Belle & Sebastian - A Plague On All Other Boys Lyrics






Hey Jane
Watching over you in Nebraska
The flood planes
Move over the farms, a disaster
The sun heats
Air until it swirls in tornadoes
But you move solemnly along

She says
You will be the consummate scholar
And she says
Do you know the world is your oyster?
The man says
Come and we will climb Mount Olympus
But all you want is to be there, in the presence of her smile
In the presence of her smile
In the presence of her smile

We are
Circling over clouds, we are tethered
Wondering
When you're gonna hit bumpy weather
Your heart skips
Every time you detect her fragrance
She's out there
Stinking up the late evening air with other boys
A plague on other boys
How this feeling does annoy you
A plague on other boys

They say
How can you know love, you're a minor
And you say
What else could I know, this defines me
I start
Growing, I'm a mess, I'm defeated
My grade point average went to hell

Watching
Listening for a cultural movement
Get strong
Lenses to see into the future
March on
Washington if she's in the vanguard
Base your
Politics on what she's got written on a flag
What she's written on a flag
What she's written on a flag
My body's mine and you're a drag
What she's written on a flag
What she's written on a flag
People are good and walls are madness
She wrote it on a flag

Ten long years it took to shake the memory
The pain, humiliation
But then suddenly you realized you're free
To fraternize again
She got married, stayed in town and raised a home
See her at Thanskgiving
There's a roped-off part of every human heart
For the first one you love





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  1. P.... P....

    I've been looking for this song from my recording in a store im glad i found it! :))

  2. D.... K....

    Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock?

  3. M.... A....

    This sucks. Taylor Swift 4eva!

  4. s.... m....

    Freaking awesome video and song :)

  5. g.... ....

    Bad music

  6. Y.... ....

    I wish I could live in that apartment!

  7. C.... ....

    What a fun little song.

  8. M.... M....

    this song is good one. but i want to listen more powerful song like the party line.

  9. P.... f....

    When will we get videos for other songs from this album? Too Many Tears, The Girl Doesn't Get It, and Sweet Dew Lee are all good candidates.

    P.... f....

    And Best Friend

    P.... f....

    @Blythe Guvenen I was listening to that song at work, and somebody asked if it was The Corrs. I guess it does sound similar.

  10. g.... o....

    Led Zeppelin referencia?

  11. B.... R....

    I don't buy into all this 'sell-out' nonsense associated with this track. Just a brilliant new angle from the world's best band.

  12. �.... ....

    we are friends!

  13. �.... ....

    good songs

  14. N.... C....

    :) Ciao from Italy!

  15. s.... p....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vsLAXD_sd0

  16. �.... ....

    Wow I like that baseline...

  17. N.... P....

    1:23 it's my favorit moment

  18. N.... P....

    1:23 wtf

  19. B.... ....

    Pobre menino

    Pobre menino, nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua imaginação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou
    Pobre menino, eu nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua alucinação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou

    eu tive um sonho
    Esse problema sempre começa na cabeça de alguém
    E os sonhos são reais
    Quando você está dormindo, você também pode estar morto
    Eu pretendo
    Os últimos dez anos em figurar comigo
    Depois da guerra
    Em alguma cidade estranha em estranhos
    Então, você acha que eu desperdiçaria minha vida nisso
    Para ser seu conforto quando você precisava de mim
    Coloque a amizade eterna

    Pobre menino, nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua imaginação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou
    Pobre menino, eu nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua alucinação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou

    Tivemos um tempo
    Se pudéssemos recuperá-lo novamente
    Eu seria uma força
    Não tão educado e não tão delicado
    Eu trocaria
    Em meias de veludo, então não consegui me sentir
    Eu era seu fã
    Esperando o dia em que este Deus começará a
    Fale comigo, não me venere agora
    Eu não sou uma garland cabeça tem que ser adorado
    Veja meu coração bater, cheirar minha doce pele

    Pobre menino, nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua imaginação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou
    Pobre menino, eu nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua alucinação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou

    Se eu carregá-lo no meu coração
    Você aliviará a dor ou tornará mais difícil
    Eu sei que você gostaria de me informar que você está lá
    E se você é cego, o chamado de Deus, nós desaparecemos
    Existe espaço na minha vida para você
    Vejo você amanhã
    Ou eu vou montar

    Pobre menino, nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua imaginação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou
    Pobre menino, eu nunca poderia viver de acordo com sua alucinação
    Pobre menino, eu era uma paixão que matou

    Eu nunca poderia viver
    (A paixão súbita)
    (A paixão súbita)
    (A paixão súbita)
    (A paixão súbita)

  20. T.... s....

    this song wins hearts if you’re hating you should get an ear surgery

  21. T.... s....

    Somebody make a full length video where its just the bass. And make it louder!

