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The Joy Formidable

A Heavy Abacus

Release date: 24th January 2011

From The Big RoarTrack 53:40

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"A Heavy Abacus" is a single by The Joy Formidable, from the album The Big Roar, released 24th January 2011. The track is 3:40 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about The Joy Formidable.

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The Joy Formidable

The Joy Formidable

Lyrics

A Heavy Abacus

Here we are bending feet
In the dark before dreamless sleep
Cloaks that spot, that shiver, that breeze
Throws you in the dark

Happiness, it won't last long
And this child behind stores it all
The failed man's curse
And the cost of nonchalance

I thank you sly, watchful gene
A plastic life up my sleeve
If you've followed this far
You've realized nothing

Now your world is here
Watch it disappear

Abacus haunting me
Abacus watching me
Abacus haunting me
Abacus watching me

And it all plays out
And it always comes around
The message fades but the mess prevails
You reckless thing leaving you in our hands

Abacus haunting me
Abacus watching me
Abacus haunting me
Abacus watching me

All we have is this chance called memory
(Haunting me)
All we have is this chance called memory
(Watching me)
All we have is this chance called memory
(Haunting me)
All we have is this chance called memory

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Track details

From The Big Roar

3:402011Single

Listen

Album

The Joy Formidable

24th January 2011

Track number

5

Release year

2011

1The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie
7:45
2The Magnifying Glass
2:20
3I Don't Want to See You Like This
4:04
4

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