Wild Beasts — Past Perfect lyrics

Lyrics

Back then there were no others
All I knew — true beginners
We had a gift — the perfect present
No such a thing
I’m taut
It’s tense for me Can’t live within a memory
Proud woman I daren’t come passively
Every fella deserves his dignity
Our hurt is older than our hands
It passed from monkey into man
Now tender hands do heal the hurt
Man did fuck up And then he learnt
It’s tense for me Can’t live within a memory
Proud woman I daren’t come passively
Every fella deserves his dignity
It’s tense for me Can’t keep reliving what is history
Proud woman now don’t go soft on me Where’s that famous old dexterity?
It’s tense for me