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Pay & Display

Release date: 2nd October 2025

From One Simple Trick
Track 2
3:50
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'Pay & Display' by Lovejoy is an alternative track from the album 'One Simple Trick', released in 2025. The lyrics cast a tense, transactional getaway scenario, with talk of buying an exit and a hardening resolve in the face of indecision. Over the course of the passage, the narrator insists on not being scared, even as the situation escalates from talk of a new prescription to a more urgent plan to “get us outta town”.

"Pay & Display" is a single by Lovejoy, from the album One Simple Trick, released 2nd October 2025. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Lovejoy.

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Lovejoy

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Lyrics

Pay & Display

Darling would you get my gun, I've got a new prescription
That up-market, top of your road, off license that's 24/7
That till's a ticket
To get us outta town
And your indecision's
The only thing weighing us down
But I'm, oh I'm not scared if you're not
Oh no, no I'd never be scared

Passed away
I hope that heaven's got a pay n' display
The blessed always get their way
On a subscription basis
Sell me salvation
Just last week
I took the pills they sold to me
I hide the tithing up my sleeve
I'm your creation
Buy me salvation

But darling it's a simple thought, just trust your intuition
You know nothing's really lost, it's all just redistribution
'Cause your name, the hour
They all dissolve in time
This life devours
The only thing that you left behind
But oh, I think my head is breaking
Oh no, no, I can't afford to be scared

Passed away
I hope that heaven's got a pay n' display
The blessed always get their way
On a subscription basis
Sell me salvation
Just last week
I took the pills they sold to me
I hide the tithing up my sleeve
I'm your creation
Buy me salvation

In six star hotel rooms
You begin to cry
This little tedium
Oh it's getting hard to justify
If you called me a bastard
I would fucking like it
I hate that I would like it
I hate that I could

Pass away
I heard that heaven's got a pay n' display
The blessed always get their way
On a subscription basis
Sell me salvation
Just last week
I took the pills they sold to me
I hide the tithing up my sleeve
I'm your creation
Buy me salvation
Buy me salvation

Buy me salvation

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From One Simple Trick

3:502025Single
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One Simple Trick
One Simple Trick
Lovejoy
3rd October 2025
Track number
2
Release year
2025
  1. 1Baptism
    3:40
  2. 2Pay & Display
    3:50
  3. 3With Rob As My Witness
    3:26
  4. 4White Shark Cafe
    3:53

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