Dead Club City Album Lyrics by Nothing But Thieves

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Welcome to the DCC

Welcome to the DCC, Dead Club City
Wake up in the DCC, Dead Club City
All the heaven, all the time
If you dream it, you can have it
If you believe it, it can happen
Welcome to the DCC, Dead Club City
Live your perfect life
Welcome to the

We got problems
See them gather on the shore
Empty promise
Can't say nothin' anymore
I've been shoutin'
I've been shoutin' down a hole
Hello? Watch and repeat
Saw your heaven in between
Come and get me
I'm so ready to begin
I've been hopin'
I've been hopin' for your call

Welcome to the DCC, Dead Club City
You can live your perfect life
Wake up in the DCC, Dead Club City
All the heaven, all the time, oh

Sunlit upland, a new planet
Enjoy the feelin', let it happen
If you dream it, you can have it
If you believe it, it can happen
It can happen, oh

(Welcome to the DCC)
We've got the feelings that you want
Peace, love, and understanding
We've got the feelings that you need
Take back control, be happy
(Be happy)
(Welcome to the DCC)
(Be happy)

Welcome to the DCC, Dead Club City
You can live your perfect life
Wake up in the DCC, Dead Club City
All the heaven, all the time

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Overcome

I don't wanna fight
My money's in a bag in the back for you
The future's overdue
Yeah, I know that
Turn the engine on
Our song blaring out a dead radio
Singing "I need to know"
No turning back

I've been thinkin', babe, maybe you're right
When you said the pain weathers in time
We're just waitin' for a change to follow
We don't always get all that we want
Redefine my pain to something more
And we shall overcome as we've done before

Scrolling through a life I barely recognised from a hotel room
Took in the lonely view
Got unattached (hey)
Bringer of the calm
Your arms wrapped around when the fever took
Thought I was gone for good
You brought me back (back, back)

I've been thinkin', babe, maybe you're right
When you said the pain weathers in time
We're just waitin' for a change to follow
We don't always get all that we want
Redefine the pain to something more
And we shall overcome as we've done before (oh)

It's when we lean in, into the moment
It's when we're reachin' through the divide
It's when we begin feelin' the open
It's when the stranger's fallen behind
When we shake off the darkness and harness the light

I've been thinkin' babe, maybe you're right
When you said the pain weathers in time
We're just waitin' for a change to follow
We don't always get all that we want
Redefine the pain to something more
And we shall overcome as we've done before
And we shall overcome as we've done before
And we shall overcome as we've done before

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Tomorrow Is Closed

Oh, it's too late
Come watch the waste
Dirty English sky
It's washin' me away
Open my lungs
I feel the Gods
How it tries to kill me
It's stingin'

Now you know we're all the same
Who have you been left to blame?
Everlasting summer again
It's all we've got left
It's all we've got

So here's your last kiss
Won't wanna miss this
Only piece of heaven I ever had
No, I don't think it's for nothin'
But I hope someday we're gonna get it back

Cover our eyes
It feels so nice
Lie on mornin' TV
It's easy

Say the wrong things the right way
Takes you to the highest place
It's time to embrace the answer
It's all we've got left
It's all we've got

So here's your last kiss
Won't wanna miss this
Only piece of heaven I ever had
No, I don't think it's for nothin'
But I hope someday we're gonna get it back

La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la

Tomorrow is closed
There's no future anymore
We burned it all down, down to the ground
Oh, I saw it written on the bathroom wall
I've lost my place, we all have
But I hope someday we're gonna get it back

So here's your last kiss
Won't wanna miss this
Only piece of heaven I ever had
We're all sinking, you're gonna feel it
We're all reaching out to find another hand
No, I don't think it's for nothin'
But I hope someday we're gonna get it back

La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la

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Keeping You Around

Your lips want anyone else
Mine taste like everyone else
Oh, that's a tragedy
Try not to pity myself
You fall back into yourself
Oh, what a mess we're in

Slow down, show me
Tell me how a modern human should be
It's so easy
You're so pretty when you lie to me
But how much blame can we take, babe? Oh
When all our friends are so shady

Your lips want anyone else
Mine taste like everyone else
Oh, that's a tragedy
Try not to pity myself
You fall back into yourself
Oh, what a mess we're in
I've got more hope of killing war
Or seeing sound, ah
Than I've got of keeping you around
Of keeping you around, of keeping you around

Dead club, so low
So good at pretending it's fun though
Head f*ck, won't go
So tired of being tired, you know
I wish I could make it easy, oh
I'm still a broken machine, babe

Your lips want anyone else
Mine taste like everyone else
Oh, that's a tragedy
Try not to pity myself
You fall back into yourself
Oh, what a mess we're in
I've got more hope of killing war
Or seeing sound, ah
Than I've got of keeping you around
Of keeping you around, of keeping you around

Build something up just to knock it down
Live a quiet life in a quiet town
Maybe everyone will forget me now
Could we just start over?
Build something up just to knock it down
Live a quiet life in a quiet town
Maybe everyone will forget me now
Could we just start over?

