Right Words
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Well That Was Easy
Well that was easy waiting
Everything’s easy now
The days are Oh So Normal
But oh, Hannah
how I miss you
Now
I used to lock myself in your bathroom
Swallowing the codeine kept for your back
Numb, so numb
I’d let your words
Come and come
So come on –
Kill me now
Kill me now
Kill me now
Because I’m leaving you now
That was easy, but how I miss you
Now
I watched you clean the filth off your phone dial
Swallowing the things your finger picked up
Tongue, your tongue
I watched your tongue licking on
Eeuuw
So come
Come on tongue
Ah, come on tongue
Kill me now
Kill me now
Kill me now
As I’m leaving you now
That was easy, but how I miss you
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Outsiders
We’ve seen some change
But we’re still outsiders
If everybody’s here
Then hell knows
We ride alone
I’ve seen some years
But you’re still my Caesar
With everything I feel
I feel you’ve already been here
The only difference is all I see is now all that I’ve seen
It’s bright on the outside
The bright love the dark side
I know it’s obvious
But sometimes
You just have to say it
So you don’t feel so weak
About being such a freak
Or alone
In seventeen years
Will you still be Camille
Lee Miller, Gala or whatever
You know what I mean, yeah
Love’ll die
Lovers fade
But you still remain there
Squeezing in your fingers
What it means for me to be
The only difference is what might be is now what might have been
When you saw me sleeping
You thought I was dreaming of you
I didn’t tell you
That the only dream
Is Valium for me
The only difference is that
What Might Be Is NOW
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Turn It On
It ain’t easy being this kind of lover
when you never call
It ain’t easy being this kind of lover
Why don’t you ever call me?
But I’m dedicated and I’m a forgiver
I’m dedicated sure I’m a giver
I’m dedicated yes I’m a forgiver
I’ll forgive you always
Although I know you turn it on yeah
Turn It On
You don’t want to know how I manage alone
You don’t want to know what goes on when I’m on my own
You don’t want to know how I plan on my own
You don’t want to know how I know when you’re on your own
I’ll never be alone
Turn It On
You know I’d follow you to Rome
Turn It On
I know the places you call home
Turn It On
You know I’ll get you on your own
Turn It On
You know I know where you are
You know I can’t have another
You Turn It On
I can’t stop thinking of you
You Turn It On
If I can’t have you then nobody can
Yeah Yeah Yeah
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
You Turn It On
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Dream Again
Don’t be afraid if you hear voices
Or feel the sweet air
Spoken upon you
Sometimes the sound
Of a thousand
Whispering words
Of hope will reassure
Show me the future
Will see us join together
If the oceans split
Or the mountains sigh
Then I
Will keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
Don’t be afraid if you’re descending
The deepest despairs
Without a handrail to guide you
Sometimes the sound
of a thousand
whispering words
Can confuse
But when you’re sleeping
They shift and slide together
Bring meaning
To the canyon’s cry
So I
I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
Sometimes the sound
of a thousand
whispers are where
you live a little fear
But feel the future
I feel us dream together
I feel no fear
I feel no fire
Oh I
I keep on dreaming
I live to dream again
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Take Me Out
So if you’re lonely
You know I’m here
Waiting for you
I’m just a cross-hair
Just a shot away from you
If you leave here
You leave me broken
Shattered I lie
We’re just a cross-hair
Just a shotthen we can die
I know I won’t be leaving here
With You
I say don’t you know
You say don’t you know
I say take me out
I stay you don’t show
Don’t move time is slow
I say take me out
I say don’t you know
You say you don’t know
I say take me out
If I move this could die
If eyes move this could die
I want you to take me out
I know I won’t be leaving here
With you
I say don’t you know
You say you don’t know
I say take me out
If I wait this could die
If I wane this could die
I want you to take me out
If I move this could die
If eyes move this could die
Come on
Take me out
I know I won’t be leaving here
With you
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Auf Achse
You see her
You can’t touch her
You hear her
You can’t hold her
You want her
You can’t have her
You want to
But she won’t let you
She’s not so special
So look what you’ve done boy
Now you wish she’d never
Come back here again
You see her
You can’t touch her
You hear her
You can’t hold her
You want her
You can’t have her
You want to
But she won’t let you
She’s not so special
So look what you’ve done Bob
Now I’m nailed above you
Gushing from my side
It’s with your sins
that you have killed me
Thinking of your sins I die
Thinking how You’d let them touch you
How you’d never realise
That I’m ripped and hang forsaken
Knowing never will I rise
Again
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Cheating On You
Goodbye girl
Because I’m lonely
Goodbye girl
It isn’t over
Goodbye girl
Because it’s only love
Goodbye girl
You know you own me
Goodbye girl
Yes I’m a loser
Goodbye girl
You know it’s only love
I’m cheating on you
I’m cheating on you
I’m cheating on you
You’re cheating on me
Goodbye girl
You are the only one
Goodbye girl
Although you own me
Goodbye girl
You only owe me love
Goodbye girl
Well, if you’re lonely
Goodbye girl
Why don’t you join me?
