Finger Back - Vampire Weekend

[00:24.30]Bend my finger back (snap)
[00:25.42]Wrap it in a paper towel
[00:26.48]Break a twig in half and set it straight
[00:28.54]Hit me with a wood bat
[00:29.79]Hit me with a canister that's fired while the soldiers drive away
[00:32.60]
[00:33.34]Bend my finger back (snap)
[00:34.47]On and on and on and on for days
[00:38.08]Hit me with a wood bat
[00:39.27]Hit me like a Yankee
[00:40.39]Like a son of freedom never as a slave
[00:42.89]It's etiquette, you idiot
[00:44.01]Spend time behind the line
[00:45.26]Show sympathy to L.A.
[00:46.26]where the sun don't ever shine
[00:47.51]Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
[00:49.69]And baby, you're not anybody's fool
[00:51.69]
[00:52.56]Bless me with a heart attack
[00:53.62]A real crise cardiaque
[00:54.68]And show me where to find the surgeon's knife
[00:56.93]Eviscerate me now, hack
[00:58.24]Take me to my punishment
[00:59.36]The punishment I've needed all my life
[01:01.73]Bend my finger back, snap
[01:02.98]On and on and on and on with strife
[01:05.60]
[01:06.66]Listen to my bum rap,
[01:07.79]Listen to the evidence exonerating me from being right.
[01:11.30]It's etiquette, you idiot
[01:12.24]Spend time behind the line
[01:13.68]Show sympathy to L.A.
[01:14.80]where the sun don't ever shine
[01:16.05]Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
[01:18.36]Baby, you're not anybody's fool
[01:20.79]I know that I've been wicked and the road to hell is wide
[01:23.04]Cursed by curiosity that made us go inside
[01:25.53]Everyone was charming, but we took 'em for a ride
[01:28.15]Baby, you're not anybody's fool
[01:29.60]
[01:49.61]Bend my finger back, snap
[01:50.61]Wrap it in a paper towel
[01:51.79]Break a twig in half and set it straight
[01:54.04]Hit me with a wood bat
[01:55.22]Hit me with a canister that's fired while the soldiers drive away
[01:57.97]
[01:58.78]Bend my finger back (snap)
[02:00.03]On and on and on and on for days
[02:03.65]Hit me with a wood bat
[02:04.83]Hit me like a Yankee
[02:05.96]Like a son of freedom never as a slave.
[02:08.18]It's etiquette, you idiot
[02:09.36]Spend time behind the line,
[02:10.67]Show sympathy to L.A. where the sun don't ever shine
[02:13.11]Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
[02:15.42]Baby, you're not anybody's fool
[02:17.16]
[02:17.72]The harpsichord is broken and the television's fried
[02:20.15]The city's getting hotter like a country in decline
[02:22.15]Everyone's a coward when you look them in the eyes,
[02:24.96]But baby, you're not anybody's fool.
[02:26.52]
[02:30.58]Sing next year in Jerusalem
[02:31.83]
[02:32.95]You know – the one at W.103RD and Broadway.
[02:35.26]
[02:36.51]'Cause this Orthodox girl fell in love
[02:38.69]with the guy at the falafel shop and why not?
[02:41.44]Should she have averted her eyes and
[02:43.00]just stared at the laminated poster of the dome of the rock?
[02:46.24]And then blood, blood, blood, blood,
[02:47.52]blood, blood, blood, bloooood
[02:49.52]And then blood, blood, blood, blood,
[02:52.07]blood, blood, blood, bloooood
[02:54.38]
[02:55.94]Remembrances of holy days in Tarrytown and Rye
[03:00.12]I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die
[03:04.24]
[03:05.61]Remembrances of generous hearts
[03:07.55]that couldn't bear to try
[03:09.61]I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die
[03:13.35]
[03:15.10]Remembrances of holy days in Tarrytown and Rye
[03:19.15]I don't wanna live like this,
[03:20.66]
[03:21.34]but I don't wanna die