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Iceage

Never Return

Release date: 7th January 2011

From New Brigade
Track 11
3:08
AlternativeMusicPunkIndie Rock
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About This Track

'Never Return' by Iceage is an alternative track from the album 'New Brigade', released in 2011. The lyrics move through harsh, visual imagery, with the concrete ground described as burning and wounds cracking open as truth arrives. Beauty is framed as lasting, then immediately threatened by fading colours, leaving the speaker both hopeless and resolute, with the central refrain arriving as a blunt refusal to go back. The song’s vocal urgency matches the sense of finality in its repeated “Never Return”.

"Never Return" is a track by Iceage, from the album New Brigade, released 7th January 2011. The track is 3:08 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Iceage.

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Iceage

Iceage

Lyrics

Never Return

Colors Drift By Fast In Front Of Me
Concrete Ground Is Harsh And It Burns
If I Touch With Fingers Then I'll See
This Beauty Is Forever Never Return
I'll
Never
Return
When Wounds Crack Open All Truth Kick In Clear
These Colors They Will Fade Before My Eyes
Hopeless But Complete Nothing Is Lies
If I Touch With My Fingers Then I'll See
No Sickness Is Forever Never Return

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Track details

From New Brigade

3:082011
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Album
New Brigade
New Brigade
Iceage
7th January 2011
Track number
11
Release year
2011
  1. 1Intro
    0:48
  2. 2White Rune
    2:41
  3. 3New Brigade
    2:15
  4. 4Remember
    2:13

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