In Medias Res (Live at Islington Assembly Hall)

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Gareth & Kim, Gareth] But let's talk about you for a minute With the vomit in your gullet From the half-bottle of vodka That we'd stolen from the Optic On the back seat in your car Because it wasn't safe to start it You were "Far too fucked to drive" Were the words that you imparted And the woollen dress that clung so tight To the contours of your body And the dead grass stuck to fibres From us rolling in the lay-by Were passed to dog-haired blankets That protected the bench seat covers And the crucifix was hung From rear-view mirror by your mother [Verse 2: Gareth] I'm leaving my body to science Not medical, but physics Drag my corpse through the airport And lay me limp on the left wing Drop me at the highest point and trace a line around The dent I leave in the ground That'll be the initial of the one you will marry Now I'm not around I flew for seven hours The sky didn't once turn black [Bridge: Gareth] You know I'd sooner go down in a ball of flames Than I would lay here and be bored to death All's well that ends [Outro: Gareth & Kim, Gareth] I wake from sleep, my head and shoulder Were wet against the window A frost had formed and melted, soaked me Right through to my collarbone If you were given the option Of dying painlessly in peace at forty-five But with a lover at your side After a full and happy life Is this something that would interest you? Would this interest you at all? [Spoken Outro: Gareth & Ellen] Cheers. Ellen Campesinos! Hi, I haven't really spoken into a microphone much during my seven year career in the band, but I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in Los Campesinos! for being, my family for seven years and just being genuinely amazing people and just experiencing things with me which, I, I just didn't think my life was gonna be like this and I'm so lucky and I feel really blessed and thanks for coming and, uh, I just wanna say thanks to my mum for, you know, telling me I could do whatever I wanted and being proud of me and I love you guys and yeah, thanks I realise that we should say something as well but, what can you say? It's nothing. Um, we would like to invite, uh, this is Aleks and, uh, Ellen, Ellen didn't know that Aleks was gonna do this. So, um, the main reason that we invited Aleks is, we're gonna play an old song that I might not remember the words to, but Aleks might. Uh, we really hate it, so just please pretend you really like it...