This House Is A Circus

Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
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  • This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
    We tend to see that as a perk, though look
    What it's done to your friends
    Their memories are pretend
    And the last thing that they want is for the feeling to end
    This house is a circus, berserk as fuck
    We tend to see that as a perk, though look
    What it's done to your friends
    Their memories are pretend
    And the last thing that they want is for the feeling to end

    There's a room full of trouble and there's lovers to be had
    Those ones who make sinners out of such lovely lads
    Scaling the corridors for maidens in the maze
    And any anomaly is slipping into familiar ways
    And we're forever unfulfilled and can't think why
    Like a search for murder clues in dead man's eyes
    Forever unfulfilled and can't think why
    Like a search for murder clues in dead man's eyes

    The more you open your mouth, the more you're forcing performance
    And all the attention is leading me to feel important
    (Gimme obnoxious, gimme obnoxious now)
    Now that we're here, we may as well go too far

    Wriggling around in incidents you won't forget
    There's certainly some venom in the looks that you collect
    Aimlessly gazing at the faces in the queue
    And we're struggling with the notion that it's life, not film

    This house is a circus, berserk as fuck (we're forever unfulfilled)
    We tend to see that as a perk, though look (can't think why)
    What it's done to your friends
    Their memories are pretend (like a search for murder clues)
    And the last thing that they want is for the feeling to end Writer/s: Alex Turner
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Juliette from Nabootique, Dalston, United KingdomGreat song, I love it
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