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Artist: Gang of Youths
Suggested Track: Achilles Come Down

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Achilles
Achilles
Achilles come down, won't you
Get up off
Get up off the roof?

You're scaring us
And all of us
Some of us love you
Achilles, it's not much but there's proof

You crazy assed cosmonaut
Remember your virtue
Redemption lies plainly in truth

Just humour us
Achilles
Achilles come down
Won't you get up off
Get up off the roof

Achilles
Achilles
Achilles come down, won't you
Get up off
Get up off the roof?

The self is not so weightless
Nor whole and unbroken
Remember the pact of our youth

Where you go
I'm going
So jump and I'm jumping
Since there is no me without you

Soldier on
Achilles
Achilles come down
Won't you get up off
Get up off the roof?

Loathe the way they light candles in Rome
But love the sweet air of the votives
Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone
Engage with the pain as a motive

Today of all days
See

How the most dangerous thing is to love
How you will heal and you'll rise above

Achilles
Achilles
Achilles
Jump now
You are absent of cause
Or excuse

So self-indulgent
And self-referential
No audience could ever want you

You crave the applause
Yet hate the attention
Then miss it, your act is a ruse

It is empty, Achilles
So end it all now
It's a pointless resistance
For you

Achilles
Achilles
Just put down the bottle
Don't listen to what you've consumed

It's chaos, confusion
And wholly unworthy
Of feeding and it's wholly untrue

You may feel no purpose
Nor a point for existing
It's all just conjecture and gloom

And there may not be meaning
So find one and seize it
Do not waste your self on this roof

Hear those bells ring deep in the soul
Chiming away for a moment
Feel your breath course frankly below
See life as a worthy opponent

Today of all days
See

How the most dangerous thing is to love
How you will heal and you'll rise above
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
Ah, it's more courageous to overcome

You want the acclaim
The mother of mothers (it's not worth it Achilles)
More poignant than fame
Or the taste of another (don't listen Achilles)
But be real and just jump
You dense motherfucker (you're worth more, Achilles)
You will not be more
Than a rat in the gutter (so much more than a rat)
You want my opinion (no one asked your opinion)
My opinion you've got
You asked for my counsel (no one asked for your thoughts)
I gave you my thoughts
Be done with this now
And jump off the roof
Can you hear me Achilles?
I'm talking to you

I'm talking to you
I'm talking to you
I'm talking to you
Achilles come down
Achilles come down

Throw yourself into the unknown
With pace and a fury defiant
Clothe yourself in beauty untold
And see life as a means to a triumph
Today of all days
See

