Joey’s Song

Joey, Joey
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You have never let anyone down
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I am sorry that
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This is happening to you
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Oh, what is the point of this collapse?
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You are not crying
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I know you are only sweating, too
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Joey’s song
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In everything
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Bitterness and jealousy
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As long as you know I am waiting
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Fever crams the skin
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Of Joey’s song
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As long as you know I am waiting
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Passing out in the joy
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Of Joey’s song
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Slayer moon
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Grief is not new, love even less so
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I am sorry that
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This is happening to you
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Oh, what is the point?
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Embrace the boy
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You are my brother
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Snow will cover your path, too
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Mary, Mary
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Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen
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I am sorry that this is happening to you
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So the light is gone
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Now it is the end
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I am your brother
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The snow will cover my path, too
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Joey’s song
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In everything
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Bitterness and jealousy
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As long as you know I am waiting
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Fever crams the skin
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Of Joey’s song
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As long as you know I am waiting
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If you’re into the joy
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Of Joey’s song
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Joey’s song
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Affectionately
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In bitterness and jealousy
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As long as you know I am waiting
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Fever crams the skin
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Of Joey’s song
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As long as you know I am waiting
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Learning to feel the joy
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Of Joey’s song
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-joeys-song-lyrics

Hi

If you are wasting your life, say hi
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If you are alone tonight, say hi
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If you wish he should die, say hi
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(Hi, hi, hi, hi)
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If there’s a hole in your head, say hi
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If you have a stitch in your wrist, say hi
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If, when you look at the sky
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It is black and shredded
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A sliver of bone could get caught in your throat
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Well, silence is golden
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A shot of bone sticking out of your arm
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Well, blood is beautiful
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If your curtain is closed
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And you are still standing behind it
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If there is a rag in your mouth
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Broken glass will shine for with the moon
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If your body has quit
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And you forgo residing in it
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Rat feces lacing your tongue
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Broken hearts will shine for with the moon
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If you don’t know what to say, say hi
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If your bra is on fire, say hi
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If your bed is a living hell, say hi
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(Hi, hi, hi, hi)
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If you have eaten it all, say hi
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If you have poked out your eyes, say hi
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If, when you open your arms
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Ferdinand gores you in the chest!
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Have you seen your face as of late?
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The hippopotamus is beloved
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Half a crocodile hanging out of its mouth
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With the village rejoicing
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If your curtain is closed
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Yet you are still standing behind it
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If there is a bomb in your mouth
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Broken glass will shine for with the moon
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If your body is wrong, wrong, wrong
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And you regret residing in it
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Jack razor-bladed your throat
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Broken hearts will shine for with the moon
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-hi-lyrics

Video:

Impossible Feeling

Spelling
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In bruises
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“Crazy iris”
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Writing out
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In welts
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“The morbid iris”
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Intolerable
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Incomprehensible
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You can never earn enough
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To buy the gun that you want
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So you photograph the marks
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But the blood you spite
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Sputters up, up, up, up
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Out, out, out, out
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Up and up
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Up and up
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Drafted
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In a gash
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“out of focus iris”
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Fill up the bath with glass
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And cover your face
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In the shroud of the impossible feeling
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In the shroud of the impossible feeling
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In the shroud of the impossible feeling
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-impossible-feeling-lyrics

This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)

You cut her name into your heart
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You burn his name into your arm
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Cast out the pig you kiss as love
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Heaven is closed for now you are alone
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This too, this too shall pass away
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This too, this too will pass away
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Listen, Steven is singing to you
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The pain of life you wipe away
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A reason, that fine gray ash shall
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Recall these days
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Inquire
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The serpent
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To become a rag of a dream
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Interred
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You arrive
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And you wave your hand as if she could care
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But she can’t
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Nor can you
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The relinquishing and a flickering
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Out of loss
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This too, this too shall pass away
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This too, this too shall fade away
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Listen, Steven is singing to us
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The pain of life you wipe away
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This too, this too shall fade away
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This too, this pain will pass away
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Listen, Steven is singing to us
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The pain of life you wipe away
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Perhaps depraved is who you are
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Why not?
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Depraved, at least you’re not alone
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Overcome by the truth you face that you can’t
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Get up or look up
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At the moon
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Without throwing up and it
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Stays the same all the time
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Lie and wait
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It could stop again like a bee
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It will die
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When it stings you once
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And its small bee’s head will fall off
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This too, this too shall pass away
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This pain will pass away
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Listen, Steven is singing to you
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The pain of life you wipe away
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-this-too-shall-pass-away-for-freddy-lyrics

Video:

