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Artist: The Killers
Suggested Track: Mr.Brightside

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Coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now
Let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
And taking control

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside

I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
(It was only a kiss), it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now
Let me go
'Cause I just can't look, it's killing me
And taking control

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibi
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside

I never
I never
I never
I never
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The Killers
Founded by Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning in Las Vegas, 2001, The Killers have become arguably the most successful rock band from Nevada. After their hit 2004 debut album Hot
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The Killers lyrics - 141 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Mr Brightside", "Human", "Read My Mind".
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The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful
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The Killers – Sweet Talk
[Verse 1] / Lift me up on my honor, take me over this spell / Get this weight off my shoulders, I've carried it well / Loose these shackles of pressure, shake me out of these
The Killers – When the Dreams Run Dry
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The Killers – Spirit
[Verse 1] / Wiped out, sucking on the fumes of a long-gone flame / Can you leverage love? Can you process pain? / It grabs you by the night / My dreams are big and bathing in light
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There’s no song in the Killers' back catalogue that better captures their synth-rock tag. “Bones” is the second single from the record, and it’s an absolutely massive romp. Brandon
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The Killers – Desperate Things
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The Killers – Sleepwalker
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The Killers – Sam's Town
Flowers bemoans lost Americana as he thinks about growing up in a small town with big ambitions that the people around him seemed to doubt. The opening song of the album, “Sam’s
The Killers – Shot at the Night
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The Killers – Miss Atomic Bomb
Brandon Flowers told the backstory of the song to NME: “It’s a beautiful picture of this woman in the desert. I think she’s still alive. I met Bernie Taupin for the first time and
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“Terrible Thing” is the third song from The Killers' seventh album Pressure Machine. The song centers on a gay teenager who’s contemplating suicide. This song just as the others in
The Killers – Just Another Girl
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The Killers (Ft. ​k.d. lang) – Lightning Fields
[Verse 1: Brandon Flowers] / Last night I saw you dressed in white / Nothing around you / You were standing in the lightning field of love / You were waiting for the lightning to
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[Verse 1] / A little birdie whispered in my ear / You've been cooking up a world of fear / Put your hands in things you shouldn't have known / He was riding in the danger zone
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Imploding the Mirage by The Killers
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Live from the Royal Albert Hall by The Killers
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