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Camera Obscura – Footloose and Fancy Free (2003) | Track profile | Dork

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Camera Obscura
Underachievers Please Try Harder
Footloose and Fancy Free

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Footloose and Fancy Free

Release date: 2003

From Underachievers Please Try Harder

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About This Track

"Footloose and Fancy Free" is a track by Camera Obscura, from the album Underachievers Please Try Harder, released 2003. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Footloose and Fancy Free

Buy me an advent calendar

It seems the thought of days without you make me sadder

Don't visit me now; you make me want to do myself in

I'll see you sometimes, but I won't see you soon

I won't see you soon

I know some things about you; I won't spill the beans

'Cause there's a spool in my own camera that's never been seen

I could write it all down; I know it won't be enough

I want you to be happy with someone to love

Someone to love

And it won't be me

Said it won't be you

Pretty soon we'll agree to be free

Footloose and fancy free

Footloose and fancy free

Footloose and fancy free

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Track details

From Underachievers Please Try Harder

2003

Album

Underachievers Please Try Harder

Release year

2003

—Books Written for Girls
—A Sister's Social Agony
—Before You Cry
—Footloose and Fancy Free
—I Don't Want to See You
—Let Me Go Home
—Lunar Sea
—Knee Deep at the NPL
—Number One Son
—Your Picture
—Suspended from Class

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