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About to Die Lyrics by Dirty Projectors

Swing Lo Magellan (Japanese Version)

2012

[Verse 1]
If the search has been long and futile and brutal
And if you squint trying to recollect the bosom
Of your hoodlum love (Hey, baby)
You reach out and into the absence and gasping
The vastness grabs you like an alien embrace
Your face to its face
No end and neither beginning, you're spinning
You're breathless, orbiting a dark and hateful star
An evil world
[Chorus]
Where would I ever be without you?
How could I hope to seize the tablet of values and redact it?
Foolish I know, but I'm about to die
About to die
About to die
About to die
[Verse 2]
Your life must surely be ending and trembling
You realize you never lived a day at all (Wait)
And it's all your fault (Wow)
It all seems unspeakably vile and while
You retch the memory of all you understood
The vandal laughs into his hood
[Chorus]
Where would I ever be without you?
How could I hope to seize the tablet of values and redact 'em?
Foolish I know, but I'm about to die
About to die
About to die
About to die
[Bridge]
Look there, the goblins dressed up like a wound
Mutants all vagrant and hateful
Look there, the mirror a zombie stands staring
Vacant and glaring pronouncing your name
As you're saying
About to die
About, about to die
[Chorus]
Where would I ever be without you? (No fucking clue)
How could I hope to seize the tablet of values and redact it?
Foolish I know, but I'm about to die
About to die
About to die
About to die
[Outro]
About to die
About to die
About, about, about
You're already dead
You're already dead
You're already dead
But you're about to die
Damn, you got it
All right, awesome
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Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors

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"About to Die" appears on "Swing Lo Magellan (Japanese Version)" in 2012.

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