You Can Call Me Al - Noah and the Whale

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

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[96emilymarie]

Ten people dislike this song :/

[PrixBO]

@96emilymarie but 276 people love this song :D

[GallifreyanTARDIS]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I THINK IM GOING TO KILL MYSELF I CANT GO ON LIKE THIS

[PrixBO]

@GallifreyanTARDIS no, dont die!! lol!! You better stay alive so you can listen it every day ;)

[snahoy]

Great, i have not heard it before:) This is song perfect for them. Such in their style:)

[AdeAkinbiyi123]

this is a pleasant bonus to an already great song

[BelieveHappiness]

Is this real life???

[drpurple321]

@GallifreyanTARDIS well don't do that!

[FelixsFelicis]

i love this.

[The123456789abcdefg1]

haha i can't believe they covered this! noah and the whale is such a good band(:

[nomals]

Hola, soy nomals, el melomano, intercambiamos muchas canciones buenas, recuerdas? sigues usando el msn? no te veo conectada. Serìa bueno volver a compartir e intercambiar. Saludos.

[ThugPotato]

Noah and the Whale is incapable of not making everything amazingly perfect. I don't care if they didn't make this song up, his voice could make "Friday" sound good. Also I am so happy to finally have a modern band that is classy, good, and I can just sit back and chill too.

[wo0dy1]

@masonbroday thank you soo much for this comment, every time i hear this on the radio i wreck my head trying to work out why i know the tune, thank you soo much for point me in the direction of the original finally!

[chazridley]

@MeggieMags It's a B-side, the best thing to do is just download it from here, except that it does just sort of cut off at the end..