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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

POSITIVE TENSION

He said
"You're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch"

He said
"You're just as boring as everyone else"
Nothing ever happens…

Things replace things
Days replace days
Things replace things

She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my claws"
She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my claws"
She said
"I'm going to use my teeth and my breasts"
I'm gonna make it happen
She said

"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot run or ever, ever escape

"Run run run, run run run"
You cannot run or ever hide it away

"Run run run, run run run"
Something glorious is about to happen

"Run run run, run run run"
The reckoning

They go
"You're just as boring as everyone else
When you tut and you moan
And you squeal and you squelch"
They go
"You're just as boring as everyone else"
Stuck past-timing

The fear and the yearning
The fear and the consumption
The fear and the yearning
It's gonna to eat you alive
They go...

"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot hide or ever, ever escape

"Run run run, run run run"
And you cannot hide or ever put it away

"Run run run, run run run"
Something glorious is about to happen

"Run run run, run run run"
The reckoning

They go...
They say...
They go...
They say...
They go...

Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?

Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
(success, success, success is over)
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
(success, success, success is over)
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless!?

Play it cool boy
Play it cool boy
Play it cool

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