More songs by Wolf Alice
Description
There is something comforting about this song, a kind of ‘whatever’ attitude - when you're lying on the sofa, watching old TV series and realising that life isn't so bad after all, even if your dreams of California are still just notes in your diary next to your plan to ‘start running’. Nothing is perfect, but it doesn't have to be - because happiness isn't about becoming a new version of yourself, it's about allowing yourself to lie down and not pretend to be a muse, a careerist, or spiritually enlightened. Just be. With a slight mess in your thoughts, in your favourite T-shirt, with a teacup on the armrest.
And let the wild creature live inside - it deserves a rest.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Hope I can accept the wild thing in me
Hope nobody comes to tame her
And she can be free
Sick of second-guessing my behaviour and what I want to be
Just let me lie here on the sofa
And put the reruns on TV
I'll be fine, I'll be okay
I feel kind of lucky right now, and I'm not ashamed to say
I can be happy, I can be sad
I can be a bitch when I am mad
I want to settle down, oh, to fall in love
But sometimes I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
But sometimes I just want to-
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
Let me lie here on the sofa
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Sometimes I just want to-
Be no one thing
Didn't make it out to California
Where I thought I might clean the slate
Feels a little like I'm stuck in Seven Sisters
North London, oh, England
And maybe that's okay
Maybe that's fine, I'll be okay
I feel kind of lucky right now, and I'm not ashamed to say
I can be happy, I can be sad
I can be a bitch when I am mad
I want to settle down, oh, to fall in love
But sometimes I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
But sometimes I just want to-
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
Let me lie here on the sofa
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Sometimes I just want to-
Be no one thing
The intellectual beauty queen
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Hope I can accept the wild thing in me
Hope nobody comes to tame her
And she can be free
English translation
Hope I can accept the wild thing in me
Hope nobody comes to tame her
And she can be free
Sick of second-guessing my behaviour and what I want to be
Just let me lie here on the sofa
And put the reruns on TV
I'll be fine, I'll be okay
I feel kind of lucky right now, and I'm not ashamed to say
I can be happy, I can be sad
I can be a bitch when I am mad
I want to settle down, oh, to fall in love
But sometimes I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
But sometimes I just want to-
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
Let me lie here on the sofa
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Sometimes I just want to-
Be no one thing
Didn't make it out to California
Where I thought I might clean the slate
Feels a little like I'm stuck in Seven Sisters
North London, oh, England
And maybe that's okay
Maybe that's fine, I'll be okay
I feel kind of lucky right now, and I'm not ashamed to say
I can be happy, I can be sad
I can be a bitch when I am mad
I want to settle down, oh, to fall in love
But sometimes I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
But sometimes I just want to-
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
Let me lie here on the sofa
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Sometimes I just want to-
Be no one thing
The intellectual beauty queen
Let me lie here on
I could lie here all day long
The sofa, the sofa, on the sofa
Hope I can accept the wild thing in me
Hope nobody comes to tame her
And she can be free