Allez Les Blues - Los Campesinos!

I pushed your head down

Flat onto the page

I held the weapon

Flat against your face

I remembered the promise

That I had made

And turned the pen back

Back onto myself

So you can stick your words of comfort

And you can take your well wishes too

Singing allez les blues

'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do

Allez les blues

I know your shape and

I know your size

You are the weight of the concrete boots

That pull me under the tide

And now you’re marching on to a different drum

Leaving my body here without a beat

A body drained of all feeling

Could be nothing but a piece of meat

So you can stick your words of comfort

And you can take your well wishes too

We’re singing allez les blues

'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do

Allez les blues

'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do

Allez les blues

This lump in my throat

Is the knot that you tied

With a flick of your tongue

And a wink of your eye

This lump in my throat

Is the knot that you tied

With a flick of your tongue

And a wink of your eye

This lump in my throat

(I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil’s chair)

Is the knot that you tied

(I've been muddying upholstery, you didn’t care)

With a flick of your tongue

(We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)

And a wink of your eye

(Yeah, but the fire keeps me warm and keeps my heart alive)

This lump in my throat

(I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil’s chair)

Is the knot that you tied

(I've been muddying upholstery, you didn’t care)

With a flick of your tongue

(We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)

He burns a fire, keeps me warm

And keeps my heart alive

You pushed my head down

Flat onto the page

You held the weapon

Flat to my face

You remembered the promise

That you would break

But now the bloodline

Runs through my veins

'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do

Allez les blues

They hold me closer than you would ever do

Allez les blues