Barbaric
by Blur

Album: The Ballad of Darren (2023)
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  • Ah, who blinks first
    You're gonna win
    The fallen doves of lovers' vows
    In the world all around us
    And I'd like if you've got the time
    To talk to you about
    What this breakup has done to me

    I have lost the feeling that I thought I'd never lose
    Now where am I going?
    At what cost, the feeling that I thought I'd never lose?
    It is barbaric

    Ah, you can't play to every taste
    The powder keg of common cause
    All of us carry trauma
    And in lieu of an explanation
    I will pour oil from the cup
    On the pyre of abdication

    You have lost the feeling that you thought you'd never lose
    Now where are you going, darling?
    At what cost the feeling that you thought you'd never lose?
    And it is barbaric

    Empty grove, winter darkness
    We're taking down the scaffolds very soon
    Crow dappled the lonely baubles on the plane tree
    The can of soup and heating up to ten
    Which leads me to the part
    Where we agreed on different dreams

    And that we'd lost the feeling that we thought we'd never lose
    Now where are we going?
    At what cost the feelings that we thought we'd never lose?
    It is barbaric

    We have lost the feeling that we thought we'd never lose
    Now where are we going?
    We have lost the feeling that we thought we'd never lose
    And it is barbaric, darling

    We have lost the feeling that we thought we'd never lose (at what cost?)
    Now where are we going?
    We have lost the feeling that we thought we'd never lose
    It is barbaric Writer/s: Damon Albarn, David Rowntree, Graham Coxon, Steven James
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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