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  1. Tracks
  2. Coalesce
  3. Give Them Rope
  4. I Took a Year

TRACK

Coalesce

I Took a Year

Release date: 1st June 1997

From Give Them Rope
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About This Track

"I Took a Year" is a track by Coalesce, from the album Give Them Rope, released 1st June 1997. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

I Took a Year

I never considered that

I chose to stay numb over tears

I forgot myself to keep momentum

I took a year and stretched it ten fold

But today i live, i live it down

With both eyes just now reawakening

Still sore and sober

Still sober for no reason

I have every reason

I can be just as addictive as the next so take care of me

I am your responsibility

You wanted to change it all so start with an infant

Is this it?

Have you given it to me?

Is this the meaning?

Have you forced it upon me or am i hanging myself needlessly?

Damn your riddles stop speaking in tongues

Let me hear it, let me feel it across my face if need be

You've given it all still i want even more

Sober expression. Numb in motive

Take even more

Damn your riddles

They change nothing

I will stand back and take it all in

I am still myself

I'm still intact

Just let me rest. Just let me rest

Just let me go

Yesterday i was left just like before and again every night after

Now i can accept the common theme in unconsciousness

Temptation's only a word now with no potential of a physical body

No is not so hard

I'm the one to leave of an honest will

Confidence can no longer be stolen under the table

Me

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Track details

From Give Them Rope

1997
Album
Give Them Rope
Give Them Rope
Coalesce
Release year
1997
  1. —Cut to Length
  2. —Chain Smoking
  3. —For All You Are
  4. —One On the Ground
  5. —I Took a Year
  6. —Every Reason To
  7. —Did It Pay the Rent
  8. —Still It Sells
  9. —I Am Not the First
  10. —Have Patience
  11. —This Is the Last

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  1. 73-C
  2. A New Language
  3. A Safe Place
  4. Absent in Death
  5. Among the Dead We Pray for Light
  6. Black Dog
  7. Blend As Well
  8. Blue Collar Lullaby
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Credits

Credited
Ed Rose, James Dewees, Jes Steineger, Sean Ingram, Stacy Hilt