Fun (officially stylized as fun.) is an American indie pop band based in New York City that was formed by Nate Ruess, formerly of The Format. After the 2008 breakup of The Format, Ruess formed Fun with Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff of Anathallo and Steel Train respectively.
Origin New York City, New York, United States
Genres Indie rock, alternative rock, indie pop, power pop[1]
Years active 2008–present
Labels Fueled by Ramen, Nettwerk Fun has released two albums: its debut Aim and Ignite in 2009 and Some Nights in February 2012.
The band is best known for its hit singles "We Are Young" featuring Janelle Monáe, and "Some Nights". "We Are Young" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Digital Songs charts. It peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, as well. "Some Nights" was released as the album's second single in May 2012, peaking at number three on the Hot 100 chart and becoming Fun's second Top 10 single, as well as the band's second song to reach platinum status in the United States.
Members
Nate Ruess (lead vocals)
Andrew Dost (piano, drums)
Jack Antonoff (guitar)
. I WANNA BE THE ONE
Were you named for the river that surrounds
All my biggest my mistakes or the way that I made it out
All the muscles in my mouth never smiled or said profound things
Until the day she handed you to me
Now for all the steps you'll take and all you'll overcome
I wanna be the one to put in a song
Take every single tear for all the world to hear
I wanna be the one to put it in a song
Cigarettes are raining hard on the Upper East Side
She brings me a cake we celebrate I have arrived
And I know that it's been sang before but you're my human holiday
I put my hands to the table and dare say the love of my life
And your brother with his best friend
Shares a name I'm gonna need
Really couldn't bring me down
For everything you lost and all you overcome
I wanna be the one to put it in a song
Take every single tear for all the world to hear
I wanna be the one to put it in a song and make it last forever
Clever comes in truth when truth begets the past
Its sends its call out to the moon
And the moon can see the beauty that surrounds your heart as it pounds
It starts the beat inspiring me until I make the sound
I wanna be the one, I wanna be one, I wanna be the one
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2. ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS
All the pretty girls on a saturday night
So I call your name, cross my fingers
uncross the others, hesitate.
I don't think straight with nothing to prove.
I don't wanna say I'm leaving
so I'll stay until the weekend.
And you can take all your things;
the boxes and rings
and get going.
'Cause I've been waiting for...
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
So I call you out
Just to feel a little bit better about myself
And I do, baby I do
'Til their lips start to move,
and their friends wanna talk music
I say "I've never heard the tune!"
But I have, I just hate the band
'cause they remind me of you.
Every single night ends up the same,
I don't say much at all, but I bring up your name.
(Over and over and over)
I think it's striking me out.
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
But not you,
you still wear boots and your hair is too long
and then this one doesn't want to admit she's fallen in love
Oh c'mon, oh c'mon, what's a boy to do
When all the pretty girls can't measure to you.
I don't understand your reasons
Please just stay over the weekend
You can't take all those things
They define you and me
everything we've become,
You're all that I need
Please don't make me face my generation alone.
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
But not you,
I feel your faith is destroying the world
and then this one doesn't want to admit
the 80s is over and done
Oh c'mon, what's a boy to do,
when all the pretty girls can't measure to you
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3. SOME NIGHTS
Some nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck; some nights, I call it a draw
Some nights, I wish that my lips could build a castle
Some nights, I wish they'd just fall off
But I still wake up, I still see your ghost
Oh Lord, I'm still not sure what I stand for
What do I stand for? What do I stand for?
Most nights, I don't know anymore...
This is it, boys, this is war - what are we waiting for?
Why don't we break the rules already?
I was never one to believe the hype - save that for the black and white
I try twice as hard and I'm half as liked, but here they come again to jack my style
That's alright (that's alright).
I found a martyr in my bed tonight.
Stops my bones from wondering just who I, who I, who I
a-a-a-am, oh who am I, m-mm, m-mm.
