Being funny in a foreign language Album Lyrics by The 1975

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The 1975

Go down
Soft sound
Midnight
Car lights
Playing with the air
Breathing in your hair
Go down
Soft sound
Step into your skin?
I'd rather jump in your bones
Taking up your mouth, so you breathe through your nose

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Happiness

Confidence is comical
An' I'm, an' I'm happy
That's what I like
I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good
That's happiness for me
I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good
That's happiness for me

She showed me what love is
I'm actin' like I know myself
Oh, in case you didn't notice
Oh, oh, I would go blind just to see you
I'd go too far just to have you near
In my soul, I've got this feeling, I
Didn't know until I seen ya

My, my, my, oh, my, my, my
You mind my mind, you mind my mind
Oh, my, my, my, you mind my mind
Oh, my, my, my
She's insatiable is what she is

Her body's like a modern art
Take it out in front of me
I've gotta stop messin' it up because I'm
Feelin' like I'm messin' it up
Because I'm callin' out your name and God help me
'Cause oh, I'm never gonna love again, hey
I'm never gonna love again, hey, oh

Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you?

You met me at the right time
Met me at the right time, oh
Show me your love, why don't you?
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Confidence is comical
An' I'm, an' I'm happy
That's what I like
I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good
That's happiness for me

She showed me what love is (showed me what love is)
Now I'm actin' like I know myself (actin' like I know myself)
Oh, in case you didn't notice (ooh-ooh)
Oh, oh, oh, I'm never gonna love again, hey
I'm never gonna love again, hey, oh

Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you grow up and see?
Show me your love
Why don't you?

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Looking for Somebody (To Love)

Somebody running for the field
Somebody should have stayed home
Somebody picking out the body of somebody they were getting to know
Somebody lacking in desire
The type you just don't f*ck
A supreme gentleman with a gun in his hand looking for somebody to love

Looking for somebody to love
Looking for somebody to love

I wanna show him he's a bitch
I wanna f*ck him up good
I wanna smash the competition, go and kill it like a man should
"You gotta show me how to push
If you don't want a shove"
Are the words of a young man already damned looking for somebody to love

Looking for somebody to love
Looking for somebody to love
Oh, they ran, oh, they ran, should have seen how they ran
When I was looking for somebody to love
You should have seen it, man, I was all, "Bang, bang, bang, bang"
Looking for somebody to love

Oh, they ran, oh, they ran, should have seen how they ran
When I was looking for somebody to love
You should have seen it, man, I was all, "Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
Looking for somebody to love, woo

Somebody lying on the field
Somebody crying on the phone
Somebody picking up the body of somebody they were getting to know
Maybe we're lacking in desire
Maybe it's just all f*cked
But the boy with the plan and the gun in his hand was looking for somebody to love

(Hey, yeah, woo)
Looking for somebody to love
Looking for somebody to love
Oh, they ran, oh, they ran, should have seen how they ran
When I was looking for somebody to love
You should have seen it, man, I was all, "Bang, bang, bang, bang"
Looking for somebody to love

Looking for somebody to love
Looking for somebody to love

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Part of the Band

She was part of the Air Force, I was part of the band
I always used to bust into her hand
In my, my, my imagination
I was livin' my best life, livin' with my parents
Way before the paying penance and verbal propellants
And my, my, my cancellation
Mm, yeah

And I fell in love with a boy, it was kinda lame
I was Rimbaud and he was Paul Verlaine
In my, my, my imagination
So many cringes and heroin binges
I was comin' off the hinges, livin' on the fringes
Of my, my, my imagination
Oh, yeah

Enough about me now
"You gotta talk about the people, baby"
(But that's kind of the idea)

At home, somewhere I don't like
Eating stuff off of motorbikes
Coming to her lookalikes
I can't get the language right
Just tell me what's unladylike

I know some Vaccinista tote bag chic baristas
Sittin' east on their communista keisters
Writin' about their ejaculations
"I like my men like I like my coffee
Full of soy milk and so sweet, it won't offend anybody"
While staining the pages of the nation, oh, yeah

