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Halsey

POWERLESS

Release date: 10th November 2020

From I Would Leave Me If I Could
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"POWERLESS" is a track by Halsey, from the album I Would Leave Me If I Could, released 10th November 2020. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Halsey.

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Halsey

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Lyrics

POWERLESS

I’m locked in the bathroom on a

commercial ight.

Hilary Swank in a butch haircut

sends a hijacked plane

through my cerebellum.

I am sweating.

I pull my lips apart from my

teeth like a dental diagram

and I display my gums.

I sit to piss and roll my eyes.

cuff my jeans 2 times, 3 times.

I am in my memory.

riding a man on a mattress,

back arched like a prize horse.

grinding and grinding.

tossing my hair around

and gripping tight the ropes of ecstasy.

pornographic cries echo through

my head in the airplane bathroom.

they key-change, minor 5th to

humiliation.

I shift gears.

a woman beneath me, squirming like

a slug under a magnifying glass.

my veiny arms and slender ngers

graze across her like velvet.

why is the straight part of me

powerless?

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Track details

From I Would Leave Me If I Could

2020
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I Would Leave Me If I Could
I Would Leave Me If I Could
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2020
  1. —ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER
  2. —REFRIGERATOR BLUE
  3. —SMOKE
  4. —WATERMELON
  5. —LET’S HAVE BREAKFAST
  6. —STUDIO CITY
  7. —STOCKHOLM SYNDROME PT. 2
  8. —THE PROFESSIONAL
  9. —THUMBELINA
  10. —ONANISM
  11. —L TRAIN
  12. —WISH YOU THE BEST
  13. —GUTS
  14. —HOMEMAKER
  15. —EIGHT
  16. —I WOULD LEAVE ME IF I COULD.
  17. —VIRUS
  18. —INVENTORY
  19. —PARASITE
  20. —SUMMER FRUIT
  21. —BLUBBER
  22. —STOCKHOLM SYNDROME PT. 1
  23. —HIGH-FIVE KIDS
  24. —TORNADO
  25. —LULLABYE
  26. —AMERICAN WOMAN
  27. —16 MISSED CALLS
  28. —ANTAGONIST
  29. —A STORY LIKE MINE (Poem)
  30. —BATTLES
  31. —BAD DAY: EPILOGUE
  32. —BAD DAY: 2
  33. —BAD DAY: 1
  34. —BAD DAY: 3
  35. —BRING ON THE BLACK!
  36. —BRIGHT EYES
  37. —DRAMA QUEEN
  38. —DUE DATE
  39. —Dedication
  40. —EVERYTHING
  41. —FOREVER… IS A LONG TIME (Poem)
  42. —FOREVER CURSED IN LOVE ARE THE OBSERVANT
  43. —DEVIL IN ME (Poem)
  44. —FUN GIRL
  45. —DNA
  46. —HAVING
  47. —HEREDITARY
  48. —I LEFT THE PARTY
  49. —LAYERS
  50. —LIGHTHOUSE (Poem)
  51. —LAUNDROMAT
  52. —I WISH THAT I WERE MANIC ALL THE TIME
  53. —INTRODUCTION
  54. —IS THERE SOMEWHERE ELSE?
  55. —I WANT TO BE A WRITER!
  56. —LIKELY AS THE RAIN
  57. —LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP
  58. —MEMORIZE
  59. —I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER
  60. —ORDINARY BOYS
  61. —READY
  62. —POWERLESS
  63. —PUSSY
  64. —SEVENTEEN
  65. —MIND THE GAP
  66. —SOMETHING FOR THEM
  67. —TELLTALE
  68. —THE BAKER
  69. —TERTIARY
  70. —THE CAVE
  71. —THE BREAKUP
  72. —THE PARTY
  73. —THE TOURIST
  74. —THE QUESTION
  75. —THE PATTERN
  76. —THE PAINTER
  77. —TONGUE TWISTER
  78. —WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
  79. —TRAVIS
  80. —THE MIRROR
  81. —THE FUNERAL
  82. —YOU WERE FIRST
  83. —I MET A MIND READER.

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