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Destrokk by MGMT

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MGMT

Destrokk

Release date: 29th August 2005

From Time to Pretend
Track 3
3:48
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‘Destrokk’ by MGMT is an indie pop track from the album ‘Time to Pretend’ (released in 2005). The lyrics paint a brash, high-contrast party-world, with punchy images of switching between hi-fi and lo-fi tastes, making bodies into status, and insisting on control, even as the narrator describes chasing “a walking disaster”. There’s also a pointed social dynamic at work, set up through the opposition of softness and hardness, culminating in a refusal to yield to someone else’s desire to step into the narrator’s reckoning. The repeated swagger lines underline the sense of momentum and self-possession.

"Destrokk" is a track by MGMT, from the album Time to Pretend, released 29th August 2005. The track is 3:48 long. It's filed under Indie Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about MGMT.

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Lyrics

Destrokk

Hi-Fi fellas and Lo-Fi chicks
Hair is how we take you there
Bones is how we make it now
Now I'm after a walking disaster

We live life, we live it large
In control, taking charge
You are soft and we are hard
You don't desire to step to our fire

We live life, we live it large
In control taking charge
You are soft and we are hard
You don't desire to step our fire

You're gonna know if you keep on asking questions
You're gonna know real soon
You say, "Hey, I never fall"
As you're falling down
Your blood is all around you now
But you see nothing at all
You say, "Hey you, get against the wall
Yeah, you get against the wall"

You're gonna know if you keep on asking questions
You say, "You're gonna know real soon"
You say, "Hey, I never fall"
And as you're falling down
Your blood is all around you now
But you see nothing at all
You say, "Hey you, get against the wall
Yeah, you get against the wall"

It's just the way the city smells
It's just the way the rain falls now
We be the Ritalin calm you down
We be the Ritalin calm you down

It's just the way you talk so loud
It's just the way the bones fall down
We be the Ritalin calm you down
We be the Ritalin calm you down, okay

We love you in glacial ways
We love you in glacial ways
We love you in glacial ways
We love you in glacial ways
We love you in glacial ways
We love you in glacial ways

Yeah, but
You're gonna know if you keep on asking questions
You're gonna know real soon
You say, "Hey, I never fall"
As you're falling down
Your blood is all around you now
But you see nothing at all
You say, "Hey you, get against the wall
Yeah, you get against the wall"

You're gonna know if you keep on asking questions
You're gonna know real soon
You say, "Hey, I never fall"
As you're falling down
Your blood is all around you now
But you see nothing at all
You say, "Hey you, get against the wall
Yeah, you get against the wall"

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Track details

From Time to Pretend

3:482005
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Album
Time to Pretend
Time to Pretend
MGMT
30th August 2005
Track number
3
Release year
2005
  1. 1Time to Pretend
    4:32
  2. 2Boogie Down
    3:34
  3. 3Destrokk
    3:48
  4. 4Love Always Remains
    5:41

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