Well, some nights I wish that this all would end
'Cause I could use some friends for a change
And some nights I'm scared you'll forget me again
Some nights I always win (I always win)
But I still wake up, I still see your ghost
Oh Lord, I'm still not sure what I standfor
What do I stand for? What do I stand for? What do I stand for?
Most nights, I don't know...
So this is it? I sold my soul for this?
Washed my hands of that for this?
I miss my mom and dad for this?
No. When I see stars, when I see stars, that's all they are
When I hear songs, they sound like a swan, so come on
Oh, come on. Oh, come on.
That is it, guys, that is all - five minutes in and I'm bored again
Ten years of this, I'm not sure if anybody understands
This one is not for the folks back home; I'm sorry to leave, mom, I had to go
Who the fuck wants to die alone all dried up in the desert sun?
My heart is breaking for my sister and the con that she called "love"
But when I look into my nephew's eyes...
Man, you wouldn't believe the most amazing things that can come from...
Some terrible lie
The other night, you wouldn't believe the dream I just had about you and me
I called you up, but we'd both agree
It's for the best you didn't listen
It's for the best we get our distance...
It's for the best you didn't listen
It's for the best we get our distance...
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4. WE ARE YOUNG (ft. Janelle Monae)
You and me a second eye
I need to get my story straight
My friend's are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State
My lover she's waiting for me just across the bar
My seat's been taken by some sunglasses asking about a
scar, and
I know I gave it to you months ago
I know you're trying to forget
But between the drinks and subtle things
The holes in my apologies
You know I'm trying hard to take it back
So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Now I know it I'm not
All that you got
I guess that I, I just thought
Maybe we could find new ways to fall apart
But our friends are back
So let's raise a cup
'Cause I found someone to carry me home
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight
Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight
The world is on my side
I have no reason to run
So will someone come and carry me ho,me
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home tonight
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5. WHY AM I THE ONE
I've got enough on my mind
That when she pulls me by the hand
She hasn't much to hold onto
She's keeping count on her hands
One, two, three days that I've been sleeping on my side
I've finished kissing my death
So now I head back up the steps
Thinking about where I've been
I mean it's always never like this
I wanna feel with the seasons
I guess it makes sense because my life's become as vapid as
A night out in Los Angeles
And I just wanna stay in bed
I hold you like I used to
You know that I am home
So darling if you love me
Would you let me know?
Well - go on, go on, go on
If you were thinking that the worst is yet to come
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff
For once, for once, for once
I've got the feeling that I'm right where I belong
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff?
She got enough on her mind
But now she feels no sorrow (?)
I let my faith fill the air
So now she's rolling down the window
Never been one to hold on
But I need a last breath
So I ask if she remembers when
She used to come and visit me
We were fools to think that nothing would go wrong
Well - go on, go on, go on
If you were thinking that the worst is yet to come
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff
For once, for once, for once
I've got the feeling that I'm right where I belong
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff?
I think I kinda like it but I might have had too much
And I'll move back down
To this western town
When they find me out
Make no mistake about it
I'll move back down
To this western town
When they find me out
Make no mistake about it
(I'll move back)
Well - go on, go on, go on
If you were thinking that the worst is yet to come
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff
Well - go on, go on, go on
If you were thinking that the worst is yet to come
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff
For once, for once, for once
I've got the feeling that I'm right where I belong
Why am I the one
Always packing all my stuff?
I think I kinda like it but I might have had too much
And I'll move back down
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6. IT GETS BETTER
What have we done, oh my god
What have we done, oh my god
This is really happening
You never looked so bored
Can you feel my fingernails?
They've never been so short
It's hard to lay a golden egg with everyone around
It's hard to stay inside my head when words keep pouring out
Like starlight crashing through the room, we'll lose our feathers
Yes, I know it hurts at first but it gets better
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
I can taste your summer sweat
It's never been so warm
So can we kick the covers off?
