Lumineers, The - Flapper Girl Lyrics

Perfeitamente sensacional,sem palavras para dizer o quanto essa música é perfeita❤️

L Y R I C S

Cut off all of your hair
Did you flinch, did you care?
Did he look, did he stop and stare
At your brand new hair?
Local boy, local new
Power lines hanging boots
Firemen in their trucks cut loose
A local boy's shoes
Cadillac, Cadillac
Businessmen dressed in slacks
I'm gonna buy one for us when I get back
A big Cadillac

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write would you call back, baby
If I wrote you a song?
I been gone but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Romeo, Juliet
Balcony in silhouette
Making O's with her cigarette
Its's Juliet
Flapper girl, flapper girl
Prohibition in curls
Hair of gold, and a neck of pearls
It's flapper girl

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write, would you call back, baby
If I wrote you a song
I been gone, but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

'Cause if you ain't behind my door
Then I ain't got a home anymore

Would you write, would you call back, baby
If I wrote you a song?
I been gone but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Lover come, lovers go
Lovers leave me alone
She'll come back to me

this never fails to make me happy

The Lumineers have a very 1970’s vibe to their music. Such an underrated band honestly

Irish lass

One of the best songs ever made

My favorite song. Takes me back to a time I wasn’t even born and yet makes me connect with that period. Music really is magic!

Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

Best music....

Underestimated and underrated asf

Lovers come, lovers go, lovers leave me alone, she’ll come back to me....

Guys I need help.. I heard this song from someone. Whether it was a cover or something in TV, I don't know. But it is eating my brain and I need to find it or I wont sleep or function. So if you know a cover or something that could be viral, someone who was singing this beautiful song, hit me up here in, pleasee!!!

I like this song, if this lipstick shade i offten wear had a sound this is the sound it woulf make

Haven’t found a Lumineers song I don’t like... not many bands are able to do that

This is nostalgic for me...honestly

💞💞💞💞

I can wake up and fall asleep listening to the Lumineers

She'll come back to me.

Best song on the album imo. So underrated.

Anyone still listening in 2019?

2020 🥺✋🏻

2020🤘🏻

Calming song

The best song!🎶

Best song ever!

Summer🖤😫😢

Eu não sei onde o the lumineers acha inspiração para compor essas musicas , mas elas me fazem tão bem ! A escolha de notas musicas deles é perfeita! ✔️🎵💜😍🙌🏻🔝

I love your music!!!!

stuck in my head all day. love this

BEAUTIFUL!

What album is this?

Hope these kind of songs are gonna be implemented in Life is Strange 2

Lumineers Takes me to heaven Everytime I listen to their songs 😍❤️

Who says time travel isn’t possible? Currently, I am a flapper girl in the 1920s, who just cut her hair, and is waving to her friends like a diva. #powerofmusic #womenempowerment

😢😢😢😢

I did a ukulele cover of this song! It’s my absolute favourite song and it got me to finals at the Canadian Model and Talent Convention. Please check it out!

This remind me of relationship between Steve roger and Peggy carter

If this isn’t 1920s then don’t know what is

APOzAe 21 3ADE SOFEzAe DEAzAEf AJAMULzAe I ( DUK DOM )

Anyone else think of the Great Gatsby while listening to this?

I love this song and have been listening to it for a few years. It makes me calm and happy

this is so Gatsby it hurts

Sooooo... It's 1.24 a.m in my country and I am doing my homework for one lesson.... Lovely song

I feel this song is the best song ever and it is just a perfect song the Lumineers have great songs!!!

Gnoma e gnomo❤️

que bonita :)

I love this song

oh my god! my favorite song!!! been listening to this on repeat every day since it came out!!

Beautiful Music

f ucking love these guys!!!!!!

The racist statements made in this song really make me sad to enjoy it

this song is good

this song is so beautiful xx

"I've been gone but yourr still my lady" defines my preaent condition...😯😯

Is this song about the Great Gatsby?

I need to stop relating to songs on this kind of level I don’t like it relating to this song is not a good thing I just want her back.

Ah... the Flapper Girl - she still waves to me - golden curls and all - out of that yellow Mini in the brief moments before I fall asleep...

This song makes Me think of My wife she likes, fan's...Flapper Girl!!!

The Lumineers are some of the best lyricists ever. They manage to capture an entire new emotion and story in each of their songs. I personally think they deserve way more fans.

Thank you Lumineers for making folk rock mainstream, or at least kind of mainstream!

I love this song so much. such a beautiful voice.

I come to this song every time I cut my hair. Makes me happy.

Ria Chaves I bet. can I watch?