Goodbye girl
You know it’s only love
I’m cheating on you
I’m cheating on you
I’m cheating on you
I’m cheating on me
Goodbye girl.
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Some granite wall
Numbs our bones, numbs our all
As we sit on skinny hands
Nothing to say, nothing at all
I don’t know you and I don’t want to
You’re so awkward just like me
But I don’t care
You’re the reason I’m leaving
I ‘d no idea that in four years
I’d be hanging from a beam
behind the door of number ten
Singing fare thee well
I am leaving
Yes I leave it all to you
You’re the reason I’m leaving
As we ride along under an optimistic sun
The radio sings that Everybody song by rem
And Here I Am Fighting Fighting
Yes I’m Fighting not to cry
And that’s another reason
Why I oughtta hate you like I do
Like I do
I’m the reason you’re leaving
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Fresh Strawberries
We are fresh strawberries
Fresh burst of red strawberries
Ripe, turning riper in the bowl
We will soon be rotten
We will all be forgotten
Half remembered rumours of the old
Wouldn’t it be easy with
Something to believe in that could
Give us more
Than here’s my work
So where’s my pay
To buy what I don’t need?
Wouldn’t it be easy to believe?
Thieves believe
Everybody steals
I believe there’s nothing to believe
But I’d love the manual
The instruction manual
Oh, liars
Swear that they never lie
Wouldn’t it be easy with
Something to believe in that could
Give us more
Than here’s my years
So now they’re gone
It’s time for me to leave
Wouldn’t it be easy to believe?
We are fresh strawberries
Fresh burst of red strawberries
Ripe, turning riper – so…
Wouldn’t it be easy?
Something could give us more
But I don’t know
No I don’t know
I don’t know what I need
Wouldn’t it be easy
Couldn’t it be easy
Shouldn’t it be easy
To believe
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Evil Eye
What’s the colour of the next car?
Yeah, RED, ya bastard
I don’t believe in god, but I believe in this shit
Not me
Some fool who dumb dumb do
But not, not, not me
Uh, some people get a freak out of me
Some people can see that I can see
Some people want to see what I see
Some people put an evil eye on me
I have the evil eye
I see your soul
You wear it on your face
It’s worn in what you do
What’s the colour of the next car?
Yeah, RED, ya bastard
I don’t believe in god, but I believe in this shit
Not me
Some fool who dumb dumb do
But not, not, not me
Uh, some people get a freak out of me
It looks so clean
But I can see
The crawling, crawling creatures
Suspended in solution
No, no there’s no solution
Uh, some people get a freak out of me
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Twilight Omens
I wrote your name upon the
Back of my hand
Slept upon it
Then I woke up
With it backwards on my face
Reading forwards from my mirror
To my heart
Twilight omens in my life
Then I hear your name
Hear the radio sing your name
Should I give you a call
What should I say?
Maybe you still feel the same?
I typed your number
Into my calculator
Where it spelled a dirty word
When you turned it upside down
You could turn my dirty world
The bright way round
Twilight omens in my life
Then I heard your name
Heard the radio sing your name
Should I give you a call
What could I say?
Maybe I still feel the same?
Twilight omens in my life
I keep hearing your name
I hear the radio sing your name
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Ulysses
I sit and hear sentimental footsteps, then a voice say hi, so
So what you got? What you got this time? Come on, let’s Get high.
Come on Lexxo what you got next-o? Walking twenty five miles-o
Well I’m bored, I’m bored, come on let’s get high
I’ve found a new way
Come on don’t amuse me
I don’t need your sympathy
La la la Ulysses.
I’ve found a new way.
