Lirik dan Chord Lagu Finger Back - Vampire Weekend

Lagu ini muncul di dalam album studio ketiga mereka yang bertajuk Modern Vampires of the City.

Album yang rilis pada tahun 2013 itu sukses memenangkan Grammy Award untuk kategori Best Alternative Music Album.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Finger Back” dari Vampire Weekend.

[Intro]
(C   Dm   Dm   G) x4

[Verse 1]
C                                 Dm
Bend my finger back (snap)
Dm
Wrap it in a paper towel
Dm                                            G
Break a twig in half and set it straight
C                                Dm
Beat me with a wood bat
Dm
Hit me with a canister that's
Dm                                           G
fired while the soldiers drive away
C                                 Dm
Bend my finger back (snap)
Dm                                           G
On and on and on and on for days
C                               Dm
Beat me with a wood bat
Dm
Hit me like a Yankee, like a
Dm                                        G
Son of freedom, never as a slave

[Chorus 1]
F
It's etiquette, you idiot spend
C
Time behind the line
F                                                  C
Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't ever shine
F                                         C
Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
G
Baby you're not anybody's fool

[Verse 2]
C                                 Dm
Bless me with a heart attack a
Dm
Real crise cardiaque and
Dm                                                        G
Show me where to find the surgeon's knife
C                               Dm
Eviscerate me now, (hack)
Dm
Take me to my punishment the
Dm                                            G
Punishment I've needed all my life
C                        Dm
Bend my finger (snap)
Dm                                            G
On and on and on and on with strife
C                          Dm
Listen to my bum rap
Dm                                                                           G
Listen to the evidence exonerating me from being right

[Chorus 2]
F
It's etiquette, you idiot spend
C
Time behind the line
F                                                  C
Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't ever shine
F                                         C
Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
G
Baby you're not anybody's fool
F                                                          C
I know that I've been wicked and the road to hell is wide
F                                      C
Cursed by curiosity that made us go inside
F                                                   C
Everyone was charming but they took us for a ride
G
But baby, you're not anybody's fool

[Bridge 1(Instrumental)]
C F C G C G C G
C F C G C G C G

[Verse 1 (Repeated)]
C                                 Dm
Bend my finger back (snap)
Dm
Wrap it in a paper towel
Dm                                            G
Break a twig in half and set it straight
C                                Dm
Beat me with a wood bat
Dm
Hit me with a canister that's
Dm                                           G
fired while the soldiers drive away
C                                Dm
Bend my finger back (snap)
Dm                                           G
On and on and on and on for days
C                               Dm
Beat me with a wood bat
Dm
Hit me like a Yankee, like a
Dm                                       G
Son of freedom, never as a slave

[Chorus 3]
F
It's etiquette, you idiot spend
C
Time behind the line
F                                                  C
Show sympathy to LA where the sun don't ever shine
F                                        C
Everybody wants you, but baby you are mine
G
Baby you're not anybody's fool
F                                                        C
The harpsichord is broken and the television's fried
F                                                 C
The city's getting hotter like a country in decline
F                                                C
Everyone's a coward when you look them in the eyes
G
But baby, you're not anybody's fool

[Bridge (Talking)]
C    F
C                                               G
  Sing "next year in Jerusalem"
C                                   G                 C             G
  You know, the one at 103rd and Broadway?
                    C                                                   F                C
'Cause this Orthodox girl fell in love with the guy at the falafel shop
                      G                       C
And why not?     Should she have averted her eyes and just stared
           G               C                                                 G
at the laminated poster of the Dome of the Rock?

[Bridge (Singing)]
                 C
And then blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood,
F                         C                                       G
Blood, and then bloood, bloood, bloooood
                 C
And then blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood,
G                         C                                                          G
Blood, and then bloood, bloood, bloood bloood bloood
C                                   F            C
Remembrances of holy days in Tarrytown and Rye
G                    C                        G                   C                  G
I don't wanna live like this but I don't wanna       dieeeeeeeee
C                                   F                   C
Condolences to gentle hearts who couldn't bear to try
G                    C                         G                   C                G
I don't wanna live like this but I don't wanna        dieeeeeeeee
C                                    F              C
Remembrances of holy days in Tarrytown and Rye
G                     C                        G                  C               G
I don't wanna live like this but I don't wanna       dieeeeeeeee