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Aventine
Words Are Dead

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Words Are Dead

Release date: 26th September 2013

From AventineTrack 93:47

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"Words Are Dead" is a track by Agnes Obel , from the album Aventine, released 26th September 2013. The track is 3:47 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Agnes Obel

Agnes Obel

Lyrics

Words Are Dead

I wanna buy you roses 'cause the words are dead
Follow in the blindness, on the arrowhead
For those words are dead, and you know it
Yeah, them words are dead, lower them down

Hm-mm-mm
Hm-mm-mm
Hm-mm-mm
Hm-mm-mm

Didn't know if you could deny the dead
Leavin' them in silence, on a mouldy bed
Oh, I am numb and over
Their kingdom come, lower me down

They are dead (hm-mm-mm)
They are dead (hm-mm-mm)
Hm-mm-mm, better you are (hm-mm-mm)

Oh, don't cry for me (hm-mm-mm)
Oh, don't cry for me (hm-mm-mm)
Oh, don't cry for me (hm-mm-mm)
Oh, don't you cry for me (hm-mm-mm)

Lower them down in the ground (hm-mm-hm)
Lower them down in the ground (hm-mm-mm)

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Aventine

3:472013

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Album

27th September 2013

Track number

9

Release year

2013

1Chord Left
2:30
2Fuel to Fire
5:30
3Dorian
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4Aventine
4:08

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Agnes Obel — Live 2022, Vol. 1
Agnes Obel — Can’t Be (Rone remix)
Agnes Obel — Myopia (instrumentals)
Agnes Obel — Camera's Rolling [4:44]
Agnes Obel — Promise Keeper [4:29]
Agnes Obel — Parliament of Owls [2:30]
Agnes Obel — Can't Be [3:26]
Agnes Obel — Myopia [5:17]
Agnes Obel — Drosera [2:28]
Agnes Obel — Won't You Call Me [4:17]
Agnes Obel — Island of Doom [5:29]
Agnes Obel — Roscian [2:17]
Agnes Obel — Broken Sleep [4:56]
Agnes Obel — Bee Dance [2:39]
Agnes Obel — Images (Live in New York 1964)
Agnes Obel — Piano Quintet, V [3:55]
Agnes Obel — Poem About Death [3:05]
Agnes Obel — Stretch Your Eyes (Ambient Acapella) [6:07]
Agnes Obel — Party Girl [4:27]
Agnes Obel — I Lie [5:13]
Agnes Obel — The End [2:28]
Agnes Obel — Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Sings)
Agnes Obel — Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel (Continuous Mix) [50:32]
Agnes Obel — Bloody Shadows from a Distance [3:05]
Agnes Obel — I Go to Sleep
Agnes Obel — The Nights
Agnes Obel — Aleluia
Agnes Obel — Ay Ay Ay Ay (Angle-Lala)
Agnes Obel — Moonbird [2:23]
Agnes Obel — Eden's Island
Agnes Obel — Great Mission
Agnes Obel — The Evil Theme [3:02]
Agnes Obel — Oscura Primavera
Agnes Obel — Glemmer Du [2:03]
Agnes Obel — Stretch Your Eyes (Quiet Village remix)
Agnes Obel — Mary (instrumental)
Agnes Obel — Spotify Sessions
Agnes Obel — Citizen of Glass (instrumental)
Agnes Obel — It’s Happening Again (instrumental)
Agnes Obel — Stretch Your Eyes [5:11]
Agnes Obel — Trojan Horses [5:34]
Agnes Obel — It's Happening Again [4:20]
Agnes Obel — Mary [5:47]
Agnes Obel — Citizen of Glass [2:49]
Agnes Obel — Grasshopper [2:38]
Agnes Obel — Stone [3:57]
Agnes Obel — Red Virgin Soil [2:43]
Agnes Obel — Familiar [3:56]
Agnes Obel — Golden Green [4:00]
Agnes Obel — The Curse (Remixes)
Agnes Obel — September Song (from Aventine) [3:24]
Agnes Obel — Fuel to Fire (from Aventine) [5:30]
Agnes Obel — Tokka (from Aventine) [1:30]
Agnes Obel — Run Cried the Crawling (from Aventine) [4:27]
Agnes Obel — Smoke & Mirrors (from Aventine) [2:59]
Agnes Obel — Aventine (from Aventine) [4:08]
Agnes Obel — Pass Them By (from Aventine) [3:32]
Agnes Obel — Dorian (from Aventine) [4:48]
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Agnes Obel — Fivefold (from Aventine) [1:59]
Agnes Obel — Chord Left (from Aventine) [2:30]
Agnes Obel — Run Cried the Crawling [4:24]
Agnes Obel — Smoke & Mirrors [2:58]
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Agnes Obel — The Curse [5:51]
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Agnes Obel — Arches [3:24]
Agnes Obel — Fivefold [1:57]
Agnes Obel — Chord Left (Live) [2:32]
Agnes Obel — Under Giant Trees [5:24]
Agnes Obel — The Curse (Live) [6:44]
Agnes Obel — Tokka [1:30]
Agnes Obel — Fuel to Fire [5:28]
Agnes Obel — Fuel to Fire (Live) [5:07]
Agnes Obel — Pass Them By [3:30]
Agnes Obel — Dorian (Daniel Matz Rework) [3:52]
Agnes Obel — Dorian [4:46]
Agnes Obel — Aventine [4:06]
Agnes Obel — September Song [3:23]
Agnes Obel — Words Are Dead [3:44]
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Agnes Obel — On Powdered Ground [4:07]
Agnes Obel — Katie Cruel (Live in Copenhagen) [4:47]
Agnes Obel — Over the Hill [2:48]
Agnes Obel — Philharmonics (Live in Copenhagen) [4:02]
Agnes Obel — Beast [3:50]
Agnes Obel — Riverside (from Riverside) [4:17]
Agnes Obel — Sons & Daughters (from Riverside) [3:15]
Agnes Obel — Close Watch (from Riverside) [4:01]
Agnes Obel — Just So

Avenue
4:07
Avenue (Piano Sessions)
4:05
Beast
3:50
Beast (Piano Sessions)
3:42
Brother Sparrow
3:59
Brother Sparrow (Piano Sessions)
3:58
Close Watch
4:00
Close Watch (Live in Copenhagen)
5:03
Falling, Catching
1:34
Just So
3:35

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