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Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Quiet Crowd

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Quiet Crowd

Release date: 14th April 2012

From Adventures in Your Own Backyard

Track 4

3:57

Alternative Music Pop Pop/Rock

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About This Track

'Quiet Crowd' by Patrick Watson is an alternative track from the album 'Adventures in Your Own Backyard' (2012). The lyrics weigh private selfhood against public presence, setting talk and self-talk against the choice between being noticed as “a part of the crowd” or remaining a single, waiting sound. It is conversational in tone, with questions that draw the listener into a choice about identity when nobody is watching.

"Quiet Crowd" is a track by Patrick Watson, from the album Adventures in Your Own Backyard, released 14th April 2012. The track is 3:57 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Patrick Watson.

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Lyrics

Quiet Crowd

Would you rather be more than the things that you say
Or just be the words that you sing to yourself in your head
When nobody's around
Or would you rather be a part of the crowd or just a single sound
Waiting to be heard
Do you know what I mean?

Well, you could be one of the lovers or liars
Hiding all the things they do on the back of their hands
Well, it's just you and me
'Cause everybody got a little wrong in all the right places
Just depends on where you are
While you're hanging around

Dear Mr. Quiet who's got so much to say
So much more than all of the sleeping parade
If I could tie up a string to your mouths and make you scream
All of the things that you keep to yourself

I'd love to get to know you better
Dear Mr. Quiet
I'd love to get to know you better
When nobody's around

While we're all staring at the end of the world
Will everybody have their hands on their head while they say
Well, I told you so
While everybody's walking their own way through the quiet crowd
All thinking the same old things
If they only knew

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Track details

From Adventures in Your Own Backyard

3:572012

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Album

Adventures in Your Own Backyard

15th April 2012

Track number

4

Release year

2012

1Lighthouse
4:46
2Blackwind
3:54
3Step Out for a While
4:04
4Quiet Crowd
3:57

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Patrick Watson has confirmed his new album 'Uh Oh' featuring guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright

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