Arctic Monkeys
Fake Tales of San Francisco lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2004
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:58
Fake tales of San Francisco
Echo through the room
More point to a wedding disco
Without a bride or groom
And there's a super cool band, yeah
With their trilbies and their glasses of white wine
And all the weekend rockstars are in the toilets
Practicing their lines
I don't want to hear you (kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear you, no, kick me out, kick me out
I don't want to hear you (kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear you, I don't want to hear your-
Fake tales of San Francisco
Echo through the air
And there's a few bored faces at the back, all
Wishing they weren't there
And as the microphone squeaks
A young girl's telephone beeps
Yeah, she's dashing for the exit
Oh, she's running to the streets outside
"Oh, you've saved me", she screams down the line
"The band were fucking wank and I'm not having a nice time"
I don't want to hear you (kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear you, no (kick me out, kick me out)
Yeah, but his bird said it's amazing though, so all that's left
Is the proof that love's not only blind, but deaf
He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar
I don't quite know the distance, but I'm sure that's far
Yeah, I'm sure it's pretty far
And, yeah, I'd love to tell you all my problem
You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham
So get off the bandwagon, and put down the handbook
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook, yeah
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Key vocabulary
- beeps
- short warning sounds
- it's
- it isA1
- know
- have understandingA1
- left
- not at the right; gone awayA1
- line
- a thin mark on a surfaceA1
- love's
- of loveA1
- nice
- pleasant; kindA1
- only
- just one; not moreA1
- outside
- not insideA1
- quite
- completely or fairlyA1
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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.