Lagu tersebut muncul sebagai trek keenam dalam album studio ketiga mereka yang bertajuk Ultra Mono.
Album yang dirilis pada tahun 2020 melalui Partisan Records itu berhasil menduduki posisi ke-6 di US Top Rock Albums.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Model Village” dari IDLES:
[Intro]
E D E D E D E D
[Verse]
E D E D
A lot of nine fingered boys in the village
E D E D
They haven't got much choice in the?village
E D E D
Model?car, model wife,?model village
E D E D
Model far, model right, model?village
E D E D
They ain't too friendly in the village
E D E D
There’s a tabloid frenzy in the village
E D E D
He's "not a racist but" in the village
E D E D
Gotta drive half-cut in the village
E D E D
Model low crime rate in the village
E D E D
Model race, model hate, model village
E D E D
Got my head kicked in in the village
E D E D
There’s a lot of pink skin in the village
E D E D
"Hardest man in the world" in the village
E D E D
He says he's got with every girl in the village
[Bridge]
E B D E
Take flight, take flight
Model village
E B D E
[Chorus]
E D
I beg your pardon
E D
I don’t care about your rose garden
C D
I've listened to the things you said
E D
You just sound like you're scared to death
[Verse 2]
E D E D
Still not in love with the village
E D E D
Homophobes by the tonne in the village
E D E D
A lot of overpriced drugs in the village
E D E D
A lot of half pint thugs in the village
E D E D
Model car, model wife, model village
E D E D
Model far, model right, model village
E D E D
I see a lot of gammon in the village
E D E D
I don’t see a lot happen in the village
E D E D
Just give them an anthem and they'll sing it
E D E D
Still they don’t know the meanings in it
E D E D
Just saluting flags 'cause it's British
E D E D
Idiot spirits thinking they're kindred
E D E D
Model low crime rate in the village
E D E D
Model race, model hate, model village
E D E D
It feels like the village is self-pillaged
E D E D
Still someone making a killing
[Bridge]
E B D E
Take flight, take flight
Model village
E B D E
[Ulangi Chorus]
[Outro]
E D E D
You gotta laugh as the curtain twitches
E D E D
And the villagers bury their riches
E D E D
But the village doesn't know what rich is
E D E D
Just snitches snitching on snitches
E D E D
Only one thing to do in the village
E D E D
Just say toodle-do to the village
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