ARCTIC MONKEYS LYRICS

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2 "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" (2005) [Verse] Stop making the eyes at me, I'll stop making my eyes at you. What it is that surprises me is that I don't really want you to And your shoulders are frozen (as cold as the night) Oh, but you're an explosion (you're dynamite) Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand and lighting The fuse might result in a bang b-b-bang-go [Chorus] Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets Are just banging tunes and DJ sets and... Dirty dance floors, and dreams of naughtiness! Well, [Chorus] [Chorus:] I bet that you look good on the dance floor I don't know if you're looking for romance or... Don't know what you're looking for I said I bet that you look good on the dance floor Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984 Well, from 1984! [Verse] I wish you'd stop ignoring me because it's sending me to despair, Without a sound yeah you're calling me and I don't think it's very fair That your shoulders are frozen (as cold as the night) Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite) Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand and lighting The fuse might result in a bang with a bang-go

3 "When The Sun Goes Down" (2006) I said, "Who's that girl there?" I wonder what went wrong So that she had to roam the streets She don't do major credit cards I doubt she does receipts It's all not quite legitimate And what a scummy man Just give him half a chance I bet he'll rob you if he can Can see it in his eyes, Yeah, that he's got a driving ban Amongst some other offences And I've seen him with girls of the night And he told Roxanne to put on her red light They're all infected but he'll be alright 'Cause he's a scumbag, don't you know? I said he's a scumbag, don't you know? Although you're trying not to listen Avert your eyes and staring at the ground She makes a subtle proposition, "I'm sorry, love, I'll have to turn you down" He must be up to something What are the chances? Sure it's more than likely I've got a feeling in my stomach I start to wonder what his story might be What his story might be, yeah Around here Around here Look here comes a Ford Mondeo Isn't he Mister Inconspicuous? And he don't even have to say 'owt She's in the stance ready to get picked up Bet she's delighted when she sees him Pulling in and giving her the eye Because she must be fucking freezing Scantily clad beneath the clear night sky it doesn't stop in the winter, no and they said it changes when the sun goes down yeah, they said it changes when the sun goes down and they said it changes when the sun goes down Around here Well, they said it changes when the sun goes down Over the river going out of town and they said it changes when the sun goes down Around here Around here and what a scummy man Just give him half a chance I bet he'll rob you if he can Can see it in his eyes that he's got a nasty plan I hope you're not involved at all. 'Cause they said it changes when the sun goes down Yeah, they said it changes when the sun goes down They said it changes when the sun goes down

4 "Leave Before The Lights Come On" (2006) Well this is a good idea, He wouldn't do it if it wasn't, He wouldn't do it if it wasn't one. Well my friend fancies you, Oh what a way to begin it all, You said, "It's always exciting words to hear" And we woke up together not quite realising how, Awkwardly stretching and yawning, Its always hard in the morning, And I suppose that's the price you pay, Well oh it isn't what it was, She's thinking he looks different today, And now there's nothing left to guess now, And I suppose that's the price you pay, Well oh it isn't what it was, She's thinking he looks different today, And now there's nothing left to guess now, Quick, let's leave, before the lights come on, 'Cos then you don't have to see, 'Cos then you don't have to see, What you've done... Quick, let's leave, before the lights come on, 'Cos then you don't have to see, 'Cos then you don't have to see, What you've done... I'll walk you up, what time's the bus come? [repeat] You left before the lights came on, Because they didn't want to ruin, What it was that was brewing, Before they absolutely had to, And how can you wake up, With someone you don't love? And not feel slightly fazed by it, Oh, he had a struggle, And they woke up together not quite realising how, Awkwardly stretching and yawning, It's always hard in the morning,

5 "Fluorescent Adolescent" (2007) You used to get it in your fishnets Now you only get it in your night dress Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness Landed in a very common crisis Everything's in order in a black hole Nothing seems as pretty as the past though That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco Remember when he used to be a rascal? Oh that boy's a slag The best you ever had The best you ever had is just a memory And those dreams weren't as daft as they seem Not as daft as they seem, My love, when you dream them up... Flicking through a little book of sex tips Remember when the boys were all electric? Now when she tells she's gonna get it I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it Clinging to not getting sentimental Said she wasn't going but she went still Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil? Oh, Flo, where did you go? Where did you go? Where did you go? Whoa. [2x] Falling about You took a left off Last Laugh Lane You just sounded it out You're not coming back again. You used to get it in your fishnets Now you only get it in your night dress (falling about) Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness Landed in a very common crisis (you took a left off Last Laugh Lane) Everything's in order in a black hole Everything was pretty in the past though (you were just sounding it out) That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco Remember when he used to be a rascal? (you're not coming back again) Oh that boy's a slag The best you ever had The best you ever had is just a memory And those dreams weren't as daft as they seem Not as daft as they seem, My love, when you dream them up

6 "Crying Lightning" (2009) Outside the café by the cracker factory You were practicing a magic trick And my thoughts got rude As you talked and chewed On the last of your pick'n'mix Said, "You're mistaken if you're thinking that I haven't been called 'cold' before" As you bit into your strawberry lace And offered me your attention in the form of a gobstopper It's all you had left and it was going to waste Your pasttimes consisted of the strange And twisted and deranged And I loved that little game you had called "Crying Lightning" And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons And I hate that little game you had called "Crying Lightning" And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoons Uninviting But not half as impossible as everyone assumes You are crying lightning Your past times consisted of the strange Twisted and deranged And I hate that little game you had called "Crying Lightning" "Crying Lightning" "Crying Lightning" "Crying Lightning" Your past times consisted of the strange, And twisted and deranged And I hate that little game you had called "Crying..." The next time that I caught my own reflection It was on its way to meet you Thinking of excuses to postpone You never looked like yourself from the side But your profile could not hide The fact you knew I was approaching your throne With folded arms you occupied the bench like toothache Stood and puffed your chest out like you'd never lost a war And though I tried so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw And your past times consisted of the strange And twisted and deranged