@mackhomie6 Whoa there. Whoooooa

@The Amazing Pep you missed the show. You're not related to the lady who identifies as a black chick, are you?

una buena canción 2:05 am

Meaningful songs are hard to find. I'm glad I found a band that tells stories in songs :) Have a nice day folks!

This songs gives me retro kinda vibes and I love it :)

want to song, but with little changes: flapper boy, oh

I never had a boyfriend in all my life but oh god this songs are sad as hell and make me cry. they make me think that this my own experience

why does this song make me cry so much

Al menos una vez hemos escuchado canciones de The Lumineers en comerciales de marcas telefónicas o en comerciales de Coca-Cola.

why are all these comments so long

Me pone triste :'(

I LOVE THE LUMINEERS

What I want before I die is twenty one pilots to do a cover of this song

elton jhon

First time listening to this band and I,m really liking them.May have to go buy me their CD.

The Lumineers is a amazing group. I loved all the songs. I live in Mexico, but i love the music in English...

Listening to this song for the literal 100th time...just now realized he sings "Would you call back baby IF I wrote you a song." For some reason I just always thought it was some unintelligible humming. It all makes sense now! O.O

Still listening,
still loving it.

Vishwajith V always buddy

Open bob

simple words but touching.That is enough!

Best song ever. I am 14, and I didn't know what I wanted to my life, but after that I listened this song and I decided what I want: help people, and now I know: I will be Doctor Without Borders! Thank you The lumineers!

First you must learn to use proper grammar!

buzz kill

Good luck!

Hahaha. Ani will be doctor without borders. And I will be painter without edges!

Not sure what the connection is, but good for you!

Okay watch the Deadspace intro and replace twinkle twinkle little star with this song. It'd totally work.

They put nostalgic, bittersweet memories into musical form. I haven't actually experienced the story in the lyrics but when I'm listening to it it's like I'm reliving an actual experience. I love this group!

I'm not even married but this makes me cry. I want this someday.

Fuck yo couch.

MARVEL Rabbit what the heck is your problem.

I don't know why this made me laugh hysterically.
Purge LOA "I can forgive but i won't forget"
"To rebel against a government is to revoke your citizenship, to all my anonymous brothers out there... don't rebel, obey your civil authorities and help for once. Make a difference!" Make this idea that wont die a good one not a oppressive one.

Damn this song

Cut off all of your hair
Did you flinch, did you care
Did he look, did he stop and stare
At your brand new hair
Local boy, local news
Power lines hangin boots
Firemen in their trucks cut loose
A local boy's shoes

Cadillac, cadillac
Businessmen dressed in slacks

I'm gonna buy one for us when I get back
A big cadillac

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I been gone but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Romeo, juliet
Balcony in silhouette
Makin o's with her cigarette
It's juliet

Flapper girl, flapper girl
Prohibition in curls
Hair of gold and a neck of pearls
It's flapper girl

And you can wave to all of your friends
And I'll never leave you again

Would you write would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I been gone but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Cause if you ain't behind my door
Then I ain't got a home anymore

Would you write would you call back baby if
I wrote you a song
I been gone but you're still my lady and
I need you at home

Lovers come, lovers go
Lovers leave me alone
She'll come back to me

how do i do a middle finger

Ooooh that makes way more sense. I kept hearing a local boy shoots and wondered how the song could just gloss over it. But chalked it up to the whole mobsters and speak easy style that went withvthe roaring 20s and flapper girls.

Ineffable // i

Liam Kedian come on, Liam
You can do it.

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS!!! WHY AM I CRYING 😭😭

Love it!

I love THE LUMINEERS, from Panama

everyone has their take on this song, i find it beautiful and sad at the same time.

At camp one of our councillors sang this to us and this just reminds me of her!😭😭😭

I feel that the Lumineers are a very underrated musical group. It feels as though there is so much soul behind each of their songs.

you feel a lot.

I agree

I think their rating is always a 10 but the audience they have is just smaller in scale than most bands. They have a very deep and rustic folk style and brilliant writing. It's great music which unfortunately the majority of people anymore don't appreciate or even understand. They want the meaningless same old repetitive garbage, all pop/rap influence. Even country has taken that route it's awful

Unfortunately, soul does not sell, therefore one needs to sell the soul.

Nikko Robledo They're great, but they're also pretty popular tbh.

Ugh love this song💙💙

reminds me of somebody i miss so so so so much mmmmm

this song made me text my ex lol

What'd she say?

lmfao I found someone better. thank god

that's what she answered? tough

I love almost all of the Lumineers songs, but this is by far my favorite.
It captures so perfectly, not only one story but the zeitgeist of the early 20s. And in such a simple way.
Maybe I over analyze it but the story is about a US soldier returning to his land after WWI. When he comes back he doesn't recognize his love mate nor his country.

