Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
Charted: 73
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  • I'm going back to 505
    If it's a seven hour flight or a forty-five minute drive
    In my imagination, you're waitin' lyin' on your side
    With your hands between your thighs

    Stop and wait a sec
    When you look at me like that, my darlin', what did you expect?
    I'd probably still adore you with your hands around my neck
    Or I did last time I checked

    Not shy of a spark
    The knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark
    Frightened by the bite, though it's no harsher than the bark
    The middle of adventure, such a perfect place to start

    I'm going back to 505
    If it's a seven hour flight or a forty-five minute drive
    In my imagination, you're waitin' lyin' on your side
    With your hands between your thighs

    But I crumble completely when you cry
    It seems like once again you've had to greet me with goodbye
    I'm always just about to go and spoil the surprise
    Take my hands off of your eyes too soon

    I'm going back to 505
    If it's a seven hour flight or a forty-five minute drive
    In my imagination, you're waitin' lyin' on your side
    With your hands between your thighs and a smile Writer/s: Alex Turner
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 10

  • Luc from Aint No WayI thougt it would have been part of a story much like Green Day’s American idiot
  • Ray from Hey Why Do You Need To Know?I love this song, sets such a good vibe.
  • Nos--t from Woah Woah Dont Ask Me My Location!My dad played this on his radio every morning, I would rock with him along the song. The music is so underrated I swear!
  • Jaylee from Canton, GaThe meaning of the song is that he is saying no matter how long it takes he will go back to her. He imagines her lying there with her hands between her thighs as laying there naked touching herself waiting for him. “I probably still will adore you with your hands around my neck” is saying he will still love her even if she was trying to kill him but then he adds in “or I did last time I checked” as in turning it into a sexual thing with last time her hands were around his neck. “The knife twists at the thought I should fall short of the mark” he’s talking about it would kill him knowing if he fell short at pleasing her. “But I fall completely when you cry” since followed by “it seems like once again you’ve had to greet me with goodbye” means he’s saying that it hurts him to see her cry cuz he has to go basically as fast as he got there. 
  • Dean from RotherhamWhy are you all calling them The Monkeys? Don't think Daydream Believer is on their set list
  • Rodento from A Place :flushed:uHm- so, 505 is a hotel room in NYC and she was supposed to be waiting on him there- the song is actually sexual :flushed:
  • ArielBest arctic monkey song?
  • Geoff from UsaThe Monkey's have many great tunes. A lot of good stuff. But something about 505 is genius. A very cool / moving song. By far my favorite.
  • Matthew from Leduc County AlbertaA beautiful telling of thought. How we treasure the love held for another. Regardless of situational circumstances, we, at least I, choose to continue to love. Even at a distance when necessary.
  • Natu from Addis Ababa, EthiopiaNo one ever comment on this song...i think this is why this song is the most underated song of The Monkees, but in my opinion I think it's one of their best. I like the way the tempo progress: slow...mid....and rocking fast. A good song.
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