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Moby – The Day (2011) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Moby
Destroyed
The Day

SINGLE

The Day

Release date: 10th May 2011

From Destroyed

Track 6

4:32

Electronic Music

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About This Track

'The Day' by Moby is an electronic track from the 2011 album 'Destroyed'. Its lyrics are bleak and intimate, focused on a person struggling to leave, sitting in grief, and being worn down by pain and drug use, with a sense of helplessness and repetition. Against that, there is a steady vow of presence, captured in the line “I will be right here”. The result is a narrowly observed scene of decline, rendered with the blunt insistence of someone trying to stay close.

"The Day" is a single by Moby, from the album Destroyed, released 10th May 2011. The track is 4:32 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Moby.

About the Artist

Moby

Moby

Lyrics

The Day

I try to know when to leave
She sits in the bedroom and grieves
There's a sequence that starts all again
She can't get up anymore with the pain
The combination of these drugs
Has left her hopeless and lost
She wants to count the ways
But she can't count again

I will be right here
'Til all the pain
Just disappear
I will always stay
'Til all this light
Just kills the day

I strangle my words
Once, I tried a thousand times
Slaughtered like Gods
When the silver shines so hard
I tried to poison my life
Always dreaming of the edge of the knife
She always looked backwards
And I can sit here for even ten minutes or more

I will be right here
'Til all the pain
Just disappear
I will always stay
'Til all this light
Just kills the day

I will be right here
'Til all the pain
Just disappear
I will always stay
'Til all this light
Just kills the day

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Track details

From Destroyed

4:322011Single

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Album

Track number

6

Release year

2011

1The Broken Places
4:10
3Sevastopol
4:21
4The Low Hum
4:13
5Rockets
4:47

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