Cumberland Gap

Lay down, boys, and take a little nap
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Snow knee-deep in Cumberland Gap
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Cumberland Gap’s a devil of a place
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Couldn’t find water to wash my face
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Me an’ my wife an’ my wife’s pap
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Walked all the way from Cumberland Gap
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Pretty little girl, if you don’t care
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I’ll leave my demijohn a-sittin’ right there
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If it ain’t here when I get back
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I’ll raise hell in Cumberland Gap
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Lay down boys, and take a little rest
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We’ll all wake up in a whippoorwill’s nest
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-cumberland-gap-lyrics

The Fabrizio Palumbo Retaliation

Lean against the stove
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Leave it glowing in the dark
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Push my hand to the coil
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It is burnt now
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Forever
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Cherry blossoms fall
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And for a minute there
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I have the will to live
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But then the cuckoo cries
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(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
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You constantly aspire
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To be the first to pierce
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Your dagger into fondness
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It will hurt now
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Forever
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Cherry blossoms fall
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And for a twinkle there
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I have the will to live
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But then Gomorrah calls
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(No, no, no, no)
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Caterpillar girl
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Here you are
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Cherry blossoms melt
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And for a weekend there
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I have the will to go on
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But then it fades to pink
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Pink
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-the-fabrizio-palumbo-retaliation-lyrics

Falkland Rd.

There was never a chance to get away
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When was it only ever but perverse?
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Why could they take a stone and break your arms?
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There could be nothing worse
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Except to live
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Live little girl
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Sold in slavery
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Twenty-five men
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Have their way in you
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Burned upon the breast
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With a cigarette
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Nothing is worse than to be born and live
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There was someone at home you cared about
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When was there anyone who cared for you?
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Why could they take a spoon and break your teeth?
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There could be nothing worse
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Except to live
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Live blighted girl
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Sold in slavery
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Twenty-five men
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Have their way in you
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Burned upon the feet
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With a cigarette
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Earth has lost and lost its youth
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Tomorrow, tomorrow will be no happy day
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You will die and die at Falkland Road
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Your ashes will reek of sweat
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Source: https://genius.com/7409674

Secret Motel

L.A
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Give me some of you
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L.A. L.A
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Come to me
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I’ve come to you
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Reduce it to dust
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All that was a promise
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Reduce it to dust
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Oh disintegrate
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Secrets
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It’s best you not know
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I’ll never tell
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Push me, I’ll never tell
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Stupid
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It’s best I don’t say
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I won’t recall
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Choke me, I won’t recall
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O H
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I must be insane
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O H I O
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Duncical
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Is the refrain
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The genius of all the chumps
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Ding dong
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Chastity has faded away
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Sweetheart
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It’s best you not know
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I’ll never tell
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Face it, I’ll never tell
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Hush, hush
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It’s best I don’t say
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Kill me, I won’t recall
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J.S. what is wrong with you
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J.S.N.M. come to me I’ll ruin you
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Secrets
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It’s best you not know
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I’ll never tell
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Swearing, I’ll never tell
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-secret-motel-lyrics

Dear God, I Hate Myself

Despair will hold a place in my heart
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A bigger one that you do, do, do
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And I will always be nicer to the cat
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Than I am to you you, you, you
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Dear God, I hate myself
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Dear God, I hate myself
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And I will never be happy
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And I will never feel normal
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Don’t ask me if this line is about you
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What do they do there?
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Tonight, tonight
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Why do they go there?
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Alright, alright
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Why do they live there?
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Tonight, tonight?
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And why do they live at all?
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Alright, alright
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Dear God, I hate myself
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Dear God, I hate myself
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And I will never be happy
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And I will never feel normal
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What do they do there?
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Tonight, tonight
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And why do they live at all?
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Alright, alright
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Flip off the mirror as protest
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Who the F-word are you you you?
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And I will never be happy
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And I will never feel normal
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Dear God, I hate myself
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Dear God, I hate myself
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-dear-god-i-hate-myself-lyrics

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Hyunhye’s Theme

Reading law at your desk
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Praying for your parents
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They are so proud of this
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You are working so hard
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All alone at your desk
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Obligated to free them
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Labor concern as a good girl
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You curse the night that is calling
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Labor at doubt like a good girl
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Seo Seo Seo Seo Seo
Seo Seo Seo Seo

Loved to diaspora
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Du life en le valley
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Oh oh oh oh oh

You are working so hard
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Sitting still at your desk
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Pusan weighing upon you
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Fending off our distress
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Glitter for your parents
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Hoping in discount clothing
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Seo Seo Seo

Finding the slacks you will fit in
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Worry the shoes that you’ll look good in
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Overwhelmed at your desk
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Weeping for your parents
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They are so proud of this
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Shining in ambition
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All alone, all alone, all alone
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-hyunhyes-theme-lyrics