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Wolf Alice – Swallowtail (2015) | Track profile | Dork

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Wolf Alice
My Love Is Cool
Swallowtail

TRACK

Swallowtail

Release date: 22nd June 2015

From My Love Is Cool

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About This Track

"Swallowtail" is a track by Wolf Alice, from the album My Love Is Cool, released 22nd June 2015. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Wolf Alice.

About the Artist

Wolf Alice

Wolf Alice

Lyrics

Swallowtail

[Verse]

Swallowtail, I met you up atop The Shard

As we fell, I never thought we'd hit this hard

It's not right, but it's too late for that now

Swallow fear, and head straight down into the ground

[Chorus]

And head straight down into the crowd

The crowd that you've been leaning on

To the crowd

The crowd that you believed were gone

[Verse]

Swallowtail, I met you up atop The Shard

As we fell, I never thought we'd hit this hard

It's not right, but it's too late for that now

Swallow fear, and head straight down into the ground

[Chorus]

And head straight down into the crowd

The crowd that you've been leaning on

To the crowd

The crowd that you believed were gone

[Verse]

Swallowtail, I met you up atop The Shard

As we fell, I never thought we'd hit this hard

It's not right, but it's too late for that now

Swallow fear, and head straight down into the ground

[Chorus]

And head straight down into the crowd

The crowd that you've been leaning on

To the crowd

The crowd that you believed were gone

[Instrumental Outro]

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From My Love Is Cool

2015

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Album

My Love Is Cool

Release year

2015

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Ellie Rowsell, Joel Amey, Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis, Wolf Alice
Producer: Mike Crossey
Vocals: Joel Amey
Background Vocals: Ellie Rowsell