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Bad Apple by Basement

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Basement

Bad Apple

Release date: 22nd October 2012

From colourmeinkindness
Track 5
2:57
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About This Track

'Bad Apple' by Basement is a 2012 indie rock track from the album 'colourmeinkindness'. The lyrics frame a relationship as a sweet surface over something fundamentally corrupt, returning to the image of being “rotten to the core”. There is a restless, self-critical edge to the questions, and the speaker seems trapped between wanting more and knowing they should not reach for it. The repeated insistence on the core underscores how damage has taken root, with darker days implied in the bridges that have been built.

"Bad Apple" is a track by Basement, from the album colourmeinkindness, released 22nd October 2012. The track is 2:57 long. It's filed under Indie Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Basement.

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Basement

Basement

Lyrics

Bad Apple

Bad apple
Why do I want more?
Skin so sweet, but you're
But you're rotten to the core
To the core
To the core
I never learned to truly burn
Bridges made in darker days

Bad apple
Why do I feel the need
To touch you
When I know you are not clean?
To the core
To the core
I never learned to truly burn
Bridges made in darker

To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core
To the core

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Track details

From colourmeinkindness

2:572012
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23rd October 2012
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5
Release year
2012
  1. 1Whole
    3:11
  2. 2Covet
    3:47
  3. 3Spoiled
    2:45
  4. 4Pine
    2:25

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