We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed lyrics

[Verse 1: Gareth]
By the light of the LED display of a VCR recorder
You kiss my neck, I whisper in your ear, "This is my downfall"
As you squint and you grimace, we both know your heart's not in it

[Verse 2: Gareth]
By the glow of a thousand fireflies in a Travelodge ensuite
They think the future's bright as halogen, we know it's pretty bleak
And I am trying to be sexy, biting at the air that falls in front of me

[Verse 3: Gareth]
Your telegrams are more and more less detailed by the day
And all the characters are strangers and the pubs have different names
I tell a joke I'd like to meet them but they loathe me and I hate them back

[Verse 4: Gareth]
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, fondness makes the absence longer
Length loses my interest, I'm a realist, I'm insatiable
Swapped counting days until I fly, with hours before your reply

[Chorus: Gareth & Aleks]
You said he got his teeth fixed
I'm gonna break them
I've got a heart on fire
He said he's got his sights set
On getting to ya
I've got a fist on fire
[Bridge: Gareth & Aleks, Los Campesinos!]
You feel terrified at the thought of being left behind
Of losing everybody
The necessity of dying
Oh, we kid ourselves there's future in the f*cking
But there is no f*cking future
I'm just practicing my accents, picking at old sutures

[Verse 5: Gareth]
I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love
Is to like the other slightly less than you get in return
I keep feeling like I'm being undercut

[Verse 6: Gareth]
Charlotte says, "It's more constructive than the one in Canada
When you got drunk
Ate loads of crisps
And threw up by a football pitch"
I know it is
And really that's what worries me
I feel like I should
Hurt

[Chorus: Gareth & Aleks]
You said he got his teeth fixed
I'm gonna break them
I've got a heart on fire
He said he's got his sights set
On getting to ya
I've got a fist on fire
[Bridge: Gareth]
I cannot emphasise enough that my body
Is a badly designed, poorly put-together vessel
Harbouring these diminishing, so-called 'vital organs'
I hope my heart goes first
I hope my heart goes first!

[Outro: Gareth]
We are beautiful
We are doomed