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Sugar for the Pill (Avalon Emerson’s Gilded Escalation)

Release date: 2nd May 2017

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"Sugar for the Pill (Avalon Emerson’s Gilded Escalation)" is a single by Slowdive, released 2nd May 2017. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slowdive.

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Sugar for the Pill (Avalon Emerson’s Gilded Escalation)

There's a buzzard of gulls
They're drumming in the wind
Only lovers alive
Running in the dark

Anna rolled away
Said we never wanted much
Just a rollercoaster
Our love was never number one

Sugar for the pill
You know it's just the way things are
Can't abide the sun
This jealousy will break the whole

Cut across the sky
And move a little closer now
Lying in a bed of greed
You know I had the strangest dream

Anna rolled away
Said we never wanted much
Just a rollercoaster
Our love was never number one

Sugar for the pill
You know it's just the way things are
Can't abide the sun
This jealousy will break the whole

Anna rolled away
Said we never wanted much
Just a rollercoaster
Our love was never number one

Sugar for the pill
You know it's just the way things are
Can't abide the sun
This jealousy will break the whole

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Sugar for the Pill (Avalon Emerson’s Gilded Escalation)

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