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Strike by Destroyer

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Destroyer

Strike

Release date: 25th April 2001

From Streethawk: A Seduction
Track 11
2:59
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'Strike' by Destroyer is a 2001 rock track from the album 'Streethawk: A Seduction'. The lyrics fix on a weary self-interrogation, homing in on someone who keeps pushing despite illness and ends up trapped in other people’s demands. “Why do you work when you’re sick of lifting” crystallises the argument, while the lines that follow weigh up exhaustion, performance, and the felt pressure to keep pleasing everyone, even when it is clearly going nowhere. The tone is sceptical and accusatory, less a cathartic rant than a pointed audit of motives.

"Strike" is a track by Destroyer, from the album Streethawk: A Seduction, released 25th April 2001. The track is 2:59 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Destroyer.

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Destroyer

Destroyer

Lyrics

Strike

Why do you work when you're sick of lifting
When you're sick of lifting?
The festivities left you on the shelf
Why are you always trying to please everybody but yourself
That which bears witness to it's own failure
Are you so sure?

Why do you work for the festival
When you're sick of lifting spirits
Spirits, spirits to the sky
"Body" and "Soul"
Two words for that same nameless thing you have never known

Why do you work
In place of bearing witness to your own inclusion
Inclusion
Inclusion

And strike
And strike

Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike

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Track details

From Streethawk: A Seduction

2:592001
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Album
Streethawk: A Seduction
Streethawk: A Seduction
Destroyer
26th April 2001
Track number
11
Release year
2001
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    2:26
  2. 2The Bad Arts
    7:02
  3. 3Beggars Might Ride
    2:46
  4. 4The Sublimation Hour
    4:12

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