Am I Ulysses? Am I Ulysses? No, but you are now, boy
So sinister, so sinister but last night was wild
What’s the matter there? Feeling kind of anxious? Feeling that hot blood grow cold?
Yeah everyone everybody knows it everybody knows I
La la la Ulysses.
I’ve found a new way.
Oh then suddenly you know
You’re never going home
No you’re not Ulysses
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Fade Together
So far away
Come on I’ll take you far away
Let’s get away
Come on let’s make a get away
Once you have loved someone this much
you doubt it could fade
despite how much you’d like it to
God how you’d like it to fade
Let’s fade together
If we get away
You know we might just stay away
So stay awake
Why the hell should I stay awake?
When you’re far away
Oh god you are so far away
I looked your wall
Saw that old passport photograph
I look like I’ve just jumped the Berlin Wall
Berlin I love you
I’m starting to fade
Let’s fade together
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Live Alone
I want to live alone
Because the greatest love
Is always ruined by the bickering
The argument of living
So I’m want to live alone
I could be happy on my own
Live the rest of my life
With the vaguest of feeling
Wherever you are
Whoever is there
You know that I’ll be here
Wishing I could be there
So I’m going to live alone
I’m not saying that our love is the greatest
But I’m in love with you
Want to stay in love with you
So I’m going to live alone
Yeah I’ll be happy on my own
Live the rest of a life
In the vaguest of feeling
Wherever you are?
In nyc when
I get in a taxi
I say ‘man’ to the driver so
He’ll think
Man!
I can imagine
having a drink with that guy?
He’s alright?
Wherever you are?
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Can't Stop Feeling
The salt starts stinging again
I can’t stop feeling no
I won’t stop feeling
The fun’s not fun anymore
I can’t stop feeling
No I won’t stop feeling
You leave me here on my own
You leave me here on the floor
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel anymore
Feel Anymore
Feel Anymore
The salt starts stinging again
I can’t stop feeling no
I won’t stop feeling
Although we’re not us anymore
I can’t stop
No I won’t stop
You leave me dancing alone
You leave me to die on the floor
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel anymore
Feel anymore
Feel anymore
Feel anymore
So boy you’re down and alone
Your soul is broken again
But you can’t stop moving
No you won’t stop moving along
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel it
You can’t feel it
You can’t anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
You can’t anymore
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Love Illumination
When you’re half way from a dream
Is it hard to work out what is real?
Is the real over there more vivid than here ever feels?
We could love
We could love you
If you need somebody to love you
While you’re looking for somebody to love
Sweet love illumination
Sweet love revelation
Outside fresh avaricide
But inside our love you’ll be alright
Sweet love illumination
Sweet sweet love celebration
Cop car burn
Reason turn
But inside our love you’ll be alright
Is the Blackpool bright light brighter than the light in your home
Were you born to be loved but nobody else seems to know
We could love
We could love you
If you need somebody to love you
While you’re looking for somebody to love
Sweet love illumination…
We could love
We could love you
If you need somebody to love you
While you’re looking for somebody
We’re all looking for somebody
We’re all looking for somebody to love
Sweet love illumination…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Bite Hard
You don’t know I
sing these songs
about you
You don’t know the pseudonyms I assume
For you
Are you happier now
that the gods are dying?
Or do you dream of
Heston with omniscient beard?
You should be happier now
With no one to pray to
Or would you love to
Break your knees from begging and praying?
BiTE HaRD
It’s a broken smile
That’s breaking their hearts
and breaking their mind
BiTE HaRD
It’s 5.05, your engines alive and
We ride together
BiTE HaRD
I may be lonelier now
But I’m happy alone honest
It ain’t lonely alone
What would we talk about anyway?
Oh I never resort
To kissing your photo - honest
I just had to see
How the chemicals taste there honey
BiTE HaRD
We ride together
We die together
I never
No I never
I just had to
I just had to
See now Honey
BiTE HaRD
It’s a broken smile
That’s breaking their hearts
and breaking their mind
We ride together
We die together
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Do You Want To
When I woke up tonight I said I’m
Going to make somebody love me
I’m going to make somebody love me
Now I know
Now I know
Now I know
That it’s you
You’re lucky lucky you’re so lucky
Well do you
Do you
Do you want to
Want to go where I’d never let you before
Well do you
Do you
Do you want to
Want a go of what I’d never let you before
Well he’s a friend and he’s so proud of you
He’s a friend and I knew him before you
He’s a friend and we’re so proud of you
He’s a friend and I blew him before you
Here we are at the Transmission party
I love your friends – they’re all so arty
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Walk Away
I swapped my innocence for pride
Crushed the end within my stride
Said I’m strong now I know that I’m a leaver
I love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear
And I am cold
Yes, I’m cold
But not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away
Why don’t you walk away?
