Old Yellow Bricks

Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
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  • Old yellow bricks
    Love's a risk
    Quite the little escapologist
    Looked so miffed
    When you wished
    For a thousand places better than this

    You are the fugitive
    But you don't know what you're runnin' from
    You can't kid us
    And you couldn't trick anyone
    Houdini, love you don't know what you're runnin' away from

    Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
    Blinded by nostalgia
    Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

    She was enraged by the way
    That the emperor put traps in the cage
    And the days she been dull
    Lead to nights readin' beer bottles

    You're such a fugitive
    But you don't know what you're runnin' from
    You can't kid us
    And you couldn't trick anyone
    Houdini, love you don't know what you're runnin' away from

    Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
    Blinded by nostalgia
    Who wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up?

    You're at a loss
    Just because
    It wasn't all that you thought it was

    You are a fugitive, but you don't know what you're runnin' away from

    She said, "I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up
    And revel in nostalgia"
    I know I said " Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?"
    But
    Dorothy was right though Writer/s: Alex Turner, Jon McClure
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Marina from Winnipeg, Canadamy favourite song on favourite worst nightmare.
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