Austin City Limits

-Next on "Austin City Limits," LCD Soundsystem is back with new songs and classics.

"Call the Police" plays

And we don't waste time with love We don't waste time with love It's just a push and a shove - I caught your eye When I stepped outside with my - Emotional haircut - It seems that I've been misunderstood The look of great concern in your eyes And your surprise at my - Emotional haircut - It's better to me It's much better than it used to be -Welcome, everybody, to "Austin City Limits"!

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-Now LCD Soundsystem.

"Oh Baby" plays

- Oh, baby Oh, baby You're having a bad dream Here in my arms Oh, sugar You came to me Could all be a bad thing Doing harm Oh, oh, oh Oh, lover You run from me We move like a bad scene Shot in the dark Oh, but please Please wake me For my love lies patiently Please, baby, please And my love life waits for me Oh, love You came to me Are you having a bad time There in your home Oh, sugar Give in to me You're having a bad dream Of ringing alarms Oh, but please Please shake me My love lies patiently Please, baby, please And my love plays wait-and-see Oh, I'm on my knees Yeah, I'm on my knees I promise I'm clean But my love life waits You're already gone Yeah, you're already gone We are already home My love life stumbles on

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Oh, baby Lean into me There's always a side door Into the dark Into the dark

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Thanks, everybody. Thank you very much. Um...

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We're very happy to be here.

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We've never really done anything quite like this before. We've played on some shows, and -- but this is, like, an interesting combination of, like, you're all here and these things are all here.

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Uh, and you're -- you're being held back by a piece of tape, which...

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I can't tell if that means you're really thoughtful and respectful or you just don't want to come over here at all.

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But thank you very much. This is Pat.

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"Call the Police" plays

We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nothing We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nothing We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nothing This is nowhere We all, we all, we all, we all know this is nowhere There is no one here It moves like a virus and enters our skin The first sign divides us, the second is moving to Berlin But that's not the state I'm in The air is so thin But that's not the state The old guys are frightened and frightening to behold The kids come out fighting And still doing what they're told But you're waking a monster That will drive you from your hoary holes of gold And your body will get cold And we don't waste time with love - It's just death from above - Your head is on fire Your hands are getting weak We all, we all get stupid in the heat You've basted your brains With the shatter and defeat up on the street And this is nowhere The early years were boring The quiet, unhappy punk See, mother was a cripple And my father was a drunk but gentle man So we do the best we can This is the plan Wear your makeup like a man 'Cause we don't waste time with love Yeah, we don't waste time with love It's just a push and a shove Well, there's a full-blown rebellion But you're easy to confuse By triggered kids and fakers and some questionable views Oh, call the cops, call the preachers Before they let us and they lose When, oh, we all start arguing the history of the Jews You got nothing left to lose Gives me the blues And we don't waste time with love And we don't waste time with love So call the police Yeah, call the police Yeah, call the police Yeah, call the police Go, call the police Go, call the police Just chase the cops Just call the police You're crazy, man Yeah, call 'em up Just go call the police The first in line They're gonna eat the rich

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Hey, thanks, everybody.

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Just so you know, I realize we just played two new songs. We're not -- We're gonna play old songs and new songs. When you start off and you play just two new songs, I would be anxious, like, "Oh, man, is the whole night just..."

"I Can Change" plays

It's a mix. It's a blend. Tell me a line, make it easy for me Open your arms Dance with me until I feel all right It's good in the dark, good in the dark But into the lover's light Here comes another fight So ring the alarm, ring the alarm Bore me and hold me and cling to my arm Here it comes Here it comes And what you're asking me now Disastrous now Hoping and hoping and hoping the feeling goes away Away Never change, never change, never change, never change Never change, never change, never change This is why I fell in love Oh, oh, oh Never change, never change, never change, never change Never change, never change, never change That's just who I fell in love with In love Oh, oh, oh

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So, this is the time, the very best time So give me a line and take me home Take me over And dashing the hopes, dashing the hopes And smashing the pride The morning's got you on the ropes Oh And love is a murderer, love is a murderer But if she calls you tonight Everything is all right Yeah, we know And love is a curse shoved in a hearse Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry And this is coming from me But I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love Oh, oh, oh And I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love In love Oh, oh, oh Turn on the light, make it easy for me Feel the divide Fumble in the kitchen till it's right What an awful sight But there's love in your eyes Love in your eyes, love in your eyes But maybe that's just your love of fights All night And I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love In love And I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love In love Ooh And I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you feel real love Real love Ooh And I can change I can change, I can change, I can change I can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love In love Ooh, ooh

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"Change Yr Mind" plays

I ain't seen anyone for days I still have yet to leave the bed It's impossible Feeling safe with it now I'm impossible Getting used to it now I just have nothing left to say I'm in no place to get it right And I'm not dangerous now The way I used to be once I'm just too old for it now At least that seems to be true I have a penny for your thoughts If you could keep them to yourself About you slipping away I feel you slipping away Don't want to hear it all now Of how you're slipping away I can't make you a promise We're not professionals But if you don't Like what it feels like And if you don't You don't like where it's been It could be over if you change your mind If you change your mind If you change your mind If you change your mind If you change your mind If you change your mind You can change your mind You can change your mind

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Thanks very much.

