Franz Ferdinand — Better in Hoboken

[Intro] One, two, three, four [Chorus] It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money [Verse 1] Jacqueline was seventeen, working on a desk When I, Ivor peered above her spectacle, forgot that he had wrecked a girl Well, sometime these eyes forget the face they're peering from When the face they peer upon Well, you know that face as I do, and how in the return of the gaze She can return you the face that you are staring from [Chorus] It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] Gregor was down again, said, "Come on, kick me again" Said, "I'm so drunk, I don't mind if you kill me Come on, you gutless Yeah, I'm alive, oh, I'm alive Oh, I'm alive and how I know it Oh, but for chips and for freedom, I could die" [Chorus] It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money It's always better on holiday, so much better on holiday That's why we only work when we need the money