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Darkroom

Release date: 20th May 1996

From Londinium
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About This Track

"Darkroom" is a track by Archive, from the album Londinium, released 20th May 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Archive

Archive

Lyrics

Darkroom

[Chorus: Roya Arab]

Face in my hands admiring that view again

Pictures tell me it's only my fear

So I'll try, I'll try to hear what I like

And I'll try to hide what I fear

[Rosko John]

Ever moving over to the way I wanna be attract an energy

Past time stored in my memory

As we are struggling to make sense of the human nature distraction

Like a fairground attraction

Communication interacts like we

So reason over remedy ready me infinitely

But lately I admit hard times have hit

But still I live knowing I'll break through it

The fluid flows the seed grows and life goes on

And the fight goes on in this the Babylon we carry on

Surviving striving taking everyday watching time go by

And I tangle with stress feel strain from stress man made hell yes

Recess less I be mistaken

I be taking all the ways life heralding the hark

I embark like a light in the dark

Define definition in my focus

Living in a room over the far side view

I am surrounded by the border of disorder so I ought to be

Stable and able to lift my hand and take an opportunity Sinking down into quicksand time

Another number never I endeavour like time is forever expanding

Immaterial is the original principle

Now the icon is God

Sad case in the rat race

Erasing all the memory of something that they can't quite comprehend

I end a line to the live wire

My entire trickle down lava flow blood fire

I attack with my brain seeing eye vision

Looking over my terrain day by day stay sane

In the land of chaos and disorder

Living behind the light we're surrounded by a border

In the dark room

[Chorus: Roya Arab]

Face in my hands admiring that view again

Pictures tell me it's only my fear

So I'll try, I'll try to hear what I like

And I'll try to hide what I fear

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Track details

From Londinium

1996
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Album
Londinium
Londinium
Archive
20th May 1996
Release year
1996
  1. —All Time
  2. —Beautiful World
  3. —Darkroom
  4. —Headspace
  5. —Londinium Hidden Track
  6. —Man-Made
  7. —Old Artist
  8. —Organ Song
  9. —Last Five
  10. —Parvaneh (Butterfly)
  11. —SkyScraper
  12. —Headspace
    4:14
  13. —Nothing Else

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Writer
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