Electric Ballroom Songtext
von Foals

This is a (this is a) warning shot (warning shot)
Your final call (your final call)
An empty morgue (an empty morgue)
With gurning hearts (with gurning hearts)

Hollowed crowns (hollowed crowns)
And all I see (and all I see)
Is marching bands (marching bands)
Is marching bands (marching bands)

Marching bands (marching bands)
Which never rest (which never rest)
In broken stands (in broken stands)

Butcher birds (butcher birds)
With useless throats (with useless throats)
With useless throats (with useless throats)

We′re not safe (we're not safe)
Of dying kings (of dying kings)
With plastic knives (with plastic knives)


It′s just another hospital
It's just another, it's just another
It′s just another hospital
It′s just another, it's just another

It′s just another hospital
It's just another hospital
It′s just another hospital
It's just another, it′s just another

Captains made (captains made)
With metal tags (with metal tags)
Flags brought down (flags brought down)
Of hollowed crowns (of hollowed crowns)

It's everything (it's everything)
Without a time (without a time)
It′s just a (it′s just a)
It's just a (it′s just a)

It's just another hospital
It′s just another, it's just another
It′s just another hospital
It's just another, it's just another


Goodbye all (goodbye all)
Your marching bands (your marching bands)
Laid to rest (laid to rest)
In broken stands (in broken stands)

Butcher birds (butcher birds)
Will fly away (will fly away)
Will fly away (will fly away)
Will fly away (will fly away)

This is not (this is not)
A warning call (a warning call)
Your final shot (your final shot)

All I see (all I see)
Is butcher birds (is butcher birds)
Will fly away (will fly away)
Electric bloom (electric bloom)

It′s just another hospital
It′s just another, it's just another
It′s just another hospital
It's just another, it′s just another