Finger Back

Album: Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
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  • Bend my finger back (snap)
    Wrap it in a paper towel
    Break a twig in half and set it straight

    Hit me with a wood bat
    Hit me with a canister that's fired while
    The soldiers drive away

    Bend my finger back (snap)
    On and on and on and on for days

    Hit me with a wood bat
    Hit me like a Yankee, like a son of
    Freedom, never had a slave

    It's etiquette, you idiot
    Spend time behind the line
    Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't ever shine
    Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
    And baby you're not anybody's fool

    Bless me with a heart attack
    A real cries cardiac
    And show me where to find the
    Surgeon's knife

    Eviscerate me now (hack)
    Take me to my punishment?
    The punishment I needed all my life

    Bend my finger back (snap)
    On and on and on and on with strife

    Listen to my bum rap
    Listen to the evidence exonerating me from
    Being right

    It's etiquette, you idiot
    Spend time behind the line
    Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't
    Ever shine

    Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
    Baby you're not anybody's fool

    You know that I've been wicked and the
    Road to hell is wide
    Cursed by curiosity that made
    Us go inside
    Everyone was charming but we took 'em for a ride
    Baby, you're not anybody's fool

    Bend my finger back (snap)
    Wrap it in a paper towel
    Break a twig in half and set it straight

    Hit me with a wood bat
    Hit me with a canister that's fired while
    The soldiers drive away

    Bend my finger back (snap)
    On and on and on and on for days

    Hit me with a wood bat
    Hit me like a Yankee, like a son of
    Freedom, never had a slave

    It's etiquette, you idiot
    Spend time behind the line
    Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't ever shine
    Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
    And baby you're not anybody's fool

    The harpsichord is broken and the
    Television's fried
    The city's getting hotter like a
    Country in decline
    Everyone's a coward when you look
    Them in the eyes
    But baby, you're not anybody's fool

    See ya next year in Jerusalem
    You know, the one at 103rd and Broadway?
    'Cause this orthodox girl fell in love with the guy at the falafel shop
    And why not?
    Should she have averted her eyes and just stared
    At the laminated poster of the dome of the rock?

    And then blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood
    And then blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood

    Remembrances of holy days in tarry town and rye
    I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die

    Condolences to gentle hearts who
    Couldn't bear to try
    I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die

    Remembrances of holy days in tarry town and rye
    I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die Writer/s: Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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