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Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder (2017) | Track profile | Dork

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Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder
Hug of Thunder

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Broken Social Scene

Hug of Thunder

Release date: 6th July 2017

From Hug of Thunder

Track 7

4:55

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Hug of Thunder" is a single by Broken Social Scene, from the album Hug of Thunder, released 6th July 2017. The track is 4:55 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Broken Social Scene.

About the Artist

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene

Lyrics

Hug of Thunder

Many years before I kept track of the years I felt I would

Look back otherwise why did I write down everything that entered my mind

Check out these lines like I'm staring and I'm soon ticking when it is closed

In twenty holes how could I say what point I will gain perspective later on

No, I had to survive it by the soundtrack made of our short lives

Making sense of hologram ecology
I'll be up crying, nursing into grace and
Hiding in the pages adding up to me

Eternity
'Til I live

It's like a topography that is made of cartography of me
All those feelings everyday the bus stop pulls to size up the entire world
And while I broke your tubes and carving at me all the times I had done you wrong
I hope I'm sorry, certain times in our lives come to take up more space than others

And time's gonna take it

Time that Kenny said I broke in over the summer
It was the evening when he climbed that Jeep
I was afraid what he was doing inside so I
Followed him to stop a robbery

All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
He will know what's real or numbness
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside

All along we're gonna feel some numbness
Oxymoron of our lives
Getting fed up by the hunger
Supersize we found inside
They won't know us by our numbers
Catching up and climbing life
Speaking like a hug of thunder
Lit up by the lights of dusk outside

It was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat

It was a military base across the street
We watch them training while we all eat
We watch them training while we all eat

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Track details

From Hug of Thunder

4:552017Single

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Album

Broken Social Scene

Track number

7

Release year

2017

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2Halfway Home
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3Protest Song
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4Skyline
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Broken Social Scene — Hug Of Thunder

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8Towers and Masons

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Andrew Whiteman, Brendan Canning, Charles Spearin, Feist, Justin Peroff, Kevin Drew
Producer: Joe Chiccarelli, Nyles Spencer
Drums: Justin Peroff
Keyboards: Feist
Acoustic Guitar: Andrew Whiteman
Background Vocals: Feist
Bass Guitar: Brendan Canning
Drum Machine: Andrew Whiteman
Drum Programmer: Joe Chiccarelli
Electric Guitar: Charles Spearin
Hammond B-3 Organ: Kevin Drew
Lead Vocals: Feist
Mellotron: Charles Spearin
Organ: Feist
Percussion: Charles Spearin
Piano: Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew
Sampler: Nyles Spencer
Synthesizer: Andrew Whiteman