Archie’s Fades

Your face is down
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Alone on your desk
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At the end of the city
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You were squashed into
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There is no one you love
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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Your hair has gone white
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The truck you drive
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Could easily crash into another and bigger truck
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It will be so long before I know
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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Your harmonium plays a chord
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I can hear it and I can feel it
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Across all time
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And across all pain
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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The quivering heart of Gigantor
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The quivering heart of Cory
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-archies-fades-lyrics

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Born to Suffer

Now and then you get what you want
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Now and then you get what you want
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I don’t want to talk
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I wish I was dead
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The reservoir is filling with mold
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The reservoir is filling with mold
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I don’t want to talk
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I wish I was dead
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Oh, bunny rabbit
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Jaundiced by the bummer of habit
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Is there a plantain big enough
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To cave your head in?
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Sweet clot, you are what you are
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Sweet clot, you is what you is
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You feel it now
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Misplaced by the world
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I don’t want to talk
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I wish I were dead
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Born to suffer
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You are embarrassed by this thought
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And with that, all your dreams are gone
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Fall apart
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Try not to cry in public
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Try not to cry in public
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Try not to cry in the shower
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And try not to cry at the clinic
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If God won’t come, I’ll go to him
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Born to suffer
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Source: https://genius.com/27777060

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Honey-Suckle

You have tried
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You are ripped up
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But nothing has changed
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They have told you
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You will be lucky
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But nothing has changed
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I can’t wait to set it off
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And it will be the end, finally
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I’m gonna lie back down
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And ask for nothing, nothing
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I’m gonna throw it back
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And let it, let it go
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Though I’m not concerned
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For this how it goes
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I am ill, but it doesn’t hurt
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I get up, get up
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But my day is ruined again
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I get up, get up
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But the day is ruined again
d

You can run
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But what’s the point?
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They won’t catch you
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You can love
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But to what end?
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They won’t leave you
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I’m gonna lie back down
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And ask for nothing, nothing
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I’m gonna throw it back
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And let it, let it go
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I get up, get up
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But my day is ruined again
d
I get up, get up
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But the day is ruined again
d

Yesterday was awful
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Today is discolored
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-honey-suckle-lyrics

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Beauty Towne

Three boys in a burning Panzer
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Doing nothing not to shove our throats in the flames
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We shan’t let go
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Oh friend, oh foe, oh friend, oh foe
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Beauty Towne
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How little have we learned?
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Beauty Towne
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The fruit that we deserve
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And we had, and we had
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And we had more than we could take
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Three orcs under plague of darkness
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And like Egypt, we had it coming all along
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I won’t believe
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Oh fiend, oh foe, oh fiend, folio
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Beauty Towne
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How little have we learned?
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Beauty Towne
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The fruit that we deserve
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And we had, and we had
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And we had more than we could take
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Beauty Towne
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The hair remains the same
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Beauty Towne
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Hung by the rope of shame
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And we tried and we failed
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Not to live this way again
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Chelsea Alvarez, Jherek Bischoff, Scott Goodwin
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Mike Hadreas, Ruthie Haskell, Keehnan Konyha
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Brian McFadden, Caralee McElroy, Sam Mickens
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Zac Pennington, Jamie Stewart, Wilbert Williams
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Beauty Towne
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How little have we learned?
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Beauty Towne
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The fruit that we deserve
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And we had, and we had
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And we had more than we could take
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Beauty Towne
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The hair remains the same
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Beauty Towne
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Hung by the rope of shame
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And we tried and we failed
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Not to live this way again
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-beauty-towne-lyrics

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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

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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

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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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I Do What I Want, When I Want

You had a dream about loss
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Within the fruit, there are worms
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Yet still a vow to dare, “Good night!”
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You had a dream about love
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Could it be you are the one
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Who is waiting patiently for me
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To disregard caution?
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To feign deafness to wisdom?
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Could it be you are the one
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Who is waiting insanely for me
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To bind your limbs stoutly?
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To feign deafness to protest?
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You ask, unhurried by doom
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The shot only bursts forth heat
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Bequeath a sigh, if I would listen
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You ask, unhurried by love
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Could it be you are the one
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Who is waiting patiently for me
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To stare blindly at forethought?
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To disregard caution?
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Could it be you are the one
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Who is waiting insanely for me
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To tweak your cheeks unsweetly?
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To insist on concession?
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Source: https://genius.com/Xiu-xiu-i-do-what-i-want-when-i-want-lyrics

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