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The New Pornographers – Higher Beams (2019) | Track profile | Dork

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In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
Higher Beams

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The New Pornographers

Higher Beams

Release date: 26th September 2019

From In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

Track 5

4:06

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About This Track

"Higher Beams" is a track by The New Pornographers, from the album In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, released 26th September 2019. The track is 4:06 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about The New Pornographers.

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Lyrics

Higher Beams

Just out of frame, with a passenger's name
Though you're freight pulled behind
It was always a battle to arrive at the station alive
With all the bags to unpack, all the plans for the future to protect
Because we've come to expect the trains on time

A cloud of steam and we're out of the gate, not a fashionable late
Wearing long sleeves to hide the mark of Cain
Got it when I was young, half eternal, half sung
Play a sour note long enough it's right
And our finishing moves were fight or flight
In the higher beams, that temporarily blind
That change your mind

Thank you
Thank you for nothing
I didn't want in

Deep in the culture of fear, we all hate living here
But you know when you can't afford to leave?
So you stay in the lines, navigate the land mines
Should have gone for the guided tour
Got lost, I could see what we've crossed. I knew the cost
In the higher beams, that temporarily blind
That change your mind

Thank you
Thank you for nothing
I didn't want in
Thank you
Thank you for nothing
I didn't want in

Fuck you
Fuck you for nothing
I didn't want in

You lost your train,
But you're high on the fumes that are left in the room
When you dream of a team, of higher beams
That temporarily blind, that change your mind
The higher beams that temporarily blind, that change your mind
That change your mind
That change your mind
That change your mind

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From In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

4:062019

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The New Pornographers

27th September 2019

Track number

5

Release year

2019

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: A.C. Newman
Producer: A.C. Newman
Drums: Joe Seiders
Guitar: A.C. Newman
Keyboards: A.C. Newman, Kathryn Calder
Vocals: A.C. Newman, Joe Seiders, Kathryn Calder, Neko Case
Cello: Doug Gorkoff
Drum Machine: A.C. Newman
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Mixing Engineer: Colin Stewart
Percussion: Joe Seiders
Strings: Strength of Materials
Viola: John Kastelic
Violin: Elyse Jacobson, Meredith Bates