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Patti Smith – Dead to the World (1996) | Track profile | Dork

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Patti Smith
Gone Again
Dead to the World

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Dead to the World

Release date: 17th June 1996

From Gone Again

Track 6

4:18

Alternative Music Rock Singer/Songwriter

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"Dead to the World" is a track by Patti Smith, from the album Gone Again, released 17th June 1996. The track is 4:18 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Patti Smith.

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Lyrics

Dead to the World

Dead to the world my body was sleeping
On my mind was nothing at all
Come a mist an aire so appealing
I'm here a whispering you summoned I called
I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing
Oh he would shift he would not shift at all
We sat for a while he was very engaging
And when he was gone I was gone on a smile
With a strange way of walking
And a strange way of breathing
More lives than a cat
That led me astray
All in all he captured my heart
Dead to the world and just
Slipped away
I heard me a music that drew me to dancing
Lo I turned under his spell
I opened my coat but he never came closer
I bolted the door and whispered oh well
With a strange way of walking
And a strange way of breathing
More lives than a cat
That let me astray
All in all he captured my heart
Dead to the world and just
Slipped away
I laid in the rushes the air was upon me
Wondering well I just couldn't discern
Will he come back come back to me
Oh I whispered will you ever return
I was feeling sensations in no dictionary
He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
The life in his fingers unwound my existence
Dead to the world alive I awoke
With a strange way of walking
And a strange way of breathing
Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
The life in his fingers unwound my existence
Dead to the world alive I awoke
Alive I awoke
Alive alive I awoke
Alive I awoke
Alive I awoke
Alive
I awoke
I awoke
Alive I awoke
Alive alive-o
Alive alive-o

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Track details

From Gone Again

4:181996

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Track number

6

Release year

1996

1Gone Again
3:16
2Beneath the Southern Cross
4:34
3About a Boy
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4My Madrigal
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Patti Smith
Writer: Patti Smith
Producer: Lenny Kaye, Malcolm Burn
Guitar: Malcolm Burn
Electric Guitar: Whit Smith
Whistle: Oliver Ray