![]() He doesn’t usually write lyrics with other people, though I think he enjoyed it. It’ll always be a good memory for Alex and I. It’s great to think that it came from something we did for fun on holiday. We were in a really quiet hotel and didn’t watch TV or listen to that much music… So as not to drive each other mad we started messing around with these words like game, singing them to each other. D Bm Em A Only you know D Bm Em A I wanna see something that used to be in your eyes again, D Bm Em A Im waitin to see it, you know its only a question of when, D F G And I know how much Im missin heaven, D You know that its missin Em Only you know where you have been to, D Em Only you know what you have been through, D Em But theres. We were on holiday and had cut ourselves off from everything. It’s just right, really.Īs documented by NME magazine, Johanna herself said during an interview for The Observer that: Then it were like, “Here’s another verse.” We were having a laugh. ![]() The song’s roots lie in a Mediterranean holiday Turner and Bennett took during which they were reminiscing about characters they knew at school, as he recalled in The Times magazine in 2007 (documented by NME magazine): The writing of this is co-credited to Johanna Bennett, Alex Turner’s ex-girlfriend. ![]() The song is one of the band’s most popular and a concert staple. ![]() It describes a woman who dreams of her youth while her current life is unsatisfying and boring, with emphasis on her sex life. “Fluorescent Adolescent” is a ballad about getting older and finding out that life isn’t as fun anymore.
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