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Human Performance
Captive of the Sun

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Captive of the Sun

Release date: 7th April 2016

From Human PerformanceTrack 72:04

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Lyrics

Captive of the Sun

My Miss Phonia brought the faders up now.
She's a military grade, in dolby surround, around 5.
1.
Cue the barking from the baritone.
Conductor in the pit for the car honk duet.
Half-tone harmony from the sewer.
Rebel youth quier belt phrases even newer.
Dump truck man drops the beat with the trash cans, call 9 11!
We got therapy demands, Philharmonic got a first chair car crash.
Pan the falsetto to smash the glass.
It's a drive-by lullaby that couldn't get worse.
A melody abandoned in the key of New York.

Where nothing comes after I'm a passtime streamer, hanging from the rafters - I don't get out
I don't have fun
Livin' like a captive of the sun

Sight read the chart clap the rocks into sand.
A 12-pass van, on a pothole band stand.
Got an oil can hangover by default, and trucks pave the roads with amphetamine salt.
Skull shakin' cadence of the J train rolls the rythm of defeat, repeating like a pulse, marching on and static, lyrics shout a retort into the melody abandoned in the key of new york.

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Track details

From Human Performance

2:042016Single

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Album

Human Performance

Track number

7

Release year

2016

1Already Dead (Bonus Track)
3:52
2Dust
3:57
3Human Performance
4:16
4Outside
1:45

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Parquet Courts — Plant Life (Extended Mix) (from Plant Life - EP) [10:21]
Parquet Courts — Plant Life (Peak Wifi Vibes Mix) (from Plant Life - EP) [7:27]
Parquet Courts — Plant Life (Yu Su’s Transient Version) (from Plant Life - EP) [3:51]
Parquet Courts — Watching Strangers Smile
Parquet Courts — Sympathy for Life (from Sympathy for Life) [2:50]
Parquet Courts — Plant Life (from Sympathy for Life) [5:51]
Parquet Courts — Zoom Out (from Sympathy for Life) [3:02]
Parquet Courts — Black Widow Spider (from Sympathy for Life) [2:50]
Parquet Courts — Pulcinella (from Sympathy for Life) [6:45]
Parquet Courts — Marathon of Anger (from Sympathy for Life) [4:35]
Parquet Courts — Just Shadows (from Sympathy for Life) [3:57]
Parquet Courts — Application/Apparatus (from Sympathy for Life) [4:36]
Parquet Courts — Trullo (from Sympathy for Life) [3:01]
Parquet Courts — Homo Sapien (from Sympathy for Life) [2:56]
Parquet Courts — Walking at a Downtown Pace (from Sympathy for Life) [4:47]
Parquet Courts — Hey Bug
Parquet Courts — We R in Control
Parquet Courts — Mardi Gras Beads (from Wide Awake!) [2:43]
Parquet Courts — Before the Water Gets Too High (from Wide Awake!) [4:05]
Parquet Courts — Violence (from Wide Awake!) [4:06]
Parquet Courts — Extinction (from Wide Awake!) [1:42]
Parquet Courts — Death Will Bring Change (from Wide Awake!) [2:42]
Parquet Courts — Tenderness (from Wide Awake!) [3:06]
Parquet Courts — NYC Observation (from Wide Awake!) [1:22]
Parquet Courts — Freebird II (from Wide Awake!) [2:55]
Parquet Courts — Back to Earth (from Wide Awake!) [3:54]
Parquet Courts — Normalization (from Wide Awake!) [2:11]
Parquet Courts — Total Football (from Wide Awake!) [4:01]
Parquet Courts — Wide Awake (from Wide Awake!) [2:39]
Parquet Courts — Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience (from Wide Awake!) [3:15]
Parquet Courts — Soul and Cigarette
Parquet Courts — Captive of the Sun (feat. Bun B) [2:49]
Parquet Courts — Captive of the Sun (feat. Bun B) [Chopped Not Slopped Mix] [6:40]
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Parquet Courts — It's Gonna Happen (from Human Performance) [3:21]
Parquet Courts — Pathos Prairie (from Human Performance) [2:52]
Parquet Courts — Dust (from Human Performance) [3:57]
Parquet Courts — Steady on My Mind (from Human Performance) [3:39]
Parquet Courts — Human Performance (from Human Performance) [4:16]
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Parquet Courts — Two Dead Cops (from Human Performance) [3:06]
Parquet Courts — Outside (from Human Performance) [1:45]
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Parquet Courts — Frog Pond Plop (from Monastic Living) [1:33]
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Parquet Courts — Bodies Made Of (from Sunbathing Animal) [3:21]
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5I Was Just Here

7Captive of the Sun

2:04

8Steady on My Mind

9One Man No City

10Berlin Got Blurry

12Two Dead Cops

13Pathos Prairie

14It's Gonna Happen