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Release date: 20th September 2018

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'Mistress' by Suede is a 2018 rock track from the album 'The Blue Hour'. The lyrics set up a tense address to a woman caught in a repeating pattern of abandonment and return, with images of cold daylight and sea-green eyes. It frames her relationship to a man in terms of resemblance and need, questioning whether she compares him to someone else, and whether she has stayed with him despite the consequences. One moment lands on the blunt line, “So you stayed with him again”, before the song moves on to the sense of flight and delay as she leaves once more.

"Mistress" is a track by Suede, from the album The Blue Hour, released 20th September 2018. The track is 3:24 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Suede.

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Mistress

On a day without a night
Eyes the green of seawater
And skin so white
You're nothing like my mother
Do you hold him like her?
Do you need him like her?
Is he all that you've got?
Oh
So you stayed with him again
You fled with him
And travelled in his car now, you're late
To be with him and hold him
He loves you like words
He needs you like words
You're not all that he's got
But you're all that he wants
Mistress stay with him
Don't tell the neighbours
They don't mean a thing
Now you're in love
You're in love
By the camber of the road
Celebrate your differences
Free your ghosts
Be with him and hold him
He doesn't love you like her
He doesn't need you like her
You're not all that he's got
But you're all that he wants
Mistress stay with him
I won't tell the neighbours
They don't mean a thing
Now you're in love
You're in love
You're in love
(He said)
Mistress stay with me
Don't tell the people
They don't need to see
You're in love
You're in love
You're in love
Ooooh

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Track details

From The Blue Hour

3:242018
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Album
The Blue Hour
The Blue Hour
Suede
21st September 2018
Track number
3
Release year
2018
  1. 1As One
    4:10
  2. 2Wastelands
    5:32
  3. 3Mistress
    3:24
  4. 4Beyond the Outskirts
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    Writer
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    Guitar
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    Keyboards
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    Lucie Švehlová
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