We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Live at Islington Assembly Hall) lyrics
by Los Campesinos!
[Spoken Intro: Gareth]
This song is called "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed"
[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, you grimace
We both know your heart's not in it
By the glow of a thousand fireflies in 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 2: 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
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 & Kim]
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, Gareth & Kim, Gareth, Kim, Tom & Rob]
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 3: 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
Charlotte says, "It's more constructive than the one in Canada
Where 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 & Kim]
You said he's 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, Gareth & Kim]
I cannot emphasise enough that my body
Is a badly designed, poorly put-together vessel
Harbouring these diminishing, so-called 'vital organs'
Hope my heart goes first
I hope my heart goes first!
[Outro: Gareth]
You are beautiful
We are doomed
[Spoken Outro: Gareth]
Thanks! Thank you very much
And this one, right, uh, this is a song that was a single, which means one of two things. It means either it's a really, really popular song or, it means we released the wrong song as a single, and I think, I think we all know which we're most likely to do, but humour us...