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Graduation Day by Head Automatica

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Head Automatica

Graduation Day

Release date: 3rd April 2006

From Popaganda
Track 1
3:43
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About This Track

'Graduation Day' by Head Automatica is an alternative track from the album 'Popaganda' (2006). The lyrics sketch a tight, anxious domestic scene, with timekeeping details and a sense of hurt and confusion, as if ordinary routines have curdled into misery. Images of “Smudged funnies” in a broken bottle, and the repeated reference to the clock, set a pressured mood, while the speaker insists that being in distress does not stop curiosity from kicking in. The final lines tilt towards a personal need to know, leaving the song suspended between complaint and wanting.

"Graduation Day" is a single by Head Automatica, from the album Popaganda, released 3rd April 2006. The track is 3:43 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Head Automatica.

About the Artist

Head Automatica

Head Automatica

Lyrics

Graduation Day

Smudged funnies in a broken bottle
On the dot at nine
So Daddy throws clothes, throws on an old stove
I'm crying in the corner at five
Well I've seen black
And I've seen blue
But fine lines I don't see
And just because I am in misery
Don't it mean a thing

That I wanna know
That I wanna know

Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said about you

September, as far as she remembers
They don't teach humility
And just because her only signal is mayday
Don't it mean a thing
That she's seen love
And she's seen war
But fairness she don't see
And just because she is in misery
Don't it mean a thing

That she wants to know
That she wants to know

Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said about you
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said to...

The camaraderie's old
Doing what I'm told
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand

Everybody is dying for
The chance to be heard, not ignored
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand

Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said about you
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said to...

I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I ain't goin' to school

I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I'm not goin' to school

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Track details

From Popaganda

3:432006Single
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Album
Popaganda
Popaganda
Head Automatica
4th April 2006
Track number
1
Release year
2006
  1. 1Graduation Day
    3:43
  2. 2Laughing At You
    2:46
  3. 3Lying Through Your Teeth
    3:29
  4. 4Nowhere Fast
    3:00

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