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Unknown Mortal Orchestra
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No Need for a Leader

TRACK

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

No Need for a Leader

Release date: 1st February 2013

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About This Track

"No Need for a Leader" is a track by Unknown Mortal Orchestra, from the album II, released 1st February 2013. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 5 articles about Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Lyrics

No Need for a Leader

[Verse 1]

Something wicked this way comes

We don't like to fall, but when we come down, we lose it all

Then we open someone new

We eat their bones and wonder why they have no bones left

[Chorus]

Maybe one day, we'll find we have

No need for a leader

[Verse 2]

I watch the faces on a screen

No question what I'll have to pay for my apathy

Can you feel it on your face?

The winds of change are a lot unfriendlier these days

[Chorus]

Maybe one day, we'll find we have

No need for a leader

[Verse 1]

Something wicked this way comes

We don't like to fall, but when we come down, we lose it all

Then we open someone new

We eat their bones and wonder why they have no bones left

[Chorus]

Maybe one day, we'll find we have

No need for a leader

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Track details

From II

2013

Album

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Release year

2013

—No Need for a Leader
—One at a Time
—So Good at Being in Trouble
—The Opposite of Afternoon
—Dawn
—Faded in the Morning
—Secret Xtians
—From the Sun
—Monki

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Credits

Writer: Ruban Nielson
Producer: Ruban Nielson
Credited: Jagjaguwar, Ruban Nielson
Label: Jagjaguwar