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Cruel by Broadside

SINGLE

Broadside

Cruel

Release date: 8th August 2023

From Bang - SingleTrack 23:34
RockMusic

About This Track

"Cruel" is a single by Broadside, from the album Bang - Single, released 8th August 2023. The track is 3:34 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Broadside.

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Broadside

Broadside

Lyrics

Cruel

[Verse 1: Ollie Baxxter]

I tried to run, but still you found the truth

'Cause it always leads me here right back to you

Broke another promise, but you still refuse

To watch me sink, why won’t you let me lose?

Underneath all our problems

Feeling like we just can’t solve ‘em

Take all the rage, all the pain

Turn the page, start today

And even if you’re at the bottom

Feeling like you’ve been forgotten

Take all the rage, all the pain

Burn the page, start today

[Chorus: Ollie Baxxter]

This world is cruеl, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruеl

If you got something to lose

If you got something to prove

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

Face-to-face with the truth

Darkness always takes you head on

[Verse 2: Ollie Baxxter, Brian Butcher, Both]

Now call me Tony Danza

Everybody throw hands up feels like I got nothing

Yeah, I think I need an angel

I know you feel low

You’ve been down this bad before, okay

And even still up on my best days

I start to crumble like an earthquake, oh

I think I made another mistake

And now I gotta push the pain away

This head of mine feelin broken and shattered

But how you rebuild is all that matters

[Chorus: Ollie Baxxter]

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

If you got something to lose

If you got something to prove

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

Face-to-face with the truth

Darkness always takes you head on

[Bridge: Ollie Baxxter]

Teach me how love

Teach me how love myself

Teach me how to love

Teach me how to not destroy myself

[Chorus: Ollie Baxxter, Brian Butcher]

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

If you got something to lose

(If you got something to lose)

If you got something to prove (Prove)

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

Face-to-face with the truth

(Face-to-face with the truth)

Darkness always takes you head on

[Outro]

Cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

If you got something to lose

This world is cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel

Face-to-face with the truth

Darkness always takes you head on

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