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Artist: The Shins
Canonical path: /the-shins/dead-alive
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Dead Alive
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Dead Alive
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On a walk in a fragile state
Weird angle coming over the wire
Back home we got girls in braids
And they're on roller skates
And they roll any way they like
From my town I can always look down
Down from my nose to the fish in the barrels
But in the wiles of human life
There are pity nights and ray gentle lights
So tonight, dance and cry
The dead alive
Monuments were awfully dense
I flew by in a daze on the freeway
You can whine of our different times
But me, I'm fine with the mirrors this far away
With pills in our bodies to function
Rain gonna fall on the hills where we hide
Wash the blood and the guts to the ocean
Leave the pike making everything alright
So tonight, dance and cry
The dead alive
So tonight, dance and cry
The dead alive
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