Your lips want anyone else
Mine taste like everyone else
Oh, that's a tragedy
Try not to pity myself
You fall back into yourself
Oh, what a mess we're in
I've got more hope of killing war
Or seeing sound, ah
Than I've got of keeping you around
Of keeping you around, of keeping you around

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City Haunts

City haunts been hauntin' me
Changes keep draggin' me
Sleazeballs eyeballin' me for too long

Hackney prick askin' for a light
They need me in the bathroom, okay
Sold a dream, I was circlin' down the drain (yeah)
It's your money, girl, or it's your lust
My body's just run out of space
If they lie it for certain got displaced

City haunts been hauntin' me, ah-ah-ah
Changes keep draggin' me, ah-ah-ah
Sleazeballs eyeballin' me for too long (yeah)

Why don't ya just fade into the night?
I've got the embassy on the phone
Best believe that you're so damn good for the soul
And it's a cruel part of town, honey
One more round and we're gone

City haunts been hauntin' me, ah-ah-ah
Changes keep draggin' me, ah-ah-ah
Sleazeballs eyeballin' me for too long (yeah)

Can you do that thing to me? Ah-ah-ah
Sweet song, yeah, sing to me, ah-ah-ah
'Cause you're so hella fine, a common mind around here
Around here

City haunts been hauntin' me, ah-ah-ah
Changes keep draggin' me, ah-ah-ah
Sleazeballs eyeballin' me for too long

Can you do that thing to me? Ah-ah-ah
Sweet song, yeah, sing to me, ah-ah-ah
'Cause you're so hella fine, a common mind around here
Around here

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Do You Love Me Yet?

Another zero to sell me off
Negotiate with the universe
To gain some extra privilege
And make you good in the image

Hollywood chic, drink my pride
And I'll be flavor of the week, I'll get inside
Pick up the award for best rock act, apart from that
And that and that and that

Do you love me yet?
I'll make myself a fool for you
Do you love me yet?
Just tell me what I've gotta do
Do you love me yet?
Do you promise I'll be healin' soon?

Oh, if I can stop f*cking around
I'll be worth a fortune
Do you love me yet?

Exploit a fan base and call it love
Be controversial but just enough
It sounds kinda like ELO
Get sued but you'll meet a hero, hey, yeah

Holdin' me up, and I'm divine
Before a culture takes a turn, eats me alive
Pick up the award for best rock act, apart from that
And that and that and that

Do you love me yet?
I'll make myself a fool for you
Do you love me yet?
Just tell me what I've gotta do, oh
Do you love me yet?
Do you promise I'll be healin' soon?

Oh, if I can stop f*cking around
I'll be worth a fortune, yeah
If I stop f*cking around
I'll be worth a fortune
Do you love me yet?
Oh, oh

Let me in the world above
If there's nothin' on me
If there's nothin' on me
What's left when I'm gone?
Your life just isn't long enough
Don't stop, give it to me
Don't stop, give it to me
I want it all, I

Do you love me yet?
I'll make myself a fool for you
Do you love me yet?
Just tell me what I've gotta do
Do you love me yet?
Do you promise I'll be healin' soon?

Oh, if I can stop f*cking around
I'll be worth a fortune, yeah
If I stop f*cking around
I'll be worth a fortune
Do you love me yet?
Oh, yeah

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Members Only

I've been hearing this all my life
Sorry, sir, this is members only
Could you please make your way outside?
You can pick up your stuff in the mornin'

Saw it online, started to blind your heart
Now it's enshrined, given in to the dark

Daylight over, roll up, lonely
Ain't I told ya? Members only
And everybody suddenly
"You've got to let it go"

I don't wanna play politics
Sorry, miss, this is members only
I could swear I was on a list
Saw your face in the paper with a warnin'

On the same side all of my life, what gives?
Tolerance dies when it's performative

Daylight over, roll up, lonely
Ain't I told ya? Members only
And everybody suddenly
"You've got to let it go"

