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Interpol
Interpol


Background information
Origin New York City
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Post-punk Revival
Years active 1997—present
Label(s) Capitol Records
Parlophone Records
Matador Records
Website Website
Members
Paul Banks
Sam Fogarino
Daniel Kessler
Former members
Greg Drudy
Carlos Dengler



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Interpol Album


Turn On The Bright Lights (08/19/2002)
08/19/2002
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Surprise, sometimes
Will come around
Surprise, sometimes
Will come around
I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around
Oh, I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around

. . .



We can cap the old times
Make playing only logical harm
We can top the old lines
Clay-making that nothing else
Will change
But she can read
She can read
She can read
She can read
She's bad!
She can read
She can read
She can read
She's bad!
Oh, she's bad

It's different now
That I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You go stabbing
Yourself in the neck

We can find new ways of living
Make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times
Clay-making that nothing else
Will change

But she can read
She can read
She can read
She can read
She's bad!
She can read
She can read
She can read
She's bad!
Oh, she's bad

It's different now
That I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing
Yourself in the neck

It's different now
That I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing
Yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she poses
It's in the things
That she puts in my hair
Her stories are boring and stuff
She's always calling my bluff
She puts the, she puts the weights
Into my little heart
And she gets in my room
And she takes it apart
She puts the weights
Into my little heart
I say she puts the weights
Into my little heart

She packs it away

It's in the way that she was
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts the, she puts the weights

. . .


I had seven faces
Thought I knew which one to wear
But I'm sick of spending these lonely nights
Training myself not to care

The subway is a porno
The pavements they are a mess
I know you've supported me for a long time
Somehow I'm not impressed

But New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

The subway she is a porno
The pavements they are a mess
I know you've supported me for a long time
Somehow I'm not impressed

It is up to me now, turn on the bright lights
Oh, it is up to me now, turn on the bright lights

New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

It is up to me now, turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)
Oh, it is up to me now, turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)

. . .



Yours is the only version
Of my desertion
That I could ever subscribe to
That is all that I can do
You are a past sinner
The last winner
I'm raping all around me
Until the last drop is behind you

But you're so cute
When you're frustrated, dear
Yeah, you're so cute
When you're sedated, oh dear

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

You are the only person
Who's completely certain
There's nothing here to be into
That is all that you can do

You are a past dinner
The last sinner
And everything we've come to
Makes you you

But you cannot safely say
That while I will be away
You will not consider sadly
How you helped me to stray

And you will not reach me
I am resenting a position
That's past resentment
And now I can't consider
And now there is this distance
So...

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches
Where you can...
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

. . .



I want your silent parts
The parts the birds love
I know there's such a place
I had my back turned
You didn't realize
I'm lonely

You lack the things
To which I relate
But I see no harm

Come wait, come wait
Come wait, it's over!
One, two, three, do me

When I'm feeling lazy
It's probably because
I'm saving all my energy
To pick up when
You move into my airspace
You move into my airspace

And something's coming over me
I see you in the doorway
I can't control the part of me
That swells up when
You move into my airspace
You move into my airspace

But each night
I bury my love around you
You're linked to my innocence

This is a concept
This is a bracelet
This isn't no intervention

This isn't you yet
What you thought was such a conquest
You're hair is so pretty and red
Baby, baby you're really the best!

Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?

We should take a trip now
To see new places
I'm sick of this town
I see my face has changed


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Will you put my hands away?
Will you be my man?

Serve it up, don't wait
Let's see about this ham

oh, what happened?
oh, what happened?

Home spun desperation's knowing
Inside your cover's always blown

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I'm gonna pull you in close
I'm gonna wrap you up tight
I'm gonna play with the braids
That you came here with tonight
I'm gonna hold your face
And toast the snow that fell
Cause friends don't waste wine
When there's words to sell

I feel like love is in the kitchen
With a culinary eye
I think he's making something special
And I'm smart enough to try

If you don't trust yourself
For at least a moment each day
Well you should trust in this, girl
Cause loving is coming our way

If you can fix me up, girl
We'll go a long way
If you can fix me up, girl
We'll go a long way

Take my love in real small doses

I will stand by all this drinking
If it helps me through these days
It takes a long time
Just to get this all straight.

