The Vaccines - Blow It Up

Okay, I could live without it
Were you ever my age? No, I doubt it
A Native-American feather
Degenerates look better in leather

Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow it up! Blow it up! Blow it up!

Tripping out is fun on the weekend
But you don't feel as young with a girlfriend
I'm bored of trying to deal with your ego
Play it like that and it will though

Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow it up! Blow it up!

Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow, blow, blow it up!
Blow it up! Blow it up! Blow it up!

The Vaccines - People's Republic Of Desire

Dancing on my own since you cut us in half
Moving 'round my mind like you're choreographed
Watching you relaxing at the end of the bed
Wishing you'd relax going 'round in my head
When you're really gone, then there'll be nothing to start
No planet big enough to fill the space in my heart
Don't pull us apart, don't pull us apart, don't pull us apart

Only know the moon 'cause I grew up with his sun
No one there was happy, but they're all having fun
Sometimes think the world is only turning on me
Knew right as I said it that you wouldn't agree
Kill the negativity with candles and sage
Work in perfect harmony for minimum wage
Make peace with my rage, make peace with my rage, make peace with my rage

Take a vow of devotion
And invade my emotion Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We're guns for hire in the People's Republic of Desire
So hot, we start fires in the People's Republic of Desire
Leading suppliers to the People's Republic of Desire
We're frequent flyers to the People's Republic, the People's Republic

Went to bed with fear in its very long arms
Tried to fall asleep, felt like a fire alarm
Don't call it a comeback and don't call it a crush
Life can be amazing, but it's nothing on us
Someone call a doctor, I don't feel very well
There's no point in love if you've got no one to tell
I'm ringing my bell, I'm ringing my bell, I'm ringing my bell

Never gave the joke my permission to land
Thought that it was fresh, but all the laughter was canned
Humour doesn't travel, but it might need a break
The jokes are getting older, let's just get 'em a cake
Look into the future and there's nobody there
No one that can tell me that my life is unfair
Or answer my prayer, or answer my prayer, or answer my prayer

Take a vow of devotion
And invade my emotion
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We're guns for hire in the People's Republic of Desire
So hot, we start fires in the People's Republic of Desire
Leading suppliers to the People's Republic of Desire
We're frequent flyers to the People's Republic, the People's Republic


We're guns for hire in the People's Republic of Desire
So hot, we start fires in the People's Republic of Desire
Leading suppliers to the People's Republic of Desire
We're frequent flyers to the People's Republic, the People's Republic

Take a vow of devotion
And invade my emotion
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

The Vaccines - Lonely World

I knew who you were, it was perfectly obvious
I was uncomfortable playing it cool
But I feel like I have always known you
I kept you close and I thought you would question it
Young in the night, when we stare like the rest of them
God forbid
Oh my God

I would hold you close
'Cause it is a lonely world
But would you want me too
'Cause it is a lonely world

Well I put off 'cause I'm painfully diffident
I played it out in my head from afar
But then trust me to go miss my moment
You disappeared to my dissatisfaction
Oh, what could have been with a little more time?
Woe is me
Oh my God

I would hold you close
'Cause it is a lonely world
But would you want me too
'Cause it is a lonely world

Yeah I would hold you close
'Cause it is a lonely world
If I was confident
'Cause it is a lonely world

Yeah I would hold you close
'Cause it is a lonely world
But would you want me too
'Cause it is a lonely world

Yeah I would hold you close
'Cause it is a lonely world
If I was confident
'Cause it is a lonely world

The Vaccines - Handsome

oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god they’re gonna eat me up for breakfast
you think you look good in whatever they sugarcoat you in
if my body is a temple you can worship at my feet but it might kick you in the teeth some
so even when you’re spitting blood you would save a thought for me

cos i got so down i held the world to ransom
lonely, bored and bad thank god im handsome (so handsome)

i know, i know, i know, i know, i know, i know, i know, i should be picking up the pieces
but it doesn’t really matter as once you thought it would when you got nothing to lose
everybody else i know would talk to me of misery as if it was contagious
so come to me and promise me youll catch me if you can
cos i got so down i held the world to ransom

cos i got so down i held the world to ransom
lonely, bored and bad thank god im handsome
im as awful as they come oh what a pity
so i thank the lord above that i am pretty (so pretty)

