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Destroyer – Thief (2000) | Track profile | Dork

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Destroyer
Thief
Thief

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Thief

Release date: 31st August 2000

From ThiefTrack 132:27

Rock Music Alternative

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"Thief" is a track by Destroyer, from the album Thief, released 31st August 2000. The track is 2:27 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Destroyer.

About the Artist

Destroyer

Destroyer

Lyrics

Thief

You take back the curse, but the world just gets worse
As you wonder about how someone could become
So fat and so proud off the damage they've done.
Man, the damage was fun.

A house is a home.
Hotels made of skin and bone hold us.
Father figures continue to scold us.
Avuncular-at-best in a church of new things.
He traded the records for rings
As I sat back and watched what I thought would ensue
Not ensue.

Hospitals overflow
With singers, embittered and pissed.
Dead-ringers for men whose whereabouts should not be known
Or be missed.

No failed revolts,
No plot from the inside
Could contend with the prospect or trend towards being discovered before our time.
With upwards of thirty songs
All about women and children
Whose lives will come second to mine.

You take back the curse, but the girl just gets
Every rip-off artist to paint a picture of a world at war
When the world was not at war.
When the world was not at war.
When the world was not at war.
Oh, when the world was not at war

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Track details

From Thief

2:272000

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Album

1st September 2000

Track number

13

Release year

2000

1Destroyer's the Temple
4:48
2To the Heart of the Sun on the Back of the Vulture, I'll Go
3:52
3The Way of Perpetual Roads
3:54
4

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Dark City Hunter

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Destroyer has confirmed new album 'Dan's Boogie' and shared an early single featuring Fiver

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Dan Bejar
Producer: John Collins
Guitar: Dan Bejar
Vocals: Dan Bejar