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Elbow – Empires (2019) | Track profile | Dork

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Elbow
Giants of All Sizes
Empires

SINGLE

Empires

Release date: 10th October 2019

From Giants of All SizesTrack 33:59

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Empires" is a single by Elbow, from the album Giants of All Sizes, released 10th October 2019. The track is 3:59 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Elbow.

About the Artist

Elbow

Elbow

Lyrics

Empires

Baby
Empires crumble all the time
Pay it no mind
You just happened to witness mine
Don't let all the light fall from your eyes
Come, come
Empires crumble all the time

How can a dismally typical Tuesday
Delivering blues with lead in its canopy
Scruff and pin me and let's make a man of me
Turn up the pounding of the hearts all around
And I'm bound to get busy with checking on the living
And I'll wring out their hands and my eyes with the sobbing
But how can a bland unremarkable typical Tuesday be Day of the Dead?

Baby
Empires crumble all the time
Pay it no mind
You just happened to witness mine
Don't let all the light fall from your eyes
Come, come
Empires crumble all the time

How can a dismally typical Tuesday
Delivering blues with lead in its canopy
Scruff and pin me and let's make a man of me
Turn up the pounding of the hearts all around
And I'm bound to get busy on checking on the living
And I'll wring out their hands and my eyes with the sobbing
But how can a bland unremarkable typical Tuesday be Day of the Dead?

Baby
Empires crumble all the time

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Giants of All Sizes

3:592019Single

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Album

Giants of All Sizes

11th October 2019

Track number

3

Release year

2019

1Dexter & Sinister
6:59
2Seven Veils
4:36
3Empires
3:59
4The Delayed 3:15
3:25

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Drums: Alex Reeves
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