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This Broken Design by The Ninth Wave

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The Ninth Wave

This Broken Design

Release date: 3rd May 2019

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"This Broken Design" is a single by The Ninth Wave, released 3rd May 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

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The Ninth Wave

The Ninth Wave

Lyrics

This Broken Design

Beautiful smiles, and beautiful voices tumbling down
Well, they made their choices
I'd rather admire the people that are tired
The ones that have an empty face
The ones that I can just erase

Facing all of them, but all of them are you
(We know we're wasting time)
Too fragile to contend that all of them are you
(No questions asked, no reasons why)

This broken design of what this has come to
All this in time; I know it will fade soon
And I'm aware of the problems
The ones that surround me now
The faces of all of them, embracing a weary smile

Facing all of them, but all of them are you
(We know we're wasting time)
Too fragile to contend that all of them are you
(No questions asked, no reasons why)
Facing all of them, but all of them are you
(We know we're wasting time)
Too fragile to contend that all of them are you
(No questions asked, no reasons why)

We know we're wasting time
No questions asked, no reasons why
We're spent; a bitter end
The places we knew, the people we've been
We know we're wasting time
No questions asked, no reasons why
We're spent; a bitter end
The places we knew, the people we've been

Facing all of them, but all of them are you
(We know we're wasting time)
Too fragile to contend that all of them are you
(No questions asked, no reasons why)
Facing all of them, but all of them are you
(We're spent; a bitter end)
Too fragile to contend that all of them are you
(The places we knew, the people we've been)

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This Broken Design

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  • The Ninth Wave — Interlude [0:27]
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  • The Ninth Wave — Heron on the Water [3:34]
  • The Ninth Wave — Piece and Pound Coins [2:24]
  • The Ninth Wave — Maybe You Didn't Know [3:40]
  • The Ninth Wave — Song for Leaving [3:46]
  • The Ninth Wave — The Morning Room [2:43]
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  • THE NINTH WAVE — Everything That You Have Left
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  • The Ninth Wave — First Encounters
  • The Ninth Wave — Used to Be Yours
  • The Ninth Wave — Half Pure
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  • THE NINTH WAVE — Love You 'Till the End
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  • THE NINTH WAVE — Pale White
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  • The Ninth Wave — Reformation
  • The Ninth Wave — Human Touch
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  2. First Encounters
  3. Half Pure
  4. Happy Days!
  5. Human Behaviour
  6. I’m Only Going to Hurt You
  7. Love You ’Till the End
  8. Used to Be Yours
  9. A Wave Goodbye to the People Who Said I'd Win
  10. Abattoir

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