Humbug(*)

Arctic Monkeys Humbug(*) Lyrics
1.My Propeller

If you can summon the strength, tow me
I can't hold down the urgency
You've got to make your decent slowly
And oil up those sticky keys

Coax me out, my love
And have a spin of my propeller

It's a necessary evil
No cause for emergency
Borrow the beak of a bald eagle
Oh, momentary synergy

Coax me out my love
Sink into tomorrow
Coax me out, my love
And have a spin of my propeller

My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own
When are you arriving?
My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own
When are you arriving?
My propeller won't spin and I can't get it started on my own
When are you arriving?
My propeller


2.Crying Lightning

I sat in the cafe 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 and mix

Said your mistaken if your thinking that
I haven't been caught cold before
As you bit into your strawberry lace
And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper
Is all you have left and it was going to waste

Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I love that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate
The ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on it's way to meet you
Thinking of excuses to postpone
You never look like yourself from the side
But your profile did not hide
The fact you knew I was approaching your throne

With folded arms you occupy the bench like toothache
Saw them, puff your chest out like you never lost a war
And though I try 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
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
And 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


3.Dangerous Animals

(Pinned down by the dark)


Been fighting with my sheets
Nearly crying in my sleep
Yes, I'm battering that welt-up gripe
The most frustrating type
You should have racing stripes
The way you keep me in pursuit
Sharpen the heel of your boot
And you press it in my chest
and you make me weeze
Into my knees you do promote me

I'm pinned down by the dark
A-N-I-M-A-L
makes my head pirouette
More than
I will be willing to confess
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S

The night it fidgets through
The photo soon reverts to you
I'm about as bashful as a tribal dance
the first and final chance
and course the audience
are frighteners and theives
Divided up into two teams
When the acrobat fell off the beam
She broke everyones heart

I'm pinned down by the dark
A-N-I-M-A-L
makes my head pirot
More than
I will be willing to confess
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
The most unsuitable bred
It's been long enough now
So lets make a mess, lioness

I'm pinned down by the dark

I'm pinned down by the dark

D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
A-N-I-M-A-L
D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
A-N-I-M-A-L


4.Secret Door

Fools On Parade
Cavort and carry on
The wait in lines
That you would rather be beside than in front of
But she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares

She swam out of tonight's fantasm
Grabbed my hand and made it very clear
There's absolutely nothing for us here
It's a magnolia celebration to be attempted on a Wednesday night
It's better than to get a reputation as a miserable little tyke
At least that's the conclusion you came to in this overture

And the secret door swings behind us
She's saying nothing
Cause she's just giggling along

Her arms were folded most indignant
Not looking like she was soon to leave
I had to squint in order to believe
And then like a butler pushing on a bookshelf
I'm unveiling the unexpected
I was who was nearly leaving soon
Suddenly embarrased corrected
How could such a creature survive in such a habitat

Then the secret door swings behind us
She's saying nothing
Cause she's just giggling along
Even if they were to find us
I wouldn't notice
I'm completely occupied
As all the
Fools on parade
Cavort and carry on
For wait in lines
One you would rather be beside than in front of
But she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares
Fools on parade
Frolic and fuck about to make her gaze
Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture
That holds her options
But you're daft to think she'd care
Fools on parade
Fools on parade

Fools on parade convert to sing along


5.Potion Approaching

I was biting the timezone
and we embellished the backs of our bloodstreams
and threw caution to the colourful
I am a fell asleep in the car
until the bumps woke me up in your grip
and the tide took me to your mouth
And swept me back down to your calms
its them that put me inside the reminder
that yours is the only ocean
(yours is the only ocean)
That I wanna swing from
(yours is the only ocean)
That I wanna hang on

I've got this ego mechanic.
She's always tryin' to give me vitamins.
I should be frightened of your reflection,
I preferred her as a cartoon.
If I could be someone else for a week,
I'd spend it chasing after you,
Cos she's not shattered in my attitude,
no matter how she folds the potion,
Yours is the only ocean
(Yours is the only ocean)
That I wanna swing from,
(yours is the roley ocean)
That I want to hang onto

(I'm swinging on)

Yours is the only ocean,
yours is the roley ocean,
yours is the only ocean,
yours is the roley ocean.

Potion approaching,
shield your eyes.
Potion approaching,
visualize,
Holding a token,
swollen in size,
Potion approaching,
shield your eyes.

But if we're gonna escape though,
we'd really ought to think it through.
Would you like me to build you a go kart?


6.Fire And The Thud

You showed me my tomorrow
Beside a box of matches
A welcome threatening stir

My hopes of being stolen
Might just ring true
Depends who you prefer

But if it's true you're gonna run away
Tell me where
I'll meet you there

Am I snapping the excitement
If I pack away the laguther
And tell you how it feels

And does burden come to meet ya
If I've questions of the feature
that runs on your dream wheel

The day after you stole my heart,
Everything i touched told me
it would be better shared with you

And you're hiding in my soup
And the book reveals your face
And there's a splashing in my eyelids
The concentration continually breaks

I did request the mark you cast
Didn't heal as fast
I hear your vioce in silences
Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?

