Always Ascending

Franz Ferdinand

2018 Released

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Always Ascending

05 : 21

Lazy Boy

02 : 59

Paper Cages

03 : 40

Finally

03 : 09

The Academy Award

04 : 14

Lois Lane

03 : 34

Huck and Jim

03 : 35

Glimpse of Love

03 : 12

Feel the Love Go

04 : 46

Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow

05 : 18

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Track Lyrics

Always Ascending Lyrics

[Intro]

(Put your ladder down, put your ladder down

Put your ladder down, put your ladder down)

Don’t be concerned

It’s just the way that gravity works 'round here

All slowly rising, falling patiently

Feel no, feel no fear

Cirrus caress you, cumulus kiss you

Raindrops of crystal whisper, "We’ll miss you"

But go

Let go

[Verse 1]

Always and always and always ascending

The opening line leaves an uncertain ending

Always and always and always ascending

The chords seem to pause, but ahh–

[Pre-Chorus]

Never gonna resolve (Never going to resolve)

Ah, talk to me (Talk to me)

C'mon, talk to me (Talk to me)

Yeah, talk to me (Talk to me)

Ahh, oh

Yeah, wake me up

C'mon wake me up

[Chorus]

Waking up dry, waking up dusty

Feeling remorse, feeling thirsty

Bring me a cup, bring me water

We can ascend from this arrangement

We can see fate as entertainment

Bring me a cup, bring me water

Bring me water

[Verse 2]

Always and always and always ascending

The Shepard misleads so you think you’re transcending

Always and always and always ascending

Pause the progression, but ahh–

[Pre-Chorus]

Never gonna resolve (Never going to resolve)

Ah, talk to me (Talk to me)

C'mon, talk to me (Talk to me)

Yeah, talk to me (Talk to me)

Ahh, oh

Yeah, wake me up

C'mon wake me up

[Chorus]

Waking up dry, waking up dusty

Feeling remorse, feeling thirsty

Bring me a cup, bring me water

Yeah, bring me water, yeah, bring me water

Bring me water, bring me water, yeah

[Outro]

(Put your ladder down, put your ladder down

Put your ladder down, put your ladder down

Put your ladder down, put your ladder down)

Cirrus caress you, cumulus kiss you

Raindrops of crystal whisper, "We’ll miss you"

But go

Let go

Lazy Boy Lyrics

[Intro]

I’m a lazy boy

[Verse 1]

I’m a lazy boy, I’m a lazy boy

Never getting up in time

I enjoy being a lazy boy

Lying in your bed

Thinking of how a lazy boy loves you

[Pre-Chorus]

Am I gonna get up? Am I gonna get up, get up? Never

[Chorus]

I’m a lazy boy, I’m a lazy boy

Always be a lazy boy

I’m a lazy boy, yes, a lazy boy

Lazy in the evening boy

Ah, and a lazy boy loves you

[Instrumental Break]

[Pre-Chorus]

Am I gonna get up? Am I gonna get up, get up? Never

Never, never, never

[Chorus]

I’m a lazy boy, I’m a lazy boy

Always be a lazy boy

I’m a lazy boy, yes, a lazy boy

Lazy in the morning boy

I’m a lazy boy, I’m a lazy boy

Such a lazy, lazy, boy

I’m a lazy boy, yes, a lazy boy

Lazy in the evening boy

I’m a lazy boy, what a lazy boy

Yes, he is a lazy boy

Ah, and a lazy boy loves you

Paper Cages Lyrics

[Chorus]

Step out, step out of our cages

Step out of our paper cages

Step out, step out of our cages

Out of our cages, out of our cages

Step out

[Verse 1]

I like the look of your place, yes, I love your construction

Did you carve a wee key from the soap in your kitchen

To turn in a lock of your own penal fiction?

You're so vivid and free in your imagination

Well, we'll never be free if our incarceration

Is a story we tell, a tale of invention

Is it personal choice, personal conviction

Or are you living like me in paper cages?

[Chorus]

Step out, step out of our cages

Step out of our paper cages

Step out, step out of our cages

We're living our lives in paper cages

Step out

[Verse 2]

When you took on your bid, did you make up your number?

Did you walk like a punk to the screws at your counter?

Did you say you can't win when you are the system

That contains in paper cages?

