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Words Are Dead (Live)

Release date: 25th September 2013

From Aventine (Deluxe Version)Track 194:10

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"Words Are Dead (Live)" is a track by Agnes Obel, from the album Aventine (Deluxe Version), released 25th September 2013. The track is 4:10 long. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Agnes Obel

Agnes Obel

Lyrics

Words Are Dead (Live)

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

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

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

They are dead, they are dead

Oh, don't cry for me
Oh, don't cry for me
Oh, don't cry for me
Oh, don't you cry for me

Lower them down in the ground, mm
Lower them down in the ground, mm
Lower them down in the ground
Lower them down in the ground

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Track details

From Aventine (Deluxe Version)

4:102013

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Album

Aventine (Deluxe Version)

26th September 2013

Track number

19

Release year

2013

1Chord Left
2:29
2Fuel to Fire
5:28
3Dorian
4:46
4Aventine
4:06

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Agnes Obel — Live 2022, Vol. 2
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Agnes Obel — Can’t Be (Rone remix)
Agnes Obel — Myopia (instrumentals)
Agnes Obel — Camera's Rolling (from Myopia) [4:44]
Agnes Obel — Promise Keeper (from Myopia) [4:29]
Agnes Obel — Parliament of Owls (from Myopia) [2:30]
Agnes Obel — Can't Be (from Myopia) [3:26]
Agnes Obel — Myopia (from Myopia) [5:17]
Agnes Obel — Drosera (from Myopia) [2:28]
Agnes Obel — Won't You Call Me (from Myopia) [4:17]
Agnes Obel — Island of Doom (from Myopia) [5:29]
Agnes Obel — Roscian (from Myopia) [2:17]
Agnes Obel — Broken Sleep (from Myopia) [4:56]
Agnes Obel — Bee Dance (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [2:39]
Agnes Obel — Images (Live in New York 1964) (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Piano Quintet, V (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [3:55]
Agnes Obel — Poem About Death (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [3:05]
Agnes Obel — Stretch Your Eyes (Ambient Acapella) (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [6:07]
Agnes Obel — Party Girl (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [4:27]
Agnes Obel — I Lie (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [5:13]
Agnes Obel — The End (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [2:28]
Agnes Obel — Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Sings) (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel (Continuous Mix) (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [50:32]
Agnes Obel — Bloody Shadows from a Distance (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [3:05]
Agnes Obel — I Go to Sleep (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — The Nights (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Aleluia (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Ay Ay Ay Ay (Angle-Lala) (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Moonbird (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [2:23]
Agnes Obel — Eden's Island (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — Great Mission (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
Agnes Obel — The Evil Theme (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel) [3:02]
Agnes Obel — Oscura Primavera (from Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel)
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Agnes Obel — Arches (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [3:24]
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Agnes Obel — Chord Left (Live) (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [2:32]
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Agnes Obel — Tokka (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [1:30]
Agnes Obel — Fuel to Fire (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [5:28]
Agnes Obel — Fuel to Fire (Live) (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [5:07]
Agnes Obel — Dorian (Daniel Matz Rework) (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [3:52]
Agnes Obel — Dorian (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [4:46]
Agnes Obel — Aventine (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [4:06]
Agnes Obel — Run Cried the Crawling (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [4:24]
Agnes Obel — Smoke & Mirrors (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [2:58]
Agnes Obel — September Song (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [3:23]
Agnes Obel — Words Are Dead (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [3:44]
Agnes Obel — Chord Left (from Aventine (Deluxe Version)) [2:29]
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Agnes Obel — Katie Cruel [2:59]
Agnes Obel — Philharmonics [3:33]
Agnes Obel — Riverside [3:49]
Agnes Obel — On Powdered Ground [4:07]
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Agnes Obel — Louretta [2:06]
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Agnes Obel — Sons & Daughters (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:32]
Agnes Obel — Wallflower (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [2:26]
Agnes Obel — Louretta (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:20]
Agnes Obel — Louretta (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [2:06]
Agnes Obel — Smoke & Mirrors (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:40]
Agnes Obel — On powdererd Ground (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:06]
Agnes Obel — Wallflower [2:26]
Agnes Obel — Beast [3:50]
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Agnes Obel — Close Watch (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [5:03]
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Agnes Obel — Avenue (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:07]
Agnes Obel — Just So (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:35]
Agnes Obel — Riverside (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:49]
Agnes Obel — Avenue (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:05]
Agnes Obel — Over the Hill (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [2:46]
Agnes Obel — Sons & Daughters (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:14]
Agnes Obel — Just So (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:33]
Agnes Obel — Brother Sparrow (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:59]
Agnes Obel — Riverside (Piano Sessions) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:47]
Agnes Obel — Philharmonics (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:33]
Agnes Obel — On Powdered Ground (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:07]
Agnes Obel — Katie Cruel (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:47]
Agnes Obel — Over the Hill (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [2:48]
Agnes Obel — Philharmonics (Live in Copenhagen) (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [4:02]
Agnes Obel — Beast (from Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)) [3:50]
Agnes Obel — Riverside [4:17]
Agnes Obel — Sons & Daughters [3:15]
Agnes Obel — Close Watch [4:01]
Agnes Obel — Just So

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4:07
Avenue (Piano Sessions)Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
4:05
BeastPhilharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
3:50
Beast (Piano Sessions)Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
3:42
Brother SparrowPhilharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
3:59
Brother Sparrow (Piano Sessions)Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
3:58
Close WatchPhilharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
4:00
Close Watch (Live in Copenhagen)Philharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
5:03
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1:34
Just SoPhilharmonics (Deluxe Edition)
3:35

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Agnes Obel – Words Are Dead (Live) (2013) | Track profile | Dork

5Run Cried the Crawling

9Words Are Dead

11Smoke & Mirrors

12Under Giant Trees

14September Song

15Run Cried the Crawling (Live)

16Chord Left (Live)

17Fuel to Fire (Live)

18Aventine (Live)

19Words Are Dead (Live)

4:10

20The Curse (Live)

21Dorian (Daniel Matz Rework)

22Fuel to Fire (David Lynch Remix)