MY KZ, UR BF

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“MY KZ, UR BF”, Or “My Keys, Your Boyfriend” was released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009 as the third single from the band’s upcoming debut studio album, Man Alive… Read More

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MY KZ, UR BF Lyrics

[Intro]
Lucifer, you're landing
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
Barb-wire in the bathroom
I can't make new memories since

[Verse 1]
Flashbacks to the time
This shell-shocked apartment was the place
I met with your boy
It's a mortal thing, yeah, it's a mortal thing, "Oh!"
He looked at me funny and I, "Oh! Oh!"
Think our secret's out and a "Oh-ooh-oh!"
I try to explain, but then munitions rain
And we're the epicentre

[Pre-Chorus]
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

[Chorus]
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "Whoa...!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
Everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed

[Verse 2]
I fly through the walls
All pieces colliding and I
See Raymond apart
He's a frowning now, wagging a finger at me, "Boy!"
His knees bend the other way and "Boy! Boy!"
Are you guys together, honey? "B..b..boy!"
Oh, but now I can't find his torso
"Hmm, hmm, hmm," I guess you're separated now

[Pre-Chorus]
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine
(Monica, I just wanna know)
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

[Chorus]
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "Whoa!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
And everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed
The lights all failed

[Bridge]
Lucifer, you're landing (Six cars the driveway oh)
(I do believe it will be business inside)
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
(It's a real spanner into my works, I think I kicked the bucket)
Baby's on the bullseye
(I do believe it will be business inside)
I can't make new memories since
(It's a real spanner into my works)
–Ries since, –ries since

[Chorus]
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "Whoa!"
Yeah, right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
And everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all failed

[Outro]
And now everybody gotta go hungry
And everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven't seen the body count lately
But looking at your faces, it must have been bad!
And if everybody answered their phone calls
'But people say the army's on fire
It's like we sitting with our parachutes on
But the airport's gone

About

“MY KZ, UR BF”, Or “My Keys, Your Boyfriend” was released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009 as the third single from the band’s upcoming debut studio album, Man Alive (2010).

The title is “meant to be ridiculous”.

On their official YouTube channel, Higgs talked about the deliberate juxtaposition in this song:

There’s two different types of America where you have the very superficial sitcom world, like a ‘Friends’ environment, which is based on very self-absorbed realities about how you feel about everything, and there’s also the foreign policy – killing people in foreign lands for whatever reason – and thinking about how those two things can co-exist at the same time, and trying to superimpose one on the other … and thinking how much that would pale into insignificance if it was happening.

An earlier version of this song, titled ‘Airstrike On Your Forehead’, was released in 2011.