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SOFT PLAY
Are You Satisfied?
Despair and Traffic

TRACK

Despair and Traffic

Release date: 2014

From Are You Satisfied?Track 42:18

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About This Track

"Despair and Traffic" is a track by SOFT PLAY, from the album Are You Satisfied?, released 2014. The track is 2:18 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about SOFT PLAY.

About the Artist

SOFT PLAY

SOFT PLAY

Lyrics

Despair and Traffic

Signals flying/ through the air
Who discovered/ they were there?
Darling don't be/ so dramatic
It's not all/ despair and traffic
Paralysed in/ paradise
Dining with the/ parasites
Interspecies/ intercourse
Old land/ new laws

This is life
This is life
This is life

Another day/ another train
Pain killers/ kill the pain
Bend down/ pick it up
Cut it out/ stick it up
Who am I to/ say a thing
Look at us/ developing
Modern day/ machinery
Gaining/ productivity

This is life
This is life
This is life

This is life
This is life
This is life

This is life this is life darling don't you realise
This is life this is life you have got to realise
This is life this is life this is life.

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Are You Satisfied?

2:182014

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Album

Are You Satisfied?

Track number

4

Release year

2014

1The Hunter
3:01
2Cheer Up London
2:33
3Sockets
3:26
4Despair and Traffic
2:18

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Albums & EPs

HEAVIER JELLY

HEAVY JELLY

Everything and Nothing - EP

Everything and Nothing - EP

Acts of Fear and Love

Acts of Fear and Love

Take Control

Sugar Coated Bitter Truth

Sugar Coated Bitter Truth

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SOFT PLAY — Punk's Dead (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:12]
SOFT PLAY — Chairman of the Council (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:45]
SOFT PLAY — Green Lamborghini (from HEAVIER JELLY) [1:26]
SOFT PLAY — Working Title (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:50]
SOFT PLAY — Everything and Nothing (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:58]
SOFT PLAY — All Things (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:44]
SOFT PLAY — Heavy Jelly (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:36]
SOFT PLAY — Bin Juice Disaster (from HEAVIER JELLY) [1:55]
SOFT PLAY — Slushy (feat. Kate Nash) (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:07]
SOFT PLAY — Mirror Muscles (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:41]
SOFT PLAY — Flip Em the Bird (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:01]
SOFT PLAY — John Wick (from HEAVIER JELLY) [1:23]
SOFT PLAY — Isaac Is Typing… (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:45]
SOFT PLAY — Worms On Tarmac (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:03]
SOFT PLAY — Take Me to the Tip (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:40]
SOFT PLAY — The Mushroom and The Swan (from HEAVIER JELLY) [3:03]
SOFT PLAY — Act Violently (from HEAVIER JELLY) [2:52]
Soft Play — Slushy
SOFT PLAY — Act Violently (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:52]
SOFT PLAY — Punk's Dead (from HEAVY JELLY) [3:12]
SOFT PLAY — Mirror Muscles (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:41]
SOFT PLAY — All Things (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:44]
SOFT PLAY — Isaac Is Typing… (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:45]
SOFT PLAY — The Mushroom and the Swan (from HEAVY JELLY) [3:03]
SOFT PLAY — Everything and Nothing (from HEAVY JELLY) [3:58]
SOFT PLAY — Worms On Tarmac (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:03]
SOFT PLAY — Bin Juice Disaster (from HEAVY JELLY) [1:55]
SOFT PLAY — Working Title (from HEAVY JELLY) [2:50]
SOFT PLAY — John Wick (from HEAVY JELLY) [1:23]
Soft Play — Punk's Dead (from Everything and Nothing - EP) [3:12]
Soft Play — Mirror Muscles (from Everything and Nothing - EP) [2:41]
Soft Play — Everything and Nothing (from Everything and Nothing - EP) [3:58]
Soft Play — Act Violently (from Everything and Nothing - EP) [2:52]
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SOFT PLAY — It Makes Me Sick
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SOFT PLAY — Acts of Fear and Love (from Acts of Fear and Love) [5:05]
SOFT PLAY — Bugs (from Acts of Fear and Love) [3:01]
SOFT PLAY — Daddy (from Acts of Fear and Love) [1:50]
SOFT PLAY — Chokehold (from Acts of Fear and Love) [3:24]
SOFT PLAY — Cut and Run (from Acts of Fear and Love) [2:41]
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SOFT PLAY — Cold Hard Floor (from Take Control) [4:16]
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6Are You Satisfied?

9Live Like an Animal

11She Wants Me Now

12Feed the Mantaray

13Sugar Coated Bitter Truth

Credits

Credited: Isaac Holman, Jolyon Thomas, Laurie Vincent