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While You're Here Lyrics — Dirty Projectors | Dork

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Dirty Projectors
While You're Here Lyrics

Lyrics

Dirty Projectors

While You're Here

From About to Die2012

Written by David Longstreth

Lyrics

While You're Here

The frigates flying My friend is silent His ghost is quiet but we’re crying again There he is again While you're here, you're alive While you're here, you're alive The sun is shining, the sky is vibrant My friend is rising and shining again There he is again

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About this track

"While You're Here" is a song by Dirty Projectors from the album About to Die, released in 2012. The song was written by David Longstreth.

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