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Shearwater – An Accident (2002) | Track profile | Dork

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Everybody Makes Mistakes
An Accident

TRACK

An Accident

Release date: 1st October 2002

From Everybody Makes Mistakes

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About This Track

"An Accident" is a track by Shearwater, from the album Everybody Makes Mistakes, released 1st October 2002. Full lyrics are available below.

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Shearwater

Shearwater

Lyrics

An Accident

People got no respect for the dead

They roll new plans out neatly

But into a morning exploding with red

I awoke completely

By accident

An accident

Though you smile so sweetly above

Your congregational coffee

In this town where I was born

By accident

An accident

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Track details

From Everybody Makes Mistakes

2002

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Album

Everybody Makes Mistakes

Release year

2002

—Safeway
—12:09
—All the Black Days 2
—All the Black Days 1
—Mistakes
—Room for Mistakes
—The Ice Covered Everything
—Well, Benjamin
—Wreck
—An Accident
—Soon
—You Took Your Mistakes Too Hard

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