TV On The Radio I Was A Lover Lyrics

I was a lover before this war
Held up in a luxury suite
Behind a well-barricaded door
Now that I've cleaned up, gone legit
I can see clearly: round hole
Round hole; square peg don't fit

I'm locked in my bedroom
So send back the clowns
My clone wears a brown shirt
And I seduce him when there's no one around
Mano y mano, on a bed of nails
Bring it on like a storm
Till I knock the wind out of his sails
And we don't make eye contact
When we have run-ins in town
Just a barely polite nod
And nervous stares towards the ground
I once joined a priest class, plastic, inert
In a slow dance with commerce
Like a lens up a skirt

And we liked to party
And we kept it live
And we had a three volume tome of
Contemporary slang
To keep a handle on all this jive

Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time
How many styles did you cycle through
Before you were mine?
And it's been a while since we went wild
And that's all fine
But we're sleepwalking through this trial
And it's really a crime
It's really a crime, it's really a crime
It's really criminal

We're just busy tempting like fate's on the nod
Running on empty, bourbon and God
It's been a while thoughsince we knew the way
And it's been even longer
Since our plastic priest class
Had a g______ed thing to say

I was a lover before this war