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"Tonite" plays

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Everybody's singing the same song It goes... "Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight" - I never realized That these artists thought so much about dying But truth be told, we all have the same end Could make you - Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry - But I'm telling you This is the best news you're gettin' all week Oh, sure, it's ruling the airwaves Or what remains of the airwaves And we're frankly thankful For the market psychology you're hipping us to And all the hits are saying the same thing There's only - Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight - And life is finite But...it feels like forever It feels like forever Finite Finite Oh, is everybody feeling the same stuff? We're all - Wild - Except for you And you know who you are This is a love song And you're getting older I promise you this, you're getting older And there's improvements unless you're such a winner That the future's a nightmare And there's nothing I can do There's nothing anyone can do about this - And, oh, oh, oh - I'm offering you this chance to get even - But, oh, oh, oh - You know very well the dialect of negation Sure enemies haunt you with spit and derision But friends are the ones who can put you in exile - But that's not right And you're too sharp to be used Or you're too shocked from being used By these bullying children of the fabulous Raffling off limited-edition shoes So, what's it you do, again? Oh, I'm a reminder The hobbled veteran of the disk shop inquisition Set to parry the cocksure of mem-stick filth With my own late-era middle-aged ramblings And every lover favors the same things It's all -"Touch me, touch me, touch me, touch me, touch me tonight" - We maybe realize what it is we need before we die And luck is always better than skill at things We're flying - Blind - Oh, good gracious I sound like my mom But out of the little rooms and onto the streets You've lost your Internet, and we've lost our memory We had a paper trail which led to our secrets Now embarrassing pictures have just all been deleted By versions of selves that we thought were the best ones Till versions of versions of others repeating Come laughing at everything you thought was important While still making mistakes That you thought you had learned from And terrible people know better than you That cost in the long run But they don't play the short game And terrible people know better than you The use and abuse of the wants of dear listener So you will be badgered and taunted and told That you're missing a party that you'll never get over You hate the idea that you're wasting your youth That you stood in the background Oh, until you got older But that's...all...lies That's...all...lies That's...all...lies That's...all...lies

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"New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" plays

New York, I love you

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But you're bringing me down New York, I love you But you're bringing me down

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Like a rat in a cage Pulling minimum wage New York, I love you But you're bringing me down New York, you're safer And you're wasting my time Our records all show you were filthy but fine Oh, oh But they shuttered your stores Once you opened the doors To them cops who got bored Once they ran out of crime New York, you're perfect Oh, please don't change a thing Your ex-billionaire mayor was convinced he was king Oh, oh Now the boring collect And I mean all disrespect In those neighborhood bars I once dreamt I would drink New York, I love you But you're freaking me out There's a boatload of twist, but we're fresh out of shout But like a death in the hall That you hear through your wall New York, I love you But you're freaking me out New York, I love you But you're bringing me down New York, I love you But you're bringing me down Like a death of the heart Oh, Jesus, where do I start? But you're still the one pool where I'd happily drown And, oh, take me off your mailing list For kids who think it still exists Yes, for those who think it still exists Maybe you're wrong and maybe I'm right Maybe you're wrong and maybe you're right Maybe you're right, maybe I'm wrong And just maybe you're right Oh, oh Maybe Mother told you true And there'll always be somebody there for you And you'll never be alone But maybe she's wrong And maybe I'm right And maybe she's wrong Maybe she's wrong But maybe I'm right And so here's this song And oh-oh-oh-oh

