Fright Lined Dining Room lyrics

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; 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 silken 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 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

Drowned bags of sugar in the night, rocketing shutter doors despite the shop not opening for hours

You can itch, flap and whistle, and try to avoid the tock

As I scribbled over drivel you were snoring showing off.

The tumble splits the frame, revealing silken fit

In the fright lined dining room

Throw a gaze towards them while they feast.

• Artist:Arctic Monkeys
• Album:Cornerstone (2009)