A Xanax and a Newport
"Well I take care of my kids", she said

The worst inside of us begets
That feeling on the internet
It's like someone intended it
(Like advertising cigarettes)
A diamond in the rough begets
The diamond with a scruff you get

(One, two, three, four)

Am I ironically woke? The butt of my joke?
Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke
Callin' his ego imagination?
I've not picked up that in a thousand four hundred days
And nine hours and sixteen minutes, babe
It's kind of my daily iteration

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Oh Caroline

I've been suicidal, you've been gone for weeks
If I'm undecided, will you decide for me?
Baby, I'll do anything that you wanna
I'll try anything that you wanna
I'll try
'Cause you're on my mind, hey

Oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind
Oh, Caroline (oh)

Getting suicidal? It's honestly not for me
I'm getting on my nerves by getting on my knees
Getting cucked, I don't need it, the place I want to be
Is somewhere in your heart, somewhere guaranteed
'Cause, baby, I'll do anything that you wanna
I'll try anything that you wanna
I'll find myself in the moonlight
'Cause, baby, I want everything that you wanna
And I've tried to just be me, like, a thousand times
But you're on my mind

Oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind (always on my mind)
Oh, Caroline (oh)

Oh, I've tried to find
Another name a thousand times
But the only one that rhymes (always on my mind)
Is "Oh, Caroline" (oh)

Just give me one more chance tonight
'Cause I don't wanna waste my life without you, baby
No, I don't wanna waste my life without you, baby

Oh, Caroline
Get it right this time
Always on my mind
I wanna get it right
But you're on my mind

Oh, Caroline
I wanna get it right this time
'Cause you're always on my mind (always on my mind)
Oh, Caroline (oh)

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I'm In Love With You

Heartbeat
Is comin' in so strong
Oh, if you don't stop
I'm gonna need a second one
Oh, there's somethin' I've been meaning to
Say to you, baby (hold that thought)
Yeah, there's somethin' I've been meaning to
Say to you, baby, but I just can't do it

What a call, moving in
I feel like I can loosen my lips (come on so strong)
I can summarize it for you (ah)
It's simple and it goes like this

I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
In love with you, I-I-I-I (yeah)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (yeah)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
In love with you (I-I-I-I-I)

She's got a broadsheet
Reading down the list of the going wrongs (oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'm gettin' no sleep
Tossin' and turnin' all night long (yeah)
Oh, there's somewhere I've (somewhere I've) been meaning to (meaning to)
Take the conversation (hold that thought)
Oh yeah, there's somewhere I've (somewhere I've) been meaning to (meaning to)
Take the conversation, but I just can't do it

You show me your (you show me your) black girl thing (black girl thing)
Pretending that I know what it is (I wasn't listening)
Apologize, and you meet my eyes
Yeah, it's simple and it goes like this

I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (ayy)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
In love with you, I-I-I-I
Yeah, I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (yeah)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (yeah)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I-I

And yeah, I got it, I found it
I've just gotta keep it
"Don't f*ck it, you muppet"
It's not that deep
But I've been counting my blessings
Thinking this through
It's like, one, two, yeah

I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (oh, yeah)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I (hey)
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
I'm in love with you, I-I-I-I
In love with you (I-I-I-I-I)

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All I Need To Hear

I get out my records
When you go away
People are talking
I miss what they say

'Cause it all means nothing, my dear
If I can't be holding you near
So tell me you love me
'Cause that's all that I need to hear

I sit in my kitchen (George ,do the hihats now)
With nothing to eat
With so many friends, I
I don't wanna meet

'Cause I don't need music in my ears
I don't need the crowds and the cheers
Oh, just tell me you love me
'Cause that's all that I need to hear

I've been told so many times before
But hearing it from you means much more
So much more

Reply to my message
And pick up my calls
You see, I wrote you a letter
It was no use at all

But oh, I don't care if you're insincere
Just tell me what I wanna hear
You know where to find me
The place where we lived all these years, oh
Tell me you love me
'Cause that's all that I need to hear
Oh, and tell me you love me
That's all that I need to hear

