Album: Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
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  • Every time I see you in the world
    You always step to my girl

    Back, back, way back, I used to front like Angkor Wat
    Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
    While home in New York was champagne and disco
    Tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
    But actually Oakland and not Alameda
    Your girl was in Berkeley with her Communist reader
    Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman
    I was a hoarder, but girl, that was back then

    The gloves are off
    The wisdom teeth are out
    What you on about?
    I feel it in my bones
    I feel it in my bones
    I'm stronger now
    I'm ready for the house
    Such a modest mouse
    I can't do it alone
    I can't do it alone

    Every time I see you in the world
    You always step to my girl

    Ancestors told me that their girl was better
    She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
    I just ignored all the tales of her past life
    Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
    And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
    Well, they didn't know how to dress for the weather
    I can still see them there, huddled on Astor
    Snow falling slow to the sound of the master

    The gloves are off
    The wisdom teeth are out
    What you on about?
    I feel it in my bones
    I feel it in my bones
    I'm stronger now
    I'm ready for the house
    Such a modest mouse
    I can't do it alone
    I can't do it alone

    Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
    Age is an honor, it's still not the truth
    We saw the stars when they hid from the world
    You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
    Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
    The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
    We know the true death, the true way of all flesh
    Everyone's dyin', but girl, you're not old yet

    Gloves are off
    The wisdom teeth are out
    What you on about?
    I feel it in my bones
    I feel it in my bones
    I'm stronger now
    I'm ready for the house
    Such a modest mouse
    I can't do it alone
    I can't do it alone
    Gloves are off
    The wisdom teeth are out
    What you on about?
    I feel it in my bones
    I feel it in my bones
    I'm stronger now
    I'm ready for the house
    Such a modest mouse
    I can't do it alone
    I can't do it alone

    Every time I see you in the world
    You always step to my girl Writer/s: David A. Gates, Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., DAVID GATES D/B/A KIPAHULU MUSIC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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