Tv On The Radio - I Was A Lover lyrics

rate me

I was a lover, before this war

held up in a luxury suite, behind a barricaded door

now that I've cleaned up, gone legit

I can see clearly: round hole

round whole, square peg don't fit

I'm locked in my bedroom, so send back the clowns

my clone wears a brown shirt, and I seduce him when there's no one around

mano y mano, on a bed of nails

bring it on like a storm, till I knock the wind out of his sails

And we don't make eye contact, when we have run-in's in town

just a barely polite nod, and nervous stares towards the ground

I once joined a priest class, plastic, inert

in a slowdance with commerce

like a lens up a skirt

And we liked to party

and we kept it live

and we had a three volume tome of contemporary slang

to keep a handle on all this jive

Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time

how many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?

and it's been a while since we went wild and that's all fine

but we're sleepwalking through this trial

and it's really a crime it's really a crime it's really a crime

it's really criminal

We're just busy tempting, like fate's on the nod

running on empty, bourbon and god

it's been a while since we knew the way

and it's been even longer since our plastic priest class

had a goddamned thing to say

I was a lover before this war