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A Certain Ratio – Strain (1979) | Track profile | Dork

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A Certain Ratio
The Graveyard and the Ballroom
Strain

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A Certain Ratio

Strain

Release date: 1st December 1979

From The Graveyard and the Ballroom

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"Strain" is a track by A Certain Ratio, from the album The Graveyard and the Ballroom, released 1st December 1979. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below.

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A Certain Ratio

A Certain Ratio

Lyrics

Strain

[Chorus]

Strain

Too many cliches

You think you’re the last [?] that i know

Give me your pain

Strain

[?] pain

What we have done

Give me your pain

[Verse]

[?] understanding is what we try

[?] mystery

Is what we survive

[?] understanding is what we try

[?] mystery

Is what we survive

[?] pain

[?] pain

Give me your pain

[?]

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Track details

From The Graveyard and the Ballroom

1979

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Album

The Graveyard and the Ballroom

A Certain Ratio

Release year

1979

1Do the Du
2:54
2Faceless (The Graveyard)
2:23
3Crippled Child (The Graveyard)
2:54
4Choir (The Graveyard)
3:21
5Flight (The Graveyard)
3:30
6I Fail (The Graveyard)
2:12
7Strain (The Graveyard)
2:29
8All Night Party (The Ballroom)
3:38
9Oceans (The Ballroom)
3:55
10Choir (The Ballroom)
3:33
11The Fox (The Ballroom)
3:26
12Suspect (The Ballroom)
2:25
13Flight (The Ballroom)
5:33
14Genotype-Phenotype (The Ballroom)
3:33
—Genotype/Phenotype
—Flight (Graveyard Version)
—Strain
—Faceless
—Crippled Child
—I Feel

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