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Artist: ALTJ
Suggested Track: Breezeblocks

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She may contain the urge to run away
But hold her down with soggy clothes
And breezeblocks
Cetirizine, your fever's gripped me again
Never kisses, all you ever send are fullstops

Do you know where the wilds things go
They go along to take your honey
Break down, now weep, build up, breakfast now
Let's eat my love, my love, my love

Muscle to muscle and toe to toe
The fear has gripped me but here I go
My heart sinks as I jump up
Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut

Do you know where the wilds things go
They go along to take your honey
Break down, now weep, build up, breakfast now
Let's eat my love, my love, my love

She bruises, coughs, she splutters, pistol shots
But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks
She's morphine, queen of my vaccine my love, my love

Muscle to muscle and toe to toe
The fear has gripped me but here I go
My heart sinks as I jump up
Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut

She may contain the urge to run away
But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks
Germolene disinfect the scene my love, my love, my love
Please don't go, I love you so... My lovely

Please don't go, Please don't go
I love you so, I love you so
Please don't go, Please don't go
I love you so, I love you so
Please break my heart
(bis)
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Genius Artists
​​alt-J
alt-J is an English indie rock band that consists of vocalist and guitarist Joe Newman, keyboardist and bassist Gus Unger-Hamilton and drummer Thom Green. Gwil Sainsbury was the
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alt-J Lyrics
alt-J lyrics - 62 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Breezeblocks", "Intro", "In Cold Blood".
Genius Albums
This Is All Yours by ​​alt-J
The follow-up to their debut album, An Awesome Wave, was also their first as a trio. Bassist Gwil Sainsbury left the band before the recording of the album. Per keyboardist Gus
RELAXER by ​​alt-J
The first glimpse of Alt-J’s third album RELAXER came to light on March 3, 2017, after a video named ‘00110011 01110111 01110111’ (which translates to 3WW in binary) was uploaded
An Awesome Wave by ​​alt-J
The charm of Alt-J’s musical scatterbrain is that it works. On the surface, this is smart alt-pop, but Alt-J have messed with the formula just enough to make this a brilliantly
The Dream by ​​alt-J
The Dream is alt-J’s fourth studio album, the first since RELAXER in 2017, released on the 11th of February 2022. The Dream was created in the year following the band’s 2017-2018
REDUXER by ​​alt-J
Announced in July 2018, REDUXER is an album of remixes of alt-J’s 2017 album RELAXER. The band announced the album on Facebook: It’s no secret that we love and are influenced by
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Genius Lyrics
​​alt-J – Every Other Freckle
This is the third single off of alt-J (∆)’s 2014 album This Is All Yours. The song’s lustful theme and metaphors are reminiscent of “I Wanna Be Yours” by John Cooper Clarke.
​​alt-J – ❦ (Ripe & Ruin)
❦ This song is also known as “Interlude 1” or “Interlude I”. The fleuron character or “printer’s flower” (❦) used in the title of this song is used in book printing to divide
​​alt-J – Pleader
alt-J previewed this song for Q Magazine’s May 2017 issue, which described it as being inspired by the novel How Green Was My Valley. The song was partly recorded in Ely Cathedral
​​alt-J – Something Good
A perfect taster of why Alt-J won the fiery acclaim of the Mercury Prize, Something Good is a mix of ghostly harmonies, shuffling drums and folk guitars that should be pretentious.
​​alt-J – Taro
There are so many things rolled into Taro – mournful Dispensary Girl-esque post-rock strings and bells plus vocal tone, Indian pop straddling the bridge and a history lesson.
​​alt-J – In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is the second single off of Alt-J’s third full length LP, “Relaxer”. It premiered on March 29th, 2017 live on Mistajam’s show on BBC Radio One. The band introduced
​​alt-J – 3WW
3WW is the first single, and opening track, off of Alt-J’s third full length LP, Relaxer. The title ‘3WW’ stands for “3 worn words”. This song’s teaser uses imagery and scenery
​​alt-J – Tessellate
In which the ultimate Shorty Said soundalikes roll on with Tessellate, the most Devendra Banhart of all Alt-J songs. Doesn’t matter though, because its piano lollop is as
​​alt-J – Fitzpleasure
“Fitzpleasure,” the album’s most frenetic and even schizophrenic composition, jumps between Gregorian chant to Afropop-tinged dubstep to ethereal electronica yet never feels
​​alt-J – Matilda
Named after Natalie Portman’s character in Leon: The Professional, the name of the song follows the English spelling rather than the French spelling of “Mathilda” used in the film
​​alt-J – Get Better
The sixth track and second single off of alt-J’s 2022 album “The Dream,” Get Better was first teased on a new Instagram account “getbetter_altj” with pixelated-game style posts.
​​alt-J – 353
A song alt-J performed at the BBC Maida Vale studio in west London as part of a longer session in 2011. Some of the lyrics come from 1998 hit ‘Kiss Me’ by Sixpence None the
​​alt-J – Delta
[Verse] / Force fields in the delta / I'm not a praying man, but I'll kneel to that / Force fields in the delta / I'm not a praying man, but I'll kneel to that / Force fields in
​​alt-J – Dissolve Me
“Dissolve Me” betrays a jazz influence in the way it meanders in a manner that most indie bands cannot manage. The name “dissolve me” may be a reference to drug use, but also a
​​alt-J – Nara
The third track on This Is All Yours, Nara is the second song in the three-part named after the Japanese city. The song is about a gay man wanting to marry. It was written around
