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Inhaler by Foals

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Foals

Inhaler

Release date: 31st January 2013

From Holy Fire
Track 2
4:53
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‘Inhaler’ by Foals is an alternative track from the album ‘Holy Fire’, released in 2013. The lyrics take a defensive, bruised tone, laying down a catalogue of damaged resilience, make-believe toughness and a sense of being cornered, before pleading for someone not to go away, “If just for one day”. The imagery of sticks and stones, dead ends and being stripped and sold frames a relationship dynamic that feels both combative and exhausted, with the speaker sounding desperate for even a small reprieve.

"Inhaler" is a single by Foals, from the album Holy Fire, released 31st January 2013. The track is 4:53 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Foals.

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Lyrics

Inhaler

Sticks and stones
Don't break my bones
They're make-believe
It's lock 'n' load
It's a dead end road
For you and me
And I'm rusted gold
I'm stripped and sold
I'm make believe
And I'm up for rent

My head is spent
I guarantee

So can you not go away?
If just for one day?
Oo-ooh, oo-oo-oo-ooh
Impossible, possible
How d'you feel now?
How d'you feel now in a war?

War sends out for you
And throw your fortune away
And I can't get enough space
Space
Space
Get enough space

I'm pale and coy
A momma's boy
I'm make believe
I shimmy-shake
I wake 'n' bake
I'm over me
My lungs defeat
I cannot breathe
Don't follow me

And you push and shove
I've had enough
You best believe

So can you not go away?
If just for one day?
Oo-ooh, oo-oo-oo-ooh
Impossible, possible
How d'you feel now?
How d'you feel now in a war?
War sends out for you
Throw your fortune away
And I can't get enough space
Space
I can't get enough space
Space

(Can't get enough space)
(Can't get enough space)

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Track details

From Holy Fire

4:532013Single
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Album
Holy Fire
Holy Fire
Foals
31st January 2013
Track number
2
Release year
2013
  1. 1Prelude
    4:08
  2. 2Inhaler
    4:53
  3. 3My Number
    3:59
  4. 4Bad Habit
    4:40

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    Edwin Congreave
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    Additional Percussion
    Ric Elsworth
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    Leif Podhajsky
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    Edwin Congreave, Walter Gervers
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    Marimba
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    London Contemporary Orchestra
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