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p so pretty
im p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p so pretty

i got so down i held the world to ransom
lonely, bored and bad thank god im handsome
arresting, prepossessing and disarming
oh what a stroke of luck that i am charming
with a hand layed out upon me by committee
i just thank the lord above that i am pretty (so pretty)

The Vaccines - Discount De Kooning (Last One Standing)

maybe we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing
i feel like something good is gonna happen
don't care if i'm the last one standing

i've been thinking about all the times you used to fill my streets
until i got deserted like i'm boarded up with nowhere to eat
maybe i'm looking for a willem de kooning at the discount store
i would buy anything, try anything, take anything to feel some more
its gonna eat me up
its gonna eat me up

maybe we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing
i feel like something good is gonna happen
don't care if i'm the last one standing

so maybe we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing
i feel like something good is gonna happen
don't care if i'm the last one standing
even if the song is all gone and it's the end of the world
no nothing's gonna stop us, gonna stop us now
so we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing on and on

started filling up cracks in the calendar with discontent
double checking junk to see where the apologies went
the best thing that i had since records began
i would do anything, take anything, i'm so machiavellian
its gonna eat me up
its gonna eat me up

don't know what i'll do now my luck is all spent
and i wish i had you here, tell me what it all meant,
to get to grips
serenading the apocalypse

maybe we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing
i feel like something good is gonna happen
don't care if i'm the last one standing

i've tried to move on but nothing compares
i'm ready for anything, i'm not going anywhere
i'm playing it cool but i'm so damn scared
and i'm ready for anything i'm not going anywhere

maybe we should on dancing
maybe we should on dancing
i feel like something good is gonna happen
don't care if i'm the last one standing

The Vaccines - Pink Water Pistols

When I talk to myself, I know somebody's listening
My mirror a casting director auditioning
Running my lines, I'm increasingly wistful
A mock execution, a pink water pistol
And if I had five minutes on earth with you left
I would keep playing dead until you were impressed
So that I'd not make promises I couldn't keep anymore

I've been working on my mind's interior design
Tryna give this place a little light
Sometimes it feels like I just can't get anything right
But I'd sit in a windowless room every day
Tryna see everything through
If I thought it would give me a panoramic view of you

When digital gangsters were stealing your innocence
I put an order in just to show insolence
Then they got caught and I felt like a failure
So loved you so loud, they could hear in Australia
And then I had five minutes on earth with you left
But I kept playing dead until you were impressed
So that I'd not make promises I couldn't keep anymore

I've been working on my mind's interior design
Tryna give this place a little light
Sometimes it feels like I just can't get anything right
But I'd sit in a windowless room every day
Tryna see everything through
If I thought it would give me a panoramic view of you

Every inch of you built like the Mecca
Bacon, secret sauce, cheese, double-decker
You're the best thing they've got on the menu
Want you while you're still warm
Want you so much that it's become the norm

I've been working on my mind's interior design
Tryna give this place a little light
Sometimes it feels like I just can't get anything right
But I'd sit in a windowless room every day
Tryna see everything through
If I thought it would give me a panoramic view of you

Remember that night taking Mexican ecstasy?
Codeine, corrido and crashing out next to me
Can't call a cab and I can't read your reply
The Tower of London cut off my free Wi-Fi
So now we've got five minutes on earth with them left
Let's just keep playing dead until they are impressed
So that we won't make promises we cannot keep anymore

The Vaccines - The Dreamer

I was never gonna leave you twisted
I was never gonna leave you there, yeah
With your mother and a child that I didn't wanna know
We were bleeding out our beautiful noses
We were bleeding on our beautiful clothes
We were weaving in and out of Edgar Allan Poe, oh-oh-oh

Somewhere, someone must have been watching
Hey there, I wish somebody was watching us

I know the night has got two faces
There's one that runs and one that chases
But if it caught you in between
Then I would wait for you in dreams
Right at the edges of your answers
Somewhere underneath your laughter
And if you wanna know what it all means
Then I am here for you in dreams

I was always gonna be your ending
I was always gonna meet you there, yeah
At the centre of attention right before close
I was managing your expectations
On a pick-up full of pink carnations
You were begging me to cure the sickness of a rose, oh-oh-oh

Somewhere, someone must have been watching
Hey there, do you wish somebody was watching us?