I'll showcase on Route 7
When I find the right place
It takes a long time
Just to get this all straight
In my mind, this is my free-time
Cause friends don't waste wine
When there's words to sell

I will stand by all this drinking
If it helps me through these days
But I've spent a long time
Corresponding in my own way

I'll showcase on Route 7
When I find the right place
But it takes a long time
Just to get this all straight
In my mind
This is my free time...

To let it all away
Spend it all today
Spend it all today
It took time

. . .



When she walks down the street
She knows there's people watching
The building fronts are just fronts
To hide the people watching her
But she once fell through the street
Down a manhole in that bad way
The underground drip
Was just like her scuba days

Days, daze, days, daze

She was all right
Because the sea was so airtight
She broke away!
She is all right
But she can't come out tonight
She broke away!
She was all right
Yeah, the sea was so tight
Air tight
She broke away, broke away!
Broke away, broke away
Broke away, broke away
She broke away!

At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
From crevices caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells

Oh Stella
Oh Stella
Oh Stella
Stella I love you
Stella I love you
Stella I love you!

She was all right
Because the sea was so airtight
She broke away!
She is all right
But she can't come out tonight
She broke away!
She was all right
Yeah, the sea was so tight
Air tight
She broke away, broke away!
Broke away, broke away
Broke away, broke away
She broke away!

Well, she was my catatonic sex toy
Love-joy diver
She went down, down, down
There into the sea,
Yeah she went down, down, down there
Down there for me, right on
Oh yeah, right on
So good, oh yeah
Oh yeah, right on
So good, oh yeah

There's something that's invisible
There's some things you can't hide
Try detect you when I'm sleeping

. . .



My best friend's a butcher
He has sixteen knives
He carries them all over the town
At least he tries
Oh look it stopped snowing!
My best friend's from Poland
And, umm, he has a beard
They caught him with his case
In that public place
That is what we had feared

He severed segments secretly
You like that?
He always took the time
To speak with me
I liked him for that
He severed segments so secretly
You like that?
He always took the time
He always took the time

My best friend's a butcher
He has sixteen knives
He carries them all over the town
At least he tries
Oh look it stopped snowing!

My best friend's from Poland
And, umm, he has a beard
They caught him with his case
In that public place
That is what we had feared

He severed segments secretly
You like that?
He always took the time
To speak with me
I liked him for that
He severed segments so secretly
You like that?
He was growing on me

. . .



I wish I could live free
I hope it's not beyond me
Settling down takes time
One day we'll live together
And life will be better
I have it here
Yeah, in my mind
Baby, you know someday you'll slow
And baby, my hearts been breaking

I gave a lot to you
I take a lot from you too
You slave a lot for me
Guess you could say
I gave you my edge

But I can't pretend
I don't need to defend
Some part of me from you
I know I've spent some time lying

You're looking all right tonight

. . .



She says
It helps with the lights out
Her rabid glow
Is like braille to the night
She swears
I'm a slave to the details
But if your life is such a big joke
Why should I care?

The clock is set for nine
But you know you're gonna make it eight
So that you two can take some time
Teach each other to reciprocate

She feels that my sentimental side
Should be held with kids gloves
But she doesn't know
That I left my urge in the icebox

She swears
I'm just prey to the female
Well then hook me up and throw me baby cakes
Cause I like to get hooked

The clock is set for nine
But you know you're gonna make it eight
All the people that you've loved
They're all bound to leave some keepsakes

I've been swinging all the time
Think it's time to learn your way
I picture you and me together
In the jungle it will be ok

I'll bring you when my lifeboat
Sails through the night
That is supposing that
You don't sleep tonight

It's like learning a new language
Helps me catch up on my mind
If you don't bring up those heartly parts
This could be a good time

It's like learning a new language
You come here to me
We'll pick up those lonely parts
And set them down
You come here to me...

She says brief things
Her love's a pony

. . .


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