Julien Baker - The Modern Leper Lyrics

Oh look, a double cross. Nothing SATANIC about that right?

Still love this cover Best song on the album.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

Not for me I'm afraid, lost all the energy and passion from the original. Biffy nailed it. This is just sad for the sake of it. I'm not here to upset anyone btw just an opinion, we are all here for one reason anyway. The love of FR.

boy does this give me all the feels. an excellent rendition, julien x

Fuck me, haunting and beautiful. Scott, you're so missed.

ahh jeeze, who is cutting all the onions?

Excellent

This song is so meaningful. Depicts the real life

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My fav cover off the album

Grab people and hug them. They rarely complain. I've done it. When they do, just remind them you are hugging them and they complain less.

this....just....too many tears to express how amazing and powerful this song and cover is....

I am ill, I'm not dead 🐇❤🐰🎵

So Julien, I need you to drop everything you're doing right now and make your own cover album of Frightened Rabbit songs cause after listening to this, Acts of Man, Holy and Nitrous Gas, I definitely need that in my life.


Please and Thank you.

You may have already seen, but she does have a few FR covers that she did live on youtube

...oh my heart!

So beautiful Julien! What a wonderful interpretation. These songs have helped me through so much, taught me so much, and have given even more to others. Your version will most certainly do the same. Thank you for creating this.

No need to cover this song could never be made any better, especially this droning mess , leave perfect alone

Lump in my throat from start to finish.

Every time I listen to anything by Julien I turn into that chick from True Romance; You're so fucking cool, You're so fucking cool, You're so fucking cool....

TRUE LOVE

❤️❤️❤️

Well fuck. Now I'm sat on a packed bus on the way to work, balling my eyes out. I thought it was safe. It was not.

Tear to a glass eye stuff that. Amazing cover, so sad

un buen tema

most anticipated release of the year!

Love her voice. What a great cover.

I never knew Frightened Rabbit, heard of them only through Scott's death. I've listened to little snatches, to this, and it's gorgeous--but I'm scared. Depression and it's urges are so much a part of my life, and I'm so scared it's the disease that will kill me. Engaging with powerful work by people taken by this disease... it makes me almost superstitiously frightened, as if they'll take me with them. So I haven't read Mark Fisher. I haven't listened to Frightened Rabbit.

Stunning rendition. Thank you. Scott. x

”It was the only thing holding me up” that part fucking kills me. Really lovely cover.

We miss ya, Scott.

A cripple walks amongst you, all you tired human beings
He's got all the things a cripple has not, two working arms and legs
And vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in Scottish rain
Vitally, he doesn't miss them; he's too fucked up to care

Well is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg
On his last leg

Well I crippled your heart a hundred times and still can't work out why
You see, I've got this disease that I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life
This is how we do things now, this is how the modern stay scared
So I cut out all the good stuff, I cut off my foot to spite my leg

Well is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg
Well I am ill but I'm not dead
And I don't know which of those I prefer
Because that limb which I have lost
It was the only thing holding me up
Holding me up

I'm lying on the ground now and you're walking through the only door
I have lost my eyesight like I said I would but I still know

And that is you in front of me
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
Well are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?
You're not ill 'cause I'm not dead
Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
Just you and me, we'll start again
And you can tell me all about what you did today
What you did today

I’m so sad I discovered Frightened Rabbit so late, but as soon I heard the band I just felt pained by the beauty of the music. Scott’s death is truly devastating. I miss him. ❤️

Just amazing. Hard to be concise when i think about how this song makes me feel.
Understood? Triumphant? Definitely emotional. Thank you Scott. Thank you Julien.

such a beautiful and emotional tribute to a beautiful person

Stunning. Listened to it on repeat for 2 days.

Cant listen to anything frightened rabbit without getting slightly emotional lol. They were my full teenage years

agreed!

Well fuck... I'm crying... and I won't be the only one.

I'm loving these covers. Beautiful tributes to a beautiful album. <3

Thank you, Julien. It's the bitterest, most biting joy to hear this artist I love covering this artist I love. And what a very different version it is. So faithful, but also so Julien. A beautiful tribute.

shit, first time hear this song only for julien but this is so beautiful!

Perfection.

I found FR a bit late in the game, sometime in 2013, around the time Pedestrian Verse came out. It was through YouTube, in fact: I sign in one day and Backyard Skulls showed up in my recs. It was new and novel at the time. I had the luxury of being able to look back through their work to pick and choose what I liked. I'd already listened to a couple tracks off of PV, so I already liked them, but it was this song, specifically, that made me realise that I had stumbled across true greatness.

And I just discovered Julien not too long ago, when I happened to turn on the radio in my car and caught her performance on Live From Here. It was a bittersweet surprise to wake up today and see one of my new faves paying tribute to a genius who had been such an integral part of my life for the past few years.

RIP Scott. You saw me through the end of high school and all four years of uni. I don't know about heaven or any of that, but wherever you are, I hope you're at peace.

Good grief, this is so wonderful. Thank you Julien, for doing this song such great favor.

I wish this cover had been around longer. I wish I had heard this when I was 14. It's incredible and I wish it were a part of my memories for longer by now.