  22. N.... P....

    1:24 😥😍😶😍

  23. D.... H....

    Read Geshe Kelsang Gyatsos book, it makes sense of this song and several others on how to solve our human problems

  24. K.... _....

    if you ever came to cleveland i would cry

  25. N.... B....

    Why is it that every man and woman in B&S videos look like a clone of the same hipster?

  26. R.... R....

    It's my favorit Song

  27. N.... P....

    Alex it's my DREAM

  28. N.... P....

    The Boy its my dream

  29. N.... P....

    I love it

  30. N.... P....

    It's my favorit music

  31. B.... J....

    Baffled how so many B&S fans don't like this song. It may be a departure but they've still managed to get it so right. There hasn't been a better band since the Pixies. Shame such quality comes around so rarely in these days of chronic talent deficit
    .

  32. T.... F....

    This song sucks ass. The only thing that's catchy is the girl's chorus. The guy's voice sucks, the lyrics are bland, and the points at which he makes his voice high-pitched is even worse. Their sound mixing is also bad and imbalanced.

  33. J.... ....

    Eh... like the old Belle & Sebastian better. This is way too 1980's or the 2012 crappy revival of the 80's.

  34. C.... A....

    AAAAAAAAAAAA

  35. P.... P....

    Makes me want to gyrate.

  36. M.... ....

    Can we please talk about how even though their sound has changed a bit over the years, they still put out some of the best music to ever exist.

  37. T.... M....

    dont normally subscribe tae west coast shite but i make an exception for the belle..... ha ha ! nae trouble

  38. G.... F....

    It's one of their best songs.

  39. b.... c....

    Actually not bad

  40. B.... K....

    perfeito

  41. �.... �....

    They so amazing

  42. A.... N....

    It's doesn't seem Belle and Sebastian. I don't like this song in absolute

  43. L.... S....

    Wow.. Good work.. 😍

  44. C.... ....

    excellent

  45. G.... H....

    Belle and Sebastian just get better and better 😍😍

  46. l.... A....

    wtf ... this sucks

  47. S.... L....

    In high school, there was this kind of shy boy who was crushing on me hard. after a while I started to like him back, but this line - "Poor boy, I could never live up to your imagination" is exactly what i was thinking, as I started to realize that he viewed me differently from who i actually was. He just had this idea of me which he had created in those 3 years, and never really got to know me as I am. I sometimes still think about what would have happened if he had been just a little bit less shy around me.
    but yeah, nice song, love it

    S.... L....

    I liked your identification with the song. Music is for that. It's forever.

    S.... L....

    Doesn't every boy idealize women?

    S.... L....

    @sophocles Not since I've been in an abusive relationship.

  48. A.... ....

    Anyone else reckon the tenement housing bears a striking resemblance to Avril Paton's "Windows in the West"?

  49. O.... O....

    AH. the everlasting hipster god.

  50. S.... ....

    Simply dreadful....they are shot 100%.

  51. E.... G....

    I love it!

  52. L.... ....

    Gracias por existir

  53. M.... ....

    2:35 awesome music

  54. B.... C....

    Algum br?

  55. x.... ....

    I'm Scottish and i kid you not I can't believe I never knew this band

  56. p.... a....

    🌻🌻🌻

  57. J.... M....

    Please, always put The lyrics, we wanna sing together with Belle and Sebastian!

  58. J.... D....

    Muy buena rola.

  59. G.... d....

    Brilliant!!!

  60. S.... P....

    The video is a nice homage to the Windows in the West painting, but B&S's electro-dance stuff doesn't do it for me.
    Especially when it's this polished and over-produced.
    I suppose my reference point is growing up with their 90s/early 2000 music which was melancholic and had a lot of emotional depth to it.
    This just seems like a nice-sounding throwaway you'd heard on the radio while getting your hair cut, and then instantly forget about it.

    S.... P....

    i think The Life Pursuit was the perfect midway point between this over-polishedness and the meek whispering and playing of the earliest stuff. Amazing album.

  61. A.... M....

    porque ahora todos los videos lucen como películas de Wes Anderson?????

  62. c.... s....

    awesome, love dana scully in this ;)
    however seeing a white girl with traditionally black box braids is dissapointing, white people can take on parts of a marginalized culture without facing the oppression those people deal with on a daily basis, and these art forms are sacred to a community that struggles to make themselves heard. when white people, the very people who benefit from the opression of people of color, whether they feel that they are racist or not, appropriate these art forms it shows a lack of solidarity with those who are struggling
    excited to see u guys wiith frankie cosmos in new haven!!!

    c.... s....

    why cant people just read a coment like this and learn instead of instinctively wanting to prove it wrong and assert that racism isnt real and that wea re being "too sensitive". lol

    c.... s....