How the most dangerous thing is to love
How you will heal and you'll rise above
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
Ah, it's more courageous to overcome
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Gang of Youths
Founded in 2012, Gang of Youths is an Australian indie rock band currently residing in London. Their music falls into the alternative rock genre. The original members were
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Gang of Youths – Fear and Trembling
Named after the Soren Kierkegaard novel of the same name originally published in the 19th century, this opening track to the band’s sophomore album Go Farther In Lightness
Gang of Youths – ​unison
Gang of Youths briefly discussed the third song on their new EP, ‘unison’, on an Instagram post, shortly after its release. “[the EP] features unison, a song dave conceived in
Gang of Youths – ​in the wake of your leave
[Verse 1] / So as you canyoneered from our world upwards / And the angels took their place / I was the loser at your funeral / And no emotion conveyed / It was drawn out in vain
Gang of Youths – Kansas
[Verse 1] / Some of us think seldom in the night / Of goddamn horses and goddamn wires / It's in one ear and never sees the other side / Unsteadiness belies your tender years
Gang of Youths – Atlas Drowned
A powerful, anthemic belter and the second single from the album, “Atlas Drowned” explores singer Dave Le'aupepe’s dismissal of the objectivist theories put forward by Ayn Rand in
Gang of Youths – Achilles Come Down
Achilles was a Greek demigod who fought in the Trojan War, and the hero of Homer’s Iliad. In this song, the character of Achilles is standing on a rooftop, ready to kill himself
Gang of Youths – The Overpass
[Verse 1] / We're stranded at the lights / With extraordinary distance / Covered in a blanket / Of northern snow / I am your protection / The last line of defense / I'll try to
Gang of Youths – Le réel
[Instrumental]
Gang of Youths – ​returner
Dave admits that “all of the songs relate to my father in some way”, even the whimsical ‘Returner’ which he describes as the sound of comic opera “H.M.S. Pinafore on an acid trip
Gang of Youths – A Sudden Light
[Verse 1] / All our friends / Are dead and gone / There's men in our basement wearing our clothes / Your chest won't heal / What your blood won't kill / And same for myself / When
Gang of Youths – ​forbearance
[Verse 1] / It was a gracious old sunshine / But it was wasted on me / I was plastered and counting the cop cars out / Right in front of me / I was a troublesome young kid / I was
Gang of Youths – Magnolia
“Magnolia” recounts experiences of Gang of Youths singer Dave Leaupepe during a suicidal bender on June 3, 2014, as described in a Rolling Stone Australia article: Dave Leaupepe
Gang of Youths – Keep Me in the Open
A touching ballad that reflects on the breakdown of singer Dave Le'aupepe’s marriage to his ex-wife, whose battle with cancer is described in Gang of Youths' first record The
Gang of Youths – Vital Signs
[Verse 1] / Your body cold, but there's vital signs / And they picked your name out from the line / The sweetest thing assurance buys / Is the lesser deep and dark as our demise
Gang of Youths – ​goal of the century
The title “goal of the century” refers to Diego Maradona’s second goal in the 1968 FIFA World Cup Semifinal match vs England. It was preceded by Maradona’s Hand of God goal, just
Gang of Youths – ​tend the garden
[Verse 1] / I was young, it was the '60s, you see / I never wanted to be the chief of anything / So it was singing in the church for me / Behind the organ was as close as I'd ever
Gang of Youths – ​the angel of 8th ave.
The first release since their 2017 album Go Farther in Lightness and their subsequent move from Sydney to London, ‘the angel of 8th ave’ is characterised by the poetic, reflective
Gang of Youths – ​hand of god
[Verse 1] / The sea's changing / The wind's fading / And coalescing in a widescreen scope / Ah, Amen / Words fail me / The 'burbs hail me / But in a way that I am glad to go / Ah
Gang of Youths – ​brothers
[Verse 1] / Our father hid a lot of painful memories / A bunch of shit he never shared / But when he died, I went out looking for them / For all the things he never said / Thought
Gang of Youths – Le symbolique
[Instrumental]
Gang of Youths – Go Farther in Lightness
The second of four interludes on the record, and the only one that features vocals. Go Farther in Lightness’s title track deals with frontman Dave Le'aupepe “(feeling) alien” and
Gang of Youths – ​the kingdom is within you
…a tribute to the lives and legacy of “thousands and thousands” of Pasifika migrants, of which his father was one, who were trying to make their way in the world but were “fucked
Gang of Youths – ​spirit boy
[Verse 1: David Le'aupepe] / God died today / He left me in the cold / He stumbled down a path / He died upon his knees on / The way to the commode / [Verse 2: David Le'aupepe
Gang of Youths – ​you in everything
[Verse 1] / I prayed the day you passed, but the heavens didn't listen / So we held you 'til your dark skin dulled to fair / Went out to smoke a dart, finally get some time alone
Gang of Youths – Blood
[Verse 1] / Older brother, restless soul, lie down / Lie for a while with your ear against the earth / And you'll hear your sister sleep talking / Say, "Your hair is long but not
Gang of Youths – L'imaginaire
Frontman Dave Le'aupepe featured this instrumental track on Go Father in Lightness as a tribute to his father, a classically trained opera singer who raised him on “everyone from
Gang of Youths – ​the man himself
“the man himself” is a meditative yet hopeful exploration of grief following the loss of frontman Dave Le'aupepe’s father. He reflects on what it will look like to navigate the
Gang of Youths – Sjamboksa
[Verse 1] / Can I just fight for the winning side / And feel that I'm building a / Home and a life to behold till it's robbed from my sight? / Distill our days as we're moving on
Gang of Youths – Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane
A haunting seven-and-a-half-minute ballad that extends to nearly nine minutes if the preceding instrumental “L'imaginaire” is included. Frontman Dave Le'aupepe “recounts a
Gang of Youths – Evangelists
[Intro] / Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh
Gang of Youths – Still Unbeaten Life
[Verse 1] / Lo and behold my doubt / Ball away like cold / Under graceless light / Now and before I pass / Like some old returning ghost / Lend to me your hallowed gaze tonight / [
Gang of Youths – All My Friends
That's how it starts / We go back to your house / You check the charts / And start to figure it out / And if it's crowded, all the better / Because we know we're gonna be up late
Gang of Youths – Restraint & Release
Hey / Did the killer in your body, the intruder in our union, kill your rage? / Where's your sense of adventure? / Has the power and the danger been restrained? / I'm not asking
Gang of Youths – Poison Drum
[Verse 1] / And I'm not afraid of the man next door / He's calm and quiet with a heart of stone / He fires a fire away that'll kill us all / And I'm not moving to a halfway house
Gang of Youths – Radioface
When I go clear, holy god / You and the kids are coming with / But in my heart, the pioneer / Was treading on eggshells in the dark last year / You see those names? They'll decide
Gang of Youths – Knuckles White Dry
[Verse 1] / Deep in the breath of a carrier / Coughing up blood is the worst case scenario / No way in hell is this happening / To us, I don't care if it kills me / I promise you
Gang of Youths – What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?
[Verse 1] / This is the sound of a soul in tune / To a savage desire for a soul made new / It's a savage desire for a soul untamed / A definitive cry in the present age / [Pre-
Gang of Youths – Benevolence Riots
“Benevolence Riots” was only released on the deluxe edition of their album The Positions.
Mumford & Sons (Ft. Gang of Youths) – Blood (Live from Stockholm)
[Verse 1: Gang of Youths] / Older brother, restless soul, lie down / Lie for a while with your ear against the earth / And you'll hear your sister sleep-talking / Saying, "Your
Gang of Youths – ​asleep in the back
[Verse 1] / Were you crushed? / Did I rush you? / [Pre-Chorus] / All my time is yours / My twisted heart is yours / The faithless shit is yours / The shameless fits of love that
Gang of Youths – The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows
Discussing the track, frontman Dave Le’aupepe said: “This song came about after I struggled with writer’s block for a year, barely managing to etch out more than a single verse of
Gang of Youths – Let Me Down Easy
[Chorus] / You want someone to want you for who you are / I want someone to try, then let me down easy, easy tonight / Easy, easy tonight / [Verse 1] / Honey, it’s no secret that
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