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Destroyer – You Can't Go Home Again (1997) | Track profile | Dork

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Ideas for Songs
You Can't Go Home Again

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You Can't Go Home Again

Release date: 1997

From Ideas for Songs

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"You Can't Go Home Again" is a track by Destroyer, from the album Ideas for Songs, released 1997. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Destroyer.

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Lyrics

You Can't Go Home Again

[Verse 1]

It's gross

Skin sprouting something that shouldn't be sprouted from skin

I know you said you tried

All jokes aside

Don't go home again

Expecting the salvos of better times than you'll ever know

[Verse 2]

It's gross

A hallway of torsos

Morsels for your monstrous wealth

I know I've got the stealth

But you've for the size

All jokes aside

Don't go home again

Expecting the salvos of better times than you'll ever know

[Verse 3]

Someone got hold of the radio show

It seems the town is taken

I'll keep the circuits beside me and sell them for the silver

[Verse 4]

A true director can say

I've seen the rushes, the director's cut sucks

I elephantized your every move, I know how to

[Verse 5]

Flip through the source books, skim through the text

To find the first language you looked for long dead

[Outro]

You can't go home again, no don't ask why don't even try to go

You can't go home again, no don't ask why don't even try to go

You can't go home again, no don't ask why don't even try to go

You can't go home again, no don't ask why don't even try to go

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Track details

From Ideas for Songs

1997

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Album

Ideas for Songs

Release year

1997

1A Month In the Country
2:04
2Song About Disappointment
1:58
3Spring Cleaning
2:24
4No One Needs to Know
3:20
5Death to the Northern Man
2:06
6Child of Styx
2:33
7Marrying the Hammer
1:39
8Nothing Against You Bored Spectre
3:49
9Song About a Girl Up to a Point
1:32
10The Terror Serves a Purpose
2:42
11Leaving London
1:37
12Untitled
2:53
13Forget America
1:06
14Stuffed and Sick
1:28
15The Leg We Stand On
2:37
16Why Banacek Doesn't Love
5:33
—You Can't Go Home Again

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