    I'm asian and I've experienced racism since I came in Canada. Maybe not as much a blacks or arabs, but I know what I'm talking about.
    Constantly finding wrongs over small problems like today's so-called cultural appropriation, especially in the western world, isn't something I find important to fight about.
    You're stressing over small things that can only make the world more divided. Our society is a melting pot, not a bento box. I hope you get what I want you to understand and stop being so agressive towards others who don't share your views.

    c.... s....

    Btw since when did I say that racism isn't real? So now braiding your hair in a certain way is racist? Maybe you should know where to draw the line...

    c.... s....

    if it's not important to you then why are youc ommenting on it. some of us want to make the world better and some of us feel hurt by appropriation. you dont speak for all people of color and especially not for latinx or black people. it's not a bad thing to critique, it's a great skill that makes us better people. i love melting pots, but this video not including many people of color at all and yet taking some of their "traits" is not a good example of that.

    c.... s....

    I'm commenting on it because I felt like I needed to state my opinion (in your words, I'm simply being critical about your comment).

    How can you assume that it'll make the world better? Who says that YOU'RE speaking for all people of colors? I have many many friends who are minorities, yet I'm pretty sure they won't care about this "problem".
    When you see cultural appropriation everywhere, even when it's not intended to be negative and is, in the contrary, a way to appreciate the other culture, all it does is divide our society even more.

    Belle and Sebastian is a pretty stereotypical white band, it is up to them to choose how they'd like their video to be. Nobody ever gets angry over non-white bands who only portrays non-white people in their videos and that's okay.

    Also, these braids are not entirely "black", french braids are similar and come from Algeria. We've also seen Greeks and Chinese with these braids a long time ago.

    Forced righteousness/justice won't make the world a better place, it is invasive and will only worsen the already racists' perception of people of colors and justice seekers.

  63. R.... D....

    todd roseanne alicia lastname harkey

  64. R.... D....

    rampage

  65. B.... A....

    Anyone know what she's saying at 2:10?

  66. F.... M....

    I wonder if the Gabriel's brother listened this song

  67. J.... R....

    it's funny in the late 90s-early 2000s B&S had 60s/70s sounds and now 18 years later they sound like the 80s

    J.... R....

    It really seems intentional sometimes. Sounds like two different (awesome) bands.

    J.... R....

    Funnily enough, this song was made in 2018

    J.... R....

    Disco....bass line...

  68. R.... V....

    Is that an alien at @1:39 turning off the lights in the window at the top left?

    I have a feeling this video is trying to tell something important but I don't fully get it.

  69. T.... J....

    Good vibes !

  70. f.... s....

    me encanta, muy bueno.

  71. R.... K....

    <3 I want to see them live!!!!

  72. r.... m....

    and a movie of wes anderson

  73. r.... m....

    reminds me belle & sebastian

  74. s.... ....

    Chanel Egoiste advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6Rda0afmg

  75. M.... ....

    I like this song.

  76. M.... S....

    subtitles please

  77. �.... ....

    🌺❤

  78. R.... ....

    This is some hipster shit.

  79. B.... K....

    Youtube comercial LOL

  80. B.... K....

    Really good sound

  81. A.... V....

    vevo ads are really great :)

  82. G.... L....

    like 80´s

  83. C.... ....

    "How to Solve Our Human Problems" in reality is the name of a book of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a renowned Kadampa Buddhist meditation master. hahah look for it.

  84. N.... ....

    Finally a good advert haha

  85. A.... H....

    is it me or did they wipe 90 thousands views off this song?

  86. S.... M....

    Por fin youtube recomienda buena música

  87. G.... C....

    That reminds me of a flat I viewed in Falkirk a couple of years ago. It stands by itself on the street leading out of Falkirk towards the Wheel

  88. h.... ....

    Very very catchy

  89. 1.... m....

    "Sexy horn lady" (in the description)

  90. t.... f....

    first few seconds are almost identical to tension by børns

  91. J.... N....

    This is shit compared to the rest of their music. It's sad to see them finally give in and just play what everyone was playing to sell out ten years ago. They should tour with Gossip and No Doubt.

  92. j.... c....

    i'm loving this tune

  93. t.... m....

    But whats the modulation?

  94. P.... ....

    Is this a new single or what?

  95. J.... V....

    Adorable <3
    Saludos desde un lugar alejado del mundo :)

    J.... V....

    Belle and Sebastian en México :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFRbt3Rc8c&feature=youtu.be

  96. D.... S....

    When I listened to B&S in the 90s, they sounded like something from the 60's-70s. Now they sound very 80s. In 15 years, will they sound like something from the 90s, which is what they were purposely aiming to avoid sounding like when they started?

  97. B.... ....

    Go B&S and go Scotland socialist party!

  98. O.... J....

    Very Avril Paton-esque