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Shiner

Play Dead

Release date: 23rd October 2001

From The Egg
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About This Track

"Play Dead" is a track by Shiner, from the album The Egg, released 23rd October 2001. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Shiner

Shiner

Lyrics

Play Dead

Operated by a fictional computer

And navigating down the stream of possibilities

I could never?

Maybe

Isolated for my crimes and misdemeanors

Graduating to the piece of shit that I became

Accidental?

Maybe

I'll call in and play sick

The worst thing has happened

I'll call off all that keeps me down

Oxidized and holy, sanitized in chlorine

Gravitating to the curse of disability

Accidental?

Maybe

I'll call in and play sick

The worst thing has happened

I'll call off all that keeps me down

(Remember your name)

I'll call in and play sick

(Together we pray)

Thе worst thing has happened

(The wholе world is gay)

I'll call off

(The whole world is gay)

All that keeps me down

Accidental?!

Maybe

Operated by a fictional computer

Navigating down the stream of possibilities

I could never?

Maybe

Overrated by the under-educated

Graduating to the piece of shit that I became

Accidental?!

Maybe

I'll call in and play sick

The worst thing has happened

I'll call off all that keeps me down

(Remember your name)

I'll call in and play sick

(Together we pray)

The worst thing has happened

(The whole world is gay)

I'll call off

(The whole world is gay)

All that keeps me down

(Remember your name)

I'll call in and play sick

(Together we pray)

The worst thing has happened

(The whole world is gay)

I'll call off

(The whole world is gay)

All that keeps me down

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Track details

From The Egg

2001
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Album
The Egg
The Egg
Shiner
Release year
2001
  1. —Stoned
  2. —Spook the Herd
  3. —Andalusia
  4. —The Top of the World
  5. —The Truth About Cows
  6. —Bells and Whistles
  7. —Dirty Jazz
  8. —Pills
  9. —Surgery
  10. —The Simple Truth
  11. —The Egg
  12. —Play Dead
  13. —I'll Leave Without You

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