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Flashing Lights, I Know Your Type

by Art Rush

on Westfield Sydney (2013)

i>sung in the character of Midworth Curtis


Crack a cider gold in the shadow of the spider trees
I can see you shiver, it's cold, take my hoody, please -
Be warm instead of me and go to bed with me
I'm just tryin to do what I can to be a better me
Your thoughts are important & I like your style
Take it from the poet with the Hidey-ho smile
Listen to you speak French, as if I don't exist
Party people in the house, raise your fist like this
For Leonard Cohen, For Nick Cave
and all the other gronks that I secretly hate

I'm a book with a cover of two tone colours
White and orange stripes tell you I'm a tiger lover
I hope you're enjoying the warmth of my hood
If its a Penguin Classic then it must be good, uh
Smile and nod like a man with class
This is what happens when an angel sees an ass
My eyes are made of glass, the sun is sinking fast
Looking at your chest like a flag at half mast
Romanticise the past, hands in the grass
Pocket rocket locked countin' down to the blast

Pretending to be interested in whatever the fuck
It's just another night in a week of good luck
But you're the only one that's ever really understood me
So you can keep the hoodie

I know your type, I knew you'd love to show off
And I always knew that you would take it this far
What do I know? I know your type
Flashing lights

You more of a shy girl egotist
I'm more of the, trips to Canberra
Straight from a page of your favourite author
and you will look back at the things that I taught'cha
The coffee I bought'cha, conversational torture
Calculated caffinated bookstore flat white
Stick to the script, keep it rollin', keep it tight
It was all a script from the start

To be perfectly candid, Your heart is a pamphlet
I read it one-handed, distributed exactly the things that you demanded
You can't blame a fella, for knowing the go
You gotta blame yourself at the end of the show
At least you learnt somethin' for once in your life
The Penguin Classic jacket doesn't mean it's alright
But you're the only one that's ever really understood me
So you can keep the hoodie

I know your type, I knew you'd love to show off
And I always knew that you would take it this far
What do I know? I know your type
Flashing lights

You are so smart.
You're like an angel.
And I think that you and I together,
we could really be some--