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Frightened Rabbit's new record, The Midnight Organ Fight, has been getting a pretty good deal of good press from various places, over the last few weeks, and while I think that the record itself is basically average (much like last year's retardedly lauded but not at all bad Boxer), I'm entirely willing to admit that the first song on the album, "The Modern Leper" (much like last year's justly lauded stunner, "Fake Empire") looks like it's going to be one of my favorite songs of the year. I'm curious as to what everybody thinks, around these parts, because while most people around here often seem to hate my taste in music, I'm willing to bet that most of us can see eye-to-eye, on this particular track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2TPvtOTEw
Lyrics, as heard by me:
A cripple walks amongst you,
all you tired human beings.
He's got all the things a cripple has--
not-working arms and legs,
and vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in Scottish rain.
Vitally, he doesn't miss them.
He's too fucked up to care
Well, is that you in front of me,
coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper on his last leg.
On his last leg...
Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times,
and still can't work out why.
You see, I've got this disease I can't shake,
and I'm just rattling through life.
Well, this is how we do things, now.
Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared.
So, I cut out all the good stuff;
yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg.
Well, is that you in front of me,
coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper on his last leg.
Well, I am ill,
but I'm not dead.
And I don't know which of those I prefer,
because that limb which I have lost,
well, it was the only thing holding me up.
Holding me up...
Well, I'm lying on the ground, now,
walking through the only door.
Well, I have lost my eyesight,
like I said I would.
But I still know,
and that is you in front of me...
and you are back for even more of exactly the same.
Well, are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?
And you are not ill.
And I'm not dead.
Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me,
we'll start again,
and you can tell me all about what you did, today.
What you did, today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2TPvtOTEw
Lyrics, as heard by me:
A cripple walks amongst you,
all you tired human beings.
He's got all the things a cripple has--
not-working arms and legs,
and vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in Scottish rain.
Vitally, he doesn't miss them.
He's too fucked up to care
Well, is that you in front of me,
coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper on his last leg.
On his last leg...
Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times,
and still can't work out why.
You see, I've got this disease I can't shake,
and I'm just rattling through life.
Well, this is how we do things, now.
Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared.
So, I cut out all the good stuff;
yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg.
Well, is that you in front of me,
coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper on his last leg.
Well, I am ill,
but I'm not dead.
And I don't know which of those I prefer,
because that limb which I have lost,
well, it was the only thing holding me up.
Holding me up...
Well, I'm lying on the ground, now,
walking through the only door.
Well, I have lost my eyesight,
like I said I would.
But I still know,
and that is you in front of me...
and you are back for even more of exactly the same.
Well, are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?
And you are not ill.
And I'm not dead.
Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me,
we'll start again,
and you can tell me all about what you did, today.
What you did, today...
