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Wye Oak – Archaic Smile (2008) | Track profile | Dork

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Wye Oak
If Children
Archaic Smile

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Archaic Smile

Release date: 8th April 2008

From If Children

About This Track

"Archaic Smile" is a track by Wye Oak, from the album If Children, released 8th April 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Wye Oak

Wye Oak

Lyrics

Archaic Smile

Sculptor, never leave my side

And expose this empty smile

Could the truth be falsified

And hold it off a little while

Never look quite right

Ponderous and idle

Still I'm gonna try

And show you my

Archaic smile

Two thousand years below the sea

Moves like a blinking eye

Sixty days in front of me

It is an ocean running dry

Temper all these hidden moves

Behind uneasy stares

Pass me to the centuries

They will never know what's there

What's there

Never look quite right

Ponderous and idle

Still I'm gonna try

And show you my

Archaic smile

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From If Children

2008

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