Why don’t you walk away?
No buildings will fall down
Why don’t you walk away?
No quake will split the ground
Why don’t you walk away?
The sun won’t swallow the sky
Why don’t you walk away?
Statues will not cry
Why don’t you walk away?
I cannot turn to see those eyes
As apologies may rise
I must be strong and stay an unbeliever
And love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds into my eye
I’m not cold
I am old
At least
As old as you are
As you walk away?
As you walk away
My headstone crumbles down
As you walk away
The Hollywood wind’s a howl
As you walk away
The Kremlin’s falling
As you walk away
Radio Four is STATIC
As you walk away
The stab of stiletto
On a silent night
Stalin Smiles
Hitler laughs
Churchill claps
Mao Tse Tung
on the back
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Jacqueline
Jacqueline was seventeen
working on a desk
when Iver
Peered above a spectacle
forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometimes these eyes
Forget the face they peer upon
Well, you know
That face as I do
And how in the return of the gaze
She can return you the face
That you are staring from
It’s always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That’s why we only work when
We need the money
Gregor was down again
Said come on, kick me again
Said I’m so drunk
I don’t mind if you kill me
Come on you gutless
I’m alive
I’m alive
I’m alive
and how I know it
But for chips and for freedom
I could die
It’s always better on holiday…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
The Dark Of The Matinee
You take your white finger
Slide the nail under
the top and bottom buttons
of my blazer
relax the fraying wool
slacken ties and I’m
not to look at you in the shoe
but the eyes find the eyes
find me and follow me
through corridors, refectories and files
you must follow, leave
this academic factory
you will find me in the Matinee
the dark of the Matinee
it’s better in the Matinee
the dark of the Matinee is mine
yes it’s mine
I time every journey
to bump into you
accidentally I
charm you and tell you
of the boys I hate
all the girls I hate
all the words I hate
all the clothes I hate
how I’ll never be anything I hate
you smile, mention something that you like
how you’d have a happy life
if you did the things you like
find me and follow me…
So I’m on BBC2 now
telling Terry Wogan how I made it.
What I made is unclear now
but his deference is
and his laughter is
my words and smile are so easy now
yes, it’s easy now
yes, it’s easy now
find me and follow me…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Stand On The Horizon
How can I tell you I was wrong?
How can I tell you I was wrong?
When I am
The proudest man
Ever born
I stand on the horizon
I want to step across it with you
But when the sun’s this low
Everything’s cold
On the line of the horizon
Come to me
Oh won’t you come to me
How can I tell you I was wrong?
How can I tell you I was wrong?
When I am
The cruellest man
Ever born
I stand on the horizon
I want to step across it with you
But when the sun is this low
Everything’s gold
On the line of the horizon
In South Shields Metro station
I heard Marsden Rock was breaking
The North Sea shaking
All that we know
To make us see the point of living
Is to live
So won’t you come to me
The North Sea sings
“Won’t you come to me baby?”
The North Sea singing
“Won’t you come to me?”
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Evil and a Heathen
Words fall from our mouths
Like plates from shaking hands
Smash upon the silence
Of the smooth naked canal
I’m evil and a heathen
I’m a heathen and evil like you
There’s not a lot I couldn’t do
I like how you pretend
That the end will be the end
So fill your thirst
Drink a curse
To the death of death instead
I’m evil and a heathen
I’m a heathen and evil like you
There’s not a lot I wouldn’t do
Utrecht led me to the Sacre Coeur
Where the smoke curled round
Now the ice blows of Lake Michigan
When the Ice blows
The Ice Flow knocks you
Your teeth are black with wine
As you place those lips on mine
The moon hangs heavy and forbidden high
On the **** night of our lives
I’m evil and a heathen
I’m a heathen and evil like you
There’s not a lot we couldn’t do
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
40'
As I glance once upon the foam
40’ beneath my feet
The coldest calm falls
through the molten veins
Cooling all the blood to slush
that congeals around the brain
la la la
40’ REMAIN
Salt scales upon my drying arms
Burn my back beneath the sun
But I am cold beneath the burning rays
Looking down, looking down
Down, down again
la la la
40’ REMAIN
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
This Fire
Eyes
Boring a way through me
Paralyse
Controlling completely
Now
There is a fire in me
Fire that burns
Fire that burns
This fire is out of control
I’m going to burn this city
Burn this city
If this fire is out of control
Then I
I’m out of control
and I burn
Eyes
Burning a way to me
Overwhelm
Destroying so sweetly
Now
There is a fire in me
Fire that burns
Fire that burns
This fire…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
The Fallen
So they say you’re trouble boy
Because you like to destroy
All the things that bring idiots joy
Well what’s wrong with a little destruction?
