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Japanese Breakfast

Rugged Country

Release date: 31st March 2016

From PsychopompTrack 32:53

Alternative Music College Rock Pop

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About This Track

"Rugged Country" is a track by Japanese Breakfast, from the album Psychopomp, released 31st March 2016. The track is 2:53 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 16 articles about Japanese Breakfast.

About the Artist

Japanese Breakfast

Japanese Breakfast

Lyrics

Rugged Country

666 sixteen-year-old kids
Huddled around the grocery lot
"He punched out my teeth"
So you said, so did the evidence
The blood and the dent
On the car door from your head
This is where I bring you
With every laurel I've hung from your neck
It will be the noose that hangs you
Yes, it will be the noose that hangs you
'Cause I was lonely here and it's lonely still
In the rugged country where the weeds grow fierce
Quicker than the crop I keep running from
In this rugged country
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one
And this is where we lost you
Despite every effort to bring you back
Yeah, the hope's the one that haunts you
And the home's the rope that's wrapped 'round your neck
And it will be the noose that hangs you
Yes it will be the noose that hangs you
And it's a heavy hand where I wear your death
As a wedding ring in the rugged country
I tend to your man in the home you had
Oh, in this rugged country
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one
I'm the rugged one

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Psychopomp

2:532016

Listen

Album

Japanese Breakfast

Track number

3

Release year

2016

1In Heaven
3:50
2The Woman That Loves You
2:25
3Rugged Country
2:53
4Everybody Wants to Love You
2:13

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Japanese Breakfast — Magic Mountain (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [3:08]
Japanese Breakfast — Leda (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [3:19]
Japanese Breakfast — Little Girl (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [3:40]
Japanese Breakfast — Here is Someone (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [3:09]
Japanese Breakfast — Men in Bars (feat. Jeff Bridges) (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [2:49]
Japanese Breakfast — Honey Water (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [4:51]
Japanese Breakfast — Orlando in Love (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [2:25]
Japanese Breakfast — Winter in LA (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [2:59]
Japanese Breakfast — Picture Window (from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)) [2:58]
Japanese Breakfast — The Ballad of the Witches’ Road (pop version)
Japanese Breakfast — Be Sweet (Korean version)
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Japanese Breakfast — Be Sweet (feat. So!YoON!) [Korean Version] [3:15]
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Japanese Breakfast — Sansee (Night) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [2:57]
Japanese Breakfast — Campfires (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:07]
Japanese Breakfast — Chum Lair (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:36]
Japanese Breakfast — Redsee (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:50]
Japanese Breakfast — Eccria (Night) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:36]
Japanese Breakfast — Exploration (Ships) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:33]
Japanese Breakfast — Exploration (Nature) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [4:13]
Japanese Breakfast — Beetle Detour (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:26]
Japanese Breakfast — Machinist's Theme (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:01]
Japanese Breakfast — Mask Caster's Theme (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:20]
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Japanese Breakfast — Ibexxi Camp (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:56]
Japanese Breakfast — Burnt Oak Station (Night) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:43]
Japanese Breakfast — Burnt Oak Station (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:13]
Japanese Breakfast — Abandoned Grounds (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:20]
Japanese Breakfast — Ibexxi Camp (Night) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [2:30]
Japanese Breakfast — The Ewer (Night) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:23]
Japanese Breakfast — The Ewer (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [4:06]
Japanese Breakfast — Exploration (Ruins) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [4:11]
Japanese Breakfast — Eccria (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:14]
Japanese Breakfast — Main Menu (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:04]
Japanese Breakfast — Beetle's Nest (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [3:28]
Japanese Breakfast — Sansee (Day) (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [2:58]
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Japanese Breakfast — Cartographer's Theme (from Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)) [1:45]
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