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Maxïmo Park – Distance Makes (2007) | Track profile | Dork

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Maxïmo Park
Our Earthly Pleasures
Distance Makes

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Distance Makes

Release date: 2007

From Our Earthly Pleasures

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About This Track

"Distance Makes" is a track by Maxïmo Park, from the album Our Earthly Pleasures, released 2007. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Maxïmo Park.

About the Artist

Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park

Lyrics

Distance Makes

Distance makes the heart dissolve

Like little pills cloud water

Dissolving inch by inch

Separating a fraction further

You helped to shape this space

We’d gaze at dancers

The view,it fluctuates

Flattened bodies

Drove on the floor

Within a rectangle

Of cool green light

We’ll watch them in the warmth

We’ll breathe beside each other

The stars are landmarks…and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks…you can’t swing from them

I wish this was an endurance test

But there are no limits

I sent a letter to my own address

While you lived in it

You used to drink from that glass

Decorated in Scandinavia

You nearly ironed me out

And now I’ve changed my behaviour

This morning I saw a blue metal star

I was on tiptoes high above the backyard

Competing with the real thing

It ends up dominating

The stars are landmarks…and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks…you can’t swing from them

Everyone’s got their own idea

Of utopia, and why we’re here

The stars are landmarks…and we don’t use them

The stars are landmarks…you can’t swing from them

The stars are landmarks…they have no function

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Track details

From Our Earthly Pleasures

2007

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Album

Our Earthly Pleasures

31st March 2007

Release year

2007

1Girls Who Play Guitars
3:12
2Our Velocity
3:20
3Books From Boxes
3:28
4Russian Literature
3:07
5Karaoke Plays
4:08
6Your Urge
3:57
7The Unshockable
3:16
8By the Monument
2:59
9Nosebleed
3:25
10A Fortnight's Time
3:02
11Sandblasted and Set Free
3:58
12Parisian Skies
3:56
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1The Unshockable
3:16
2By The Monument
2:59
3Nosebleed
3:25
4A Fortnight's Time
3:01
5Sandblasted And Set Free
3:58
6Parisian Skies
3:56

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