Franz Ferdinand The Universe Expanded
I’ll give you each love letter back We’ll laugh before every joke is told We’ll pose after every photograph Has been removed from the negative
(indistinct muttering)
With every smile we lose a line Watch the stars fall back into the sky Cork the wine Unbake a cake Take the dog back to the RSPCA
But I don’t mind losing you this time
I’ll meet you coming backwards I’ll meet you coming back When the universe has expanded Time will contract You’ll come back I’ll meet you coming backwards Next time
We make-up start an argument Tears crawl back into your… I turn from a friend Of your friend Unintroduced Forget your name forevermore
But I don’t mind losing you this time
I’ll meet you coming backwards… Yes I’ll meet you coming back But we move forwards Into emptiness Into the void Into the universe
We’ll part as happy strangers From a long friendship That grew from Such a love
