My Mistakes Were Made For You

“…And we’re just following the flock,
‘Round and in between, before we’re smashed to smithereens
Like they were, and we scramble from the blame…”

“…About as subtle as an earthquake, I know
My mistakes were made for you
And in the back room of a bad dream she came
And whisked me away, enthused…”

“…She was bitten on her birthday and now
A face in the crowd she’s not
And I suspect that now forever the shape
She came to escape is forgot…”

The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You (Live on Later with Jools Holland 2008) (by Faletrisa)

*And it’s a lot to ask her not to sting
And give her less than everything
Around your crooked conscience she will wind. Innocence and arrogance entwined. I saved you from everything. All this and becoming The Last of the Shadow Puppets.