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Islands
Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)
If

TRACK

If

Release date: 11th November 2016

From Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)

Track 9

4:30

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About This Track

'If' by Islands is an indie rock track from 'Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)', released in 2016. The lyrics run through a chain of conditional arguments, linking clothing, moths and holes, then pivoting to a speculation about early human mating and modern identity. There is also a harsher, threat-laced exchange in which sweetness is demanded and consequences are promised, before the lines turn on taste and favour. One phrase it leans on is “If you ain't sweet to me”.

"If" is a track by Islands, from the album Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster), released 11th November 2016. The track is 4:30 long. It's filed under Indie Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Islands.

About the Artist

Islands

Islands

Lyrics

If

If the clothes make the man
Then the moths make the holes
And it shows
Yes it shows
By the shape the hole grows

If early man really did mate with neanderthal than
Modern man
Is a mix
Of beastial sex

If you ain't sweet to me
I'll dessert you in a heartbeat
If you don't savour me
I'll salt you make you savoury

If the boy keeps on hitting his head
Against the dash of the car
Will the horsefly leave his ear
Or will the blood make it hard?

If you ain't sweet to me
I'll dessert you in a heartbeat
If you don't savour me
I'll salt you make you savoury

If sequencing genes
Brings them back to breed
Will we get along
With them this time?

If you ain't sweet to me
I'll dessert you in a heartbeat
If you don't savour me
I'll salt you make you savoury

When the sky finally falls
If you're holding me
I can die finally knowing
It ends peacefully

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Track details

From Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)

4:302016

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Album

Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)

11th November 2016

Track number

9

Release year

2016

1Swans (Life After Death)
9:30
2Humans
4:59
3Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby
2:32
4Rough Gem
3:36

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Nicholas Thorburn
Producer: Islands, Mark Lawson
Drums: Jamie Thompson
Vocals: Nicholas Thorburn
Bass Clarinet: Frank Lozano
Double Bass: Richard Reed Parry
Organ: Nicholas Thorburn
Trumpet: Kaveh Nabatian

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Future Islands have shared their new one-off single 'Glimpse'

Future Islands have shared their new one-off single 'Glimpse'

The new track arrives ahead of their upcoming headline tour.

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