Villains (4616 Dundee Dr.) Lyrics - The Ambassador - Gabriel Kahane

Why do villains 

Always live in houses 

Built by modernist masters? 

A dithering police force 

A mutant sprung from a cage 

A giant half man horse 

A frustrated actor on a spitball rampage! 

Are you nostalgic for a time 

When you could put a face to ev'ry crime And the violence was as wholesome 

As it was imaginative, baby? 

How would you feel 

If we moved into 

The house where they shot Pulp Fiction? 

We'd put the nursery Where Uma OD'd 

A reminder of greed Of the dangers of Heroin addiction. 

A cantilevered beachhouse 

With clerestory windows 

An open air sleeping porch 

Frank Lloyd Wright built a whole loa bungalows! 

Rudy Schindler and Neutra 

They had a great big falling out Two great architects 

Let me tell what that was all about 

Is something absent in design 

Where the heart is mastered by the line And all you've got is the reflection 

Of what's on the outside, impure? 

Say, all these houses look the same 

The uniform of steel in ev'ry frame 

You could think about a lot of things Waiting for the concrete to cure. 

I've been thinking a lot 

About action movies of the 1980's Particularly Die Hard, 

Which seems to illustrate 

So many of the anxieties 

Central to a time + place: 

Japanese capital 

The waning of the cold war Pride in a downtown 

What did they build it for? 

Risen from the ashes 

of a once great neighborhood All the ghosts of Bunker Hill Who needs history 

Was history ever any good? 

Are you nostalgic for a time 

When art + commerce toed the line When entertainment had an easy smile As it looked upon you, too? 

Back then Bruce Willis had some hair He smoked in airports, no one cared And in the end, Alan Rickman 

fell out of a window, boo hoo 

Are you nostalgic for a time 

When you could put a face to ev'ry crime And the violence was as wholesome 

As it was imaginative, baby?