Spider’s Web

By Jamie T

On Kings & Queens

Released on September 7, 2009

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[Verse 1]

They think we're fools sitting on the corner

Older you get, the more like your father

The more I drink, the more like my brother

Seem to have picked up on a callous trait

Hate people who think their life is a drama

Making in-jokes about Americana

Amusing myself is worth it for the karma

Obama sounds like Osama to me


[Verse 2]

Well, my bedroom's watched by an intifada

Kids with bricks or strips in Gaza

Point at me in my pyjamas

Laugh and scream, "Get out of bed!"

I say, "I am, I got plans, I'm meeting up with Martha"

(Sleepyheads)

I'm a shoulder, she's Robert Palmer

Acts like a twat but she's a top banana

Might as well admit she's addicted to love


[Chorus]

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

I see I saw lovers undercover

No one found out until we left

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

They know something, oh well, we're running

I know they'll catch up in the end


[Verse 3]

You walked in last with a dirty Barbour

Found me at the bar in fits of laughter

Said you've been seen out digging the past with Arthur

You'd rather just walk in the rain

At a party with Ash as they smash a piñata

Can I leave some stuff here for you to look after?

I'll be back around probably in the mid-summer

New York, New York, man, I love the city!


[Chorus]

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

I see I saw lovers undercover

No one found out until we left

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

They know something, oh well, we're running

I know they'll catch up in the end


[Refrain]

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?


[Verse 4]

Between a wheezing chest and a leaking ceiling

Baby next door screaming all evening

The beatings we got and the ones we're seeking

We're stubborn as fuck and I'm proud to say

That me and Ben Skeleton mixed our own medicine

Never let a critic affect our direction

Barricade doors with our pale complexion

Program a beat, Bones, I'll just keep telling them

How selling them a brand is a band complication

A man in a room with a survey for the station

Trying to get it on air, no care for creation

I guess it's all part of indoctrination


[Refrain]

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?


[Chorus]

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

I see I saw lovers undercover

No one found out until we left

Caught in a spider's web

It's not the first time playing dead

They know something, oh well, we're running

I know they'll catch up in the end


[Refrain]

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?

In the hustle and the bustle, I feel I'm in trouble

And I trip and then I stumble, I feel myself fall

In the hustle and the bustle, it's too rough

I tumble in the gravel and the rubble, can you hear me call?