THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT 
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
Album: THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT


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[Intro]

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[Verse]


Decided 
To sneak up away from your stomach 
And try your pulse 
    
And captured 
What seemed all unknowing and candid 
                          
But they suspected it was false 




She's playful 
The boring would warn you be careful 
Of her brigade 
In order to tame this relentless marauder 
                    
Move away from the parade 


[Bridge 1]

                                       
And she was walking on the tables in the glass house 
                            
Endearingly bedraggled in the wind 
                         
Subtle in her method of seduction 
                             
The twenty little tragedies begin 



                                       
And she would throw a feather boa in the road 
                                   
If she thought that it would set the scene 
                              
Unfittingly dipped into your companions 
                          
Enlighten them to make you see 


[Chorus]

                               
And there's affection to rent 
               
The age of the understatement 
                              
Before the attraction ferments 

Kiss me properly and pull me apart 

                    
Affection to rent 
               
The age of the understatement 
                              
Before the attraction ferments 

Kiss me properly and pull me apart 


[Bridge 2]

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh      x2

                            
And my fingers scratch at my hair 
                          
Before my mind can get too reckless 
                   
The idea of seeing you here 
                               
Is enough to make the sweat grow cold 

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh      x2


[Outro]

              for a few bars and then...

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[Ending]