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Interpol

Memory Serves

Release date: 7th September 2010

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About This Track

'Memory Serves' by Interpol is a 2010 alternative track from the album 'Interpol'. The lyrics address a persistent, almost tender effort to keep someone close and maintain their good mood, with a note of self-implication and unsteadiness in lines about lying and dust. The repeated idea of keeping someone occupied, only at a particular place, gives the song a controlled, private pressure, as if affection and obligation are being juggled at the same time. One moment it sounds like a promise, the next it hints at the emotional cost of performing it.

"Memory Serves" is a track by Interpol, from the album Interpol, released 7th September 2010. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Interpol.

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Lyrics

Memory Serves

[Verse 1]

It would be so nice to take you

I only ever try to make you smile

No matter what, we're gonna keep you occupied

But only at your place

Only at your place

[Pre-Chorus]

It would be no price to pay

I only ever lie to make you smile

All kinds of dust are gonna keep me satisfied

But only at your place, only at your place

[Chorus]

Tonight, a special memory serves me

And I'll wait to find the wrong way

Tonight, a special memory serves me

And I'll wait to find

[Bridge]

It's over, it's over

I feel like, the feeling is like, it's over

Why is it so hard to stay away?

(Why is it so hard)

[Chorus]

Tonight, a special memory serves me

And I'll play to find that I'm gray

Tonight, a special

I only memorize those dates I deny

[Verse 2]

And I forget why we'll say

Let's seize the day

You won't have to say that you'd love to

But, baby, please, that you'd want to, someday

[Pre-Chorus]

It would be no price to pay

We began this, we began this our way

And I'll pay all live, now, we're saying

'Cause it would be no price to pay

[Outro]

You don't have to say that you'd love to

But, baby, please, that you'd want to

Someday

You don't have to say that you'd love to

But, baby, please, that you'd want to

Someday

You don't have to say that you'd love to

But, baby, please, that you'd want to

Someday

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Track details

From Interpol

2010
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Interpol
Interpol
Interpol
7th September 2010
Release year
2010
  1. —The Undoing
  2. —Gavilan
  3. —Memory Serves
  4. —Success
  5. —Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
  6. —Safe Without
  7. —All of the Ways
  8. —Try It On
  9. —Success
    3:27
  10. —Summer Well
    4:03
  11. —Lights
    5:38
  12. —Barricade
    4:10
  13. —Memory Serves
    5:02

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