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Fright Lined Dining Room Lyrics

You thrive on dancing in our laps
Before the more familiar chaps
And oh the curtain leads to fever

We watched a womaniser cry
And in the last sip you and I
Declared we might require a breather

I am the truth true through and I
Can feign excitement fluently
As solid as I can busk shock

With well presented merriment
And I know all too well
I shouldn't break the key off in the lock

And the tumble splits the frame, revealing silk and fit
In the fright lined dining room
Throw a gaze towards them while they feast

The days drag their heels when you're not there to crack the whip
And the weeks wait to burst like a sache of brass

The old pantomime villian follows my coat
And he hides where it hangs and he spies through the slots

And meanwhile in the desert's only costume shop
The cowls hang and wait to rot away the identities of the willing

Drowned bags of sugar in the night
Rocketing shuttered doors despite
The shop not opening for hours

You can itch, flap, and whistle
And try to avoid the talk
As I scribbled over drivel you were snoring, showing off

The tumble splits the frame, revealing silk and fit
In the fright lined dining room
Throw a gaze towards them while they feast
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These are the lyrics up on the official site:

You thrive on dancing in our laps before the more familiar chaps who know the curtain leads to fever We watched a womanizer cry and in the last sip you and I declared we might require a breather I am a truth's true truant and I can feign excitement fluently as solidly as I can busk shock. With well presented merriment and I know all too well I shouldn't break the key off in the lock

The tumble splits the frame revealing silk and fits in the fright lined dining room throw a gaze towards them while they feast

The days drag their heels when you're not there to crack the whip And the weeks wait to burst like a sachet of brats The old pantomime villain follows my coat and he hides where it hangs and he spies through the slats And meanwhile in the desert's only costume shop the cowls hang and wait to rot away the identities of the willing I'm back to sugar in the night, rocketing shutter doors despite the shop not opening for hours You can itch, flap and whistle. Try to avoid the tock as I scribbled over drivel you were snoring, showing off.

The tumble splits the frame revealing silk and fits in the fright lined dining room throw a gaze towards them while they feast.

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Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

Great song off their new single shows real progression in songwriting abilities a bit too fast paced for humbug though i think

Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

I have absolutely no clue what this song is about :D

Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

What is it about? I really dont understand, tho I like Alex' voice and the thunes in it

Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

tune* sorry for being illiterate :)

Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

This is one of the hardest songs for me to figure out. I can't get all the references. The general idea seems to be about him being in Joshua Tree writing the album and going to a strip club -- he talks of his boredom there, missing his girlfriend, and his insomnia.

The joshua tree is an album from U2 i think

...? Well, yeah, duh!
But it is also the location where they worked on this album with Josh Homme who has a studio there.

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It's about robin hood and his merrymen!!

Cover art for Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

theme of prostitute/whore? the curtain leads to fever (stds...)

"And I know all too well I shouldn't break the key off in the lock" don't want to impregnate this kind of girl...

many connotative sexual innuendoes..

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Eve'ry time i listen to it, I get the tingles!

 
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