LYRICS / franz ferdinand

| 40 Ft
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

As I glanced once upon the foam
40 feet beneath my feet
The coldest calm falls through the molten veins
Cooling all the blood to slush, congeals around the brain

And forty feet 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

And forty feet remain
 

| Auf Achse
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and 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 you'd never come back here again
Oh, never come back here again

You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and 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

And 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 I will rise again

 
You see her
You hear her
You want her
You want to

You see her
You still hear her
You want her
You still want to

| Cheating On You
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

Goodbye girl, because I'm lonely
Goodbye girl, it isn't over
Goodbye girl, because it's only love

Goodbye girl, you know you want me
Goodbye girl, yes I'm a loser
Goodbye girl, you know its only love

I'm cheating on you
You're cheating on me

Goodbye girl, you are the only one
Goodbye girl, I know you want me
Goodbye girl, you are the only love, yeah

Goodbye girl, now if you're lonely
Goodbye girl, why don't you join me?
Goodbye girl, you know its only love

I'm cheating on you
I'm cheating on me

Watch out
Watch out
Cheating on you
Goodbye girl

| Come On Home
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

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 I'm dissatisfied, I love dissatisfied
I love to feel there's always more that I need

So come on home

You're where you want to be, I'm where I want to be
Caught up chasing everything I've ever wanted
I replace you easily, replace pathetically
I flirt with any 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

Come on home

Blue light falls upon your perfect skin
Falls, and you draw back again
Falls, and this is how I fell
And I can not forget this
And I can not forget this

Come on home
So come on home
But don't forget to leave
 

| Darts of Pleasure
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

You are the latest contender
You are the one to remember
You are the villain
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
We'll have fantastic passion

You can feel my lips undress your eyes
Undress your eyes, undress your eyes
Words of love, words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Tied and so you die

 
You are the latest adventure
You're an emotional 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
We'll 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 was an easy one, feel the word and melt upon it
Words of love, words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Tied and so you die

Ich heiße superfantastisch
Ich trinke Schampus mit Lachsfisch
Ich heiße superfantastisch...
 

| Jacqueline
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
When Ivor peered above her spectacle
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometime these eyes
Forget the face they're peering from
When 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

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
Yeah, 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
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money

It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money

It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money

| Michael
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

This is where I'll be, so heavenly
So come and dance with me Michael
So sexy, I'm sexy
So come and dance with me Michael

I'm all that you see, you wanna see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, so close now
So come and dance with me

Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want

Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
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
So come and dance with me Michael
So strong now, it's strong now
So come and dance with me Michael

I'm all that you see, you you wanna see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, it's close now
So come and dance with me

Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want

Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now

Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want

Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now

| Take Me Out
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

So if you're lonely
You know I'm here waiting for you
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered I lie
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot then we can die

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

I say you don't show
Don't move, time is slow
I say take me out

I say you don't know
You say you don't go
I say take me out

If I move, this could die
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 can die
If I wane, this can 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
 

| Tell Her Tonight
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

I only held her hand but she saw it
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only touched her neck 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

You'll have to tell her
You tell her tonight
I'll have to tell her
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 hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight

You have to tell her
You tell her tonight

| The Dark Of The Matinee
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

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
The clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
Oh, how you'd have a happy life
If you did the things you like

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

So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
And 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 through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee

Well, 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
 

| This Fire
(Kapranos, McCarthy, Hardy, Thomson)

Eyes, boring a way through me
Paralyse, controlling completely
Now there is a fire in me
A fire that burns

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn it
I'll burn it
I'll burn it down

Eyes, burning a way through me
Overwhelm, destroying so sweetly
Now, there is a fire within me
A fire that burns

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city

This fire is out of control
Then I, I'm out of control
And I burn
Oh, how I burn

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city