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Split The Atom by Kae Tempest

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Kae Tempest

Split The Atom

Release date: 21st April 2023

From Nice Idea - EP
Track 4
2:47
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"Split The Atom" is a track by Kae Tempest, from the album Nice Idea - EP, released 21st April 2023. The track is 2:47 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 16 articles about Kae Tempest.

About the Artist

Kae Tempest

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Lyrics

Split The Atom

[Verse 1]

Wake up, split the atom

Take it to the train

Walk the dog in the pounding rain

Looking for a way out of my brain, trapped in it

But I cannot ascertain that I'm trapped in it

Or that the traps even real so I remain trapped in this chambers

Give me real life I prefer it

Give me real life I deserve it

[Verse 2]

What's real, what's not real, what's my shield, my forcefield

What's my mind, my blindness, what's time, what's the world?

My girl is as tall as spring, tall as autumn wind but I'm low like a howling shell

I remember just bеfore I fell looking down like I might as wеll

[Chorus]

Give me real life I prefer it

Give me real life I can't bare it

Give me real life I deserve it

Give me real life we can share it

Give me real, give me real life I prefer it

Give me real, give me real life I prefer it

[Verse 3]

If I could climb out my mind land square in the fresh air of what's really there I would do it, would I do it?

Another night another chance to get to it

Neck deep in a viscous fluid clinging onto the bar

By my bare thirst surfing her cheekbones home

No rest, I told her to keep me at arms length it's best

But then she held me close and I withdrew the request

[Chorus]

Give me real life I prefer it

Give me real life I can't bare it

Give me real life I deserve it

Give me real life we can share it

[Bridge]

Stunner, hands in my hair going under

Rain on my shoulders, bright lights of London

Down by the water found, drowning towards the ground is a memory

Stunner, hands in my hair going under

Rain on my shoulders, bright lights of London

Down by the water found, I am drowning towards a ground is a memory

[Verse 1]

I wake up, split the atom

Take it to the train

Walk the dog in the pounding rain

Looking for a way out of my brain, trapped in it

But I cannot ascertain that I'm trapped in it

Or that the traps even real so I remain stuck in this chambers

Same old same, same old, same old same, same old same old, same

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Track details

From Nice Idea - EP

2:472023
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Album
Nice Idea - EP
Nice Idea - EP
Kae Tempest
22nd April 2023
Track number
4
Release year
2023
  1. 1Love Harder
    2:13
  2. 2Thinking Clearly
    3:29
  3. 3Nice Idea
    2:57
  4. 4Split The Atom
    2:47

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