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Wintering

Yeah, it's just like, it's just start
It's just, it's just come straight in, just be like

She walks down the stairs, feeling herself
Looking like she just won a court case
He's got a funny way of using the same four chords for every song he makes

Yeah, he's called Bill and he plays with words
Like a skill, yeah, he's pretty great
He said his official friend died 'cause of a fish he ate

Yeah, she's called Hannah and she plays the Joanna
Grade eight, but she's got no soul
John's obsessed with fat ass and he's ten years old

Oh, Dad's an "Otis Reading at a wedding" type guy
With the best voice you've ever heard
He said, "Give me a date I can work on, my heart hurts"

I get home on the 23rd
Yeah, drive up on the 23rd

And I bumped into Judy in the co-op
She asked how the family's been
I said, "Alex is a sculptor and Olivia's been a vegan since ten"

Well, Vin wears dresses while Debbie coalesces
In a fleece that doesn't work
And I'll be giving my chair to my mum 'cause her back hurts

I get home on the 23rd
Yeah, drive up on the 23rd (yeah, yeah)

Now mum's not a fan of that line about her back
She said it makes her sound frumpy and old
I said, "Woman, you are sixty-four years old"

Now stop the percussion, I wanna have a discussion
And it's Christmas so this is gonna be a nightmare
I just came for the stuffing, not to argue about nothing
But mark my words, I'll be home on the 23rd

Yeah, drive up on the 23rd
Oh, come home on the 23rd
Yeah
Ooh

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Human Too

Considering me looking through you
Thinking it was something I used to do
I thought I'd done anger
I thought I'd done shame
But I've always been the same

Well, don't you know that I'm a human too?
You know that you're a human too?
Darling, that's what humans do
So, tell me you're a human

I'm sorry about the bomb thing
That's overdue
I'm sorry that I quite liked seeing myself on the news
And I'm sorry that I'm someone that I wish I could change
But I've always been the same (one more time)
Yeah, I've always been the same

Don't you know that I'm a human too? (Human too)
You know that you're a human too?
Darling, that's what humans do
So, tell me you're a human

And don't you know that I'm a human too?
You know that you're a human too?
Darling, that's what humans do
Tell me you're a human

Don't you know that I'm a human too?
Just know that you're a human too
Oh, darling, that's what humans do
So, tell me you're a human

Oh, tell me you're a human
Tell me you're a human

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About You

I know a place
It's somewhere I go when I need to remember your face
We get married in our heads
Something to do while we try to recall how we met

Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten about you?

You and I
Were alive
With nothing to do I could lay and just look in your eyes
Wait and pretend
Hold on and hope that we'll find our way back in the end

Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten about you?
Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten?
Do you think I have forgotten about you?

There was something about you that now I can't remember
It's the same damn thing that made my heart surrender
And I'll miss you on a train
I'll miss you in the morning
I never know what to think about
I think about you (so don't let go)
About you (so don't let go)
Do you think I have forgotten about you? (Don't let go)
About you
About you
Do you think I have forgotten about you? (Don't let go)

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When We Are Together

Our first kiss was Christmas in the Walmart toy department
She said, "I should take you with me when I leave"
And we were searching New York for a fancy new apartment
She said, "Central Park is SeaWorld for trees"

You ask about the cows, wearing my sweater
It's something 'bout the weather that makes 'em lie down
The only time I feel I might get better
Is when we are together

I like socks with sandals, she's more into scented candles, oh
I'll never get that smell out of my bag
It was poorly handled, the day we both got cancelled
Because I'm a racist and you're some kinda slag

You ask about the cows, wearing my sweater
It's something 'bout the weather that makes 'em lie down
The only time I feel I might get better
Is when we are together, oh, together

I'm better at writing, was just a way to get you biting, oh
The truth is that our egos are absurd
I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was gaslighting you
I didn't know that it had its own word

You still ask about the cows, wearing my sweater
You said it's something 'bout the weather that makes 'em lie down
The only time I feel I might get better
Is when we are together