7 "Suck It And See" (2011) Your love is like a studded leather headlock Your kiss it could put creases in the rain You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock And those other girls are just postmix lemonade Suck it and see, you never know Sit next to me before I go Go, go, go Jigsaw women with horror movie shoes Be cruel to me cause I'm a fool for you Suck it and see you never know Sit next to me before I go Jigsaw women with horror movie shoes Be cruel to me cause I'm a fool for you I poured my aching heart into a pop song I couldn't get the hang of poetry That's not a skirt girl that's a sawn off shotgun And I can only hope you've got it aimed at me Suck it and see you never know Sit next to me before I go Jigsaw women with horror movie shoes Be cruel to me cause I'm a fool for you Blue moon girls from once upon a Shangri-La How I often wonder where you are You have got that face that just says "Baby, I was made to break your heart"

8 R U Mine? (2012) I'm a puppet on a string Tracy Island, time-traveling Diamond could've shaped heartaches Come to find you four in some velvet morning Years too late She's a silver lining lone ranger riding Through an open space In my mind when she's not right there beside me I go crazy 'cause here isn't where I wanna be And satisfaction feels like a distant memory And I can't help myself, All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine?" Well, are you mine? Are you mine? Are you mine? I guess what I'm trying to say is I need the deep end Keep imagining meeting, wished away entire lifetimes Unfair we're not somewhere misbehaving for days Great escape lost track of time and space She's a silver lining climbing on my desire Well, are you mine? (are you mine tomorrow?) Are you mine? (or just mine tonight?) Are you mine? (are you mine? Mine?) And the thrill of the chase moves in mysterious ways So in case I'm mistaken, I just wanna hear you say you got me baby Are you mine? She's a silver lining lone ranger riding through an open space In my mind when she's not right there beside me I go crazy cause here isn't where I wanna be And satisfaction feels like a distant memory And I can't help myself, All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine?" Well, are you mine? (are you mine tomorrow?) Are you mine? (or just mine tonight?) Are you mine? (are you mine tomorrow, or just mine tonight?) And I go crazy 'cause here isn't where I wanna be And satisfaction feels like a distant memory And I can't help myself, All I wanna hear her say is "Are you mine?"

9 "Arabella" (2013) Arabella's got some interstellagator skin boots And a helter skelter around her little finger and I ride it endlessly She's got a Barbarella silver swimsuit And when she needs a shelter from reality she takes a dip in my daydreams My days end best when this sunset gets itself Behind that little lady sitting on the passenger side It's much less picturesque without her catching the light The horizon tries but it's just not as kind on the eyes As Arabella, oh As Arabella Just might have tapped into your mind and soul You can't be sure As Arabella, oh As Arabella Just might have tapped into your mind and soul You can't be sure That's magic in a cheetah print coat Just a slip underneath it I hope Asking if I can have one of those Organic cigarettes that she smokes Wraps her lips round the Mexican coke Makes you wish that you were the bottle Takes a sip of your soul and it sounds like... Just might have tapped into your mind and soul You can't be sure Arabella's got a 70s head But she's a modern lover It's an exploration, she's made of outer space And her lips are like the galaxy's edge And a kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place My days end best when this sunset gets itself Behind that little lady sitting on the passenger side It's much less picturesque without her catching the light The horizon tries but it's just not as kind on the eyes

10 "One For The Road" (2014) One for the road, ooh ooh One for the road, ooh ooh From the bottom of your heart The relegation zone I saw this coming from the start The shake, rattle and roll The cracks in blackout blinds Cast patterns on the ceiling but you're feeling fine I thought it was dark outside I thought it was dark outside So we all go back to yours and you sit and talk to me on the floor There's no need to show me round baby, I feel like I've been in here before I've been wondering whether later when you tell everybody to go, Will you pour me one for the road? I've been wondering whether later when you tell everybody to go, Will you pour me one for the road? The mixture hits you hard Don't get that sinking feeling, don't fall apart Some out of tune guitar Soundtrack to disaster Ooh ooh, one for the road Ooh ooh, one for the road Ooh ooh, one for the road Ooh ooh, one for the road So we all go back to yours and you sit and talk to me on the floor There's no need to show me round baby, I feel like I've been in here before I've been wondering whether later when you tell everybody to go, Will you pour me one for the road? I knew this would be on the cards I knew you wouldn't fold I saw this coming from the start The shake, rattle and roll One for the road, ooh ooh So we all go back to yours and you sit and talk to me on the floor There's no need to show me round baby, I feel like I've been in here before

11 "Snap Out Of It" (2014) What's been happening in your world? What have you been up to? I heard that you fell in love Or near enough I gotta tell you the truth I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake baby I get the feeling I left it too late, but baby If that watch don't continue to swing or the fat lady fancies having a sing I'll be here waiting ever so patiently for you to Snap out of it Under a spell you're hypnotized Darling how could you be so blind? (Snap out of it) Under a spell you're hypnotized Darling how could you be so blind? I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake baby I get the feeling I left it too late, but baby If that watch don't continue to swing or the fat lady fancies having a sing I'll be here waiting ever so patiently for you to Snap out of it Forever isn't for everyone Is forever for you? It sounds like settling down or giving up But it don't sound much like you girl I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake baby I get the feeling I left it too late, but baby If that watch don't continue to swing or the fat lady fancies having a sing I'll be here waiting ever so patiently for you to Snap out of it