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Atomic Cafe

Release date: 1st July 2018

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About This Track

'Atomic Cafe' by Cults is a 2018 song from 'Motels LP'. Its lyrics place the listener after midnight, chasing a “good time”, but ending in disillusion, where love is figured as turning to luck and a fall into helplessness follows. The vocal perspective sounds like an address to someone who is doing the missing part, then getting dragged under by the consequences. The atmosphere is restless and insinuating, full of momentum that keeps slipping towards collapse.

"Atomic Cafe" is a track by Cults, from the album Motels LP, released 1st July 2018. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Cults.

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Lyrics

Atomic Cafe

The Atomic Cafe

Somewhere after midnight

You don't know what you’re missing

You'd be out of your mind

Tryna have a good time

You don't know what you’re missing

The Atomic Cafe

Somewhere after midnight

All the love turns to luck

And you'll be down on your knees

Crawling through the streets

Caked with perfume and perfection

And stop

Like a fool and see

The lonely ain't so free

The Atomic Cafe

Somewhere after midnight

A sad deja vu

And you find a fragment of a feeling

Somebody help me 'fore I hurt me

The Atomic Cafe

Somewhere after midnight

All the love turns to luck

And you'll be down on your knees

Crawling through the streets

Caked with perfume and perfection

And cry like a baby for another time

Where love takes its toll in nickels and dimes

And I'll stop, like a fool and see

The lonely ain't so free

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Track details

From Motels LP

2018
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Motels LP
Motels LP
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2018
  1. —Love Don't Help
  2. —Dressing Up
  3. —Anticipating
  4. —Kix
  5. —Atomic Cafe
  6. —Closets & Bullets
  7. —Counting
  8. —Porn Reggae
  9. —Total Control
  10. —Celia

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