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Suite XVI
Instead of This (Live Acoustic)

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Instead of This (Live Acoustic)

Release date: 18th September 2006

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About This Track

"Instead of This (Live Acoustic)" is a track by The Stranglers, from the album Suite XVI, released 18th September 2006. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Instead of This (Live Acoustic)

I don't want to talk about it

I don't want to greet about it

I don't want to see you anymore

I don't want to think about it

I just want to see you walk out that door

Walk out that door

I don't want to hear about it

I don't want to fight about it

I don't want to argue anymore

I don't want to linger on it

I just want to even up the score

Walk out that door

You could have had all

You could have had all the love you wished

You could have had all

All I had to give instead of this

Instead of this

I don't want to talk about it

I don't want to greet about it

I don't want to see you anymore

I don't want to think about it

I just want to see you walk out that door

Walk out that door

You could have had all

You could have had all the love you wished

You could have had all

All I had to give instead of this

You could have had all

You could have had all the love you wished

You could have had all

All I had to give instead of this

Instead of this

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Track details

From Suite XVI

2006

Album

Release year

2006

—A Soldier's Diary
—Barbara (Shangri-La)
—Death & Night & Blood (Yukio) (Live)
—Bless You (Save You, Spare You, Damn You)
—Anything Can Happen
—I Hate You
—Instead of This (Live Acoustic)
—See Me Coming
—She's Slipping Away
—Relentless
—Summat Outanowt
—Unbroken

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