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Modern Act

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Modern Act

Release date: 27th January 2017

From Life Without SoundTrack 64:10

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"Modern Act" is a track by Cloud Nothings, from the album Life Without Sound, released 27th January 2017. The track is 4:10 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Cloud Nothings.

About the Artist

Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Lyrics

Modern Act

Here we are among the living
See and count your friends
Gathered in a room together
This is how it ends
Can't stand the modern act
Whose war is this, what god is that?
Feels like the tide is only
Starting to come in

Do you know what it's like
To be out and alive?
To say you're doing alright
Yeah, you're doing just fine?
When you feel like an ocean
Coming out of a creek
Filling rivers to wait for you wherever you are?
When you're out and around
And all you ever see
Are people looking away?
It's nothing new to me
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone

Calling on the light, forgiving
See to all and then
Waiting on the old, expiring force
To go and end
Can't stand the modern act
Whose war is this, what god is that?
Feels like the tide is only
Starting to come in

Do you know what it's like
To be out and alive?
To say you're doing alright
Yeah, you're doing just fine?
When you feel like an ocean
Coming out of a creek
Filling rivers to wait for you wherever you are?
When you're out and around
And all you ever see
Are people looking away?
It's nothing new to me

I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone

[Bridge]

I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone
I want a life, that's all I need lately
I am alive but all alone

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Track details

From Life Without Sound

4:102017

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Album

Life Without Sound

27th January 2017

Track number

6

Release year

2017

1Up to the Surface
3:59
2Things Are Right With You
4:25
3Internal World
3:46
4Darkened Rings

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Cloud Nothings — I'm Not Part Of Me (Bee Mask Remix) (from Here and Nowhere Else (10th Anniversary)) [4:30]
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Credits

Writer: Dylan Baldi, Jayson Gerycz
Producer: John Goodmanson
Credited: Carpark Records, Dylan Baldi, Jayson Gerycz, John Goodmanson
Label: Carpark Records