The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement



Tracklisting:

01. The Age Of The Understatement

02. Standing Next To Me

03. Calm Like You

04. Separate and Ever Deadly

05. The Chamber

06. Only The Truth

07. My Mistakes Were Made For You

08. Black Plant

09. I Don't Like You Any More

10. In My Room

11. Meeting Place

12. The Time Has Come Again




The Age of the Understatement



Decided to sneak up away from your stomach

And try your pulse

And captured

What seemed all unknowing and candid

But they suspected it was false



She's playful,

The boring would warn you be careful

Of her brigade

In order to tame this relentless marauder

Move away from the parade



And she was walking on the tables in the glass house,

Endearingly bedraggled in the wind,

Subtle in her method of seduction,

Twenty little tragedies begin



And she would throw a feather boa in the road,

If she thought that it would set the scene,

Unfittingly dipped into your companions

Enlighten them to make you see



And there's affection to rent,

The age of the understatement

Before the attraction ferments

Kiss me properly and pull me apart



Affection to rent the age of the understatement

Before this attraction ferments

Kiss me properly and pull me apart



Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



And my fingers scratch at my hair

Before my mind can get too reckless

The idea of seeing you here

Is enough to make the sweat go cold



Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh





Standing Next to Me



Want her have her

Two years have gone now

But I can't relate to the never-ending games that you play

As desire passes through

Then you'll open to the truth

I hope you understand



And your love is standing next to me

Is standing next to me



The one you fell for

Makes it seemed you deny

And you laugh at yourself again and again

And you'll drink to the thoughts

She'll remember you maybe tomorrow



And your love is standing next to me

Is standing next to me



And your love is standing next to me

Is standing next to me

Is standing next to me

Is standing next to me.



Want her have her

Two years have gone now

But I can't relate to the never-ending games that you play

As desire passes through

Then you'll open to the truth

I hope you understand



And you love is standing next to me

Is standing next to me



And you love is standing next to me

Is standing next to me

Is standing next to me

Is standing next to me.




Calm Like You



I can still remember when your city smelt exciting

I still get a whiff of that aroma now and then

Burglary and fireworks

The skies they were alighting

Accidents and toffee drops and thinking on the train



Oh, he was young, in the frost

No regard for the cost of saying his feelings

In the moment they were felt

And if he was calm like you

Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know for well

That all he had to say was

All he had to say was goodbye



Summertime made promises it knew it couldn't keep

The fairytale was climbing up a mountain far too steep

Colouring the pictures

With your loyal hand

Now I am craving heartbreak while you're making your demands



Oh, he was young, in the frost

No regard for the cost of saying his feelings

In the moment they were felt

And if he was calm like you

Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know for well

That all he had to say was

All he had to say was goodbye



If he was calm like you

Locked up inside of your loops then he'd know for well

That all he had to say was

All he had to say was goodbye





Separate and Ever Deadly



When we walked the streets together

All the faces seemed to smile back,

And now the pavements have nothing to offer

And all the faces seem to need a slap



There's an unfamiliar grip on an unfamiliar handkerchief

Attending to the tears on cheeks I wouldn't notice

With you no matter how vicious the grief

Her expression was damp and crooked

Grabs onto my throat and won't let go



Won't let go

Won't let go

Won't let go



Save me from

The secateurs

I'll pretend

I didn't hear

Can't you see

I'm the ghost in the wrong coat

Biting butter and crumbs



There's a handsome maverick you don't talk about to keep me calm

And I can't help but try create diversion

Pulls you back onto his arm



Please don't tell me

You don't have to darling I can sense

That he painted you a gushing sunset

And slayed their pink panthers in your defence

He stands separate and ever deadly

Clings onto my throat and won't let go



Won't let go

Won't let go

Won't let go



Save me from

The secateurs

I'll pretend

I didn't hear

Can't you see

I'm a ghost in the wrong coat

Biting butter and crumbs





The Chamber



Leave yourself alone

Leave yourself alone

(Leave yourself alone)

Can't you see

You're only here to be torn apart

Based upon

And nothing else



So leave yourself alone

Leave yourself alone

Tell your wasted time

Tell your wasted time

Tell your wasted time

That I am worse



And I would wish they'd all

Give him a chance

I owe apologies

So tell your wasted time

Tell your wasted time



It's torture

Locked inside the chamber



Cornered by yourself

Cornered by yourself

(Cornered by yourself)

You must admit

That you are the instigator

Hanging on to arguements



And your cornered by yourself

Cornered by yourself



It's torture

Locked inside the chamber

Lost inside the chamber

Locked inside the chamber





Only The Truth



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



The way she walks is scripted and taught

Don't give her an eye or she'll sniper your mind

See by her hand, she's been there before

She lifts up the glass as she brings down the mask



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



Climbing the stairs as to follow her prayers

They go through screwed me, stop you right there

Hands on your arms as she greets all your friends

The twist of the line seems a bitter end



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



Only the truth

She reckons, she hopes



The girl with many different strategies

The winks, the waltz, they curse them to their knees

She's in the one by the riverbank

So it's easier for her to drown you

And she claims, oh she claims



It's only the truth

She holds in her hands



Yes, it's only the truth

She holds in her hands




My Mistake were Made for You



About as subtle as an earthquake, I know,

My mistakes were made for you.