They're always on
It's never been so warm
It's hard to keep a straight face when I just want to smile
Wish you could see the look that's in your eyes
Like starlight crashing through the room, we'll lose our feathers
Yes, I know it hurts at first but it gets better
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
There's a fire in sky
Some snow on the ground
Not quite enough cigarettes
To calm me down
What have we done, oh my god
What have we done, oh my god
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
(This is really happening)
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
(This is really happening)
It gets better, it gets better
It gets better, we'll get better
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7. ALL ALONE
I fell in love with a wind-up souvenir
I bought it downtown as I was on my way to meet you
She sounds like the songs you used to sing to put me to sleep but
Now that you're gone she's all I've left to hold
And I feel so all alone
No one's gonna fix me when I'm broke
How do you cry with inanimate eyes?
You're never gonna smile with the way that you are
And I feel so all alone
I gave it to you I thought you might appreciate
The way that she dances, the painted look upon her face
She must of come from the sun. I wanna take her through the park
Where she tell me I'm all that she wants and she could even talk.
I feel so all alone
No one's gonna fix me when I'm broke
How do you cry with inanimate eyes?
You're never gonna smile with the way that you are
And I feel so all alone
I feel so all alone
As she sits on my shelf it makes me think of you
The way she carries the things that remind me of who
We used to be before we became empty
She's a lot like you
But when i hold her too
Tight I know she'll break
Just take some glue to stay
I feel so all alone
No one's gonna fix when I'm broke
How do you cry with inanimate eyes?
You're never gonna smile with the way that you are
And I feel so all alone
I feel so all alone
I feel so all alone
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8. C'M0N
[Brendon]
It's getting late, and I
Cannot seem to find my way home tonight
Feels like I am falling down a rabbit hole
Falling for forever, wonderfully wandering alone
What would my head be like
If not for my shoulders
Or without your smile
May it follow you forever
May it never leave you
To sleep in the stone,
May we stay lost on our way home
[Brendon]
C'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Nate]
If I should die tonight
May I first just say I'm sorry
For I, never felt like anybody
I am a man of many hats although I
Never mastered anything
When I am ten feet tall
I've never felt much smaller, since the fall
Nobody seems to know my name
So don't leave me to sleep all alone
May we stay lost on our way home?
[Brendon and Nate]
C'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Brendon and Nate]
C'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Brendon]
Try not to mistake what you have with what you hate
[Brendon and Nate]
It could leave, it could leave, come the morning
[Nate]
Celebrate the night
It's the fall before the climb
[Brendon and Nate]
Shall we sing, shall we sing, 'til the morning
[Brendon]
If I fall forward, you fall flat
[Brendon and Nate]
And if the sun should lift me up
Would you come back? C'mon!
[music interlude]
[Brendon]
C'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Brendon and Nate]
C'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Brendon and Nate]
So c'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
I'd like to believe in all the possibilities
[Brendon screams] YEAH YEAH YEAH!
[Brendon]
It's getting late and I, cannot seem to find my way home tonight.
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9. TAKE YOUR TIME
Take your time coming home.
Hear the wheels as they roll.
Let your lungs fill up with smoke.
Forgive everyone.
She is here and now she is gone
We had plans, we can't help but make love.
It's a beautiful thing when we you love somebody,
And I love somebody.
Yeah I love somebody.
Take your time coming home.
Hear the wheels as they roll.
Let your lungs fill with smoke.
Forgive everyone.
I don't think I'd been misled,
it was a rocknroll band,
I'm still standing,
Take your time coming home.
See, of everyone who called,
Very few said "We believe in you."
The overwhelming choice said
I'm just a boy inside a voice
and if that's true, if that's true, if that's true,
then what the fuck have I been doing the last six years?
How did I end up here?
How did I find love and conquer all my fears?
See, I made it out.
Out from under the sun.
And the truth is that I feel better because I've forgiven everyone.
Now I'm not scared
of a song
or the states,
or the stages.
I'm not scared.
I've got friends,
took my call,
came courageous.
Now I feel like I am home.
One more think, I keep having this dream
where I'm standing on a mountain
Looking out, on the street
I can hear kids in low-income housing singing
"We're through with causing a scene"
I don't know what it means
But I too, I'm through with causing a scene.
