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Certain Songs Lyrics by Johnny Foreigner

Johnny Foreigner vs Everything (Double 12'’ Vynile Extended Version)

2011

[Verse 1]
When you sleep, we are in your head
Picking memories from the places you regret
Anthems cursed, so when we're dead
Follow the certain songs that take her place instead

[Refrain]
Certain songs are cursed
Certain songs are cursed

[Verse 2]
It should break your heart
He still dances with you sometimes
Still throws his arms around you when
Certain songs are playing
How you try to play along
But your steps are wrong
And all your friends took up and sat and conversed
While you just blushed and felt the worst

[Refrain]
Certain songs are cursed
Certain songs are cursed

[Outro]
Certain songs are cursed, they hang out uninvited in your head. It's nothing to do with conscience, thinking you. There's who you want slash try to be, and then there's who you really are, and these are the songs that make the wedge that splits the two and shows you the difference. They’ll remind, with pin-sharp accuracy, of the smell of ex-lovers, the laughter of old friends, of lost atmospheres and environments and scenery and pointless detail, and every time you hear them by chance (and it’s always by chance) it’s akin to a needle, scratching at a part of your soul that scientists have yet to document. There’s nothing you can do but relax; get old and build a tolerance, and in a few years' time, when you’re sitting in a bar or a club or around a friend's kitchen, and some playlist exposes those hideously overfamiliar opening daggers, you’ll be able to quell those emotions within the briefest of facial tics and no one around you need ever know that, out of all the Postal Service and Notwist and Owls you listened to that summer, double Bright Eyes albums, Hole B-side compilations, repeated plays of "Goodbye Sky Harbor", you had your worst ever heartbreak to fucking "Run" by fucking Snow Patrol
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Read the complete lyrics to "Certain Songs" by Johnny Foreigner from the album "Johnny Foreigner vs Everything (Double 12'’ Vynile Extended Version)" in 2011. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Rock.

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"Certain Songs" appears on "Johnny Foreigner vs Everything (Double 12'’ Vynile Extended Version)" in 2011.

Visit the Johnny Foreigner artist page at /artist/johnny-foreigner for biography, popular tracks, and links to more lyric pages.

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