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The National – Fake Empire
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The opening track of The National’s 2007 opus, “Fake Empire” describes the hedonism and escapism of a culture lost to excess in the wake of its diminishing status as a world
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The National – Fake Empire (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Stay out super late tonight / Picking apples, making pies / Put a little something in our lemonade / And take it with us / [Chorus] / We're half awake in a fake empire
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The National – Fake Empire (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Verse 1] / Stay out super late tonight / Picking apples, making pies / Put a little something in our lemonade / And take it with us / [Chorus] / We're half awake in a fake empire
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The National – Fake Empire (Live)
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Stay out super late tonight / Picking apples, making pies / Put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us / We're half awake in a fake empire / We're half awake in a
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The National – Fake Empire Samples
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See all of “Fake Empire” by The National’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Ryan Lewis – Fake Empire
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Oct 20, 2010 ... Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love ...
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Molly Tuttle – Fake Empire
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Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies / Put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us / We're half awake in a fake empire / We're half awake in a
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Blackout Problems – The National
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[Verse 1] / I’ve been told / Life’s not a joke you should laugh about / Once you’re old / You’ll know what I’m talking about / But I won’t grow old / I smiled and I denied / I
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The National – Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Verse 1] / Leave your home / Change your name / Live alone / Eat your cake / [Chorus] / Vanderlyle crybaby cry / Oh, the water's a-risin', and still no surprisin' you / Vanderlyle
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Bigg Jus – Empire Is a Bitch (Fake Arab Spring Mix)
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The United States has a long history of not just overtly, but also covertly fomenting regime change around the globe. This is often through clandestine operations involving the CIA
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The National – Mistaken For Strangers (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / You have to do it running / But you do everything that they ask you to / 'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture / As long as you look far away / As long as
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The National – Ada (Live in Brussels)
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[Spoken, continued from previous track: Matt Berninger] / Just start it from the very beginning of the record / [Verse 1] / Ada, don't talk about reasons why you don't wanna talk
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The National – Start A War (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Refrain] / We expected something, something better than before / We expected something more / [Verse 1] / Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
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The National – Guest Room (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / They're gonna send us to prison for jerks / For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again / They're gonna send us to prison for jerks / [Chorus] / They'
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The National – Green Gloves (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Refrain] / Falling out of touch with all my / Friends are somewhere getting wasted / Hope they're staying glued together / I have arms for them / [Verse 1
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The National – Apartment Story (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on / La, la, la, la, la / Can you carry my drink? I have everything else / I can tie my tie all by myself
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The National – Turtleneck
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In an interview with USA TODAY, Matt Berninger described Turtleneck as a “physical reaction to” Donald Trump’s being elected as US president in 2016.
Berninger (and, to a less
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The National – Walk It Back (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Verse 1] / I'm always thinking about useless things / I'm always checking out / I'm always mothering myself to bits / I'm always checking out / [Pre-Chorus] / Forget it, nothing I
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The National – Brainy (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / I've been dragging around / From the end of your coat for two weeks / Everywhere you go is swirling / Everything you say has water under it / You know I keep your
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The National – Mistaken For Strangers
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“Mistaken for Strangers” is the second track on The National’s 2007 album, Boxer. It was the album’s first single. It is also the namesake of a 2013 documentary about the band
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The National – Squalor Victoria (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Clapping] / [Verse 1] / Underline everything, I'm a professional / In my beloved white shirt / Underline everything, I'm a professional / In my beloved white shirt / [
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The National – Racing Like A Pro (Live in Brussels)
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[Spoken, continued from previous track: Matt Berninger] / Like us! / [Audience Cheering] / [Verse 1] / You're pink, you're young, you're middle class / They say it doesn't matter
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The National – Slow Show (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Standing at the punch table, swallowing punch / Can't pay attention to the sound of anyone / A little more stupid, a little more scared / Every minute, more unprepared
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The National – Graceless (Live at Berkeley 9/24/18)
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[Verse 1] / Graceless / Is it dissolvable and tasteless? / You can't imagine how I hate this / I'm trying to baseless / Graceless / I'm trying, but I'm graceless / I don't have the
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The National – Don't Swallow the Cap (Live at Berkeley 9/24/18)
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[Spoken: Matt Berninger] / About the weather / [Verse 1] / Gold light breaks behind the houses / I don't see what's strange about this / Tiny bubbles hang above me / It's a sign
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The National – Light Years (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Spoken: Matt Berninger] / What's up? / Welcome back / Sorry it took us so long to come back again, if you weren't here last night / This is our dear friend Erin's last show with
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The National – Pink Rabbits (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Verse 1] / I couldn't find quiet, I went out in the rain / I was just soaking my head to unrattle my brain / Somebody said you disappeared in a crowd / I didn't understand then, I
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The National – Apartment Story (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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[Verse 1] / Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on / La, la, la, la, la / Can you carry my drink? I have everything else / I can tie my tie all by myself
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