It's a part of you know, all that matters

Beautiful.

Right.in.the.feels

Bruh 😭

SO great!

Personally prefer Biffy’s version.

Connor Murray completely valid opinion but I guess the point is to appreciate that both covers are completely different approaches to the song and so not all that comparable really. I was unsure of Biffy's cover initially but fell in love with it soon after, this one is absolutely beautiful though. Even if a certain style of music appeals more to you surely you can appreciate what different artists have done with such a brilliant song :)

Scott transformed the pain of his life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of life. To me, No one will ever make pain as beautiful he did. i will always miss him.

Fuck yea

Wow, that's just sent tingles up and down my spine, simply stunning!

Weeping. Miss you Scott.

Covers album? Cool, can't wait to cry for a week straight listening to it 😢😢😢

For one one of a kind songwriter to reach and inspire such another amazing songwriter.. This is why music is the best drug, ever..

Outstanding.

New favorite song !!!

I knew as soon as Julien started that this would be way to emotional for me to take.

It breaks my heart everytime I listen to FR now can't help but think how damn much it breaks Scotts family and friends hearts even more, I hope they find some comfort in knowing how many lives FR has touched and helped..Thank you FR..RIP Scott.

Julien did so, so amazing on this !

Very beautifully done 😀

The world misses you, Scott.

well said

Oh my God, 2 of my favourite artists ever.

Hard to beat this. Perfect cover of an already amazing song.

This is my favorite fr song and it was done justice

An insult to one AMAZING individual! R.I.P Scott

An insult???

Oh shut up, this is a great cover and Scott signed off on all the covers.

@John Beaker No you STFU!

Stuart awa bile yer heid fir 10mins min

Just when I thought it might be safe "emotionally" to return to these great songs y'all kick me in the teeth with this incredible performance!!! Dammit now I'm all choked up! But as always, more than worth the emotional trauma.

Wow....

[Verse 1]
A cripple walks amongst you
All you tired human beings
He's got all the things a cripple has not
Two working arms and legs

And vital parts fall from his system
And dissolve in Scottish rain
But vitally, he doesn't miss them
He's too fucked up to care

[Chorus]
Well is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist
To love a modern leper on his last leg, on his last leg

[Verse 2]
Well I crippled your heart a hundred times
And still can't work out why
You see, I've got this disease
I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life

Well this is how we do things now
Yeah this is how the modern stay scared
So I cut out all the good stuff
Yeah I cut off my foot to spite my leg

[Chorus]
Well is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist
To love a modern leper on his last leg

Well I am ill but I'm not dead
And I don't know which of those I prefer
Because that limb which I have lost
Well it was the only thing holding me up, holding me up

[Bridge]
Well I'm lying on the ground now
And you're walking through the only door
Well I have lost my eyesight like I said I would
But I still know

[Chorus]
That that is you in front of me
And you are back for even more of exactly the same
Well are you a masochist?
You love a modern leper on his last leg

And you're not ill and I'm not dead
Doesn't that make us the perfect pair?
You should sit with me and we'll start again
And you can tell me all about what you did today
What you did today

lindo demaiss!!!!!!

What a tribute. Sad, gloriously beautiful.

Oh man! I'm glad this exists :')

Oh my, Scott would love this so much. <3

I reckon he did. He signed off on all of the covers for the album.

HOLY SHIT

as soon as it got to the chorus, i just burst into tears

Really beautiful. Had me in tears!

Thanks, this video is very valuable.

Outstanding take on an outstanding song! Kudos Julien and much love to FR!

Wonderful. I'll be buying this on vinyl.

Is there a preorder link for the States?

i love it 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Thank you <3

Beautiful tribute. Miss you Scott x

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Wow, wow, beautiful!

This is beautiful

i got through my 20's on FR. Scott was amazing - I'm so glad this album is coming out

Beautiful. Heartbreaking, but beautiful.

This one and the Frank cover he did the day he found out about Scott are probably my favorite covers of Modern Leper.

Oh yes, I ugly cried listening to the Frank cover. It was just perfect

I saw Frank play it a couple months ago (near the year anniversary), it was great, could really feel it from Frank

@A Metal Enthusiast and Giant he played it in Cleveland. So much emotion as he belted it out :'(

Do you have a link to the Frank cover ta?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbBW2UrIgSk

Julien, What a beautiful cover and tribute. Miss you every day, Scott.

Amazing!💜

“Well I am ill but I’m not dead
And I don’t know which of those I prefer.”

Pre ordered. Great mix of artists. Don't think I'll ever be ready to listen to Twilight Sad covering Floating in the Forth 😭❤️

Alex Krzyzanowski The original is too tough to listen to.

I always enjoyed that song in a bittersweet kinda way, but I don't think I've had the courage to listen to it again since Scott passed. I just know it would fuck me up.

I listen to it regularly. It's absolutely devastating. Every. Fucking. Time.

@Pride Arts I drove over the forth bridge slowly last week playing it loud, ripped me to pieces.

Outstanding. Talent covering talent.

i love gay

Just preordered!! Julien is amazing. Wish you were here for this Scott. Love you!! <3

Pre-order what

@Tatjana M. The record "Tiny Changes" that this song is off of.