[Chorus]

Step out, step out of our cages

Step out of our paper cages

Step out, step out of our cages

We're living our lives in paper cages

Step out

[Bridge]

Living our lives in paper cages

Step out

[Chorus]

Step out, step out of our cages

Step out of our paper cages

Step out, step out of our cages

We're living our lives in paper cages

Step out

Finally Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I feel it (I feel it), I'm fine (So fine)

I feel it in the spring sunshine (Sunshine)

So fine (So fine)

I feel it in the springtime shine

Then, oh, suddenly I'm

[Chorus]

Finally, I found my people

Found the people who were meant to be found by me

Finally, finally, finally I'm here

In my place, so I'm here

God, how it heals you to feel

God, how it feels good to be with the people like

[Verse 2]

I feel it (I feel it), I'm fine (So fine)

I feel it in the spring sunshine (Sunshine)

So fine (So fine)

I feel it in the springtime shine

Then, oh, oh, suddenly I'm

[Chorus]

Finally, I found my people

Found the people who were meant to be found by me

Finally, finally, finally I'm here

In my place, so I'm here

God, how it heals you to feel

God, how it feels good to be with the people like

Yeah, people like me

[Bridge]

Finally, I found my

[Chorus]

Finally, I found my people

I found the people who were meant to be found by me

Finally, finally, finally I'm here

In my place, so I'm here

God, how it heals you to feel

God, how it feels good to be with the people like

The Academy Award Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Show me the body, these pictures will shock you

Love is the drag we don't need anymore

We don't need to score, show me the body

404 – gateway not found

My wife is such a fan, show me the body

Show me the body now

[Pre-Chorus]

We're starring in the movies of our lives

[Chorus]

And the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

Yeah, the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

There's a camera held in every hand

The clamour of applause in every mind

But the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

[Verse 2]

Show me the body, Hikikomori

Through liquid crystal we look at the world

From our parents' homes, show me the body

The secret of longevity

Is to stay away from men, show me the body

Show me the body now

[Pre-Chorus]

We're starring in the movies of our lives

[Chorus]

And the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

Yeah, the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

There's a camera held in every hand

The clamour of applause in every mind

But the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

[Verse 3]

Show me the body, you never realise

How much eight pints are 'til you see them on the ground

They cover so much ground, laptop predator

Hunter-gatherer, once-rare commodity

Now easily found, salt, sugar and fat

There's heavy traffic, show me the body now

[Pre-Chorus]

We're starring in the movies of our lives

Starring in the movies of our lives

[Chorus]

And the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

Yeah, the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you

There's a camera held in every hand

The clamour of applause in every mind

But the Academy Award for Good Times goes to you, you

Lois Lane Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Lois Lane seemed a pretty strong woman

The kind of woman that a girl could be

So you've got an HND in journalism?

Because journalism could change the world

[Pre-Chorus]

And if you change the world

Then you could be happy

Yeah, you could be happy

[Chorus]

Choices

You made good choices

To change our world

So you could be happy

[Verse 2]

The motivation of altruism is selfishness

The desire for the pleasure of the reward

Ah, the fine young cynic

You cried

[Pre-Chorus]

Would you rather not have a go

And change the world?

Come on, come on, come on

So you could be happy

Come on, come on, come on

Yeah, you could be happy

[Chorus]

Choices

You made good choices

To change our world

So you could be happy

[Verse 3]

Oh, he changed you

I mean I did not like him

No, I never liked him

Which made me not like you

Not like I used to do

No, we were never, no, we were never

We were never friends

[Pre-Chorus]

So you could be happy

[Chorus]

Choices

You made good choices

To change our world

So you could be happy

Choices

You made good choices

To change our world

So you could be happy

[Outro]

At the over thirties singles night

The over thirties singles night

It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak

At the over thirties singles night

The over thirties singles night

It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak

It's bleak, it's bleak

See you next week

Huck and Jim Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Sitting by the window, she's sitting by the door

Her nose upon the window is cold

Nails upon the window breaking, nails upon the door

Looking through the window no more

No, no more, no more

[Pre-Chorus]

Something fun, look dumb, put a stone in the musical window

She don't buy high time, disco, won't you leave me alone?

