The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit

A cripple walks amongst you

All you tired human beings

He’s got all the things a cripple has not

Two working arms and legs

And vital parts fall from his system

And dissolve in Scottish rain

But vitally, he doesn’t miss them

He’s too fucked up to care

Is that you in front of me?

Coming back for even more of exactly the same

You must be a masochist

To love a modern leper on his last leg, on his last leg

I’ve crippled your heart a hundred times

And still can’t work out why

You see, I’ve got this disease

That I can’t shake and I’m just rattling through life

Well, this is how we do things now

Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared

So I cut out all the good stuff

Yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg

Well, is that you in front of me

Coming back for even more of exactly the same?

You must be a masochist

To love a modern leper on his last leg

Well, I am ill but I’m not dead

And I don’t know which of those I prefer

Because that limb which I have lost

Well, it was the only thing holding me up, holding me up

Well, I’m lying on the ground now

And you’re walking through the only door

Well, I have lost my eyesight like I said I would

But I still know

That that is you in front of me

And you’re back for even more of exactly the same

Well are you a masochist?

To love a modern leper on his last leg

And you’re not ill and I’m not dead

And doesn’t that make us the perfect pair?

Just you and me, we’ll start again

And you can tell me all about what you did today

What you did today