The Modern Leper - from Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight'

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Cripple walks amongst you, all you tired human beings
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 He's got all the things a cripple has not, working arms and legs
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 Vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in the Scottish rain
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 Vitally, he doesn't miss the news, too fucked up to care
 
 Well is that you in front of me
 Coming back for even more of exactly the same?
 You must be a masochist
 To love a modern leper on his last leg
 On his last leg
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 Well I crippled your heart a
 hundred times and still can't work out why
 
 See, I've got this disease that I can't
 shake and I'm just rattling through life
 
 This is how we do things now, this is how the modern stay scared
 
 So I cut out all the good stuff, I cut off my foot to spite my leg
 Well is that you in front of me
 Coming back for even more of exactly the same?
 You must be a masochist
 To love a modern leper on his last leg
 Well I am ill but I'm not dead
 And I don't know which of these I prefer
 Because that limb which I have lost
 It was the only thing holding me up
 Holding me up
 I'm lying on the ground now and you're walking through the only door
 I have lost my eyesight like I said I would but I still know
 And that is you in front of me
 Coming back for even more of exactly the same
 Well are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?
 You're not ill 'cause I'm not dead
 And doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
 Just you and me, we'll start again
 And you can tell me all about what you did today
 What you did today
 

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Duration
04:27
Key
4
Tempo
92 BPM

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