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TV On The Radio
TV On The Radio


Background information
Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genre(s) Experimental Rock
Indie Rock
Years active 2001—2010
Label(s) Interscope Records
Touch and Go Records
4AD
Associated acts Celebration
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Anywhere I Lay My Head
Maximum Balloon
Website Website
Members
Tunde Adebimpe
Kyp Malone
David Andrew Sitek
Jaleel Bunton
Former members
Gerard Smith



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TV On The Radio Lyrics

"I Was A Lover" lyrics


I was a lover before this war
Held up in a luxury suite
Behind a well barricaded door
Now that I've cleaned up, gone all legit
I can see clearly, round hole
Round hole - square peg don't fit

I'm locked in my bedroom
So send back the clowns
My clone wears a brown shirt
And I seduce it when there's no one around
Mano y mano on a bed of nails
Bring it on like a storm
'til I knock the wind out of his sails
And we don't make eye contact
But we have run-ins in town
Just a barely polite nod
And nervous stares toward the ground

I once joined a peace class
Plastic, inert
Slow dance with commerce
Like a lens up a skirt

And we like to party
And we kept it live
And we had a three-volume tome of contemporary slang
To keep a handle on all this jive

Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time
How many styles did you cycle through before you were mine
And it's been a while since we went wild
And that's all fine, but we've been sleepwalking through this trial
And it's really a crime
And it's really a crime
And it's really a crime

It's really criminal

We're busy tempting, like fate's on the nod
Running on empty, bourbon and God
It's been a while since we knew the way
It's been even longer since our plastic priest class
Had a goddamned thing to say

I was a lover before this war
I was a lover before this war
I was a lover before this war

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