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Silent Alarm by Bloc Party

Recorded: 2004
Label: Wichita
Songwriter(s): Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, Kele Okereke, Matt Tong
Producer: Paul Epworth

LIKE EATING GLASS

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It's so cold in this house
Open mouth swallowing us
The children sent home from school
Will not stop crying

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And I know that you're busy
Do I know that you care
You got your finger on the pulse
You got your eyes everywhere
And it hurts all the time
When you don't return my calls
And you haven't got the time
To remember how it was

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It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house

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I can't eat, I can't sleep
I can't sleep, I can't dream
An aversion to light
Got a fear of the ocean

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Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating…

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It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this house
It's so cold in this bed

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Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating glass
Like drinking poison
Like eating…

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Come and show me how
How it was…

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We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the walls again
We've got crosses on our eyes
Been walking into the furniture
We've got crosses on our eyes
For richer
For poorer
For better
For worse
We've got crosses on our eyes
We've been walking into the furniture

created by Alexi Garcia - AlxCia ®2019

All lyrics by Bloc Party. Photography by Ness Sherry, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Perry Curties, Yuki Shingai, Phil Armson. Illustrations by Linsey Tulley, Gordon Moakes. Web design based on art direction by: Rob Crane at Work (2007-2008),

Bloc Party & Gordon Moakes (2012-2013), Big Active & Kele Okereke (2016). DISCLAIMER: this website was created for informational purposes only and is not being monetised. All content and design was inspired by and taken from the art direction of albums, singles and EP's by Bloc Party. 

Bloc Party are Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Matt Tong, Gordon Moakes, Louise Bartle, Justin Harris

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