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Star Roving by Slowdive

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Slowdive

Star Roving

Release date: 5th November 1990

From Slowdive
Track 2
5:39
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'Star Roving' draws from Slowdive's catalogue of textural gestures: rugged instrumentation layered beneath veils of noise and half-buried vocal murmurs. The song moves between moments of clarity and obscurity, its melody surfacing and retreating as if caught between competing impulses. Lyrically, there's a quality of emotional generosity mixed with resignation, the repeated refrain about feeling warm and making things bad for everyone to hide suggesting a figure caught between openness and self-protection. The track settles into a patient five-and-a-half-minute arc, letting its constituent parts drift and collide without rushing toward resolution. It sits comfortably within the band's established vocabulary of dream-pop architecture, where precision and haziness coexist.

"Star Roving" is a single by Slowdive, from the album Slowdive, released 5th November 1990. The track is 5:39 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slowdive.

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Lyrics

Star Roving

Give it away now, girl
Can't hold on to mine
Every black and white
Secrets of blinking light
And like flies on crap
Said she's feeling warm for everyone tonight
Although possible
Said she's feeling good, said she's feeling good

Smiling beautiful
She says I'll make it bad
For everyone to hide
Twisting by my girl
Nothing left to lose
Nothing left to fight

Give it away now, girl
Can't hold on to mine
Every black and white
Secrets of seeking light
In a flash of time
Said she's feeling warm for everyone tonight
Smiling beautiful
She says I'll make it bad for everyone to hide

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5:391990Single
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Slowdive
Slowdive
Slowdive
5th November 1990
Track number
2
Release year
1990
  1. 1Slomo
    6:53
  2. 2Star Roving
    5:39
  3. 3Don't Know Why
    4:37
  4. 4Sugar for the Pill
    4:31

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