I know the night has got two faces
There's one that runs and one that chases
But if it caught you in between
Then I would wait for you in dreams
Right at the edges of your answers
Somewhere underneath your laughter
And if you wanna know what it all means
Then I am here for you in dreams

I know the night has got two faces
There's one that runs and one that chases
But if it caught you in between
Then I would wait for you in dreams
Right at the edges of your answers
Somewhere underneath your laughter
And if you wanna know what it all means
Then I am here for you in dreams

The Vaccines - Radio Bikini

Return to bikini
Return to bikini, oh
Return to bikini
Return to bikini

Well mine's on the rocks
In sandals and socks
Sentimentally sad
Drink a Coca Cola in bed

But this is Radio Bikini
Saying, "Don't you wanna see me?"
Across a European summer
Oh c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

Return to bikini
Return to bikini, oh
Return to bikini
Return to bikini

Well mine's on the fire
But if you want to lighten the mood
Sugar-coated in sun
With enough for everyone

But this is Radio Bikini
Saying, "Don't you wanna see me?"
Across a European summer
Oh c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

I came so close
Right out of the blue
Now I got you
Ooh

Return to bikini
Return to bikini, oh
Return to bikini
Return to bikini

Well mine's on the coast
With opportunities ghost
And visions according to die
Where nobody knows me

But this is Radio Bikini
Saying, "Don't you wanna see me?"
Across a European summer
Oh c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

This is radio bikini
Saying, "I'm on television"
Across another in the summer
Oh c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

The Vaccines - Sometimes, I Swear

i’m caught in the good fight
i start to feel small
when the gravity hits me
i’ve got nowhere to fall

i’ve got nowhere at all

sometimes, i swear, it feels like i don’t belong anywhere
i swear, sometimes, it feels like i don’t belong anywhere
sometimes, i swear
sometimes i don’t belong anywhere

you cant keep your day job
and you, you can’t find your feet
say your best work’s behind you
still you hate looking weak

more gods than the greeks

The Vaccines - Another Nightmare

You announced to the stadium that
You knew that you were leaving and you'd never come back
Even for love
It wasn't enough
And now you're living by whatever you've read
If you wanted to escape then you should have just said
"Go to Rome for the week"
'Cause you never went there with me

I was trying to smile
But got blood on the tiles
It was taken away with the evidence
I thought I was awake
Must have been a mistake
Now you've run out of patience

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

If I ran then I didn't get far
Just a little plus one to the really big star
Mothering me
Begging you not to leave
Roll your eyes and you call me Bruce Wayne
Say with all my years of therapy I should be Mark Twain
Will I know when I'm dead
If you beckon me back to bed?

I was trying to smile
But got blood on the tiles
It was taken away with the evidence
Shouldn't talk about that
Fell asleep on your lap
As you ran out of patience

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

They don't have to look like you do if they know

I don't wanna wait a year to feel better
Taking everything to forget ya
Living in echoes so mellow
Another nightmare
I don't want the hate and anger they gave me
All the pills and Percocets daily
Numbing and running to nothing
Just another nightmare

The Vaccines - All In White

Break me on the thirty-seventh hour
Tout me, doubt me, show me all of your power
I will watch you rise on my back from the ground
Friend or foe?
I don't know
Do you like what you've found?

I will one day shine with you
I'll shine on a faithful few

Show we 'low quotations
Have you earned your stripes?
Fabricate salvation
Lord, I know your type
I've known you all my life
I was always wrong, you all in white

Brush my cause aside with little trouble
Oh my god, I think I'm hearing double
I will watch you rise on my back from afar
Friend or foe?
I don't know now you're up in the stars

But I will one day shine with you

I'll shine on a faithful few

Show we 'low quotations
Have you earned your stripes?
Fabricate salvation
Lord, I know your type
I've known you all my life
I was always wrong, you all in white

Show we 'low quotations
Have you earned your stripes?
Fabricate salvation
Lord, i know your type
I've known you all my life
I was always wrong, you all in white
Show we 'low quotations
Have you earned your stripes?
Fabricate salvation
Lord, I know your type
I've known you all my life
I was always wrong, you all in white

The Vaccines - Put It On A T-Shirt

Help me make my mind up then as you're tying up my shoes

My ego sang me lullabies and my conscience sang the blues

He took me to a crossroads once and said I had a choice

But he couldn't hear me make my bet over his own voice

So if I climb the mountain now with my paint and leather shoes

And I touch the hand of God up there will you still help me choose?

