The Modern Leper

[Verse 1]

Cripple walks amongst you

All you tired human beings

He's got all the things a cripple has not

Working arms and legs

Vital parts fall from his system

And dissolve in Scottish rain

Vitally, he doesn’t miss them

He's too fucked up to care

[Chorus]

Is that you in front of me?

Coming back for even more of exactly the same

You must be a masochist

To love a modern leper on his last leg, on his last leg

[Verse 2]

I crippled your heart a hundred times

And still can't work out why

See, I’ve got this disease that

I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life

This is how we do things now

This is how the modern stay scared

So I cut out all the good stuff

I cut off my foot to spite my leg

[Chorus]

Is that you in front of me?

Coming back for even more of exactly the same

You must be a masochist

To love a modern leper on his last leg

Well I am ill but I'm not dead

And I don't know which of these I prefer

Because that limb, which I have lost

It was the only thing holding me up, holding me up

[Bridge]

I'm lying on the ground now

And you're walking through the only door

I have lost my eyesight like I said I would

But I still know

[Chorus]

That is you in front of me

Coming back for even more of exactly the same

Well are you a masochist?

To love a modern leper on his last leg

You're not ill, ’cause I’m not dead

Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?

Sit with me, we’ll start again

And you can tell me all about what you did today

What you did today