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Maxïmo Park – Why Must a Building Burn? (2021) | Track profile | Dork

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Maxïmo Park
Nature Always Wins
Why Must a Building Burn?

TRACK

Why Must a Building Burn?

Release date: 26th February 2021

From Nature Always WinsTrack 8

3:02

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Why Must a Building Burn?" is a track by Maxïmo Park , from the album Nature Always Wins, released 26th February 2021. The track is 3:02 long. 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

Why Must a Building Burn?

Do you need a flag
To know who you are?
Did you get intentionally left behind?
There's a curve in the road
That I intimately know
And you know I got caught on that curve before

Why must a building burn
Before a lesson is learned?

An unoriginal thought
I've often fallen short
If I could bottle the tonic of your laughter I would
A girl running at night
Clutching a rectangle of light
Still fills her lungs with the dust of a life

Why must a building burn
Before the powerful learn?

I saw a picture (I saw a picture)
Beamed right through me (beamed right through me)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face
A family photo (a family photo)
One of many (one of many)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face

I was hoping for a message to tell me you were here
I was waiting for a message to tell me you were here
I was hoping for a message to tell me you were here

I saw a picture (I saw a picture)
On my telly (on my telly)
I was stunned to recognise your smiling face
It was you
It was you
It was you all along

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Track details

From Nature Always Wins

3:022021

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Album

Nature Always Wins

26th February 2021

Track number

8

Release year

2021

1Partly of My Making
4:03
2Versions of You
4:37
3Baby, Sleep
3:14
4Placeholder
2:48

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6Ardour (feat. Pauline Murray)

8Why Must a Building Burn?

3:02

9I Don't Know What I'm Doing

10The Acid Remark

11Feelings I'm Supposed To Feel

12Child of the Flatlands

Credits

Writer: Duncan Lloyd, Paul Rafferty, Paul Smith, Tom English
Producer: Ben H. Allen III