They tried to tell me you're cold

And you're impossible to hurt

Now I've heard that said about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

If that's true about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

Yes, I got your article on the shape of things to come

I'm glad you're feeling guilty now, that you're better off than some

But I think you sent donations to the wrong side of the road

So I took 'em from their window sill and served 'em at a mall

They tried to tell me you're cold

But they would eat you for desert

Now I've heard that said about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

If that's true about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la

They should put it on a t-shirt

La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la

Why don't they put it on a t-shirt?

Help me make my mind up then as you're tying up my shoes

My ego sang me lullabies and my conscience sang the blues

I'm sleeping in the kitchen now and my feet are in the hall

My picture's on a piano, my head is off the wall

They tried to tell me you're cold

And you're impossible to hurt

Now I've heard that said about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

If that's true about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

If that's true about the both of us

They should put it on a t-shirt

If that's true about the both of us

Why don't they put it on a t-shirt?

The Vaccines - Bad Mood

Better to be ready if you rattle my cage
Oh I should loosen up some, baby I know
But I get angrier with age
Better to be ready if you rattle my cage

Oh you look disappointed in me
Oh am I not as thoughtful as you thought I'd be?
Yeah I know I'm always giving you the third degree
But you look disappointed in me

Now I'm in a bad, bad mood; a bad, bad mood
I'm in a bad, bad mood; a bad, bad mood

We'll rate, generate, generate some more
So what you singing about summer for?
Forgive me if I'm untoward
And out of order but I suspect
That with respect to your perception
You're looking in the wrong direction
As I'm sure you'll conclude
I'm in a pretty awful mood

Better to be ready if you rattle my cage
And I know I'm always putting it on you
But I get angrier with age
Better to be ready if you rattle my cage

Now I'm in a bad, bad mood; a bad, bad mood
I'm in a bad, bad mood; a bad, bad mood

I'm in a bad, bad mood; a bad, bad mood

The Vaccines - Rolling Stones

The Vaccines - Nightclub

I wake up in the morning with the evening in my eye
And by the time I get there, it becomes apparent why
All the voices singing to me, like some sort of choir
That you can't fight fire with the feeling of desire

So I become a bubble-bath for my sociopath
With the God-given right of the socialite
She said she only thinks of love like a long weekend
But she might jump in if I show her to the deep end

Yeah
And it makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head

She says that if I wanted romance I could find it in a path
But if I wanna face the music then I only have to ask
She thinks me wanna notice who's sleepin' 'round the fire
And there ain't no feeling like the feeling of desire

Yeah
And it makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head

And it makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
It makes my head feel like a nightclub
So take me for the ride till the morning after
It makes my head

The Vaccines - Teenage Icon

Oh look at me so ordinary, no mystery, with no great capabilities,
But I could make out as if I had it but you know,
God I'm so obvious and I should let it go, oh I don't know.

I'm no teenage icon,
I'm no Frankie Avalon,
I'm nobody's hero.

Reserved and shy, your average guy,
No piercing stare, just out of shape with messy hair,
But I always figured I was somebody in wait,
And now I'm guessing that my moment must be late cause I'm here, oh

I'm no teenage icon,
I'm no Frankie Avalon,
I'm nobody's hero.

I'm not magnetic or mythical,
I'm suburban and typical,
But I got it, I got it
I'm overrun with it all.

Seductive charm a way with words so effortless
Not leather clad or dangerous,
But I always did it like a real rebel would,
I had a photo where John Lennon may have stood, or so I'm told.

I'm no teenage icon,
I'm no Frankie Avalon,
I'm nobody's hero.

I'm no teenage icon,
I'm no Frankie Avalon,
I'm nobody's hero.

The Vaccines - I Can't Quit

Hangin' around, hittin' the ground, dead in the water
Suckin' it up, fuckin' it up with her favorite daughter
Take the swing, everything goin' 'round in circles
Takin' a hit, this is it
I'm over it

I can't quit
I'm over it

Shootin' it up, cuttin' up with broken glasses
Haven't I been loving love and in the classes
Get your man and go to work out with your sister
Talkin' about brother's fame
I'm over it

I can't quit
I'm over it
I can't quit
I'm over it

You can't change me, can you?
You can't offer that much to me
Oh you can't offer change, can you?
And I can't offer that much to you

Havin' it out, livin' in doubt but no defenses
Tighten the rope, and talkin' to hope in different tenses
Callin' my friends and tellin' the only one that answers
It's hard to make brother sick
I'm over it

I can't quit
I'm over it (I'm so dramatic)
I can't quit (I'm so dramatic)

You can't change me, can you?
You can't offer that much to me
Oh you can't offer change, can you?
And I can't offer that much to you

I can't quit (I'm so dramatic)
I'm over it (hangin' around, over the ground dirt in my bracelet)
I can't quit (suckin' it up, fuckin' it up with your replacement)
I'm over it (takin' swing, everything around in circles)
I can't quit (takin' a hit, brother said)
I'm over it

The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex

I can barely look at you
Don't tell me who you lost it to
Didn't we say we had a deal,
Didn't I say how bad I'd feel?

