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Wavves
You’re Welcome
Exercise

TRACK

Exercise

Release date: 18th May 2017

From You’re Welcome

Track 9

2:24

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About This Track

'Exercise' by Wavves is a 2017 track from the album 'You’re Welcome'. The lyrics present a sleepless, feverish state, with a speaker drifting between shut eyes and frantic movement, insisting that a corrupt, propagandised reality is being sold to them. There is a stark, doom-laced sense of contradiction in the refrain of eyes and the urge to dance while everything is collapsing, captured in the line “Dancing while the world is burning down”.

"Exercise" is a track by Wavves, from the album You’re Welcome, released 18th May 2017. The track is 2:24 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Wavves.

About the Artist

Wavves

Wavves

Lyrics

Exercise

Talking in my sleep tonight
I just need to close my eyes
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Eyes, eyes, eyes

Dancing while the world is burning down
My head's on fire, feet can't touch the ground
I can't believe the shit they feed to us
They're lying to our face, face

We're dancing while the world is burning down
My head's on fire, feet can't touch the ground
I can't believe the shit they feed to us
They're lying to our face, face, face

It's true

Walking in my sleep tonight
I just need the exercise
Eyes, eyes, eyes
Eyes, eyes, eyes

Dancing while the world is burning down
My head's on fire if my feet can't touch the ground
I can't believe the shit they feed to us
They're lying to our face

It's true

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Track details

From You’re Welcome

2:242017

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Album

You’re Welcome

Track number

9

Release year

2017

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2You’re Welcome
3:01
3No Shade
1:47
4Million Enemies
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Credits

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Writer: Nathan Williams
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