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Failure – Counterfeit Sky (2015) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Failure
The Heart is a Monster
Counterfeit Sky

TRACK

Counterfeit Sky

Release date: 29th June 2015

From The Heart is a Monster

Track 7

4:46

Alternative Music

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About This Track

'Counterfeit Sky' by Failure is a 2015 alternative track from the album 'The Heart is a Monster'. The lyrics lay blame at someone else’s door, then turn the screw on selfhood, describing being held down, “the counterfeit sky”, and a feeling that nothing genuinely changes even after everything shifts. The voice sounds urgent and accusatory, moving through images of exposure and collapse, then ending with a call to wake up, laugh, and not recognise who you are.

"Counterfeit Sky" is a track by Failure, from the album The Heart is a Monster, released 29th June 2015. The track is 4:46 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Failure.

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Failure

Failure

Lyrics

Counterfeit Sky

It's no mistake
It's all your fault
What holds you down
Just find your ghost

One more sunlight breaks you down
The counterfeit sky sells you out
After all the change, nothing's changed
Wake up laughing and don't know who you are

It's not a switch
Or a reflex
In all the ways
You sink your guest

One more sunlight breaks you down
The counterfeit sky sells you out
After all the change, nothing's changed
Wake up laughing (Wake up laughing)

Are you mine all the time?
When you dream (When you dream)

One more sunlight breaks you down
The counterfeit sky sells you out
After all the change, nothing's changed
Wake up laughing and don't know who you are (Who you are?)

Are you mine? (Who you are?)

One more sunlight breaks you down (Breaks you down)
The counterfeit sky sells you out (Sells you out)
After all the change, nothing's changed
Nothing's changed

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Track details

From The Heart is a Monster

4:462015

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Album

The Heart is a Monster

Track number

7

Release year

2015

1Segue 4
1:07
2Hot Traveler
4:52
3A.M. Amnesia
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4Snow Angel
3:32

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Writer: Greg Edwards, Ken Andrews
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The track arrives ahead of Failure's new album 'Location Lost'.

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