Daylight over, roll up, lonely
Ain't I told ya? Members only
And everybody suddenly
"You've got to let it go"
And everybody suddenly
"You've got to let it go"

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Green Eyes :: Siena

I swear it's true
The last thing I expected was to fall for you
What were we to do?
Just two imperfect pieces pullin' at the glue
Sometimes it's hard to remember
What we liked about this place
And I, I, I really don't want to think
It's the reason I stay

I've waited so long for someone like you to come along
Oh, what I would give, give for one kiss on your open mouth
Green, your eyes are so green
So emerald green, Siena dream
So I'll hold it all down
I hang around 'til you come around, you come around

Our love was smoke
You were swimmin' in my mind before you told me so
How was I to know?
It is time to get unwind and I'd be yours alone
Sometimes when we lied together
I could die and make my peace
'Cause I, I, I'll love you forever, you know
And we're gonna beat this thing

I've waited so long for someone like you to come along
Oh, what I would give, give for one kiss on your open mouth
Green, your eyes are so green
So emerald green, Siena dream
So I'll hold it all down
I hang around 'til you come around, you come around
You come around
You come around

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Foreign Language

Sometimes I don't understand you
Same road, just different direction
Same note, but different vibration
I've gotta admit, you're not all it seems
You've got planets in your eyes
Guess it's not my thing
But you make it look alright

(Sometimes I don't understand you)

And I know that we've been so tired lately
Want a change
And like those movies from the old days
You've been making us watch
Well, it's a foreign language to me, baby
But I love hearing you talk

I'm intoxicated by you
Day drunk, hit the double feature
A "life sucks then you die" t-shirt
And a stolen kiss
That's not all you need
I've seen the look in your eye
L'Avventura dream (L'Avventura dream)
I hear it call you in the night

(Sometimes I don't understand you)

And I know that we've been so tired lately
Want a change
And like those movies from the old days
You've been making us watch
Well, it's a foreign language to me, baby
But I love hearing you talk

And I know that we've been so tired lately
Want a change
And like those movies from the old days
You've been making us watch
Well, it's a foreign language to me, baby
But I love hearing you talk

And I know that we've been so tired lately
And I know that you've been looking for a new way to, to make the world stop
Well, it's a foreign language to me, baby
But I love hearing you talk

It's a foreign language to me, baby
But I love hearing you talk

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Talking To Myself

I'm just talking, talking, talking to myself again
Yeah, now I'm walking, walking, walking by myself again
My heart's still beating, beating for you now and then, yeah
But I'm back eating, eating, eating all alone again

Things were getting way too heavy
I couldn't carry it the same
It could've been, I wasn't ready
But maybe I'm just passing blame
Someone calls on the telephone
Where's the single for every man and for every home?
Maybe if I'd tried
A little harder, turned off the news, yeah
Things could have been right
But I don't know, maybe none of those things

I'm just talking, talking, talking to myself again
Yeah, now I'm walking, walking, walking by myself again
My heart's still beating, beating for you now and then, yeah
But I'm back eating, eating, eating all alone again

Maybe I could see it coming
But ego gets the truth to bend
And now the zero equals nothing
I guess the world forgot to end, mm
Someone's cause on the megaphone
Maybe if I paid more attention, I'd have seen my own
You don't love me tonight
But I don't know, maybe none of those things

I'm just talking, talking, talking to myself again
Yeah, now I'm walking, walking, walking by myself again
My heart's still beating, beating for you now and then, yeah
But I'm back eating, eating, eating all alone again, ah

Done it before, guess it'll work out fine
Been here before, it's gonna be alright
Done it before, guess it'll work out fine
Been here before, it's gonna be alright

I'm just talking, talking, talking to myself again
Yeah, now I'm walking, walking, walking by myself again
My heart's still beating, beating for you now and then, yeah
But I'm back eating, eating, eating all alone again, hey, hey

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Pop The Balloon

Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City

Eat up the clouds every night
Never really had a choice
Read the forum, says you'll die
Yours sincerely, incel boy

Find a dream to gentrify
Choose a line to disappear
Pick a fear to advertise
God is quite a cute idea

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City

Crypto FOMO kicking in
Create chaos by design
Tell me 'who built the pyramids' scheme?
So good to be so online

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City

But who am I to chastise you?
Yeah, who am I to say it when I'm guilty of it too?
Mm, yeah, who am I for judging you?
Yeah, who am I to say it, when I play my songs for you?

We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away
We're gonna shed off the weight and watch it all float away

Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City
Blow up the moon
Pop the balloon
Do it for you
Kill the Dead Club City