Arctic Monkeys
Dance Little Liar lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2009
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:44
I heard the truth was built to bend
A mechanism to suspend the guilt
Is what you will require and still
You've got to dance, little liar
Just like those fibs that pop and fizz
And you'll be forced to take that awful quiz
And you're bound to trip, and she'll detect the fiction on
Your lips and dig a contradiction up
And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt
The liar takes a lot less time
I'm sure it's clear and plain to read
It's not an alibi you need just yet
Oh no, it's something for those beads of sweat
Yes, that will get you back to normal
And after you have dabbed the patch
You'll breathe and then proceed to scratch the varnish off
That newly added calmness
So as not to raise any alarms too soon
And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt beneath the dirt
The liar takes a lot less time to decide on his saunter
Have you got itchy bones? And in all your time alone
Can you hack your mind being riddled with the wrong memories?
And the clean coming will hurt
And you can never get it spotless
When there's dirt between the dirt
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Key vocabulary
- breathe
- draw air in and outB1
- forced
- made to happenB1
- lips
- mouth edgesB1
- she'll
- she willB1
- when
- at what timeB1
- dig
- to make a holeB2
- mechanism
- system that worksB2
- patch
- small repair pieceB2
- plain
- not fancy; simpleB2
- suspend
- hang from aboveB2
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About this song
Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band from Sheffield known for their indie and garage rock sound that rose to prominence in the mid-2000s with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. They are fronted by singer-guitarist Alex Turner and later broadened their style with producer-led releases from Josh Homme and genre-shifting concept work like Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.