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Wild Beasts
Present Tense
Past Perfect

TRACK

Past Perfect

Release date: 24th February 2014

From Present TenseTrack 92:57

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Lyrics

Past Perfect

Back then, there were no others
All I knew, true beginners
We had a gift, the perfect present
No such a thing
I'm taught

It's tense for me
Can't live within a memory
Proud woman I daren't come passively
Every fella deserves his dignity

Our heart is older than our hands
It passed from monkey into man
Now tender hands do heal the hurt
Man did fuck up and then he learnt

It's tense for me
Can't live within a memory
Proud woman I daren't come passively
Every fella deserves his dignity

It's tense for me
Can't keep relivin' what is history
Proud woman now don't go soft on me
Where's that famous old dexterity?

It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me
It's tense for me, it's tense for me

It's tense, it's tense...
It's tense for me
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

It's tense for me
Can't live within a memory
Proud woman I daren't come passively
Every fella deserves...

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Track details

From Present Tense

2:572014

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Album

24th February 2014

Track number

9

Release year

2014

1Wanderlust
4:55
2Nature Boy
3:33
3Mecca
3:45
4Sweet Spot
3:59

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Present Tense (Special Edition)

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Wild Beasts — 2BU (from Boy King) [4:19]
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Wild Beasts — Eat Your Heart out Adonis (from Boy King) [3:56]
Wild Beasts — Tough Guy (from Boy King) [3:31]
Wild Beasts — Get My Bang (from Boy King) [3:33]
Wild Beasts — Ponytail (from Boy King) [3:38]
Wild Beasts — Big Cat (from Boy King) [3:07]
Wild Beasts — Woebegone Wanderers II
Wild Beasts — Soft Future / Blood Knowledge
Wild Beasts — A Simple Beautiful Truth (Djrum Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [6:29]
Wild Beasts — Wanderlust (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [4:55]
Wild Beasts — Nature Boy (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:33]
Wild Beasts — A Simple Beautiful Truth (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [2:36]
Wild Beasts — Mecca (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:45]
Wild Beasts — Palace (Steve Moore Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [6:40]
Wild Beasts — Sweet Spot (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:59]
Wild Beasts — Mecca (Juan Atkins Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [6:02]
Wild Beasts — A Simple Beautiful Truth (Lone Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [4:33]
Wild Beasts — Wanderlust (Factory Floor Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [7:14]
Wild Beasts — Palace (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:20]
Wild Beasts — Pregnant Pause (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:09]
Wild Beasts — Wanderlust (The Field Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [8:17]
Wild Beasts — A Dog's Life (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [3:21]
Wild Beasts — Past Perfect (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [2:57]
Wild Beasts — Daughters (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [4:47]
Wild Beasts — New Life (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [4:37]
Wild Beasts — Mecca (SOHN Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [5:04]
Wild Beasts — Palace (Foals Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [6:17]
Wild Beasts — A Simple Beautiful Truth (East India Youth Remix) (from Present Tense (Special Edition)) [5:32]
Wild Beasts — Wanderlust (The Field Remix) (from Present Tense) [8:14]
Wild Beasts — Wanderlust (from Present Tense) [4:55]
Wild Beasts — Palace (from Present Tense) [3:20]
Wild Beasts — Pregnant Pause (from Present Tense) [3:09]
Wild Beasts — Daughters (from Present Tense) [4:47]
Wild Beasts — A Simple Beautiful Truth (from Present Tense) [2:36]
Wild Beasts — Nature Boy (from Present Tense) [3:33]
Wild Beasts — Sweet Spot (from Present Tense) [3:59]
Wild Beasts — Mecca (from Present Tense) [3:45]
Wild Beasts — A Dog's Life (from Present Tense) [3:21]
Wild Beasts — New Life (from Present Tense) [4:37]
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6Pregnant Pause

7A Simple Beautiful Truth

9Past Perfect

2:57

12Wanderlust (Factory Floor Remix)

13Wanderlust (The Field Remix)