You said we should look out further
I guess it wouldn’t hurt us
We don’t have to be around all these coffee shops

Now we’ve got that percolator
Never made a latte greater
I’m savin 23 dollars a week

We drive to a house in Preston
We see police arrestin’
A man with his hand in a bag

Hows that for first impressions
This place seems depressing
It’s a Californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac

Its got a lovely garden
A garage for two cars to park in
Or a lot of room for storage if you’ve just got one

And its going pretty cheap you say
Well it’s the deceased who’ve stayed
Arent the pressed metal ceilings great?

Then I see the handrail in the shower
The collection of those canisters for coffee tea and flour
And a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam

And I cant think of floorboards anymore
Whether the front room faces south or north
And I wonder what she bought it for

If you’ve got a
Spare half a million
You could knock it down
And start rebuildin’

  1. Avant Gardener
  2. Are You Looking After Yourself?
  3. Depreston
  4. Pedestrian At Best
  5. Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party
  6. Over Everything
  7. Fear Is Like A Forest (feat. Kurt Vile)
  8. Need a Little Time
  9. Sunfair Sundown
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