Music Monday

August 25, 2025 /

The Sofa ~ Wolf Alice

Ted’s the music lover in our household, but I get the benefit of hearing new music that I might not otherwise hear. This song is a gentle ear worm, and I sometimes sing it to myself when I’m doing something I don’t want to be doing (like strength training or cleaning the toilet) because what I’d rather be doing is relaxing on the sofa.

Are you a lyrics person? I like the dreamy music and the singer’s voice, but also really like the lyrics, about wanting competing things from life, and perhaps also about the expectations that the world can lay on you…and while sometimes you want to be wild and do it all, sometimes you just want to lie on the sofa watching reruns. Give it a listen.

“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 behavior
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 get mad
I wanna settle down, oh, to fall in love
But, sometimes, I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
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
(Ah, ah) the intellectual beauty queen

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 get mad
I wanna settle down, oh, to fall in love
But, sometimes, I just want to fuck
I love my life, I love my life
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
(Ah, ah) the intellectual beauty queen
And the wild thing

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

Hope I can accept the wild thing in me
Hope nobody comes to tame her
And she can be free“

Songwriters: Ellen Ciara Rowsell / Greg Kurstin / Joel Donald Scott Amey / Jonathan Oddie / Theodore Joseph Ellis

14 Comments

  • AC

    August 25, 2025 at 6:10 am

    I really only hear the music. I have trouble processinig the words these days, probably a combination of hearing and brain function.

    • J

      August 25, 2025 at 4:32 pm

      I like the melody of this song, and even if you don’t hear the words clearly, you can enjoy her voice. Though maybe it’s not enjoyable for you since you don’t hear the lyrics.

  • PocoBrat

    August 25, 2025 at 9:22 am

    Oh, thank you (and Ted)! Off to give this a listen now.

    I like “Blush” and “Teenage Headache Dreams” so perhaps I’ll like this too…

    “stare at each other like TV” still gives me goosebumps.

    Also, I heard Jewel in the store the other day, and thought of your little one :)!

  • Kat

    August 25, 2025 at 10:34 am

    I love a good pop hook or lyrics that read like poetry. I do often have to look up text versions to “hear” and understand lyrics accurately/precisely bc just listening, I’ll miss them or think a word is different than it is. I was reading a review of Jensen McRae’s new album recently and the critic cited a slight issue with “lyrical oversaturation”… first time I’ve heard that term but I knew instinctively what they meant bc I do think that’s common these days, esp with the more diaristic songwriting styles. I don’t think this song suffers from that! I like it a lot.

  • Nicole MacPherson

    August 25, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    Oooh!
    I absolutely am a lyrics person, to the point that I know the lyrics to ALL THE SONGS. I mean, not this one, because I never heard it before. But lyrics stick with me for life!

  • Daria

    August 26, 2025 at 6:03 am

    I listened to the song and read up on the band. Very nice!! The lead vocalist’s voice reminded me a little of Dolores O’Riordan from the Cranberries…RIP Dolores.