She is here and now I think she's ready to go.
For every love that's lost I heard a new one comes.
So come on with me, sing along with me,
Let the wind catch your feet.
If you love somebody,
you'd better let them know.
Take your time coming home.
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10. STICH ME UP
:
It's how we do it, our feet in the sand
It's how we do it, our heads in our hands
It's how we do it, I'm not looking for a reason to go
It's how we do it, we did it, we done it, but never before
I know,
You put the keys in the car and drive
I'm gonna make sure the money is right
Know we can do it, if we do it all night
You put the keys in the car and drive
It's how we do it
It's how we do it, if I lose you I'm losing control
So snap your fingers, pull the trigger cause I figure we're better as gold
It's how we do it, I'm a satellite looking for a signal to space
It's how we do it, we did it, we done it, let's do it again
You put the keys in the car and drive
I'm gonna make sure the money is right
Know we can do it, if we do it all night
You put the keys in the car and drive.
I'll find somebody who will stitch me up,
No I've never been better than when falling apart
I, Know we can do it, if we do it all night
You put the keys in the car and drive
You put the keys in the car and drive
For all that I know, it's gonna come back, tenfold
For all that I know, it's gonna come back, tenfold
But Darlin', Oh no, I don't think that we'll make it out alive
Darlin', Oh no, we won't make it, out alive
Now I'm lying, with each passing day
So if you're coming, then come quick 'cause, I'm scared.
I'm floating away.
It's how we do it, for the first time, I don't need a reason to go
It's how we do it, we did it, we done it, let's do it some more
You put the keys in the car and drive
I'm gonna make sure the money is right
Know we can do it, if we do it all night
You put the keys in the car and drive
I'll find somebody who will stitch me up,
No I've never been better than when falling apart
I, Know we can do it, if we do it all night
You put the keys in the car and drive,
You put the keys in the car and drive
You put the keys in the car...
And drive!
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11. BELIEVE IN ME
My christmas list is filling up with stuff I don't need
I was hoping for new shoes, the kind with the lights
I was naughty in high school, but now i'm trying to be nice
Even Santa he is thankful for the little things
(Like what kind of stuff Santa?)
Thanks to the reindeer that pull me on my sleigh
Thanks for the moonlight that guides me on my way
And I won't be greedy, I don't ask for much these days
I just need one thing, please believe in me
Well chistmas comes just once a year
I was hoping for snow shoes, or maybe a bike
But when I asked them for fun, they bought me "Aim and Ignite"
Even Santa he is thankful for the little things (Sweet Santa)
Thanks to the reindeer that pull me on my sleigh
Thanks for the moonlight that guides me on my way
Thanks for the memories 'cause they keep us safe and remind me that it's okay to be lonely
Please believe in me.
(Hey, Mary-Kate, what are you getting Ashely for christmas?
Um, I actually just got her a boflex.
Shut Up! I was gonna get her a boflex.
Well, do you want to go shopping for something else?
No, I'm going home.)
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12. LIGHT A ROMAN CANDLE
Light a Roman Candle with Me :
Light a roman candle with me
Just a roman candle, you can wear your sandals
and I'll pour you just one cup of tea.
Then you can go and rest
you haven't seen my best, so...
Just spend an evening with me
Just a lazy evening, then you could be leaving
or we could stay and talk until three.
I will think it's magic and I'll hope you'll agree, so...
Light a roman candle with me.
Just a roman candle.
Just a perfect apple.
If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together
a sandwich with everything on it,
at least we would know that the sparks didn't glow
but we owe it to ourselves to try,
so we aim and ignite!
So often I call and I plead with you:
"Give me a chance!"
It's not often that I understand
the ins and the outs of what's wrong and what's right
So don't think of tomorrow tonight.
Oh, I know, it goes on, it gets old
But for now we're young, we smell good, we're alone...
You look for a legend,
I'm looking for common ground.
Your heart isn't breaking,
and mine isn't making a sound.
Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old
Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old...
Light a roman candle with me.
Just a roman candle.
Just a perfect apple.
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