LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: AUDIENCE OF ONE/COLD WAR KIDS

Sunday nights that you wanna
Black velvet cake
Sweet heart can bargain
Half price mistakes
She will go down with her ship
Like a good captain
You're sitting on the dock
Playing for an audience of one
Pacing your apartment
Linoleum floors
Get a call from an old friend
She never like them before
He will drive all over three lanes
You sit tight, shotgun
When she rifles
Waving for an audience of one

You came out from the country
Wearing momma's clothes
You were born in the city
Daddy's dominos
You need a record you can move to
Well we got one
Drop the needle
We are playing for an audience of one
Drop the needle
We are playing for an audience of one

One gets all of you twos jealous
Three get even less
Four divides you up then you're left
Pleasing all your guests

Reach out you point a finger
And touch the globe
Spin around and where it stops
You've got to pack your bags and go
Land in the Mohave Desert
Sing for the sun
Three's too many when you're playing for an audience of one
Two's too busy when you're playing for an audience of one
One is the only way
Playing for an audience of one

ALBUM: BEHAVE YOURSELF EP (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I GIVE YOU TWO SECONDS TO ENTERTAIN ME/NORTHERN PORTRAIT

Shake my arm when it's over
This whole thing is killing me
I don't want to be killed
Time goes by, I am waiting
For a thing or two to say
Nothing's going on here
Though she's got a million
Million dollar face and a two million dollar figure
This will not excite me
I'm so tired
Tired of the way she's selling out
Push me down from this chair of mine
When you think it's time to leave
I might fall asleep here
Time goes by, I am waiting
with no 'where' or 'to' to go
I don't want to stay here
I know she's got a million dollar face
but this will not excite me
And though it is so clear that she's so pretty
I'm tired of the way she's selling out
I want something that's real and perfectly genuine
A place where I can feel that I belong
And if you won't bring me to the mountain
you must bring the mountain here

I give you two seconds to entertain me
I give you two seconds to entertain me
I give you two seconds to entertain me

I give you two seconds to entertain me
I give you two seconds to entertain me
I give you two seconds to entertain me

ALBUM: NAPOLEON SWEETHEART (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STEREOTYPES/BLUR

The suburbs they are dreaming
They're a twinkle in her eye
She's been feeling frisky since her husband said goodbye
She wears a low cut t-shirt
Runs a little B&B
She's most accomodating when she's in her lingerie
Wife-swapping is your future
You know that it would suit you

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know you should be
Going on another bender

The suburbs they are sleeping
But he's dressing up tonight
She likes a man in uniform
He likes to wear it tight
They're on the lovers' sofa
They're on the patio
And when the fun is over
Watch themselves on video
The neighbours may be staring
But they are just past caring

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you
Stop dreaming
Time to time you know
You're going on another bender
Yes there must be more to life
Than stereotypes

Wife-swapping is your future
You know that it would suit you

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know you should be
Going on another bender
Yes there must be more to life
Than stereotypes
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You should go on another bender
Before you come to an end

ALBUM: THE GREAT ESCAPE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ENGLAND/THE NATIONAL

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

You put an ocean and a river between everybody else
Between everything, yourself and home
Put an ocean and a river
Between everything, yourself and home

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE VIEW FROM THE AFTERNOON/ARCTIC MONKEYS

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus
Regardless of what's gone before

I want to see all of the things that we've already seen
The lairy girls hung out the window of the limousine
And of course its fancy dress
And they're all looking quite full on
In bunny ears and devil horns in hell

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus
Regardless of what's gone before

I want to see all of the things that we've already seen
I want to see you take the jackpot out the fruit machine
And put it all back in
You've got to understand it you can never beat the bandit, no

And she won't be surprised and she won't be shocked
When she's pressed the star after she's pressed unlock
And there's verse and chapter sat in her inbox
And all that it says is that you've drank a lot
You should bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind
You sholud bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind
You can pour your heart out but her reasoning will block
Ought you send her after nine o'clock

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus
Regardless of what's gone before

And she won’t be surprised and she won't be shocked
When she’s pressed the star after she's pressed unlock
And there’s verse and chapter sat in her inbox
And all that it says is that you've drank a lot
You should bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind
You sholud bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind
You can pour your heart out around 3 o' clock
When the 2 for 1's undone the writer's block

ALBUM: WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT (2006)