A Slow, Slow Death

A Slow,Slow Death -Los Campesinos!

We felt a chill from the breeze move in

From the east London pat its own back

Those with the means for the megaphone

Will always provide us the soundtrack

I started to diarise the coming of flies when gloom is descending

So when it's back round again

I know it's a false start and not an ending

Some days I struggle to move in elephant shoes

Unwilling commuter

Anxiety in my chest

Heart under duress taps out of sharpshooter

Preoccupied now for days by nostalgia waves

I hated the first time

A gambler's fallacy the more

I repeat I won't be the punchline

You on a lilo are an island of the Pacific

And then me me me I am face down

In a puddle on the high street

I got your initials inside a heart tattoo

We two in vermillion we two a lovers coup

I got your initials inside a heart tattoo

We two in vermillion we two a lovers'coup

I know little but I promise

There's a slow slow death if you want it

If you want it

In time will I have to lie these memories are mine

Not in fact my father's

A schoolboy hero replaced domestic disgrace a sad sack a martyr

We here are common as dirt

Three lions on our shirt

With high expectations

Absolve this land of a Queen who feasts while we wean a small hopeless nation

You on a lilo are an island of the Pacific

And then me me I am face down

In a puddle on the high street

I got your initials inside a heart tattoo

We two in vermillion we two a lovers'coup

I got your initials inside a heart tattoo

We two in vermillion we two a lovers'coup

I know little but I promise

There's a slow slow death if you want it

Yeah I want it