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Temples – Context (2019) | Track profile | Dork

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Temples
Hot Motion
Context

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Context

Release date: 26th September 2019

From Hot Motion

Track 5

3:40

Alternative Music Rock

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About This Track

'Context' by Temples is an alternative track from the album 'Hot Motion' (2019). The lyrics shift between questions of authority and salvation, then move into self-mythologising claims about shaping desire and converting night into something more daylight-ready, with images of wild things being tamed and memories returning. Over the course of the excerpt, the speaker sounds both commanding and haunted, culminating in the thought that “The meaning that’s” is coming back into focus.

"Context" is a single by Temples, from the album Hot Motion, released 26th September 2019. The track is 3:40 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Temples.

About the Artist

Temples

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Lyrics

Context

Are you messiah? Are you the light?
I am the one who brought the fight
I sold the night
To daylight saving time
I am sublime, I'm the guide
I am the one who made desire
I tamed the wild
Destined to your life

Exile
Words from a memory
All coming back to me
The meaning that's implied
Believe what you may
Served in a different use
Learning to play the rules again

Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you afraid of being defined?
When you put it in context it makes sense

Oh, when you put in in context it makes sense
Oh, when you wait 'til the end, then you'll be next

I am the one, I am the flood
I am the water to your blood
I've taken love
A sentence far enough
I am alive, I am the eyes
I am the virtue of the mind
I did survive
Connections to deny

Exile
Words you cannot defend
Save to the bitter end
The reasons you decide
Believe what you may
Observe with a different view
Learning to break the rules always

Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you afraid of being defined?
When you put it in context it makes sense

Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you afraid of being defined?
When you put it in context it makes sense

Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you divine?
Fool carry the wise
Are you afraid of being defined?
When you put it in context it makes sense

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Track details

From Hot Motion

3:402019Single

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Album

27th September 2019

Track number

5

Release year

2019

1Hot Motion
5:49
2You're Either On Something
3:47
3Holy Horses
3:05
4The Howl
4:25

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