Arctic Monkeys
Fire and the Thud lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2009
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:58
You showed me my tomorrow
Beside a box of matches
A welcome threatening stir
My hopes of being stolen
Might just ring true
Depends who you prefer
If it's true you're gonna run away
Tell me where, I'll meet you there
Am I snapping the excitement
If I pack away the laughter
And tell you how it feels?
And does burden come to meet ya
If I've questions of the feature
That rolls on your dream reel?
The day after you stole my heart
Everything I touched told me
It would be better shared with you, with you
And now you're hiding in my soup
And this book reveals your face
And you're splashing in my eyelids
As the concentration continually breaks
I did request the mark you cast
Didn't heal as fast
I hear your voice in silences
Will the teasing of the fire
Be followed by the thud?
In the jostling crowd
You're not allowed to tell the truth
And the photo booth's a liar
And there's a sharpened explanation
But there's no screaming reason to enquire
I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes
With things they'd never see
If it smacked them in their temples
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Key vocabulary
- box
- a container with sidesA1
- come
- arriveA1
- concentration
- focus; attentionB2
- continually
- again and again; alwaysC1
- day
- 24 hoursA1
- depends
- is determined byA2
- everything
- all thingsA1
- face
- front part of headA1
- feature
- important partA2
- feels
- experiences a sensationA1
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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.