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Algorithm

Release date: 28th October 2021

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'Algorithm' by Boston Manor is a 2021 rock track from the album 'DESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP'. The lyrics cast a bleak, self-reproachful mood, with images of being traded away and managed, while the narrator admits to usefulness slipping into excuse-making. One moment insists on agency, turning to the idea that if a dream is fading, it can still be changed. Throughout, the perspective stays first person, circling themes of lost youth, social rejection, and a feeling of being left out in the cold. There is a clipped urgency in the way the lines push forward, ending with a blunt imperative, “Do whatever”.

"Algorithm" is a single by Boston Manor, from the album DESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP, released 28th October 2021. The track is 4:12 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Boston Manor.

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Lyrics

Algorithm

Baby blue, they paid you to take my youth and use it up
They don't want a dilettante from up north in their club

But the truth is I was always useless, made excuses, I still do
If the dream is fading, well, you can always change it

I was by the wayside, never seeing daylight
Do whatever they like, just tell me what you people want
Tryna live a new life, do whatever you like
Wearing somebody else's clothes

'Cause the summer, it ain't gonna last forever
You gotta wake up, you gotta wake up now, now, now

But the truth is I was always useless, made excuses, I still do
If the dream is fading, well, you can always change it

I was by the wayside, never seeing daylight
Do whatever they like, just tell me what you people want
Tryna live a new life, do whatever you like
Wearing somebody else's clothes

Someone else's clothes, oh, feet don't fail me now
I wish I could let go, I could let go

I was by the wayside, never seeing daylight
Do whatever they like, just tell me what you people want
Tryna live a new life, do whatever you like
Wearing somebody else's clothes

I was by the wayside, never see the daylight
Do whatever they like, just tell me what you people want
Tryna live a new life, do whatever you like
Wearing somebody else's clothes

Someone else's clothes, oh, feet don't fail me now
I wish I could let go, I could let go

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From DESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP

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DESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP
DESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP
Boston Manor
29th October 2021
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2
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2021
  1. 1Carbon Mono
    3:55
  2. 2Algorithm
    4:12
  3. 3Desperate Pleasures
    3:55
  4. 4I Don't Like People (& They Don't Like Me)
    3:36
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2016
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  1. 1's & 0's
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  2. 1's & 0'sGlue
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  3. Algorithm (Acoustic)
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  4. Brand New Kids
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  5. Brand New KidsGlue
    3:42
  6. Carbon MonoDESPERATE TIMES DESPERATE PLEASURES - EP
    3:55
  7. Carbon Mono
    3:55
  8. ContainerSundiver
    3:06
  9. Container
    3:06
  10. CrocusDatura
    3:57

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