And the Kunst won’t talk to you
Because you kissed St Rollox Adieu
Because you robbed a supermarket or two
Well, who gives a damn about the prophets of Tesco?
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
For the fallen are the virtuous among us
Walk among us
Never judge us
Yeah we’re all…
Up now and get ‘em boy
Up now and get ‘em boy
Drink to the devil and death to the doctors
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
5000 users fed today
as you feed us
won’t you lead us
to be blessed
So we stole and drank champagne
On the seventh seal you said you never feel pain
“I never feel pain, won’t you hit me again?”
“I need a bit of Black and Blue to be a Rotation”
In my blood I felt bubbles burst
There was a flash of fist an eyebrow burst
You’ve a lazy laugh and a red white shirt
I fall to the floor fainting at the sight of blood
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
Be they Magdelen or virgin you’ve already been
You’ve already been and we’ve already seen
That the fallen are the virtuous among us
Walk among us
Never judge us to be blessed
So I’m sorry if I ever resisted
I never had a doubt that you ever existed
I only have a problem when people insist on
Taking their hate and placing it on your name
So they say you’re troubled boy
Just because you like to destroy
You are the word - the word is Destroy
I break this bottle and think of you fondly
Did I see you in a limousine
Flinging out the fish and the unleavened
To the whore in a hostel
Or the scum of a scheme
Turn the rich into wine
Walk on the mean
It’s not a jag in the arm
It’s a nail in the beam
On this Barren Earth
You scatter your seed
Be they Magdelen or Virgin
You’ve already been
Yeah you’ve already been
We’ve already seen
That the fallen are the virtuous among us
Walk among us
If you judge us
We’re all damned
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Treason! Animals
Hey friends when will you get here?
Hey friends I need to hear voices
I don’t care what you talk about
Hey friends I just need to hear voices
Could you bring the manual
Bring the repair manual
Something has really gone wrong here
I’m the king of the animals
I’m the king of the trees and animals
Self-crowned king of the trees and the animals
I’m a king so give me a crown
I am an animal
Give me an animal crown
Hey friends when will you get here?
Hey friends this is my kingdom
This is a tree
This is an animal
Ask any one of them
And they daren’t deny it
Ask any one of them
And they daren’t deny it
No don’t you dare deny it
This is my tree
This is my animal
But something has really gone wrong
I’m the king of the animals…
I am an animal, oh give me an animal crown (x infinity)
I’m in love with a narcissist - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with my nemesis - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with a narcissist - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with my pharmacist - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with a narcissist - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with my analyst - I know for the mirror told me
I’m in love with my nemesis - I know for the mirror told me
Hey friends when will you get here?
Hey friends I need to hear voices
I don’t care what you talk about
Hey friends I just need to hear voices
Something has really gone wrong
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Brief Encounters
We are bored
We are married
We are young
On the edge of the city
The edge of Ambrosia
Rolls upon rolls upon
Rolls upon the tongue
A certain party
A certain cul-de-sac
A certain outcome
A certain piece of me
Car keys choose your keys
Outside alone
Crossing a perfect lawn
Could it be you
Could it be you
Or could it be
This is what freedom is?
