Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love Album Lyrics

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Price Tag

The bells go off
The buzzer coughs
The traffic starts to buzz
The clothes are stiff
The fabrics itch
The fit's a little rough
But I suck it in
To every stitch
Try to fit inside the glove
I scramble eggs
For little legs
The day's off in a rush

It's 9am
We must clock in
The system waits for us
I stock the shelves
I work the rows
The products all light up
If I could flip the switch
The system fix
I could move us to the top
The numbers roll
It's time to go
I'm never fast enough

We never really checked
We never really check the price tag
When the cost comes in
It's gonna be high
We love our bargains
We love the prices so low
With the good jobs gone
It's gone be raw

In the market
The kids are starving
They reach for the good stuff
Let's stay off the label
Just till we're able
To save a little up
The next big win
The ship comes in
No more worry for us
Just keep movie
The wheels keep turning
It's time to go pay up

I was lured by the devil
I was lured by the cause
I was lured by the fear
That all we had was lost
I was blind by the money
I was numb from the greed
I'll take God when I'm ready
I'll choose sin till I leave

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Fangless

Sharp teeth in a broken jaw
Hungry, but I'll hunger on
And the hours I waste
While I fake a grace
That no one will ever see
And I practice tests
And a usefulness
That I no longer need

Did you forget we once saw you as grand
A beast and a savior, a mountain, a man
Grew from a speck to be worshipped and crowned
Now you're flimsy and fangless, drooping and drowned
But I know that you made me, sick for you like a rabid dog
And your lies rearranged me, broke me down but I'm not undone

Clenched fist on a dangling arm
Fight's over, but I'll fight on
Where's the evidence
The scars, the dents
That I was ever here?
I've been reassigned
Put back in line
With the other disappeared

But I know that you claim me
I give in, I'm your ragged doll
You were born in a shout
But you will die in a silent skull

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Surface Envy

Throw me a rope, give me a leg
I haven't seen daylight in what must be day
I took the long way down, lost track of myself
Confidence fell down the steepest of slopes
I'll row you an ocean, I could do more
I feel so much stronger, now that you're here
We've got so much to do, let me make that clear

We win, we lose, only together do we break the rules
We win, we lose, only together do we make the rules

I'm breaking the surface, tasting the air
I'm reaching for things like never before
The anchor is heavy, I can't hold the weight
The guilt holds me down, won't let me be myself
Suck it all in, suck it all up
Let go of thoughts holding me back
I'll push twice as hard towards it you see
And the past falls away to the bottom of the deep

When we leave say goodbye to your old way of life
I can breathe way up high now it's our turn to fly

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No Cities To Love

There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!

Atomic to rest
A line in search of power
I found my test sight
I made a ritual of emptiness

There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!

We walk to a walk-off
The edge of mad, oh life
Do town a bright flash
My body is a souvenir

There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
It's not the weather, it's the nothing we love!

It takes a lot for me see it
Hopes it better sets you free
I went it through the thought of you
I went it through the void of me
I've grown afraid of everything that I love

There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
It's not the city, it's the weather we love!
There are no cities, no cities to love
There are no cities, no cities to love
It's not the weather, it's the nothing we love!
It's not the weather, it's the people we love!

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A New Wave

Well every day I throw a little party
But if it would be more fitting, fitting
And every time I come a little higher
Should I leap or go on living, living?
Hear the voices venomous and thrilling
In their hair, they're always calling, calling
But I wanna, gotta go the way my butt beats
So I'm not falling for the folly, folly

No one here is taking notice
No outline will ever hold us
It's not a new wave, it's just you and me
Eyes are the only witness
Die to prove we ever lived this
Invent our own kind of obscurity

Let's destroy a room with this love
We can drain out all the power, power
Steal from the makers who had made us
Leave them nothing to devour, devour
Well I am raw material
Make me plastic, make me fuel
I can be, I can be
I can be all

No one here is taking notice
No outline will ever hold us
It's not a new wave, it's just you and me
Eyes are the only witness
Die to prove we ever lived this
Invent our own kind of obscurity

