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Mansun – Inverse Midas (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Mansun
Six
Inverse Midas

TRACK

Inverse Midas

Release date: 7th September 1998

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About This Track

"Inverse Midas" is a track by Mansun, from the album Six, released 7th September 1998. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Mansun

Mansun

Lyrics

Inverse Midas

[Verse]

Everybody helps me make my own mistakes

If I'm left alone I'd make them anyway

Great events, but can't predict

What's happening in present tense

No reference in code to me

Everybody helps me make my own mistakes

If I'm left alone I'd make them anyway

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Track details

From Six

1998

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Album

26th August 1998

Release year

1998

—Special/Blown It (Delete As Appropriate)
—Negative
—Anti Everything
—Cancer
—Being A Girl
—Serotonin
—Six
—Witness To A Murder (Part Two)
—Television
—Fall Out
—Inverse Midas
—Legacy
—Shotgun

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Dominic Chad
Producer: Mark “Spike” Stent, Paul Draper
Engineer: Michael Hunter, Paul Walton
Bass: Stove
Drums: Andie Rathbone
Vocals: Paul Draper
Additional Production: Michael Hunter
Background Vocals: Dominic Chad
Recording Engineer: Jan “Stan” Kybert
Rhythm Guitar: Paul Draper