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"Emotional Haircut" plays

I caught your eye when I stepped outside with my - Emotional haircut - It seems that I've been misunderstood The look of great concern in your eyes And your surprise at my - Emotional haircut - It's better to me It's much better than it used to be I got eyes, I got eyes going every which way I got eyes all over the place And I got tired of the hotel room and the TV You wish that you've been told about whatever has led to this - Emotional haircut - It ain't a disease It's just hard to do whatever you please And treat...yourself... tonight To a little love life Now we all get ideas and then we shut 'em down when there's - Emotional haircut - Now I ain't Dionysian, man No, no, buddy, no need to be concerned with this - Emotional haircut - It's all part of the game You know, it's just part of the feat So let's raise a glass to the bodies in here Oh, raise a glass to the bodies in here We're gonna toast till the bodies all soak up the bass The bass Oh, you're in love with the bodies in here and their - Emotional haircut - Oh, just get on the street ...the shuffle, put your...on repeat You've got numbers on your phone Of your dead that you can't delete And you got life-affirming moments in your past That you cannot repeat Yeah, you've numbers on your phone Of your dead that you cannot delete And you're losing all your skin in the middle When you just can't sleep I know you can't calm down Out of your windows and onto the streets Out of your windows Out of your Out to Do you know what it does? It puts me up on my feet On my feet On my feet It puts me on the floo-oo-r But can you hear the heartbeat? Can you hear the heartbeat? Can you hear the heartbeat? Just listen to the heartbeat Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen to it now Listen, it's calming down

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Thanks. We have one more song for you people tonight. Thank you for coming and being very gracious to us. And, um...

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I feel like, because it's a show, that, you know, you want to tell how you write things, too. I don't know. Yet it's a television show. I -- We -- I need to be more interesting.

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My family has been on me about that for a really long time. And, uh, I got nothing. You know?

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This is what I do.

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This is...

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You can feign interest, but you can't feign interesting.

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"All My Friends" plays

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That's how it starts We go back to your house Watch the tape. Okay. You check the charts And start to figure it out That's okay. And if it's crowded, all the better Because we know we're gonna be up late Thanks for cutting the tape. But if you're worried about the weather Then you picked the wrong place to stay Thanks for coming. That's how it starts

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And so it starts You switch the engine on We set controls for the heart of the sun One of the ways that we show our age And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up If the sun comes up And I still don't wanna stagger home Then it's the memory of our betters That are keeping us on our feet You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan And the next five years trying to be with your friends again Oh, we're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can Yeah, I know it gets tired But it's better when we pretend It comes apart The way it does in bad films Except the part Where the moral kicks in And when we're running out of the drugs And the conversation's grinding away I wouldn't trade one stupid decision For another five years of life You know, you drop the first 10 years Just as fast as you can And the next 10 people who are trying to be polite Oh, you're blowing 85 days in the middle of France Yeah, I know it gets tired Only where are your friends tonight? Oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh-oh oh Oh oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh And to tell the truth This could be the last time So here we go Like a sales force into the night And if I made a fool, if I made a fool If I made a fool on the road There's always this And if I'm sued into submission I can still come home to this And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand You can sleep on the plane or review what you said When you're drunk and the kids look impossibly tanned You think over and over, "Hey, I'm finally dead" Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand You can turn it on yourself, you ridiculous clown You forgot what you meant when you read what you said And you always knew you were tired But then where are your friends tonight? Where are your friends tonight? Where are your friends toni-i-i-i-ght? If I could see all my friends tonight If I could see all my friends tonight If I could see all my friends tonight If I could see all my friends tonight

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Thank you guys very, very much. Thank you very, very much.

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I grew up with a lot of, like, current rock in my house before I would have been choosing it. So, by the time I was like 6, 7, 8, I was already listening to what a 15-, 16-, 17-year-old would listen to, 'cause that's what -- you know, whatever my brother listened to, I thought was good. And I had these -- My best friend across the street, Griff, his -- he had older brothers, and they had -- He had three older brothers that all had three different types of musical taste. One guy was, like, a new-wave guy. One guy was into, like, New York, like, sort of like Stooges and MC5 and, uh, Television and Dead Boys. And other guy was into, like, really heavy acid rock, like Sabbath and...

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And so I could grow up and kind of like go -- could listen to some really amazing music as a kid. I mean, I liked where our record is. I like where we are as a band. I -- I wouldn't want to be in another band other than our band. I really like the -- Like, what we get to do, we have a lot of freedom. We get to -- We've been invited to play really great places. Like, we're -- we're here. We never have done this before. We've headlined some festivals. We never did that before. Um...but I don't know what it -- I don't know what all of it means, in terms of what we are, as a band, quite yet. I think I always need time. Like, I think, in five years, I'll be able to look at this record and this period and be like, "Oh, that -- I know what that is." Like, I understand now better what we were when we were small, when we were starting in the first three records. They make a lot more sense to me now. But at the time, I was just like, "Can't see the forest for the trees," or, "Don't know which way is up when you're on moving water." You know?

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