And the jostling crowd
You're not allowed to tell the truth
And the photobooth's a liar
And the sharpened explanations
But theres no screaming reason to inquire
I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes
with things they never see
if it smacks in their temples


7.Cornerstone

I thought a saw you in the Battle Ship
but it was only a look alike
She was nothing but a vision trick
Under the warning light
She was close
Close enough to be your ghost
But my chances turned to toast
When I asked her if
I could call her your name

I thought I saw you in the Rusty Hook
Huddled up in a wicker chair
I wandered over for a closer look
And kissed whoever was sitting there
She was close
And she held me very thightly
Till I asked awfully politetly
'Please, can I call you her name?'

And I elongated my lift home
And I let him go the long way round
I smell your scent on the seatbelt
And kept my shortcuts to myself

I thought I saw you in the Parrots Beak
Messing with a smoke alarm
It was too loud for me to hear her speak
And she had a broken arm
It was close
So close that the walls were wet
And she wrote out and later said
'No, you can't call me her name'

Tell me where's your hiding place
I'm worried Ill forget your face
And I've asked everyone
I'm begining to think I imagined you all along
I elongated my lift home
Yeah I let him go the long way round
I smelt your scent on the seatbelt
And kept my shortcuts to myself

I saw your sister in the cornerstone
On the phone to the middle man
When I saw that she was on her own
I though she might understand
She was close
Well you couldnt get much closer
She said 'I'm really not supposed to
But yes! you can call me anything you want'


8.Dance Little Liar

I heard the truth was built to bend
A mechanism to suspend the guilt
Is what you are requiring still
You've got to dance little liar
Just like those fibbs to pop and fizz
And you'll be forced to take that awful quiz
And you're bound to trip
And she'll detect the fiction on
Your lips and dig a contradicion up

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneth the dirt
The liar take a lot less time

I'm sure its clear and plain to me
It's not an alibi you need just yet
Oh no it's something for those beads of sweat
Yes that we'll get you back to normal
And after you have dabbed the patch you'll grieve
And then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon

And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt

The liar takes a lot less
Time to decide on his saunter
Have you got itchy bones?
And in all your time alone
Can you hack your mind being riddled
with the wrong memories?


And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt between the dirt


9.Pretty Visitors

Tricking through the morning,
The tramp with the trampoline under his arm,
Shifts past your whiskers,
So spark is a charm with the barking alarm,
Weighs coil 'til the corner is turned.

And the bicycle wheels, all struggle to move round,
In your muddy mind,
Blatantly cape town,
And will intertwine in co-operative time,
Shall we sit on the springs 'til the mung goes dry?

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the...

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
Split sleep reeps through rewards and ill fitting thoughts,
A twilight force, she doesn't wanna walk,
Your legs start running and your head gets caught,
Cannot be nineteen, it's perfectly placed for the reasonably
frightening,
Pulled from the after taste, you'll have to slip away,
and I'm happy to say,
Behold as the crook in a hammock plays...

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall...

Behold as the crook in the hammock plays,
Crawling with the base of the scales,
And fiddles with the feet on a balancing act,
Gagged, bound and craft in a tale,
Trailing wrapped in a gasp,
Crawling with the base of the scales,
And fucking fiddles with the feet on a balancing act,
You were gagged, bound and craft in a tale,
Trailing wrapped in a gasp.

All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall,
All the pretty visitors came and waved their arms
and cast the shadow of a snake pit on the wall.


10.The Jeweller's Hands

Fiendish wonder in a carnival's wake
Old caresses once again irritate
Thread soflty stranger
Head over toward the danger that you seek

You think excitement has receeded
Then the mirror distracts
The logic of the trends
Often reaches and grasps
Hands from the faceless
And witness your imagination runs

And now its' no one's fault but yours
At the foot of the house of cards
You thought you never, get obsessed
You thought the wolves, would be impressed
And you're a sinking stone
But you know what it's like to hold the jeweller's hands
That precession of pioneers..
All drown

And the moonlight there more thrilling
Those things that he knows
As he leads you thru the grinning bubble blowers in the snow
Watching his exit as I've fallen off the ferry in the night

He never trouble gathers to push you around
Any other voice makes a cheap punishing sound
He became laughter's assasin
Shortly after he showed you what it was

And now it's no one's fault but yours
At the foot of the house of cards
You thought you never, get obsessed
You thought the wolves, would be impressed
And you're a sinking stone
But you know what it's like to hold the jeweller's hands
That precession of pioneers..
All drown

If you've a lesson to teach me, I'm listening
Ready to learn
There's no one here to police me, I'm sinking in
Until you return
If you've a lesson to teach me, Don't keep me in
Don't be afraid
Without the last.. I calibrate ?
It getting real late