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B for the Beast

by The Switch

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1.
Balcony #1 04:54
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[Verse 1] I'll wait until you touch me From the central I hear them fight Me and rats and bums Down on Balcony #1 Just off the edges of the page I heard you write [Verse 2] Silence will break my patience This silence will break relations Trying to fill up my own sails Trying to read between the rails Just off the edges of the page Just off the record [Verse 3] Turning back from a cul-de-sac Trying to get my life on track A Valentine’s Day heart attack It didn't work - I take it back I belong to someone else Someone else belongs in hell [Verse 4] Tell tomorrow what to bring The country buys the shit I sling Hark the herald angels sing Careful where you point that thing I belong to someone else And someone else belongs in hell
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I can tell You're on Coke 04:49
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I can tell you're on coke It’s snowing all around you Bought a blizzard and now you're here I can tell you're broke It’s coming down around you Broken deadlines everywhere I say just stop And don't keep up with her, no She's on mania and some beer Guess you tried to write your name in the inferno Brother, that's why you're walking weird If you'd just shut up I got you and we get it They're too dumb for you to deceive You're not inside They won’t let you forget it Brother, pick up your head and leave No You go for a high five Said you’re on fire She didn't mean it in a good way Ganesha Shine
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Don't Go to Revolver 04:09
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[Chorus 1] Don't go to Revolver I could come on over No, no, it's never over Don't go to Revolver [Verse 1] Get the right shot and get the right numbers It's begging to happen if you only try Summer festivals don't call Blame the town, blame the crowd, blame the sound guy Like clockwork Never miss last call or the sun or the city outside [Chorus 2] Don't go to Revolver I could come on over No, no, it's never over Don't go to Revolver [Middle eight] Upstairs Is where you catch a break Downstairs they're a little bit younger Used to be you were a little bit younger You should stay a little bit longer You're coming up [Verse 2] Stop looking if you're out in town You just found a thing that won't go anywhere Stop thinking you're underground You're just where you just were, you weren't there Mr. Jean Jacket is the main man working He'll mix you up something like only he can I remember when this wallpaper went up Try the Sunburned Hand of the Man
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Circuit Breaker 04:17
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[Verse 1] Up all night to make up for lost time Time I lost by not sleeping last night Passioned pleas and tears won't slow them But they'll lend me money to pay what I owe them I'm on a loop [Verse 2] I'm on a loop to make sure I make do It's not the time for something new to break through It's not the time for something staunch in Caucasian caustic convoluted conscience I'm on a loop I'm on a loop The eggs just keep on breaking What am I even making? Could this get any faker? My head's a cocktail shaker The eggs just keep on breaking What am I even making? Could this get any faker? I'm on a loop The eggs just keep on breaking What am I even making My heads a I need a circuit breaker The eggs just keep on breaking What am I even making My heads a I need a circuit breaker [Verse 3] Lullabyes and lifetimes sail on Across the grass that I used to play on I'm breathing faster, feeling slower It's snowing but it's not freezing over
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Lying to Children 04:12
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Oh sunset You won't come yet Oh sunset I know you won't let Let this fog and rain Let it get the last words in my brain I'm lucid I won't forget What you said Won't let the sun set On my plans for her I'm making you a perfect world Through the streetlights If there's only one thing that I know What we're up against I can't break that trust They're on our side and I know what is just What we're up against I'm relying on you We're seeing this through Lying to children is what heroes do
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The Voice of God 08:09
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When you hear the voice of god It's such a violent sound You can't make out a word And others hear it too In every ear But they seem to fear The gap between the things it screams and what they hear All your maps are useless now They're out of date And always drawn by heroes So you don't know where you've gone Or what to say Horizon's grey And through the night the voice of god won't go away You'll never get to hear it all Imperfect's not the voice, but you Because your ears are way too small To make out anything that's true Just because the truth in unbelievable You don't have to buy the lies Throwing fortunes out the window and Pinching pennies on your eyes When you float off to oblivion Try to reach the other side There is no one there to ever reach The truth don't have no sides You should be careful where you point that thing You just wave it around There's no one there to ever hit The truth don't have no sides So you become the voice of god It's singing now The only song it knows Redefine mortality Eviscerate your memory
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Great Granddaughter 05:53
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Made to read her note out loud in class The kids line up, you pick her last The light flickers beneath your door Hear the fighting through the walls Run to a time it didn't hurt You’re crawling through the dirt You're crawling through the dirt Her eyes have words she'll never speak Your palm is red, wet from her cheek Meet at headquarters don’t be late See the circuit you helped create Fall to the ground and out of sight You walk into the light You walk into the dirt Her eyes see through the dirt You're rising through the dirt Stretched into the sun A thousand blades of you Bend and break now As your son He runs away Across your face Frozen fast You fall for many miles Through the streetlights Great Granddaughter, met at last Great Granddaughter, met at last Great Granddaughter, met at last Made her laugh I'm on a loop

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released January 30, 2015

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The Switch Oslo, Norway

Pop-rock outfit from Oslo, Norway, founded in 2010. Released their debut album “Big If” in 2014. It was followed by “B for the Beast” and “We’re Fooling no one” in 2015, and “The Switch Album” in 2016 which earned a Spellemann (Norw.Grammy), for best indie release In september 2019, The Switch released “Birds of Paradise” Macca/Jawakka 1 came out march 2020, and Macca/Jawakka 2 in January 2021. ... more

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