Down, she won't go, she can't fit through a typical door

No way-oh (No way-oh), no way-oh (No way-oh)

No way-oh (No way-oh), no way

[Chorus]

We're going to America

We're gonna tell 'em about the NHS

When we get there, we'll all hang out

Sippin' 40s with Huck and Jim

[Verse 2]

Everywhere sham bohemians, Hello! Magazine bohemians

Terminal chancers who loathe

The privilege to loathe their privilege

The skin upon the custard is hard

Yes, it's hard

[Pre-Chorus]

Flash some, you got some

Hangin' from a toe in a 10th-floor window

No pass out, no bar, there's no theoretical look down

There is no down, something's gone and you're missing it none

No way-oh (No way-oh), no way-oh (No way-oh)

No way-oh (No way-oh), no way

[Chorus]

We're going to America

We're gonna tell 'em about the DSS

When we get there, we'll all hang out

Sippin' 40s with Huck and Jim, yeah

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

We're going to America, yeah

We're gonna tell 'em about the NHS

When we get there, we'll all hang out

Sippin' Buckie with the boys

Glimpse of Love Lyrics

[Intro]

Won't someone bring

Bring me just a glimpse of?

[Chorus]

Love, love, love is gonna come as a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah, yeah

I need love, so someone better bring me a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah

[Verse 1]

A flash, a glimpse of perfect abs

In flimsy floral dress

Shows off her slender frame

Enjoys a private stroll

[Chorus]

Love, love, love is gonna come as a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]

Off duty beauty, keeping it real

She's got flawless features, grabs a bite to eat

Stepping out, sports a bruise on her neck

As she's heading to, to the studio

Decadent, no, she's never been shy

No, she's never, never, never been shy

[Chorus]

Love, love, love is gonna come as a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah, yeah

I need love, so someone better bring me a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah

[Verse 3]

Body observation snap, body transformation trap

Bring it on bring it on, let's makeover

Body transformation snap, body observation trap

Bring it on bring it on, cut – makeover scene

Makeover scene, makeover

[Bridge]

Won't someone bring me just a glimpse of love?

A glimpse of love

Oh, won't someone bring me just a glimpse of love?

A glimpse of love

Oh, won't someone bring me just a glimpse of love?

Just a glimpse, a glimpse of

[Chorus]

Love, love, love is gonna come as a photographer

Yes, a photographer, yeah, yeah

Just a glimpse of love

Just a glimpse, just a glimpse

Just a glimpse, oh, just a glimpse of love

Feel the Love Go Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Hey, what's that thing that you're doing?

Hey, what's that thing that you do?

No, you're not that thing that you're doing

For the things that you do are not who you are

[Pre-Chorus]

Why don't you come over here?

Why don't you come over?

[Chorus]

Think of a friend (Love)

And wish them love

Think of an enemy (More)

And wish them more

[Verse 2]

See, see the things that you're doing

See, oh, see the things that you do

See the things that you do are not who you are

[Pre-Chorus]

Why don't you come over here?

Why don't you come over?

[Chorus]

Think of a friend (Love)

And wish them love

Think of an enemy (More)

And wish them more

Think of every life and wish them all your love

[Bridge]

Then feel that love return

Feel the love infinity

Then let it go

Let the love go

Oh, let the love go

Feel the love go

Feel the love then go

Feel the love go (Love go)

Feel the love go (The love go)

Feel the love go (Go-o)

Feel the love go (Love go)

Love go, yeah, feel the love go

Yeah, feel the love go, go

Yeah, feel the love go, oh

Yeah, feel the love go, go

Yeah, feel the love go, go-o-o

[Instrumental Outro]

Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Slow, don't take it slow when you put on that hat

That black velvet cap

Well, this is that long-due occasion you can wear it at

Don't send this invite back

[Chorus]

Slow, don't kill me slow, don't kill me slow

No, never, never, no, don't kill me slow

No, never, never, kill me quick

Kill me quicker if you can, I cannot take it slow

Don't kill me slow

[Verse 2]

When you showed your executioner's cap to me

You put it on for me, said that I would see

You'd kill whatever sapped your love from me

So put it on for me, put it on again, oh

[Chorus]

Slow, don't kill me slow, don't kill me slow

No, never, never, no, don't kill me slow

No, never, never, kill me quick

Kill me quicker if you can, I cannot take it slow

Don't kill me

[Bridge]

Jump cut back to high-res time lapse

Seasons shift or pass

Maybe leaves then snow into still-life ripens

Stop-motion perishing

Feast of larvae explode

Blue dust shadow of mould

[Outro]

Slow, slow, slow, slow

Slow

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Track Lyrics

Always Ascending Lyrics

Lazy Boy Lyrics

Paper Cages Lyrics

Finally Lyrics

The Academy Award Lyrics

Lois Lane Lyrics

Huck and Jim Lyrics

Glimpse of Love Lyrics

Feel the Love Go Lyrics

Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow Lyrics