Story Behind The Song

I belonged to some campus clubs at uni and saw a lot of young people who thought they'd never find love get very lucky. I've been with my own partner for 30 years and I was kinda surprised too to find someone who liked me that much. I wrote the basic ch

Song Description

The protagonist in this song might be female or male. 'They' have always thought they were too awkward, geeky, zitty etc. for love but their music tells them not to worry about themselves. They then run into someone at a dance who they have a love at fir

Lyrics

Don't Worry About Yourself

Your friends call you "hey stupid" and your acne blows out volcano craters
but some valentine card Cupid speared you, that old dictator love
It raised its hand and gave a little shove
You think, nothing's going to come of this, but still you're praying

You've always flinched at plastic spiders,
you faint on fast moving elevators
but now you're rising faster than a glider plane on a thermal swell
Suddenly you don't feel so well
Yet somewhere in your head you hear music playing
and the song says

"Don't worry about yourself, don't worry about yourself,
don't worry about yourself, you'll be fine"

The words spin around your head like wine
It's worth a chance you hear yourself softly saying

You dance with him one night in a haze of question marks and lights spinning slowly
and suddenly a bright explosion burns a hole in your old lives
only the meeting of your minds survives
The walls are burning down, the whole building's swaying

and you hear him say:

Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about yourself no more
Don't worry about what they say cause I've said it all
when I tell you you're love's own solar core
Don't worry about your skin, I see the stars within,
I see all the worlds that make you up
When I looked inside your heart a curtain tore

Don't worry about yourself, don't worry about yourself,
don't worry about yourself, you'll be fine
Don't worry about yourself, don't worry about yourself,
don't worry about yourself, you'll be fine

The words spin around your head like wine.

Don't worry, don't worry about yourself!