And in the back room of the bad dream, she came,

And whisked me away, enthused.



And it's solid as a rock rolling down a hill,

The fact is that it probably will hit something,

On the hazardous terrain.



And we're just following the flock,

Round and in between,

Before we smash to smithereens

Like they were, and we scrambled from the grain

And it's the fame that put words in her mouth,

She couldn't help, but spit them out.

Innocence and arrogance entwined,

In the filthiest of minds.



She was bitten on her birthday,

And now a face in the crowd, she's not.

And I suspected now forever the shape

She came to escape, is forgot.



And it's a lot to ask her not to sting.

And give her less than everything;

Around your crooked conscious she will wind.



Cuz we're just following the flock,

Round and in between,

Before we smash into smithereens

Like they were, and we scrambled from the blame.

And it's the fame that put words in her mouth,

She couldn't help but spit them out;

Around your crooked conscious she will wind.



And it's a lot to ask her not to sting,

And give her less than everything

Innocence and arrogance entwined.





Black Plant



He bit your lip and on the tip

of your tongue was your view

The heavy belt with how you felt

in ways that tilted you

Paper cuts from the love letter you never gave him

could not meet

your new found meat

a misbehaving lie



Why

Why would you say sorry

Oh Why would you say

Why would you say



You said there was a nagging lack

of smiles went dancing on your back

Tenderness a plenty book

that wasn't what you craved

His whole thin heart desire start to make demands

If he adored you would be a fool to make your plans with her



Why would you say sorry

Oh why would you

Why would you say sorry

Oh why would you say sorry

Oh why would you



When it's just one of many bullets you will bite

While waiting for a ray of light

waiting for a ray of light

waiting for a ray of light



Paper cuts from the love letter you never gave him,

Could not meet

Your new found meat

A misbehaving lie



Why

Why would you say sorry

Oh why would you

Why would you say sorry

Oh why would you say sorry

Oh why would you

Why would you say sorry





I Don't Like You Anymore



I don't like you anymore

And fallen for the phone again

Enticed me for a second time today

Only for me to realise the same



I don't like you anymore

Cracked and your face is changing

You're going down the old route

But I can't let your repeat and repeat it again

The sound of your voice

Is piercing my patience

As you turn through the midnight corridors



Can we keep in your resent

Retire to the setting a hint

Drying in an old familiar cast

Twitching as I fear it's far too late



Cause I don't like you anymore

I don't like you anymore



I don't like you anymore

Cracked and your face is changing

You're going down the old route

But I can't let you repeat and repeat it again

The sound of your voice

Is piercing my patience

As you turn through the midnight corridors



And there's stuff in the corridors

There is no escape from these

No offence to your trap and be your disease

Well you are just a something to cease

And you swear that you think that you tease

But you pout which is about

And your final lie can be described as fine

It can be described as fine





In My Room



In my room she’ll get to you

In my room she’ll get to you

In my room



Could I turn on the light

Inpress unknown eyes

Humour absorbs the thoughts

Challenge emotionless thoughts

Seeing things with a second glance

As she turns through her magazines



In my room she’ll get to you

In my room she’ll get to you

In my room



Could I turn on the light

Inpress unknown eyes

Humour absorbs the thoughts

Lift up your sorted heads

Played like dancing fools

Turning the tension round

Building up silent sounds



Just another day

Oh in my room

Shruck out like before

Oh in my room

Room

Room

Room

Room




The Meeting Place



The colder the night gets

The further she strays

And he doesn't like it

Being this way



And she tried so hard

To steer away

From the meeting place

But her heart had left her there



She clings to his consciousness

Wherever he layed

Struggles to sleep at night

And during the day



He's worried she's waiting in his dreams

To drag him back to the meeting place

His love had left in there

Where the voices still echoes



I'm sorry I met you darling

I'm sorry I met you

As she turned into the night

All he had was the words

"I'm sorry I met you darling

I'm sorry I left you"



Four weeks they had trolled around

Playing the fools

They knew the time would come

And time would be cruel



Because it is cruel to everyone

He is crying out from the meeting place

He stranded himself there

Where the voice still echo



I'm sorry I met you darling

I'm sorry I met you

As she turned into the night

All he had was the words

"I'm sorry I met you darling

I'm sorry I left you"



I'm sorry I met you darling

I'm sorry I've left you





Time Has Come Again



The time has come again

Slowly walking down the steps

To where she would have been

If only they were seventeen



Waiting patiently

He stood between her fray scene

Hiding from himself

As well as everybody else



Without a mission

His face became lent

He thought that he learned

how to not get upset

From folded notes in envelopes

"Meet me beneath the moon"

Don't go too soon

She went too soon



The time has come again

Slowly walking down the steps

To where she would have been

If only they were seventeen