We are brief encounters
We all lose our keys
We all choose our partners
We all choose our keys
Car keys choose your keys
Pull back
Pull back
Into the drive
Rigid in the matrimonial superking bed
Pretend to sleep
Pretend to sleep
Come on pretend
Yeah, lets pretend
We are brief encounters…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
This Boy
It seems this boy’s bathed in ridicule
Too forward, way too physical
It’s time that I had another
I’m always wanting more if there’s another one
Give me some more I’ll have another one
I’ll have a slice of your mother
This boy is so spectacular
Not a boy but a wealthy bachelor
I want a car
I want a car
I see losers losing everywhere
If I lose it’ll only be the damn I give for another
I am complete, invincible
If I have one set principle
Then it’s to stand on You, brother
This boy is so spectacular
Not a boy but a wealthy bachelor
I want a car
I want a car
If I like cocaine I’m racing you
For organic fresh Echinacia
One kick’s as good as another
If tired I’m tired of telling you
I’m never tired I’m always better than you
This boy is so spectacular
Not a boy but a wealthy bachelor
I want a car
I want a car
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Eleanor Put Your Boots On
Eleanor put those boots back on
Kick the heels into the Brooklyn dirt
I know it isn’t dignified to run
But if you run
You can run to the Coney Island rollercoaster
Ride to the highest point and leap across the filthy water
Leap until the Gulf Stream’s brought you down
I could be there when you land
So Eleanor take a Greenpoint three-point turn
Towards the hidden sun
You know you are so elegant when you run
Oh if you run
You can run to that statue with the dictionary
Climb to her fingernail and
Leap, yeah take an atmospheric leap
Let the jet stream set you down
I could be there when you land
So Eleanor put those boots back on
Put the boots back on and run
Come on over here
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
The Universe Expanded
I’ll give you each love letter back
We’ll laugh before every joke is told
We’ll pose after every photograph
Has been removed from the negative
(indistinct muttering)
With every smile we lose a line
Watch the stars fall back into the sky
Cork the wine
Unbake a cake
Take the dog back to the RSPCA
But I don’t mind losing you this time
I’ll meet you coming backwards
I’ll meet you coming back
When the universe has expanded
Time will contract
You’ll come back
I’ll meet you coming backwards
Next time
We make-up start an argument
Tears crawl back into your…
I turn from a friend
Of your friend
Unintroduced
Forget your name forevermore
But I don’t mind losing you this time
I’ll meet you coming backwards…
Yes I’ll meet you coming back
But we move forwards
Into emptiness
Into the void
Into the universe
We’ll part as happy strangers
From a long friendship
That grew from
Such a love
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Bullet
While I’m away
You can let the mouse go down on you
Let the mouse do what I’d do
If I was there
But you’d better explain
That I have vendetta in my narrow bones
And a vindictive eye
Of my jealousy I have no control
No control
I’ll never get your bullet out of my head now
How can I get your bullet out of my head now
I have no control
But I try
Yes I try
So I’d better explain that I have a
Red vendetta in my narrow bones
A wicked indicative eye
Of my yellow jealousy I have no control
No control
I’ll never get your bullet…
Get out of my head
Get out of my head now
Get out of my mind
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Michael
This is where I’ll be
so heavenly
so come and dance with me Michael
So sexy, you’re sexy
come and dance with me Michael
I’m all that you see, you want to see
come and dance with me Michael
so close now so close now
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
Michael you’re the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, stickyhips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael you’re the only one I’d ever want
only one I’d everwant only one I’d ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance-floor
Michael you’re dancing like a beautiful dance-whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now…
and nothing matters now
This is what I am, I am a man
come and dance with me Michael
so strong now, it’s strong now
come and dance with me Michael
I’m all that you’ll be, you’ll ever see
so come and dance with me, Michael
So close now. You’re close now.
Come and dance with me. Comeanddancewithme.
Michael you’re the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair. Sticky lips. Stubble on my sticky hips.
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance-floor
Michael you’re dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
and nothing matters now
Lucid Dreams
I’m going to give my aimless love
My angry heart and my desire
I woke with wings from lucid dreams
Knew the reason I felt hollow
Was that I no longer cared
If there is some great truth or not
I’ll dream a nation of you
A new utopia for you to live in
I’ll dream a nation of me
A new ambrosia that we could live in
Lucid dreams
I’m living in Lucid Dreams
The sweep slides on my stereo
Short wave ride my rodeo
Beat came from Addis Abylon
I’m flying to Istanbul
Oh so why don’t you meet me there?
I’ll dream a nation of you
A new utopia for you to live in
I’ll dream a nation of me
Another Narnia where we can live it
Lucid dreams
I’m living in Lucid Dreams
Lucid dreams
I’m living in Lucid Dreams
I’m living on shortwave streams tonight
Aaah!
