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Flume

On Top

Release date: 1st June 2012

From Flume
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Dance
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About This Track

Flume's debut single pairs the producer's fluid, minimalist production with T-Shirt's vocals on a track built around the pursuit of success. The refrain stakes out the song's emotional core: the desire for freedom to pursue one's craft without compromise. Over sparse instrumentation, T-Shirt charts the sacrifices required to reach the top, trading leisure for relentless work, turning down trips to focus on projects in Los Angeles and beyond. The chorus locks into a simple, repeating demand: "I want the top". It's a mantra stripped of pretence, delivered with the kind of single-minded focus the lyrics describe. T-Shirt's verses layer specificity onto this ambition, moving between the material rewards of success and the harder currency of legacy, the need to ensure "our story gets told". Flume's production stays restrained throughout, letting the vocal sit at the centre, which only sharpens the track's hunger.

"On Top" is a track by Flume, from the album Flume, released 1st June 2012. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Flume.

About the Artist

Flume

Flume

Lyrics

On Top

[Refrain: Shirt]

All that I want in this life is the chance to do my thing

All that I want in this life is the chance to do my thing

Yeah

[Chorus: Shirt]

I want the top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top

All my people there in back of the spot

Let off a shot

Yeah

[Verse 1: Shirt]

And you don't just wake up rich one day

This kind of life never just slip your way

I gave up taking carefree trips to the Bay

Cali'-bound is 'cause I got a flip in L.A

Paris-bound 'cause a new video's on the way

No breaks for me, no vacay for me

I advance every minute, boy, I live it

Why start shit you don't finish?

[Chorus: Shirt]

I want the top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top

All my people there in back of the spot

Let off a shot

Yeah

[Verse 2: Shirt]

Drinks on chill, got drinks on chill

Lights get dim and I think I will

I work so hard that I think I will

You had a long week, bitch, how you think I feel?

History favors the bold, dog

Roll something, make sure my story gets told

Make sure our story gets told

The night's forever young, it's us that gets old

[Refrain: Shirt]

All that I want in this life is the chance to do my thing

Yeah

[Chorus: Shirt]

I want the top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top

All my people there in back of the spot

Let off a shot

Yeah

I want the top, top, top, top, top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top, top, top, top, top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top, top, top, top, top

All my people there in the back of the spot

Let off a shot

Yeah

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus: Shirt]

Yeah

I want the top, top, top, top, top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top, top, top, top, top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top, top, top, top, top

All my people there in the back of the spot

Let off a shot

Yeah

I want the top, top, top, top, top

All my people right there in the back of the spot

I need the top, top, top, top, top

If you know me, you don't know me to stop

I need the top, top, top, top, top (Yeah)

All my people there in the back of the spot

Let off a shot

[Outro: Shirt]

I'm saying, what you got for me, world?

(Yeah) What you got, got, got, got?

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Track details

From Flume

2012
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Flume
Flume
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9th November 2012
Release year
2012
  1. 1Sintra
    2:35
  2. 2Holdin On
    2:34
  3. 3Left Alone (feat. Chet Faker)
    3:30
  4. 4Sleepless (feat. Jezzabell Doran)
    3:29
  5. 5On Top (feat. T-Shirt)
    3:51
  6. 6Stay Close
    2:57
  7. 7Insane (feat. Moon Holiday)
    3:34
  8. 8Change
    2:30
  9. 9Ezra
    3:37
  10. 10More Than You Thought
    4:06
  11. 11Space Cadet
    2:13
  12. 12Bring You Down (feat. George Maple)
    4:38
  13. 13Warm Thoughts
    3:48
  14. 14What You Need
    4:10
  15. 15Star Eyes
    2:27
  16. —Insane
  17. —Left Alone
  18. —Bring You Down
  19. —On Top
  20. —Sleepless

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