Franz Ferdinand

Après divers single, Franz Ferdinand sort enfin leur premier album, édité par Domino.


01. Jaqueline
02. Tell Her Tonight
03. Take Me Out
04. Matinee
05. Auf Achse
06. Cheating On You
07. This Fire
08. Darts Of Pleasure
09. Micheal
10. Come On Home
11. 40 Ft

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01. Jaqueline

Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk
When Ivor peered above her spectacle
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometime these eyes forget the face they're peering from
When the face they peer upon
Well you know that face as I do
And how in the return of the gaze
She can return you the face that you're staring from
 
It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
 
It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
 
Gregor was down again
Said, 'Come on, kick me again'
Said, 'I'm so drunk I don't mind if you kill me'
 
Come on you gutless
Yeah, I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive and how I know it
But for chips, and for freedom I could die
 
It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
 
It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money
 
It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when we need the money

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02. Tell Her Tonight

I only held her hand but she saw it
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only touched her neck but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
 
She only blinked her eyes but I saw it
She only swung her hair but I saw it
She only shook her hips but I saw it
She only licked her lips but I saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
 
You'll have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
I'll have to tell her, tell her tonight, yeah
I'll have to tell her, to tell her tonight, yeah
I'll have to tell her, to tell her tonight
 
I only watched her walk but she saw it
I only heard her talk but she saw it
I only touched her hips but she saw it
I only kissed her lips but she saw it
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
Gonna have to tell her tonight
 
You have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
You have to tell her, you tell her tonight, yeah
You have to tell her, you tell her tonight, oh yeah

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03. Take Me Out

So if you're lonely
You know I'm here waiting for you
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered I lie
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot then we can die
 
I know I won't be leaving here with you
 
I say don't you know?
You say you don't know
I say take me out
 
I say you don't show
Don't move, time is slow
I say take me out
 
I say you don't know
You say you don't go
I say take me out
 
If I move, this could die
Eyes move, this could die
I want you to take me out
 
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here with you
 
I say don't you know?
You say you don't know
I say take me out
 
If I wait, this can die
If I wane, this can die
I want you to take me out
 
If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
Come on, take me out
 
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here with you

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04. Matinee

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes
Find the eyes
 
Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine
 
I time every journey to bump into you accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate, all the words I hate, the clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
Oh, how you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like
 
Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine
 
So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
And what I made is unclear now
But his deference is and his laughter is
My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, it's easy now, yes, it's easy now
 
Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
 
Well, find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine

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05. Auf Achse

You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and you can't have her
You want to, but she wont let you
 
You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and you can't have her
You want to, but she wont let you
 
She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy 
She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy 
She's not so special, so look what you've done
 
Now you wish you'd never come back here again
Oh, never come back here again
 
You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and you can't have her
You want to, but she wont let you
 
You see her, you can't touch her
You hear her, you can't hold her
You want her and you can't have her
You want to, but she wont let you
 
She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy 
She's not so special, so look what you've done, boy 
She's not so special, so look what you've done
 
And now I'm nailed above you, pushing from my side
It's with your sins that you have killed me
Thinking of your sins I die, thinking how you'd let them touch you
How you'd never realise that I'm ripped and hang forsaken
Knowing I will never rise again
 
You see her
You hear her
You want her
You want to
 
You see her
You still hear her
You want her
You still want to

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06. Cheating On You

Goodbye girl, because I'm lonely
Goodbye girl, it isn't over
Goodbye girl, because it's only love
 
Goodbye girl, you know you want me
Goodbye girl, yes I'm a loser
Goodbye girl, you know its only love
 
I'm cheating on you, yeah
I'm cheating on you, yeah
I'm cheating on you, yeah
You're cheating on me
  
Goodbye girl, you are are the only one
Goodbye girl, I know you want me
Goodbye girl, you are the only love, yeah
 
Goodbye girl, now if you're lonely
Goodbye girl, why dont you join me?
Goodbye girl, you know its only love
 
I'm cheating on you, yeah
I'm cheating on you, yeah
I'm cheating on you, yeah
I'm cheating on me
 
Watch out
Watch out
Cheating on you
 
Goodbye girl
Goodbye girl
Goodbye girl
Goodbye girl

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07. This Fire

Eyes, boring a way through me
Paralyse, controlling completely
Now there is a fire in me
A fire that burns

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn it, I'll burn it
I, I, I'll burn it down

Eyes, burning a way through me
Overwhelm, destroying so sweetly
Now, there is a fire within me
A fire that burns
 
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
Then I, I'm out of control
And I burn, I burn
Oh, how I burn
 
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city...


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08. Darts Of Pleasure

You are the latest contender
You are the one to remember
You are the villain that sells a line of dark fantastic passion
 
I know that you will surrender
I know that you will surrender
I want this fantastic passion, we'll have fantastic passion
 
You can feel my lips undress your eyes
Undress your eyes, undress your eyes
Words of love, words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Tied and so you die
 
You are the lastest adventure
You're an emotional avenger
You are the devil that sells a line of dark fantastic passion
 
I know that you will surrender
I know that you will surrender
I want this fantastic passion, we'll have fantastic passion
 
You can feel my lips undress your eyes
Undress your eyes, undress your eyes
Skin can feel my lips, they tingle tense anticipation
This was an easy one, feel the word and melt upon it
Words of love, words so leisured
Words are poisoned darts of pleasure
Tied and so you die
 
Ich heisse superfantastisch
Ich trinke Schampus mit Lachsfisch
Ich heisse superfantastisch...

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09. Micheal

 
This is where I wanna be, so heavenly
So come and dance with me Michael
So sexy, I'm sexy
So come and dance with me Michael

I'm all that you see, you wanna see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, so close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
 
Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
 
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
 
[backwards]
Call your mother, she's worried about you
 
This is what I am, I am a man
So come and dance with me Michael
So strong now, it's strong now
So come and dance with me Michael

I'm all that you see, you you wanna see
So come and dance with me Michael
So close now, it's close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
 
Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
 
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
 
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
 
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now
Nothing matters
Nothing matters, oh yeah

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10. Come On Home

Although my lover lives in a place that I can't live
I kinda find I like a life this lonely
It rips and pierces me in places I can't see
I love the rip of nerves, the rip that wakes me
 
So I'm dissatisfied, I love dissatisfied
I love to feel there's always more that I need
 
So come on home
So come on home
So come home...
 
You're where you want to be, I'm where I want to be
Caught up chasing everything I've ever wanted
I replace you easily, replace pathetically
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way
 
But how I needed you, when I needed you
Let's not forget we are so strong, so bloody strong
 
Come on home
So come on home
So come home...
 
Blue light falls upon your perfect skin
Falls, and you draw back again
Falls, and this is how I fell
And I can not forget this
And I can not forget this
 
Come on home
So come on home
But don't forget to leave

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11. 40 Ft

As I glanced once upon the foam
40 feet beneath my feet
The cold has come, flows through the molten veins
Cooling all the blood to slush, congeals around again
Oh, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
 
La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
Oh, and forty feet remain
 
Soft scales upon my drying arms
Burn my back beneath the sun
I am cold beneath the burning haze
Looking down, looking down, down, down again
Oh, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
Oh, and forty feet remain

La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
La la la-la, la la la-la, la la la-la, la la-la la
 
Oh, and forty feet remain