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BODEGA – Protean (2024) | Track profile | Dork

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BODEGA
Our Brand Could Be Yr Life
Protean

TRACK

Protean

Release date: 11th April 2024

From Our Brand Could Be Yr LifeTrack 10

1:58

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Protean" is a track by BODEGA, from the album Our Brand Could Be Yr Life, released 11th April 2024. The track is 1:58 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 10 articles about BODEGA.

About the Artist

BODEGA

BODEGA

Lyrics

Protean

She said we could never be
That donʼt really matter to me anyway
Weʼre an island in a military campaign
Colonel taking orders from champagne
Coast is a target for both sideʼs siege
And those steel caged machines…
Canʼt change their direction
Canʼt change their direction
She said thereʼs nothing ever new in the arts
Right then I knew we would start to break away
That thinking is lazy
(Lazy)
Underground Paisley
Tell myself this is why we stopped
But I know I was dropped…
And later changed my perspective
I had to change my perspective
And like the mannequinʼs holy glow
The rock pop singer in his gaudy robes
Whatʼs in the mirror is not really there
But if I stare…
Iʼll want to change my direction
I have to change my direction
Strip away - refine direction
Gotta change my direction

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Track details

From Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

1:582024

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Album

Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

12th April 2024

Track number

10

Release year

2024

1Dedicated to the Dedicated
3:24
2G.N.D. Deity
2:36
3Bodega Bait
2:26
4Tarkovski
4:33

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19 Mar 2024 • 5:29 pm

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21 Feb 2024 • 2:53 pm

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For as long as most can remember, the push and pull of corporate interests and mentalities into underground scenes has created a sense of distrust, suspicion, smoke and mirrors. Revisiting previous work under a different guise, BODEGA are back to poke at the sometimes suspiciously shiny underbelly of alternative music culture.

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11 Mar 2022 • 8:37 am

Bodega have shared a new single, 'Pillar On The Bridge Of You'

Bodega have shared a new single, 'Pillar On The Bridge Of You'

The final taster of new album 'What's Your Rupture?' - set to arrive this Friday (11th March) - it comes alongside a new visual.

9 Mar 2022 • 9:12 pm

Bodega have delivered their latest new album taster, 'Statuette On The Console'

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'Broken Equipment', the follow up to 2018's debut 'Endless Scroll', is set for release on 11th March.

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Bodega have shared a second new album taster, 'Thrown'

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5Major Amberson

9Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drum

10Protean

1:58

11Born into by What Consumes

12Cultural Consumer I

13Cultural Consumer II

14Cultural Consumer III

15City Is Taken