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Lasso by Phoenix

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Phoenix

Lasso

Release date: 2009

From Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD)
Track 6
2:48
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About This Track

A song about constraint and the impossibility of escape, 'Lasso' traps its narrator in a cycle of longing and self-awareness. The title image is literal: someone bound, unable to move freely, yet still asking whether they might somehow collide with another person. Phoenix builds the track around this paradox, the repeated question "where would you go" becoming both a taunt and a plea. The lyrics move between accusation and confession. A partner is vain and diplomatically clumsy; the narrator is complicit, drawn into patterns they recognise as wasteful. There is no villain here, only two people caught in a loop of yes and no, attraction and resentment. The chorus refrain "could you run into me" suggests a longing for accident, for some force outside their control to bring them together again, as though chance might succeed where will has failed.

"Lasso" is a single by Phoenix, from the album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD), released 2009. The track is 2:48 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Phoenix.

About the Artist

Phoenix

Phoenix

Lyrics

Lasso

[Verse 1]

Where would you go?

Not long ago, I’ve been thinking out loud

Why so suddenly? D-d-don't you know?

Don't do it, what you do, oh, what you do to me

Forever is a long, long time

When you've lost your way

Trying to follow your ideal

Oh, sorry but your so-called life

It is such a waste

[Pre-Chorus]

Wear your real eyes

No, you don't realize

What you say yes to

But you say yes, too

[Chorus]

Where would you go, where would you go

With a lasso?

Could you run into, could you run into

Could you go and run into me?

Where would you go, where would you go

Tied up to a lasso?

Could you run into, could you run into

Could you go and run into me?

[Verse 2]

So lonely, so pretty, such a lack of diplomacy

You can't get out

D-don't you know? Oh, don't do it

What you do well, you should do to me

Far out, so far out, such a fallout

Not only that you're lonely

Don't matter if you're not so well (Not so well)

No, you're not so well

[Chorus]

Where would you go, where would you go

With a lasso?

Could you run into, could you run into

Could you go and run into me?

Where would you go, where would you go

Tied up to a lasso?

Could you run into, could you run into

Could you go and run into me?

[Post-Chorus]

Wear your real eyes

No, you don't realize

What you say yes to

But you say yes, too

[Outro]

Tomorrow (Forever) is a long, long time

When you've lost your way

Tomorrow (Forever) is a long, long time

When you've lost your way

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Track details

From Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD)

2:482009Single
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD)
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD)
Phoenix
2009
Track number
6
Release year
2009
  1. 1Lisztomania
    4:02
  2. 21901
    3:13
  3. 3Fences
    3:45
  4. 4Love Like a Sunset, Pt. I
    5:39

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