Lucid dreams
I’m living in Lucid Dreams
I’m living on shortwave streams tomight
AAH
I’m living in Lucid Dreams
Uh huh yeah
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better
The last message you sent
Said I looked really down
That I oughtta come over
And talk about it
Well I wasn’t down
I just wasn’t smiling at you
As I look at us now it seems
That your slapping my back
as if it’s al alright
but it’s not
I’m trying to get up
But you’re pushing me down
Yeah you’re pushing me down
So I’ll get on my own
Now there’s some grinning goon
On my TV screen
Telling us all that
It’s alright because
She wears this and
He said that and
If you get some of these
It’ll all be alright
Yeah if you get some of these
It’ll all be alright
Well I refuse
To be a cynical goon
Passing the masses
An easy answer
Because it won’t be alright
Oh no it won’t be alright
It won’t be alright
Unless you get up
Come on and get up
Well I’m just a voice in your earpiece
Telling you no
It’s not alright
You know you could have it so much better
You could have it so much better
If you tried
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Katherine Kiss Me
Katherine kiss me
Slippy little lips will split me
Split me where your eye won’t hit me
Yes I love you
I mean I
I’d love to get to know you
Sometimes I say the stupid things I think
I mean I
Sometimes I think the stupidest things
Oh and do you ever wonder
How the boy feels
Katherine kiss me
Flick your cigarette then kiss me
Flick your eyes at mine so briefly
Your leather jacket lies in sticky pools of cider blackberry
You glance a ricochet from every alpha male behind me
Eyes like marbles on a washing machine
Oh and do you ever wonder
How the boy feels
Katherine kiss me
In the alleyway by jakeys
Jacking in the sodium light
Yes I love you
I mean I
I mean I need to love
And though your open eyes stare bored upon
The overflowing pipes above me
Tonight
I don’t mind
Because I never wonder
How the girl feels
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
I'm Your Villain
You toss in a word
I’m your villain
I see the passion emerge
I’m your villain
But serious
You’re so serious
Like a waiter
Hating the rich
But taking their tips
If I could laugh I’d love you
If I could smile at anything you said
We could be laughing lovers
I think you’d prefer to be miserable instead
If I could love I’d love you
If I could love like anybody else
I know what I am
I’m your villain
I don’t give a damn if
I’m your villain
Because serious
You’re so serious
But I’ve got ready salted
ready on your belly
If you want to have fun
See you later
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
What She Came For
I got a question for you
Where’d you get your name from?
Where’d you get your name from?
Where’d you get your name from?
I got a question for you
Where do you see yourself in five minutes time?
With a laugh like that
Or a look like that
You make us all feel gauche
Like it’s a smutty joke
With a laugh like that
With a look like that
Make us all just go
La la la la
Whoah Look Out
You’re what she came for.
You’re what she came for.
No Question.
No Doubt.
Whoah Look Out
You’re what she came for.
She knows what she came for.
Your Question?
No Doubt.
You’re what she came for
I got a question for you
Another question for you
Do you feel the
Do you feel the pressure?
Why you wearing what you wearing?
Where will your life begone
In five minutes time?
So say something stupid
You know that you’d love to
With a laugh like that
With a look like that
Make us all just go
La la la la
Whoah Look Out
You’re what she came for.
You’re what she came for.
No Question.
No Doubt.
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Send Him Away
La la la la
Baby can’t you let me stay tonight?
I can’t seem
To feel the envy
I should feel
Or maybe
I don’t need
The sour side
Of love
I don’t care his breath is in your hair
I don’t care his skin is still between
The still-warm fold of your sheets
Send him away
I don’t need
To claim or own you
Or maybe
I would like to
But I need
Whatever side
Of love
Is there
I don’t care his breath is in your hair
I don’t care his skin is still between
The still-warm fold of your sheets
From the fold of your sheets
Send him away
Can’t you let me stay tonight?
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Tell Her Tonight
I only watched her walk, but she saw it
I only heard her talk, but she saw it
I only touched her lips, but she saw it
I only kissed her lips, but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight…
She only blinked her eyes, but I saw it
She only swung her hair, but I saw it
She only shook her hips, but I saw it
She only licked her lips, but I saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight…
Have to tell her. Tell her tonight, yeah.
