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Overrated by Mika

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Mika

Overrated

Release date: 2012

From The Origin of Love
Track 6
3:37
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About This Track

‘Overrated’ by Mika is a 2012 pop track from ‘The Origin of Love’. The lyrics cast love as something brutal and chemically addictive, with the speaker insisting there is “Nothing left”, even as breathing patterns and a sense of being cut open underline the rush. It moves between self-awareness and surrender, culminating in exhaustion and a final sense of depletion.

"Overrated" is a track by Mika, from the album The Origin of Love, released 2012. The track is 3:37 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Mika.

About the Artist

Mika

Mika

Lyrics

Overrated

Words get broken, cut me open
Love confound me, kill me quickly
Breathe out, breathe in, throw me living
Off the deep end while I'm sleeping

I'm a crazy fool, I'm a fool addicted
To the touch of you, to your poison kisses
What you got to lose? What do you think this is?
Nothing left to prove and we know that love is

Overrated, overrated in this goddamn world
Overrated, overrated in this goddamn world
Overrated, overrated, overrated in this goddamn world
Overrated, overrated, overrated in this goddamn world

Stars are magic, life is tragic
Crime of passion, I'm just asking

Offered up my wrist and you thought you hit it
But your arrow missed, couldn't kill me with it
All I asked of you was to free my pain
So you couldn't do this to me again

Overrated, overrated, overrated
Overrated in this goddamn world

Overrated, overrated (Words get broken)
Overrated in this goddamn world (Cut me open)
Overrated, overrated (Breathe out, breathe in)
Overrated in this goddamn world (Throw me living)

Overrated, overrated (Words get broken)
Overrated in this goddamn world (Cut me open)
Overrated, overrated (Stars are magic)
Overrated in this goddamn world (Life is tragic)

Overrated, overrated, overrated in this goddamn world

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Track details

From The Origin of Love

3:372012
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Album
The Origin of Love
The Origin of Love
Mika
2012
Track number
6
Release year
2012
  1. 1Origin of Love
    4:36
  2. 2Lola
    3:43
  3. 3Stardust
    3:18
  4. 4Make You Happy
    3:09

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Jodi Marr, MIKA
    Producer
    Greg Wells, Jodi Marr, Klas Åhlund, MIKA
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