Everyone needs a helping hand,
Who said I would not understand?
Someone up the social scale
For when you're going off the rails have

Post break-up sex
That helps you forget your ex
What did you expect from post break-up sex?

Leave it 'til the guilt consumes
Fucking in the nearest room
All our friends were unaware,
Most had just passed out downstairs

To think I'd hoped you'd be OK,
No I can't think of what to say
Maybe I misunderstood
But I can't believe you're feeling good from

Post break-up sex
That helps you forget your ex
What did you expect from post break-up sex?

Post break-up sex
That helps you forget your ex
What did you expect from post break-up sex?

When you love somebody but you find someone
And it all unravels and it comes undone

Post break-up sex
That helps you forget your ex
What did you expect from post break-up sex?
Post break-up sex
That helps you forget your ex
What did you expect from post break-up sex?

The Vaccines - No Hope

Oh, I could bore you with the truth,
about an uneventful youth,
though you could get that rap from someone else.
And I could make an observation,
if you want the voice of a generation,
but I'm too self-absorbed to give it clout.

And I, I don't really care about,
anybody else, when I haven't got my own life figured out.
Cause when you're young and bored and 24,
and don't know who you are no more.

There's no hope,
and it's time to come of age.
I think it's a problem,
Does it ever go away?
I know I am so self-obsessed, I guess,
But there's, no hope, and I hope it's just a phase.
Oh, I'll grow.

Oh, I could look for inspiration,
find it in the job of an English nation,
now wouldn't that be cheap and ill-informed.
And I could bet that you don't believe me,
if I said it came from deep within me,
But I promise you, I'm telling you the truth.

And I, I don't really care about,
anybody else, when I haven't got my own life figured out.
Cause when you're 24 and young and bored,
and don't know who you are no more.

There's no hope,
and it's time to come of age.
I think it's a problem,
Does it ever go away?
I know I am so self-obsessed, I guess,
But there's, no hope, and I hope it's just a phase.
Oh, I'll grow.

Well, I wish that I was comfortable in my own skin,
but the whole thing feels like an exercise,
and trying to be someone I would rather not be,
I tried to second guess if you would be approving.
I find my life ever so moving,
Came wide-eyed and unassuming.
Oh, Okay

There is no hope,
and there's desperately, no hope,
and there's definitely, no hope,
If you don't believe me. Oh.

And there's no hope,
and there's desperately, no hope,
and there's definitely, no hope,
If you don't believe me. Oh

But I, I don't really care about,
anybody else, when I haven't got my own life figured out.
Cause when you're 24 and young and bored,
and don't know who you are no more,

There's no hope,
and it's time to come of age.
I think it's a problem,
Does it ever go away?
I know I am so self-obsessed, I guess,
But there's, no hope, and I hope it's just a phase.
Oh, I'll grow.

There is no hope,
I know it's a problem,
and it never goes my way.
I know I am so self-obsessed, I guess,
But there's, no hope, and I hope it's just a phase.
Oh, I'll grow.

The Vaccines - Change Of Heart, Pt. 2

Do ya do ya do ya think of speaking your mind
Or is it openly as lonely as it is cold
And do ya do ya do ya wanna get away
Or is it better off in the balance anyway
Later on or yeah whatever
I see now your beauty never ends

What the hell you do it's up to you
Now you've got to see it through
Tell the man you've had a change of heart

Do you make light of a bad situation
By burying your head under the sand
And eat the apple of your eye
Just because your mouth was dry
Oh well

Doesn't really matter what you need
But honest is paramount
Just tell the man you've had a change of heart

Bullet hits the wall and you'll play along
Give someone a answer and they'll think of one
Find yourself somewhere you have never been before
Ohhhhhhhhhhh

Give it time there's no appeal
You can bite the bullet, or just do it in a minute
For the love of god if you've had a change of heart