​​alt-J – Adeline
alt-J introduced this song on Twitter as a Tasmanian devil falls in love with a woman as he watches her swim. The song describes his feelings toward her as well as his
​​alt-J – Bloodflood Pt. II
Pt. II is a follow-up to the song “Bloodflood” featured on their first studio album, An Awesome Wave. Though the original “Bloodflood” is about the adrenaline-filled “feeling you
​​alt-J – Choice Kingdom
“Choice Kingdom” is an ode to their home country of England, with a typical ∆ spin on it of course. This is evidenced by the title of the interlude before this track, “❦ (Garden
​​alt-J – Bane
“Bane” is an intense, moody trip which features a classical choir lamenting about selling one’s soul and quoting Jesus during his crucifixion. Naturally, its subject matter is… a
​​alt-J – Philadelphia
“Philadelphia is a story about the demise of a person. They’re so discombobulated, they don’t know that they’re dying; but, they’re sort of having flashbacks to their life before
​​alt-J – Portrait
‘Portrait’ was recorded under the FILMS moniker, and is the earliest (pre-) alt-J recording out there. The track has a far greater rock influence, but it just isn’t in the same
​​alt-J – Hard Drive Gold
“Hard Drive Gold” is a teenager’s juvenile fantasy of becoming an overnight millionaire by trading cryptocurrency. alt-J describe the song as “tongue-in-cheek”. The track dropped
​​alt-J – Happier When You’re Gone
[Verse 1] / "Joe, Joe, Joe / Only fuck-ups need clean starts" / I scream as you come my way / (I'm happier when you're gone) / [Verse 2] / Joe, Joe, Joe / The chime of loves
​​alt-J – Pusher
“Pusher” is a stripped-down acoustic number about love, loss and loneliness. Its central idea is that people are either pushers or pullers, and a successful relationship needs both
​​alt-J – Leon
“Leon” goes a little further back into new wave and post-punk, which makes it stand out more than any other song Alt-J have previously abandoned. Just like “Matilda”, the lyrics
​​alt-J – Last Year
A tranquil song in two parts that tells the story of the narrator’s “Last Year”, which was both the year before this one and and also the last year of his life. The first part is a
​​alt-J – Lovely Day
This song is a hidden track on ∆ (Alt-J)’s second album This Is All Yours. It is a cover of “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers.
​​alt-J (Ft. Mountain Man) – Buffalo
Written for the soundtrack of Silver Linings Playbook and featuring Mountain Man (best known for backing Feist), “Buffalo” is a beautiful track that many agree showcases all of the
​​alt-J – The Actor
What would it be like to have been John Belushi’s coke dealer? “The Actor” imagines an answer to that question, imagining him as an inexperienced actor trying to realise his Dream
​​alt-J – Bloodflood
Bloodflood, about being flooded with fear, is the source for the name of the album (An Awesome Wave). This lyric is an embodiment of the record, evoking the concept of being
​​alt-J – Powders
“Powders” ends The Dream on a positive note. Absent are the murders and tragedies that permeate the album. Instead, it’s a meet-cute between a boy and girl. While the song is said
​​alt-J – Losing My Mind
[Verse 1] / Oh, legacy is a picture of me / On holiday in the late seventies / Drying after swimming, my father calls to me (Look over your shoulder) / Sunny disposition at the end
​​alt-J – Arrival in Nara
The quiet, acoustic guitar-driven second track on This Is All Yours, “Arrival in Nara” is about a girl who is drowning, who eventually starts singing to die doing what she loved.
​​alt-J (Ft. PJ Sin Suela) – Pleader (Trooko Version)
It was a pleasure to work on this remix. After doing my research and finding out that the inspiration of the song is based on a book called “How Green Was My Valley” everything
​​alt-J – Breezeblocks
This is song from ∆’s (pronounced: Alt-J) debut album, An Awesome Wave. “Breezeblocks” tells the story of a desperate man’s attempts to win over his love’s affections again as she
​​alt-J – Leaving Nara
The final track on This Is All Yours, excluding the hidden track after it, this song is a short continuation of Nara, talking about the same themes and referring back to the
​​alt-J – Hit Me Like That Snare
alt-J first previewed Hit Me Like That Snare for Q Magazine, which called it “an atypically filthy psychedelic grind”. Joe Newman explained that it’s “about a person who goes to a
​​alt-J – Breezeblocks (Tinlicker Remix)
(Please don't go, please don't go) / She may contain the urge to run away / But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks / Cetirizene, your fever’s gripped me again
​​alt-J – The Gospel of John Hurt
Warning: annotations contain spoilers for the film Alien, and content that some readers may find disturbing (graphic violence, gore) Like “Matilda”, “The Gospel of John Hurt” was
​​alt-J – Walk a Mile
Seemingly a story of reconciliation between two lovers, “Walk a Mile” is full of insinuations that it is actually a tale of violent revenge. This ties it in to The Dream’s
​​alt-J (Ft. Pusha T) – In Cold Blood (Twin Shadow Version)
alt-J collaborated with Pusha T and Twin Shadow on a remix of their song In Cold Blood. The remix was announced via a special Snapchat filter and then released shortly after a live
​​alt-J – Intro (This Is All Yours)
The first song on This Is All Yours, “Intro” immediately starts the album with a bang. The track begins with vocal samples, after which the guitars come in and Joe Newman sings
​​alt-J (Ft. HEX & Paigey Cakey) – Adeline (ADP Version)
[Intro: Joe Newman] / Ooh, my Adeline / Ooh, down in Tasmania / [Verse 1: HEX] / Oh, yeah / Mask on your face, masquerade, ball / Show what’s beneath, see the smoke, when you leave
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