We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed letra

By the light of the LED display of a VCR recorder
You kiss my neck, I whisper in your ear, "This is my downfall"
As you squint and you grimace, we both know your heart's not in it

By the glow of a thousand fireflies in a Travelodge en-suite:
They think the future's bright as halogen, we know it's pretty bleak
And I'm trying to be sexy, biting at the air that falls in front of me

Your telegrams are more and more less detailed by the day
And all the characters are strangers and the pubs have different names
I tell a joke that I'd like to meet them but they loathe me and I hate them back

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Fondness makes the absence longer
Length loses my interest, I'm a realist, I'm insatiable
Swapped counting days until I fly, with hours before your reply

You said he got his teeth fixed
I'm gonna break them
I've got a heart on fire
He said he's got his sights set
On getting to you
I've got a fist on fire

You feel terrified at the thought of being left behind
Of losing everybody, the necessity of dying
Oh, we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking,
But there is no fucking future
I'm just practising my accents, picking at old sutures

I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love
Is to like the other slightly less than you get in return
I keep feeling like I'm being undercut

Charlotte says, "It's more constructive than the one in Canada
When you got drunk
Ate loads of crisps
And threw up by a football pitch"
I know it is
And really that's what worries me
I feel like I should
Hurt

You said he got his teeth fixed
I'm gonna break them
I've got a heart on fire
He said he's got his sights set
On getting to you
I've got a fist on fire

I cannot emphasise enough that my body
Is a badly designed, poorly put together vessel
Harbouring these diminishing, so-called "vital organs"
Hope my heart goes first
I hope my heart goes first

And
We are beautiful
We are doomed

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• ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison
• (PLAN A)
• 0898 HEARTACHE
• 200 102
• 2007: The Year Punk Broke (My Heart)
• 5 Flucloxacillin
• A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State
• A Litany / Heart Swells
• A Portrait of The Trequartista As A Young Man
• A Psychic Wound
• A Slow, Slow Death
• Adult Acne Stigmata
• All Your Kayfabe Friends
• Allez Les Blues
• As Lucerne The Low
• Avocado, Baby
• Baby I Got The Death Rattle
• Between An Erupting Earth And An Exploding Sky
• Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
• By Your Hand
• C Is The Heavenly Option
• Cemetery Gaits
• Clown Blood; or, Orpheus’ bobbing Head
• Coda: A Burn Scar In The Shape Of The Sooner State
• Death To Los Campesinos!
• Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1
• Don't Tell Me To do The Math(s)
• Drop It Doe Eyes
• Dumb Luck
• Every Defeat a Divorce (Three Lions)
• Feast of Tongues
• For Flotsam
• For Whom The Belly Tolls
• Four Seasons
• Frontwards
• Glue Me
• Got Stendhal's
• Hate For The Island
• Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time
• Hello Sadness
• Here's To The Fourth Time
• Holy Smoke (2005)
• How I Taught Myself to Scream
• Hung Empty
• I Broke Up In Amarante
• I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
• I Warned You: Do Not Make An Enemy Of Me
• I. Spit; or, a Bite Mark in the Shape of the Sunflower State
• In Medias Res
• It Started With A Mixx
• It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt)
• kms
• Knee Deep At ATP
• Let it Spill
• Letters from me to charlotte (RSVP)
• Life Is a Long Time
• Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. I
• Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II
• Little Mouth
• Long Throes
• Miserabilia
• Moonstruck
• Music for Aerial Toll House
• My Year In Lists
• Renato Dall'Ara (2008)
• Romance is Boring
• Romance Is Boring (Princess Version)
• Sad Suppers
• Selling Rope (Swan Dive To Estuary)
• She Crows (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #4)
• Songs About Your Girlfriend
• Straight in at 101
• Surfing a Contrail
• Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks
• The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
• The Coin-Op Guillotine
• The End Of The Asterisk
• The Fall Of Home
• The International Tweexcore Underground
• The Order of the Seasons
• The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
• The Time before the last time
• There are Listed Buildings
• This Is a Flag, There Is No Wind
• This Is How You Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed The Hopes And The Dreams Of A Generation Of Faux-Romantics"
• Tiptoe Through The True Bits
• To Hell in a Handjob
• To the Boneyard
• To Tundra
• Ways To Make It Through The Wall
• We Are All Accelerated Readers
• We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
• We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
• We’ve Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)
• What Death Leaves Behind
• Who Fell Asleep In
• You! Me! Dancing!
• You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing