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I Don't Want to Be the One (Live Four) Lyrics

And the tiredness is still here
And the tiredness is still real
And the tiredness

I don't want to be the one [repeated]
To find out why they came
To play their stupid vicious games
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one
To spend my life looking back
To see the skies turn black
I don't want to be the one
I don't want to be the one

I don't want to be the one [repeated]

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cynothoglys On Jul 26, 2006

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Cover art for I Don't Want to Be the One (Live Four) lyrics by Coil

by Cynothoglys

16y ago

The lyrics seem, pretty straightforwardly really, to be a lament about being "the one" who, by means of some discovery, heralds the coming of some horrible force; what that force is, human or alien or supernatural, is, however, extremely vague, as is what "they" shall do, or have done, on arrival.

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