The best Arctic Monkeys lyrics: Alex Turner's greatest lines
23 February 2021, 11:41 | Updated: 20 January 2022, 16:44
From Whatever People Say I Am to the Tranquility Base... here's some of Turner's greatest words of wisdom...
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"The boy’s a slag / the best you ever had."
Fluorescent Adolescent, 2007
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“I just wanted to be one of The Strokes / Now look at the mess you made me make.”
Star Treatment, 2018
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"With folded arms you occupied the bench like toothache / Stood and puffed your chest out like you'd never lost a war."
Crying Lightning, 2009
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"The horizon tries but it's just not as kind on the eyes as Arabella."
Arabella, 2013
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Now then Mardy Bum / I've seen your frown / And it's like looking down the barrel of a gun / And it goes off."
Mardy Bum, 2006
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“I want to stay with you my love / The way that some science fiction does."
Science Fiction, 2018
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"All that’s left is the truth that love’s not only blind but deaf."
Fake Tales Of San Francisco, 2006
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"So have you got the guts? / Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts."
Do I Wanna Know?, 2013
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"You’re rarer then a can of Dandelion & Burdock."
Suck It And See, 2011
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"We'll stick to the guns / Don't care if it's marketing suicidal / Won't crack or compromise.
Who The F**k Are Arctic Monkeys? 2006
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"How can you wake up, with someone you don’t love / And not feel slightly fazed by it?"
Leave Before The Lights Come On, 2006
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"There's a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are / Our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far / I don't know what it is that they want / But I haven't got it to give."
If You Were There, Beware, 2007
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"Didn't you see she were gorgeous, she was beyond belief / But this lad at the side drinking his Smirnoff ice / Came and paid for her Tropical Reef."
Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure, 2006
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“I launch my fragrance called ‘Integrity’/I sell the fact that I can’t be bought.”
Batphone, 2018
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"I let him go the long way round / I smelt your scent on the seatbelt / And kept my short-cuts to myself."
Cornerstone, 2009
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"Over there there's broken bones / There's only music so that there's new ringtones."
A Certain Romance, 2006
