We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Daytrotter Session) 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
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 2: Gareth]
Your telegrams are more and more less detailed by the day
And all the characters are strangers
And the pubs havе different names
I tеll 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 & 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]
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 & 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