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Laura Marling – Only the Strong (2020) | Track profile | Dork

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Laura Marling
Song for Our Daughter
Only the Strong

TRACK

Only the Strong

Release date: 9th April 2020

From Song for Our Daughter

Track 4

3:20

Singer/Songwriter Music

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About This Track

"Only the Strong" is a track by Laura Marling, from the album Song for Our Daughter, released 9th April 2020. The track is 3:20 long. It's filed under Singer/Songwriter. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Laura Marling.

About the Artist

Laura Marling

Laura Marling

Lyrics

Only the Strong

Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the wrong relive their lives
We've been here a thousand times

Wish I could go back and find
Letters I wrote you in my mind
Perhaps I could unknot us from this awful bind
Most I have forgot or overrefined

Love is a sickness cured by time
Love is a sickness cured by time
Bruises all end up benign
Love is a sickness cured by time

I hope that you can change my mind
Had to leave this crying all behind
I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind
So somebody told me, only and only
Only the strong will survive

Only the strong survive
And I won't write a woman with a man on my mind
Hope that didn't sound too unkind
Just struggling to figure out how only, only, only, only
Only the strong can survive

Hope that you can change my mind
I had to leave this crying all behind
I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind
It's just somebody told me, only and only
Only the strong can survive

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Track details

From Song for Our Daughter

3:202020

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Album

Song for Our Daughter

10th April 2020

Track number

4

Release year

2020

1Alexandra
3:19
2Held Down
4:08
3Strange Girl
3:22
4Only the Strong
3:20

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Laura Marling is going to teach an online songwriting workshop through School of Song

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Laura Marling has announced two Manchester shows for March 2025

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The folk singer-songwriter will perform two shows at Manchester's Albert Hall, her only UK dates of 2025, featuring string accompaniment.

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Laura Marling has unveiled her new single, 'Child of Mine'

The intimate track was written while bouncing her newborn daughter.

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Laura Marling has released a new single, 'No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can'

Laura Marling has released a new single, 'No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can'

The single comes from her eighth studio album, written and recorded while adjusting to new parenthood.

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Marling has also shared the album's first single, 'Patterns'.

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Laura Marling has shared some new year reading recommendations

Laura Marling has taken to Instagram today (January 9th) to wish her followers a happy new year and share some book recommendations for 2023.

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Laura Marling
Producer: Ethan Johns, Laura Marling