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Failure – Small Crimes (1994) | Track profile | Dork

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Magnified
Small Crimes

TRACK

Small Crimes

Release date: 8th March 1994

From Magnified

Track 10

7:14

Indie Rock Music Alternative Rock

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About This Track

'Small Crimes' by Failure is a 1994 indie rock track from the album 'Magnified'. The lyrics catalogue petty cruelty and performative innocence, shifting between image-rich observations, stained optimism, and a call to look away as “small crimes” mount. There is a sense of moral minimisation, as if harm is reduced to routine gestures, while emptiness is dressed up as sky-blue reassurance. In the end, the song’s bleak habit is to keep smiling, keep watching, and keep going, even as the cost is left to rot in plain sight.

"Small Crimes" is a track by Failure, from the album Magnified, released 8th March 1994. The track is 7:14 long. It's filed under Indie Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Failure.

About the Artist

Failure

Failure

Lyrics

Small Crimes

Small crimes
Smiles stretched on old trees
Strike your match so lightly
Watch the crooked smoke rise
Empty prayers to heaven
Just a mask of blue sky
Look away to

Small crimes
Kick the dog for eating
Leave your old self hungry
Watch in coldest pleasure
Tell the world what

Ever turns you on
Is fine with me
As long as you

Matches don't get wet
Warm winds
Calling me a coward
Make me smile

They can't convince me now
Burned prayers
Turn me on to nowhere
Sick and empty

I don't feel so bad
Ever turns around again
Says to me softly
"Start the fire now"

Small crimes
Sever used-up old
Considerations
Freedom's not so great

All fears
Burn up

They said
(Hold on) to the stairway railing
(Meaning) everything is meaning
(Something) makes it hard to keep track
(Hold on) from my tangled forest
(Growing) got my driest summer
(Small crimes) held my match box tightly

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Track details

From Magnified

7:141994

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Album

Track number

10

Release year

1994

1Let It Drip
2:42
2Moth
3:50
3Frogs
4:55
4Bernie
5:18

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Greg Edwards, Ken Andrews
Producer: Failure
Drums: Greg Edwards
Guitar: Ken Andrews
Vocals: Ken Andrews
Additional Vocals: Greg Edwards
Fretless Bass Guitar: Greg Edwards
Mastering Engineer: Stephen Marcussen
Mixing Engineer: David Bianco, John Jackson (Engineer), Ken Andrews
Recording Engineer: Howard Willing, Paul Lani
Remastering Engineer: Ken Andrews

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