I only watched her walk, but she saw it
I only heard her talk, but she saw it
I only touched her hips, but she saw it
I only kissed her lips, but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight…
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Goodbye Lovers & Friends
Don’t play pop music
You know I hate pop music
Just sing amazing godless grace
Don’t wear bright colours
You know I hate bright colours
I never liked you for the way you dressed
Anyway
Goodbye lovers and friends
So sad to leave you
When they lie and say
“This is not the end”
you can laugh as if
we’re still together
you can laugh about it all
I hope you didn’t bring flowers
Hope you didn’t write a poem
Hope you remember every fight
I know I could be noxious
Or occasionally cruel
But only to the ones
I loved
Goodbye lovers and friends…
Don’t get inventory
Don’t fake your memory
Don’t give me virtues that I never had
Don’t get sychophantal
We never were sentimental
I know I took more than I ever gave
I don’t need to be forgiven
But a moment from the living
That’s the only thing I ask
Goodbye lovers and friends…
…you can laugh as if
we’re still together
but this really is the end
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Darts Of Pleasure
You are the latest contender
You are the one to remember
You are the villain who sends a
Line of dark fantastic passion
I know that you will surrender
I know that you will surrender
I want this fantastic passion
Will have fantastic passion
You can feel my lips undress your eyes
undress your eyes undress your eyes
Words of love and words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Die and so you die
You are the latest contender
You’re an emotion avenger
You are the devil that sells a
line of dark fantastic passion
I know that you will surrender
I know that you will surrender
I want this fantastic passion
Will have fantastic passion
You can feel my lips undress your eyes
Undress your eyes undress your eyes
Skin can feel my lips they tingle
tense anticipation
This one is an easy one
Feel the word and melt upon it
Words of love and words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Die. So I die.
Ich heisse super fantastische
Ich Trinke champers mit lachsfisch
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Right Action
Come home practically all is nearly forgiven
Right thoughts
Right words
Right action
Almost everything could be forgotten
Right thoughts
Right words
Right action
How can we leave you
To a Saturday night or a Sunday Morning?
Good morning.
This time, same as before, love you forever
Right thoughts
Right words
Right action
Sometimes, wish you were here, weather permitting
Right thoughts
Right words
Right action
How can we leave you
To a Saturday night or a Sunday Morning?
Good morning.
11 Chalcot Gardens England’s Lane Hampstead London
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
What You Meant
As I took step number four
Into the close of your tenement
You cast your darkened eyes so low
Said we’re cold as the step cement
But I just don’t know what you meant
So Alec you may want a pill
We are so cruel and to communicate
Without the red stuff being spilled
We must MDMA our sentiment
But I just don’t know what you meant
If we were feckless we’d be fine
Sucking hard on our innocence
But we’ve been bright in our decline
Been left as blackened filament
But I just don’t know what you meant
‘cause I feel blood inside the vein
I feel life inside the ligament
I feel alive yeah just the same
Same vigour and the same intent
So I just don’t know if that’s what you meant
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Come On Home
Although my lover lives
In a place that I can’t live
I kind of find I like a life
This lonely
It rips and pierces me
In places I can’t see
I love the rip of nerves
The rip that wakes me
So come on home
I’m where I want to be
You’re where you want to be
Come on we’re chasing
everything we’ve ever wanted
I replace you easily
Replace pathetically
I flirt with every flighty thing
that falls my way
But how I needed you
When I needed you
Let’s not forget
We are so strong
So bloody strong
So come on home
Blue light falls
Upon your perfect skin
Falls and you draw back again
Falls and this is how I fell
I cannot forget
I cannot forget
Come on home
Come on home
But don’t forget to leave
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
Franz Ferdinand@franzferdinand
No You Girls
Kiss me
Flick your cigarette and then kiss me
Kiss me where your eye won’t meet me
Meet me where your mind won’t kiss me
Flick your eyes at mine then hit me
Hit me with your eyes so sweetly
You know you know you know that
Yes I love you I mean I’d
Love to get to know you
But do you never wonder?
No?
No you girls never know
how you make a boy feel
how you make a boy
Oh
Kiss me
Yeah oh Flick your cigarette n then kiss me
Kiss me where your eye won’t meet me
Meet me where your eye won’t flick me
Flick your mind at mine so briefly
Oh you know you know you’re so sweetly
Ooh you know I know you know that
I love you I mean I
I mean I need to love
But do you ever wonder?
No?
No you girls never know
how you make a boy feel
how you make a boy
Sometimes I say the stupid things I think
I mean I
Sometimes I think the stupidest things
Because I never wonder
how the girls feels
No you boys never care
You dirty boys’ll never care
How the girl feels