With their most recent album now over a month old, we thought we would take a look at our favourite Arctic Monkeys lyrics from throughout the years. The band have just played their only UK festival in Glasgow and have become rock icons since their debut album in 2006.

Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not

“Didn’t you see that girl she were gorgeous, she was beyond belief / But this lad at the side drinking a Smirnoff Ice came and paid for her Tropical Reef” – Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secure

“Have you been drinking, son? / You don’t look old enough too me / I’m sorry, officer, is there a certain age you’re supposed to be? cause nobody told me” – Riot Van

“That girl’s a different girl today / Said that girl’s a different girl to her you kissed last night / You couldn’t have done that on a Sunday / Of course not” – From the Ritz to the Rubble

“Don’t get me wrong though there’s boys in bands / And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands / And just ’cause he’s had a coupla cans / He thinks it’s alright to act like a dickhead” – A Certain Romance

“Well, it’s ever so funny / ‘Cause I don’t think you’re special, I don’t think you’re cool / You’re just probably alright / But under these lights you look beautiful” – Still Take You Home

Favourite Worst Nightmare

Assuming that all things are equal / Who’d want to be men of the people / When there’s people like you? – Teddy Picker

“I bet there’s hundreds of blokes that have wept cause you’ve stolen their thunder” – Brianstorm

“Perhaps ‘fuck off’ might be too kind” – Do Me a Favour

“And I bet she told a million people that she’d stay in touch / Well, all the little promises they don’t mean much” – Only Ones Who Know

It seems like once again you’ve had to greet me with goodbye / I’m always just about to go and spoil the surprise / Take my hands off of your eyes too soon – 505

“Flicking through a little book of sex tips / Remember when the boys were all electric?” – Florescent Adolescent

“Do the bad thing / Take off your wedding ring” – The Bad Thing

Humbug

“And I elongated my lift home, / Yeah I let him go the long way round / I smelt your scent on the seatbelt / And kept my shortcuts to myself” – Cornerstone

And after you have dabbed the patch / you’ll grieve and then proceed to scratch / The varnish off that newly added calmness / So as not to raise any alarms too soon – Dance Little Liar

“And though I tried so not to suffer the indignity of reaction / There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw” – Crying Lightning

“What came first the chicken or the dickhead?” – Pretty Little Visitors

“Fools on parade cavort and carry on / For waiting eyes / That you would rather be beside than in front of / But she’s never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares” – Secret Door

Suck It And See

“Don’t worry, I’m sure that you’re still breaking hearts / With the efficiency that only youth can harness” – Love is a Laserquest

“You’re rarer than a can of Dandelion & Burdock / And those other girls they’re just post-mix Lemonade” – Suck It and See

“She looks as if she’s blowing a kiss at me and suddenly the sky is a scissor sitting on the floor with a tambourine crushing up a bundle of love” – That’s Where You’re Wrong

“The type of kisses where teeth collide / When she laughs / The heavens hum a stun-gun lullaby” – Reckless Serenade

“Now it’s getting dark and the sky looks sticky/ More like Black Treacle than tar/ Black treacle, somebody told the stars you’re not coming out tonight/ And so they found a place to hide” – Black Treacle

“Library pictures of the quickening canoe / The first of it’s kind to get to the moon / Give me an eeny-meeny-miny-moe / Or an ipp dipp, dog-shit rock and roll” – Library Pictures

AM

“So have you got the guts? / Been wondering if your heart’s still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts” – Do I Wanna Know

“She’s got a Barbarella silver swimsuit / And when she needs to shelter from reality / She takes a dip in my daydreams” – Arabella

She’s a certified mind blower / Knowing full well that I don’t/ May suggest there’s somewhere from which I might know her / Just to get the ball to roll” – No 1 Party Anthem

“My days end best when the sunset gets itself behind/That little lady sitting on the passenger side /It’s much less picturesque without her catching the light/The horizon tries but it’s just not as kind on the eyes” – Arabella

“It’s a year ago / Since I drank miniature whiskey and we shared your Coke / Said ain’t it just like you to kiss me / And then hit the road / Leave me listening to The Stones / 2000 Light Years From Home” – I Want It All

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

“I’m a big name in deep space / Ask your mates / The golden boy’s in bad shape” – Star Treatment

“I launch my fragrance called Integrity / I sell the fact that I can’t be bought” – Batphone

“Oh, the dawn won’t stop weighing a tonne / I’ve done some things that I shouldn’t have done/ But I haven’t stopped loving you once” – The Ultracheese

“Finally, I can share with you through cloudy skies / Every whimsical thought that enters my mind / There’s no limit to the length of the dickheads we can be” – She Looks Like Fun

“So I tried to write a song to make you blush / But I’ve a feeling that the whole thing / May well just end up too clever for its own good / The way some science fiction does” – Science Fiction

“Bear with me man, I’ve lost my train of thought” – One Point Perspective

“Soundtracked by a chorus of ‘you don’t know what you’re doing'” – American Sports

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Singles, EPs and B-Sides

“Oh, and she thinks she’s the one / But she’s just one in twenty-four” – No Buses “It seems as we become the winners / You lose a bit of summat / And half wonder if you want it all” – Despair in the Departure Lounge “They left before the lights came on / Because they didn’t want to ruin / What it was that was brewin’ / Before they absolutely had to” – Leave Before the Lights Come On “We’re either shouting or we’re shagging / Locked in tempestuous phase” – Too Much to Ask “Although those shoes affect your step / Don’t forget whose legs you’re on” – Don’t Forget Whose Legs You’re On “I can feign excitement fluidly as solid as I can busk shock” – Fright Lined Dining Room Nice try / You cannot turn away but nice try / Turns your legs to little building blocks / And with his index finger flicks you on your socks – Catapult

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