Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Modern Leper, artist - Frightened Rabbit.
Date of issue: 21.04.2016
Song language: English
The Modern Leper |
A cripple walks amongst you |
All you tired human beings |
He’s got all the things a cripple has not |
Two working arms and legs |
And vital parts fall from his system |
And dissolve in Scottish rain |
But vitally, he doesn’t miss them |
He’s too fucked up to care |
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 |
I’ve crippled your heart a hundred times |
And still can’t work out why |
You see, I’ve got this disease |
That I can’t shake and I’m just rattling through life |
Well, this is how we do things now |
Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared |
So I cut out all the good stuff |
Yeah, 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 those I prefer |
Because that limb which I have lost |
Well, it was the only thing holding me up, holding me up |
Well, I’m lying on the ground now |
And you’re walking through the only door |
Well, I have lost my eyesight like I said I would |
But I still know |
That that is you in front of me |
And you’re back for even more of exactly the same |
Well are you a masochist? |
To love a modern leper on his last leg |
And you’re not ill and 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 |