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Ache by FKA twigs

TRACK

FKA twigs

Ache

Release date: 4th December 2012

From EP1
Track 2
5:00
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About This Track

'Ache' finds FKA twigs suspended in longing, her voice fractured across loops of repetition that mirror the song's emotional pull. Written with Liam Howe and Tic, the track builds from whispered vulnerability into something more insistent, the chorus collapsing into its own title as a kind of surrender. Her plea to stay, to not be left lonely, carries the weight of someone falling into another person entirely. The production holds her voice in a space between restraint and release. Each repetition of "ache for you" becomes less a statement than an incantation, the song's structure mimicking the circular nature of desire itself. It's a piece about loss of self through intimacy, about inhaling someone else's breath until the boundary between them dissolves.

"Ache" is a track by FKA twigs, from the album EP1, released 4th December 2012. The track is 5:00 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about FKA twigs.

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FKA twigs

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Lyrics

Ache

I'll come when you ask me
Fast train
Make my eyes blue
Your love
Make my night go boom
That's why I need you
In the end
To the beginning
You're suspending me up
With a feeling
From up here
I do surrender
In the trust that up high
Lie here together
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I beg you to stay-ay-ay
I am lonely without
Your face-ay-ay
Your love
Made my heart go boom
So I might lose myself in you
And I fall
Into your breathing
I inhale all you speak
When I'm sleeping
In my rise I'll be giving
All the things that I hide
When I'm feeling you
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
I-I-I-I
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah
I-I-I-I
Ache-ache-ache
For you-you-you-you
Ah-ah-ah-ah

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Track details

From EP1

5:002012
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Album
EP1
EP1
FKA twigs
4th December 2012
Track number
2
Release year
2012
  1. 1Weak Spot
    3:43
  2. 2Ache
    5:00
  3. 3Breathe
    4:17
  4. 4Hide
    2:59

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