Feeder

Tangerine

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Tangerine, turning green
Cellophane, window pane
Socialise, paralyed
Plastic faces suck me dry

[Prechorus:]
Tangerine, tangerine
Tangerine, tangerine

[Chorus:]
I know, it's sad
Life's just a piece of fruit
Touch down, new ground
Stop living on the moon

[Repeat chorus]

Twenty-eight, suffocate
Take a ride, see me fly
Detonate, feel it break
See myself disintegrate

[Prechorus]

[Chorus x2]

[Bridge:]
See it as I climb
The rains burns in my eyes
So catch me as I fall
Away...

[Prechorus]

[Chorus x2]

[Prechorus]

[Chorus x2]
I know it's sad

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black_cow_of_death On Jan 14, 2002

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2002-01-14 03:42:12

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by sdunlop

23y ago

Meh?

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by Rune

22y ago

This is the -only- feeder song ive heard and not loved.

Its like a scar on their otherwise flawless music.

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by interpret

19y ago

This song is very good musically but yes lyrically just doesnt quite make it.

Grant wrote it as a tongue in cheek sort of song on Feeders situation when they were struggling to get noticed and seeing other bands like Skunk Anansie, Smashing Pumpkins just become so elevated in their music. Tangerine was obviously his way of explaining how he saw the band maybe compared to the other bands they were musically genered too. They were the tangerine, the fruit turning green, the off fruit amongst the lot.Possibly?

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