No one here is taking notice
No outline will ever hold us
It's not a new wave, it's just you and me
Eyes are the only witness
Die to prove we ever lived this
Invent our own kind of obscurity

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No Anthems

I'm the locust telling you something's amiss
Then you hear the sound
I'm the whisper, I can do it better
When I look around
I'm the siren sail beamin' from the highest shelf
You should really look down
There is a road block that I couldn't unlock
I really get around

Seduction, pure function
It's how I learn to speak
Steal your power, in my hour
I could change most everything

I'm not the anthem, I once was an anthem
That sang the song of me
But now there are no anthems
All I can hear is the echo, and the ring

I'm the sidewinder watching how to cut you down
I don't say a word
Slow dream plannin' up my next scheme
I lay my moves down
I'm the pool boy fillin' you with cool joy
In my melody
I will lay low, freak you on your way to go
Behind the scenes

I'm not the anthem, I once was an anthem
That sang the song of me
But now there are no anthems
All I can hear is the echo, and the ring

Seduction, pure function
It's how I learn to speak
Steal your power, in my hour
I could change most everything

I'm not the anthem, I once was an anthem
That sang the song of me
But now there are no anthems
All I can hear is the echo, and the ring

But I want an anthem, I'm singin' an answer
An answer and a voice
To feel rhythm in silence, a weapon, not violence
Power, power, source

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Gimme Love

Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough

My hands reached out to touch the earth
I'm too small to reach to it
I can't quite reach the thing I want
All I touch is just dirt

Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough

Latched together from some loose box
Run from the wicked this life imports
Closed off from the seeing world
Inside my heart, inside a girl

[?] I don't need the time
I've wasted a life for contempt hopes
The one thing real I hunger for
I wish there was a little more

Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough
Gimme love, gimme love
Never enough

Gimme love
Gimme love
Gimme love
Gimme love
Gimme love
Gimme love
Gimme love

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Bury Our Friends

[Tucker:]
Today I am stitched, I am sewn
Patch me up, I've got want in my bones
Like some doll you thought you could throw away
I found my legs

[Brownstein:]
Ready to climb out from under concrete
Only I get to be sickened by me
My body a smudge
Can't make out the details
Want to start over and come into being

[Chorus - Tucker & Brownstein:]
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
We're sick with worry
These nerve less days
We live on dread in our own guilded age

[Tucker:]
This dark world is precious to me
My scars make me breathe in so deep
My body has no need for sleep
This time around

[Brownstein:]
Ready to find fragments of stillness
Only I get to be punished by me
Your voice is a crumb, it leads me from the wildness
Wanna start over, forget everything

[Chorus]

[Brownstein:]
Make me a headline
I wanna be that bold
Make me a spotlight
So I can see the gold

Make me a headline
I wanna feel that bold
Make me a spotlight
So I can see the gold

[Chorus]

[Tucker & Brownstein:]
We speak in circles
We dance in code
Untame and hungry
On fire in the cold
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in

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Hey Darling

You're not home, this is your phone, though, right?
Explanations are thin
But I feel it's time
You want to know where I've been for
Such a long time
Disappearing act
Right before your eyes

It seems to me the only thing
That comes from fame is mediocrity
How could you steal the thing I love
Then keep it from me, just out of touch?

Hey Darling
The situation was justified
There were some things I saw before
I realized
That I was meant to be
Infinitely by your side
Distractions always hit but
We're good this time

Sometimes the heat of the crowd
Feels a little too close
Sometimes the shout of the room
Makes me feel so alone

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Fade

When the last strip of light is dimming
When the spotlight starts to fade
If there's no tomorrow
You better live

All of the roles that we played
Hit your mark, push the walls, stretch the stage
Oh, what a price that we paid
My dearest nightmare, my conscience, the end

Unbelievable masquerade
Never revealing your truth
Deeper inside that mask you made
Losing the face of you

Tell me what do you see in the last script
Yeah it's a trip, what's it all for?
If we are truly dancing our swan song, darling
Shake it like never before

All of the roles that we played
Hit your mark, push the walls, stretch the stage
Oh, what a price that we paid
My dearest nightmare, my conscience, the end

Oh what a price that we paid
My dearest nightmare, my conscience, the end