Alone in someone’s bedroom
She firmly took my hand
The isolation ended
I began to understand
In the ping-pong match of constant desire
I was never gonna get ahead
Cuz I was looking in the mirror
Refrain:
Now we’ve got that sympathy
What I’m to you
You are to me
Let’s go
Judeo-Christianity
I’d never heard the words
Enemies for centuries
Until there was a third
In the ping-pong match of constant desire
I was never gonna get ahead
'Cause I was looking in the mirror
Diego Garcia
Surrounded by the waves
Lonely in the ocean
But in every single way
It was full of love
And the warmest fellow-feeling
I didn’t have your sympathy
But I knew where to start
Explaining to you patiently
That the one who broke my heart
Would have broken yours
And thrown the pieces in the river
Desperate for an enemy
But too afraid to kill
Use the pain of someone else
And triumph for their will
And spill the blood
Of the arrogant mosquitoes
Written by Ezra Koenig & Ariel Rechtshaid / Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid & Ezra Koenig / Engineered by Ariel Rechtshaid, Chris Kasych, Shawn Everett, John DeBold, Hiroya Takayama & Takemasa Kosaka / Mixed by Ariel Rechtshaid
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Live recordings
Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival7 March 2020
Enmore Theatre9 January 2020
La Riviera25 November 2019
AFAS Live19 November 2019
Victoria Warehouse8 November 2019
Teatro Metropolitan21 October 2019
Live Out Festival19 October 2019
Red Rocks Amphitheatre9 October 2019
Red Rocks Amphitheatre8 October 2019
The Complex6 October 2019
Hollywood Bowl2 October 2019
Life Is Beautiful22 September 2019
Piedmont Park15 September 2019
Ed Sullivan Theater11 September 2019
Madison Square Garden6 September 2019
Mann Center for the Performing Arts4 September 2019
Agganis Arena3 September 2019
Austin City Limits22 August 2019
White Oak Music Hall17 August 2019
NOS Alive Festival12 July 2019
Down the Rabbit Hole Festival6 July 2019
Roskilde Festival5 July 2019
Open’er Festival3 July 2019
Pyramid Stage30 June 2019
Firefly Festival23 June 2019
Huntingon Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island16 June 2019