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City by PUP

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PUP

City

Release date: 4th April 2019

From Morbid Stuff
Track 11
3:52
AlternativeMusicPunkRock
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About This Track

'City' by PUP is a 2019 alternative track from the album 'Morbid Stuff'. The lyrics cast the narrator as trapped and observing, with a restless, sinking feeling that life feels unmanageable in the city, “stuck in slow motion” and unable to steady course. The imagery leans on inertia and disorientation, returning to a sense of disappearing, weighed down by place, and struggling to stay present.

"City" is a track by PUP, from the album Morbid Stuff, released 4th April 2019. The track is 3:52 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about PUP.

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PUP

PUP

Lyrics

City

I was on the outside
I was looking in
Like a deer in the headlights
Stuck in slow motion
Like I was on the turnpike
No ability to steer
Can't shake the feeling I'm starting to disappear
I'm weighed down in this city
It's hard to live here, and I've been feeling restlessness
There's this battle raging in me
Don't want to love you anymore
But I can't help it
I was on the outside
Like we were at the cinema
Your face was hidden
Behind the camera
I think I love you
More than I'd admit
And I was not prepared to be seeing you like this
And I'm weighed down in this city
It's hard to live here, and I've been feeling restless
There's this battle raging in me
Don't want to love you anymore
But I can't help it
And between you and me
This city's been slowly poisoning me
And as I rip deeper into it's scales
It rots beneath my fingernails
And when I try to claw out of the pit
All I do is get sucked back in
Don't want to love you anymore
But I just can't help it
And I'm weighed down in this city
And I've been feeling restless
There's this battle raging in me
Don't want to love you anymore
But I can't help it
I'm weighed down in this city
Don't love you anymore

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Track details

From Morbid Stuff

3:522019
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Album
Morbid Stuff
Morbid Stuff
PUP
5th April 2019
Track number
11
Release year
2019
  1. 1Morbid Stuff
    2:45
  2. 2Kids
    3:30
  3. 3Free at Last
    2:35
  4. 4See You at Your Funeral
    3:40

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    Producer
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    Drums
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    Assistant Recording Engineer
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    Stefan Babcock
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    Dave Schiffman
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