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Ed Harcourt
El Magnifico
1987

TRACK

1987

Release date: 29th March 2024

From El Magnifico

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About This Track

"1987" is a track by Ed Harcourt, from the album El Magnifico, released 29th March 2024. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ed Harcourt

Ed Harcourt

Lyrics

1987

[Verse 1]

1987

The oak broke through my window

Missed me by an inch

Winter '17

A deer caught in the headlights

Swerved into a ditch

1985

Missed the boat to England

The next week it had sunk

Autumn 20-oh-9

Blacked out on the drugs

Drank only to get drunk

[Chorus]

And it feels good to be with you, being alive

It feels good to be with you, being alive

I got five lives left, I'll save the rest

Choose my time to die

It feels good to be with you, being alive

[Verse 2]

1991

Fake superhero stalked me

I ran like the howling wind

1984

Racing down a church hill

Smashed to smithereens

2006

50cc on a mountain cliff

Crash right around the bend

Summer zero-seven

Boys on a London rooftop

Pulled back by my friends

[Chorus]

It feels good to be with you, being alive

It feels good to be with you, being alive

Got one life left, I'll trick my death

Choose my time to die

It feels good to be with you, being alive

[Bridge]

Wretched gods above us

Gave me a skeleton key to life

It's my pity party, gonna

Keep you up all night

[Chorus]

And it feels good to be with you, being alive

Solid ground I jumped down from the wire

Got one life left, I'll trick my death

Choose my time to die

It feels good to be with you, being alive

[Outro]

1987

Music came to find me

I've been lost in it since

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Track details

From El Magnifico

2024

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2024

—At the Dead End of the World
—El Magnifico
—Seraphina
—My Heart Can't Keep Up With My Mind
—Anvils & Hammers
—Broken Keys
—Ghost Ship
—1987
—The Violence of the Rose
—Into the Loving Arms of Your Enemy
—Deathless
—Strange Beauty

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Ed Harcourt — Under the Still and Lonely Sky
Ed Harcourt — In the Embers of a Dying Flame
Ed Harcourt — The Patron Saint of Restless Dreamers
Ed Harcourt — Winter's Sigh
Ed Harcourt — The Low Spirits
Ed Harcourt — By the Light of the Silver Morning
Ed Harcourt — Mercurial
Ed Harcourt — O' Gentle Death
Ed Harcourt — Yesteryears
Ed Harcourt — A Ghost Walked Through Me
Ed Harcourt — Relentless
Ed Harcourt — Sleep Sleep Little Boy
Ed Harcourt — Ghost Ship (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Anvils & Hammers (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — My Heart Can't Keep Up With My Mind (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Seraphina (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — At the Dead End of the World (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Broken Keys (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — El Magnifico (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — The Violence of the Rose (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Into the Loving Arms of Your Enemy (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Deathless (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Strange Beauty (from El Magnifico)
Ed Harcourt — Drowning in Dreams
Ed Harcourt — Only the Darkness Smiles for You
Ed Harcourt — Fruit Fly
Ed Harcourt — Immoral
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Ed Harcourt — Nothing But a Bad Trip
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Ed Harcourt — You Give Me More Than Love
Ed Harcourt — Last of Your Kind
Ed Harcourt — Dionysus
Ed Harcourt — The World Is on Fire
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Ed Harcourt — Intro (Furnaces)
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Ed Harcourt — Occupational Hazard
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Ed Harcourt — Something in My Eye
Ed Harcourt — She Fell Into My Arms
Ed Harcourt — Whistle of a Distant Train
Ed Harcourt — Attaboy Go Spin a Yarn
Ed Harcourt — He’s Building a Swamp
Ed Harcourt — I’ve Become Misguided
Ed Harcourt — Hanging with the Wrong Crowd

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Credited: Dave Lynch