Arab Strap were a post-folk indieband from signed for the majority of their albums to independent record label Chemikal Underground. The duohad a short lived flirtation with a major label at the peak of their critical acclaim (post- Philophobia) when they signed to Go!Beat records (a former independent label now owned by Universal). Vocalist Aidan Moffatand multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middletonmet in Falkirk, Scotland, bonded over their mutual love for Drag City recording artists such as Smogand Will Oldham, and began a collaboration in 1995. The band is completed by violinist Jenny Reeveand cellist . Arab Strap's marked characteristics include frank and forthright lyrics delivered in a Scottish brogue.
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Shouldnt we be naked, especially tonight?
Instead of being fat, instead of being tight.
If you go, go for good,
Dont fucking joke, you know I would.
Theres no attempt to make up,
No attempt to sort it out.
And we know wshen we wake up well forget what its about.
If you go, go for good,
No fucking jokes.
Maybe we should.
Theres at least a foot between us
- do you really need pyjamas in this heat?
And all we can hear is pissed-up kids in the street.
If you go, go for good.
Dont fucking joke, you know I would.
If you go, go for good.
D do you really think I ever could?
I really wish you fucking would.