Painful Like

Austra

Hiding in the morning light
You can come here anytime
Ride past their prying eyes
You can come here anytime

In the light I'm falling
Held in the eye of night
Malice keeps calling
Your palms keep on calming

You are carried
You are carried

It was in the morning light
Bruised skin on top of mine
Give me the creeps of painful like
I held you in my underwear
Give me the creeps of painful like
Someone might see, but I don't care

We don't have to marry
In the light I bet it all
'Cause in this town we'll bury
All the minds that clench too tight

You are carried
You are carried

Ooh, we don't have to marry
In the light I bet it all
And in this town we'll bury
All the minds that clench too tight

You are carried
You are carried

You are carried
You are carried

You are carried
You are carried

You are carried
You are carried


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Painful Like Lyrics as written by Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Dorian Wolf Thornton

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    so damn beautiful. such ominously dark romance. she sounds like some caustic mix of florence welch and... herself. "olympia" is a treasure.

    paedophageplaygroundon October 07, 2013   Link

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