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We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed Lyrics
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 en-suite: They think the future's bright as halogen, we know it's pretty bleak And I'm trying to be sexy, biting at the air that falls in front of me. 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 that 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 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 you I've got a fist on fire 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 FUCKING, BUT THERE IS NO FUCKING FUTURE I'm just practising my accents, picking at old sutures 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, When 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. 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 you I've got a fist on fire 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! And We are beautiful, We are doomed.
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09-12-2008
i love it when gareth screams "I HOPE MY HEART GOES FIRST!"
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09-12-2008
i love it when gareth screams "I HOPE MY HEART GOES FIRST!"
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09-12-2008
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09-13-2008
"With the glow of a thousand fireflies
In a travelodge en suite
Don't think the future's bright as halogen
We know it's pretty bleak
And I'm trying to be sexy
But I emit the air that falls in front of me."
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09-15-2008
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09-16-2008
amazing song though :)
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09-23-2008
"With the glow of a thousand fireflies
In a travelodge en suite
They think the future's bright as halogen
We know it's pretty bleak"
which was talking about them heading towards the light, and inevitably being burnt by it
which i guess is an analogy for us
might be wrong, but thats what i figured it was when i listened to the song
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10-04-2008
i could be wrong, but it seems more likely in the context.
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10-24-2008
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11-03-2008
What an incredible song.
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11-10-2008
Swapped counting days until I fly, with hours before your reply
I'm just practicing my accents, picking at old sutures
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12-25-2008
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12-25-2008
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03-27-2009
:)
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04-15-2009
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04-24-2009
we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking, but there is no fucking future!
pretty passionate song. full of emotions.he doesnt screw around with these lyrics, very to the point. brilliant tho. no doubt.
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07-04-2009
I agree with gummy b, and her comment about romanticizing self-destruction. It represents what the album stands for as a last will and testament; well, more like a laughing crow's call at an already awful, yet beautiful picture bound for destruction. Not only that, but it masterfully links everything together: a failing body, a previous unpleasant relationship, dark, vulgar, and bluntly put philosophical statements, and doing petty things in hopes of getting better, yet all the while contemplating an all to real, bleak and grim outlook of the future ahead.
But, if there's one thing LC! does well is making the heart race by presenting these depressive themes with powerful, symphonic instruments and impressive lyrical delivery which mesh together like paste (or vomit, which the album in question does not fail to visualize in several songs, including this one) to create the songs of questionable selective beauty and personal taste that they release.
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10-10-2009
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