a new shipment
Of bubble-wrapped mannequins
I match heads to necks and legs to thighs
Unpeeling swathes of plastic
From kind-eyed disembodied faces
And torsos with cut-glass hip bones, US Size Two
When my wordless colleague
Leaves the room for a moment
I steal a glance at the mirror
In the corner and find myself lacking
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
The century ends
And I have worked my way up
To Deputy Part Time Window Dresser
Late nights are spent pinning polyester
Around frail resin waists
My focus broken occasionally
By a bang on the glass
From a passing stag party
Or a set of reddened eyes
Staring and staring from a parked car
Exposed to this nocturnal audience
Whilst I struggle to loop a fake arm
No bigger than a child's
Through a Size Nil blouse
I wonder if they are comparing me to her
My clumsy contorted flesh
Versus her immaculate deadness
Before slipping on a discarded wig
And colliding with the windowpane
I feign polite interest
As my life flashes before my eyes
And I hope that there's a next time
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Written by: Charanjiv Singh Lalli, Eva Gnatiuk, Lisa Limon Jones, Simon James Shaw, Stephan George Mors
