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Invocation

Release date: 11th November 2022

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'Invocation' by MGMT is a 2022 track from the album '11•11•11'. The lyrics cast fear as something handled and held, then turn that dread into a insistence on company, with senses overwhelmed by a cosmic, cold imagery. Wind-up faces appear in a void, while the song moves through swept, oceanic and hilly dreamscapes, culminating in a shift away from bodily imagery towards something more metaphoric, with the vocal addressing “I’m not alone”.

"Invocation" is a track by MGMT, from the album 11•11•11, released 11th November 2022. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about MGMT.

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Invocation

[Verse]

The bluest band takes my fear into its hands

And holds it close

And on its word all my senses scream

"I'm not alone"

Wind-up faces in the coldest void

Cosmic sweeping back

Blacked out by the dreams of oceans and hills

Like I've always had, ooh

Instead of blood, she might open tiny floods

The heart away

In grandish love where the canyons roar

Or lasers spray

All the sweetness of a can of fresh-squeezed thought

Not from concentrate

Give me comfort, I feel strength

Laughing spacey Chinese fire drill

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11th November 2022
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2022
  1. —Forest Elf
  2. —Whistling Past the Graveyard
  3. —Introduction
  4. —I Am Not Your Home
  5. —Whistling Through the Graveyard
  6. —Interlude
  7. —Tell It to Me Like It Is
  8. —Unfriend
  9. —Who's Counting
  10. —Invocation
  11. —Under the Porch
  12. —Whistling Through the Graveyard
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