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Liam Gallagher

Carnation

Release date: 1st November 1999

From Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam
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About This Track

‘Carnation’ by Liam Gallagher is a 1999 track from the album ‘Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam’. Its lyrics frame a predatory, self-justifying attitude, with the speaker treating care as something to be destroyed and insisting, “With me you’ll have no escape”. The chorus projects an aggressive control, while the verses go further into callous indifference, describing trampling, eating, and averting attention from another person’s pain. The overall effect is darkly possessive, as if tenderness is only ever bait for cruelty.

"Carnation" is a track by Liam Gallagher, from the album Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam, released 1st November 1999. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Liam Gallagher.

About the Artist

Liam Gallagher

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Lyrics

Carnation

[Chorus 1]

If you gave me a fresh carnation

I would only crush it's tender petals

With me you'll have no escape

And at the same time there'll be nowhere to settle

[Verse 1]

I trample down all life in my wake

I eat it up and take the cake

I just avert my eyes to the pain

Of someone's loss helping my gain

[Chorus 2]

If you gave me a dream for my pocket

You'd be plugging in the wrong socket

With me there's no room for the future

With me there's no room with a view at all

[Verse 2]

I am out of season all year around

Hear machinery roar to my empty sound

Touch my heart and feel winter

Hold my hand and be doomed forever

[Chorus 1]

If you gave me a fresh carnation

I would only crush it's tender petals

With me you'll have no escape

And at the same time there'll be nowhere to settle

[Verse 3]

And if you're wondering by now who I am

Look no further than the mirror

Cause I am the greed and fear

And every ounce of hate in you

[Outro]

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Track details

From Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam

1999
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Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam
Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam
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Release year
1999
  1. —English Rose
  2. —To Be Someone
  3. —Start!
  4. —Carnation

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