Gayle Lynn

Is this the first time
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You’ve known regard?
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Two weeks not enough to earn notice
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Why are we like this?
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Cut at what’s already cut
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The littlest of stones
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No one visits this
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Solitude and death for you
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Gayle Lynn
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1948
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Unloved infant girl
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The loneliest of graves for you
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Gayle Lynn
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Does your daddy’s grief
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Excuse disdain?
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But to have as well
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Watched Lee die?
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Terry and Kathleen
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The littlest of stones
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No one visits this
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Solitude and death for you
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Gayle Lynn
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1948
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Unloved infant girl
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The loneliest of graves for you
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Gayle Lynn
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You hear this every day
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But keep them safe forever
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You’ve heard this one before
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But keep them safe forever
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You hear this all the time
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But please, please look after them
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-gayle-lynn-lyrics

White Nerd

Oh, you could have been a diamond
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A flicker in the campfire
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But what shall you do now?
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Nothing, nothing, you will do nothing
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Or, you could’ve been the 13 of spades
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Destroyer of the jerk-off of hearts
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Well you know, where should you go?
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Nowhere nowhere, you won’t be anywhere else
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I am right, vigorous (Oh yeah!)
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You are wrong, pig-orous (Oh yeah!)
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Holy F, holy U, holy C-K
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O-S-H-A-W-A
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Oh, you could’ve been a Modoc
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The last free Indians in Washington
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500 or 600 girls like you
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Spilling their Percocet out on the lava flow
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White nerd, what have you learned?
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White nerd, you let us down
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White nerd, what have you learned?
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White nerd, you let us down
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Oh you could’ve been more anti-yourself
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So astoundingly unsilent
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But makeup over your pimples
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Will blow us fresh away
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La, la, la, la, la, la
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I am unwrong, vigorous (Meow!)
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You are unright, pig-orous (Woof, woof!)
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Holy F, holy U, holy C-K
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O-S-H-A-W-A
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You might also like
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White nerd, what have you learned?
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White nerd, you let us down
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White nerd, what have you learned?
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Black nerd, we let you down
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-white-nerd-lyrics

Puff and Bunny

Of a life that’s allotted to be yours
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A trifle
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Oh, take it from me
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That tonight is closed
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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Hot pepper
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Look at me, I am alone
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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I’m single, I have no friends in my new city
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Hot pepper, I’m alone
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Without dignity for you to consider
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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Look at me
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To babble
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To beg for
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Your likes exposed
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The idol grants you this lie that is hope
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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Hot pepper
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Look at me, I am alone
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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No friends in my new city
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Hot pepper, vanity
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Without consequence for you to trip over
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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Hot pepper, hot pepper
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Look at me
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-puff-and-bunny-lyrics

Child at Arms

Foul deeds, indeed do bring prosperity
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We may not know our age
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We just fought
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The rifle is heavy beyond compassion
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So new in destruction
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Your teeth will be forgotten
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War for cricket children
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Place her foot on the log and chop it off
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Brown, brown makes light
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Your idea of dying is gone
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Your idea of killing is printed on the body
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Evil is with you all of the time
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Evil is with you all of the time
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Evil is with you all of the time
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-child-at-arms-lyrics

The Leash

Perseus holds the head of Medusa
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Oh, what I would give to be her
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My hands cannot hold steady
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When you reach out to me
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Jamie boy, oh, if you could tell
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Would you ever be taken as I am?
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That I looked to you every night
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You did not seem to notice
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God had made your sweetheart wrong
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Born to suffer, born only to die
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A dog will rut its way into harm
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When one lets off the leash
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To reveal what I once was
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Just for once, just for once
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In this, she is not unique
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To have lied to a lover
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If for want of a pure touch
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To be common, to be seen as I am
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Salute your rage, a hammer
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Beat upon me, crumble me as powder
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Wipe me off of your uniform
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It’s the same blood that you loved
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I don’t think that you are a fool
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But you cannot deny me as a woman
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Oh, ensign, I was your woman
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-the-leash-lyrics

You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead

Never had I seen a woman falling down
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To the grass court
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Gingko across her face
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Yellowed by a child and a boyfriend
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Calling so hard to its father
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“Bury me in the sawdust!”
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Deepen the dread
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Gotten rid of by this self-immolation
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Never had I seen a woman falling down
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To the grass court
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Gingko across her face
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Yellowed by a child and a boyfriend
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The dust that hides the glare
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Of the sweetness of the pyre
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Feel you turn into tears
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And ashes inside my lungs
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-you-are-pregnant-you-you-are-dead-lyrics

Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling over My Head)

If you say
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My dancing is effeminate
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I will never dance again
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And if you say
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My logic is irreversible
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Then things will always be the same
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Master of the bump
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And master of the hustle
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But I’m not, I’m not your
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Only sweetheart
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And if you note
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I’m smacking of a savagery
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Know it’s essential to my masculinity
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And if you say
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My dancing is effeminate
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I will never dance again
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Master of the bump
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And master of the hustle
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But I’m not your
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Timeless one and only
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-master-of-the-bump-kurt-stumbaugh-i-can-feel-the-soil-falling-over-my-head-lyrics

Black Keyboard

Why would mother say such things?
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Why add tongue to a kiss goodnight?
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Force me to know the want
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No one needs to know
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Be free, laugh at your son
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A child is nothing without hate
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Be certain he feels
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His love is trash
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Be the premier to shriek out
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“Hail bigots, hang him!”
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Hold me, mommy
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Face down in your filth
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Why would you tell me
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How many times
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That my father
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Made you cream?
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Rest now
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Be free
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Be free, be free, be free, be free, be free
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A child is no one without pain
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As you pray, head down
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That I find a sensuous love
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Push me, mommy
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Eyes ablaze, into hell
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-black-keyboard-lyrics

Under Pressure

Pressure
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Pushing down on me
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Pushing down on you
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No man ask for
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Under pressure
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That burns a building down
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Splits a family in two
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Puts some people on the streets
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It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about
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Watching some good friends scream, “Let me out!”
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Pray tomorrow takes me higher
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Pressure on the people
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People on the streets
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Chippin’ around
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Kick my brains ‘round the floor
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These are the days
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It never rains, but it pours
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People on the streets
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People on the streets
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It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about
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Watching some good friends scream, “Let me out!”
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Pray tomorrow takes me high, high, high
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Turned away from it all, like a blind man
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Sat on a fence but it don’t work
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Keep coming up with love
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But it’s so slashed and torn
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Insanity laughs under pressure
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We’re cracking
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Why can’t we give ourselves one more chance?
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Why can’t we give love that one more chance?
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Why can’t we give love, give love, give love?
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Give love, give love, give love, give love, give love?
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You might also like
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‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
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And love dares you to care
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For the people on the edge of the night
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And love dares you to change
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Our way of caring about ourselves
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This is our last dance
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This is our last dance
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This is ourselves
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-under-pressure-lyrics

Guantanamo Canto

Confess, tied to a stretcher
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No longer animal
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Red, white, and blue
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Choking on peace
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Your suicide is politics
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Nay, misery
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My country needs this freedom
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To contradict your humanness
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Meow, meow, meow, meow
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La, la, la
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Now we are safe
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Now we are safe
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You’ll never know how you’ve made us safe
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And your son grows to kill us all
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We say thank you, complicity
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Your daughter grows to kill us all
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And we say thanks to ease our shame
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-guantanamo-canto-lyrics