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Julien Baker
Turn Out the Lights
Claws in Your Back

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Claws in Your Back

Release date: 26th October 2017

From Turn Out the LightsTrack 114:39

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"Claws in Your Back" is a track by Julien Baker, from the album Turn Out the Lights, released 26th October 2017. The track is 4:39 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 19 articles about Julien Baker.

About the Artist

Julien Baker

Julien Baker

Lyrics

Claws in Your Back

Collecting the circles that tell us
How old we are beneath our eyelids
Wearing a purple badge to prove what I did
Pump the vitals out of my wrist
'Cause I'm conducting an experiment on how it feels to die
Or stay alive

So try to stay calm, 'cause nobody knows
The violent partner you carry around
With claws in your back, ripping your clothes
And listing your failures out loud
It's more than the skeleton next to my coat
The black that I held in the back of my throat
Follows you straight into the dark
The easy way out and the hardest part

When it won't leave me alone
I'm better off learning how to be
Living with demons I've mistaken for saints
If you keep it between us I think they're the same
I think I can love the sickness you made
'Cause I take it all back, I change my mind
I wanted to stay, I wanted to stay

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Track details

From Turn Out the Lights

4:392017

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Album

Turn Out the Lights

27th October 2017

Track number

11

Release year

2017

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2Appointments
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3Turn Out the Lights
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4Shadowboxing
3:54

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Julien Baker — Relative Fiction (from Little Oblivions) [4:19]
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Julien Baker — Over (from Turn Out the Lights) [1:28]
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Julien Baker — Something (from Sprained Ankle) [3:53]
Julien Baker — Blacktop (from Sprained Ankle) [4:44]
Julien Baker — Go Home (from Sprained Ankle) [5:05]

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8Happy to Be Here

11Claws in Your Back

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