The Singles - The Gift: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

The Singles

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Adult Contemporary

The Singles was released on March 17, 2011 by La Folie - Gift as a part of the album Explode

Song Details

Release DateMarch 17, 2011

LabelLa Folie - Gift

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM111

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Gift

Performer

Adrian Bushby

Remixer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Sonia Tavares

Songwriter

Nuno Gonçalves

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Ken Nelson

Producer

Adrian Bushby

Mixing Engineer

Ray Staff

Mastering Engineer

Mário Barreiros

Mário Barreiros

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Forget these bars now, you're getting shy

Leave all those tracks back, they only lie

Go feed those haters, they fancy bad rhymes

They like the small things, so they may shine

What's missing out now? What more to write?

[Verse 2]

So I'm a wise guy, I think to myself

I'll shut my mouth now and set up this dance again

There's no excuse now, you'll be yourself somehow

Anything you do, anywhere you go, anywhere

They'll raise your head down, they feel alive

It's never enough for them

[Verse 3]

They said I can change their lives

So why can't I change mine?

They dream about my life

But I don't dream, at night

[Verse 4]

It's just a paper cut and my head is now so strong

I'm not afraid anymore

If you come back right through that door

But you are never quick enough to forget

It's just a paper cut

[Verse 5]

And they don't wanna miss

The paper cuts through me

[Verse 6]

It's just a paper cut and my head is now so strong

I'm not afraid anymore

If you come back right through that door

But you are never quick enough to forget

It's just a paper cut

[Verse 7]

(It's just a paper cut) And my head is now so strong

I'm not afraid anymore

If you come back right through that door

But you are never quick enough to forget

It's just a paper cut

[Verse 8]

It's just a paper cut

[Verse 9]

Sunny beauty ballads, trashy crazy words

Funny rainbow colours and ironic songs

What about the spring? Spring for spring

Will it be? (Face now your world)

[Verse 10]

I can do whatever I need

Can find from where I belong

Can sing as much as I breathe, oohh-ooh-oohh, ooh-oohh

[Verse 11]

It's time to get it done

And I know you love enough

The future's still to come

Take each day one by one

[Verse 12]

You don't need to feel guilty

Need shows, everything that you've got

This pointed gun shouts at your head again

Still remember what you forgot

And everything that made you stop

I don't know what will cross your way

Maybe the lights of New York

[Verse 13]

Needed guilt shows, everything that you forgot

This pointed gun shouts at your heart again

Still remember why you have stopped

Was the light of old New York

I don't know how you'll cross this way

It's better to show what you've got

[Verse 14]

What about those ballads and those crazy words?

What about the colours and ironic songs?

Dream about the spring, things will change

[Verse 15]

Flowers will rise your personal prize

Just open your eyes

Keep moving and discover, there are pretty things about your life

Ohh-oh-ohh, ohh-oh-ohh

Ahh-ah-ahh, ahh-ahh-ahh

[Verse 16]

Born in a small town, bad movies once a week

Two TV channels, no remote, begging for "Twin Peaks"

A bunch of lunatics, good hearts in crazy heads

They've lost their hope, they were just grown men in our Neverland

[Verse 17]

And during Christmas Eve

The world was sharing gifts

Didn't care, we were listening to good riffs

[Verse 18]

A borrowed walkman, the cheapest tape on it

Disintegration in repeat, the best trip I can get

Romance the 80's, we dance the 90's

The last ten years, they passed so fast, I kind of miss them

[Verse 19]

Best parties ever, our heroes on the stage

Coloured lights, glamour nights, was the neon age

The perfect night for me, much more than ecstasy

We can sweat, we can jump, you can be so free

[Verse 20]

The kids in blogs now, and all their stupid hypes

They lack the know how, the whole world in their hands

Except the taste to write the text nobody understands

[Verse 21]

Why copy "Talking Heads" and paste the "Radiohead"?

Why not discover "The Full Sentence" of the "Pigeonhed"?

Ten voices spring reverb, few bars with crazy noise

But at the end, we're all a shadow of "The Beach Boys"

[Verse 22]

I miss the elegance, it's hard but still exists

Rufus, you are on the top of my list

I'm feeling fresh now, can see what's right and wrong

Stop it now, I just did a twelve minute song

Written by: Nuno Gonçalves, Sonia Tavares

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