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Destroyer – Downtown (2011) | Track profile | Dork

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Destroyer
Kaputt
Downtown

TRACK

Downtown

Release date: 25th January 2011

Track 7

3:51

Alternative Music Rock Adult Alternative

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About This Track

'Downtown' by Destroyer is a 2011 alternative track from the album 'Kaputt'. The lyrics circle around a familiar settling-in process that then curdles into displacement, with the narrator waking to a sense that everything is “drowning”. That unease sharpens into a sense of being left behind, as someone wanders off and the speaker retreats into the city’s pull. There are specific named details too, including MaryJane from down the lane, and a pet or companion nicknamed Little Comet.

"Downtown" is a track by Destroyer, from the album Kaputt, released 25th January 2011. The track is 3:51 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Destroyer.

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Destroyer

Destroyer

Lyrics

Downtown

I was just getting used
To having you 'round.
You went wandering
Around the world.
I woke up.
I went downtown.
I woke up and everything was drowning...
Downtown...

Little Comet (that's the name we gave him!)
'S been trying.
But he doesn't see why
MaryJane from down the lane went insane.
Oh she's still better off than I am...
Downtown!...

Held a candle to the window,
Then the door.
Saw the features of the world light up,
Oh Eva, your face!
I was a four-leaf clover.
I was Red Rover on his way over
To your place!...

I was just getting used
To having you 'round
You went wandering
Around the world.
I woke up,
I went downtown.
I woke up

And everything was drowning...

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Track details

From Kaputt

3:512011

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Album

25th January 2011

Track number

7

Release year

2011

1Chinatown
3:49
2Blue Eyes
4:07
3Savage Night At the Opera
4:24
4Suicide Demo for Kara Walker

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