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A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007
Poor Thing

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Poor Thing

From A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007

Track 11

4:18

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"Poor Thing" is a track by Idlewild, from the album A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007. The track is 4:18 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Idlewild.

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Poor Thing

Give me the easiest thing I can do
Let me blank it from my mind
Tell me the easiest thing I can do
Let me blank it from my mind

The world seems so small
The sooner you realise it
As people we are so small
I know you've realised it

It might be a good thing if there were no heroes
I can't take heroes
It might be a good thing if we had no heroes
There are no heroes

Teach me the easiest thing I can do
Let me blank it from my mind
I'll gather up all my remaining education
And blank it from my mind

The world seems so small
The sooner you realise it
As people we are so small
I know you've realised it

It might be a good thing if there were no heroes
I can't take heroes
It might be a good thing if we have no heroes
There are no heroes

So why do you always hinder me?

Why do you always hinder me?
I'm lost in the remote past passed
There's no need to remind me

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From A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007

4:18

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A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007

Track number

11

1Queen of the Troubled Teens
2:18
2Self Healer
2:00
3Chandelier
2:22
4I Want to Be a Writer
1:49
5Satan Polaroid
3:18
6This Is Worse
3:40
7You Don't Have the Heart (Live At the Glasgow Garage)
2:08
8There's Glory In Your Story
1:59
9A Distant History
4:36
10I Was Made to Think It
4:01
11Poor Thing
4:18
12The Nothing I Know
4:26
13Everything Flows
3:34
14I Found That Essence Rare
3:05
15Hold on to Your Breath
3:55
16Gone Too Long
2:59
17Don't Let Me Change
4:52
18El Capitan (Acoustic)
4:10
19Winter Is Blue
2:20
20Hidden Ways
2:42

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