*In more details:*
The first thing that he noticed is, of course, the most visible one-
*-"Cut off all of your hair"*
Hair was a symbol of femininity (it still is). During the war women replaced men in labor force who had joined the armed services, they became independent and felt like they can do as much as any other male. Cutting the hair was a symbol of taking control over their own lives. "Liberation Hairdo" that gives them a strong "manly" look.
*"Did you flinch?, Did you care?"*
Her new hairstyle surprised him but what surprised him the most was her new attitude; it seems like she doesn't even care about the "lost' of her hair- her femininity. She likes it! - He likes it a little less.
*-"Did he look?, Did he stop and stare*
*At your brand new hair?"*
He might refer to a specific guy, maybe a guy that she had an affair with while he was gone, but I doubt it. I think that he's just talking about men in general that stayed in the US during the war. He's asking (maybe himself) if it's a "normal" thing that man are just accepting now.

*Local boy, local news,*
*Power lines, hanging boots,*
*Firemen in their trucks cut loose*
*A local boy' shoes*
Tossing boots over high wires is a military tradition in the US- the town is celebrating his homecoming.

*Cadillac, Cadillac,*
*Businessman dressed in slacks,*
*I'mma buy one for us when I get back,*
*A big Cadillac*
When he was in the army everywhere he looked there was a military Cadillac, back home there are also a lot of Cadillac, but not the military type- they're Luxury Cars owned by "Business Man dressed in slacks". He's promising her a luxury car too, but it's an empty promise. It's not like he's lying to her, not at all but he's daydreaming, as a former soldier he's probably doesn't have the money for it. (It also a subtle criticism against businessmen who cynically took advantage of the war to get rich while soldiers returned jobless).

*Would you write would you call back baby if*
*I wrote you a song?*
*I been gone but you're still my lady and*
*I need you at home"*
This shows the tremendous love he has for her, but also his dependency. He's not being fair to her: he wants her at his home-in his eyes she's still (just) his "lady" (even though she no longer act like one) but she on the other side, took a bite of the "new" world and she wants so much more then that.

*Romeo, Juliet*
*Balcony in silhouette*
*Makin o's with her cigarette*
*It's Juliet.*
Romeo and Juliet represent the old innocent love, the traditional one. He wants *that* kind of love. Instead he gets a Juliet that smokes provocatively.

*Flapper girl, flapper girl*
*Prohibition in curls*
*Hair of gold and a neck of pearls*
*it's flapper girl*
It’s the first time that the term "Flapper girl" appears in the song- not once but three times. It's like he's trying to explain it to himself. But again he can't see through the superficial things.
…
*"Cause if you ain't behind my door*
*Then I ain't got a home anymore"*
What a sad Sentence…this again shows the differences in their perception.

*"Lovers leave me alone"*
She left him. But he's still optimistic: *"Lovers come, lovers go…She'll come back to me"* he's optimistic but also blind. He doesn't understand that things will never be the same- the world has changed. If he doesn't want to be left behind he need to change too.

How did you make this interpretation? How long did it take you?

this is three years old but I still need to voice how much I like this interpretation! super interesting and i'll never listen to this song the same way

This was an awesome and well detailed explanation. I never actually knew that about the shoes thing. I just knew that was something I seen randomly in town sometimes. I always wondered why someone would waste a perfectly good pair of shoes like that. I always figured someone was pranking a friend. Neat to know it has more meaning.

Wow Through your analyzing, i have learn about 1920's america 😃

oohh thanks for this

This song makes me remember my ex-girlfriend. Although in my case I can't have her back. We were people who couldn't love, because distance got between us. But in the end this helped me move on actually.

I think, judging by the comments, I am one of the few that this song made sad. This gave me a feel of naive positivism and hopefulness that she'll come back in the lyrics and also the melody but it felt like the singer was lying to himself to make him feel better. You can notice the doubt in his mind when he says "Cause if you ain't behind my door, then I ain't got a home anymore". I know that I read too much into it but this felt like an interesting perspective to the song.

It's what ever feeling at the moment yp

Same Kollu. She's never coming back, I tried. She said "Why didn't you come back before, when I tried"
JJ2006-2009

For me the piano is very emotional for me. I agree. What set you off?

You should watch The Great Gatsby then listen to it again!😉

kollu99 How do you know she won't come back unless you ask her?(though this comment is 3 years old now...)