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The Strokes
The Strokes


Background information
Origin New York City, United States
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Garage Rock Revival
Years active 1998—present
Label(s) RCA Records
Rough Trade Records
Associated acts Julian Casablancas
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Website Website
Members
Julian Casablancas
Nick Valensi
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Nikolai Fraiture
Fabrizio Moretti



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The Strokes Album


First Impressions Of Earth (2006)
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Some people think they're always right
Others are quiet and uptight
Others they seem so very nice nice nice nice (oh-ho)
Inside they might feel sad and wrong (oh no)

Twenty-nine different attributes
Only seven that you like
Twenty ways to see the world (oh-ho)
Twenty ways to start a fight (oh-ho)

Oh don't don't don't get out
So I can see the sunshine
I'll be waiting for you, baby
Cause I'm through
Sit me down
Shut me up
I'll calm down
And I'll get along with you

Men don't notice what they got
Women think of that a lot
One thousand ways to please your man (oh-ho)
And neither one requires a plan (I know)

And countless dire religions, too
It doesn't matter which to choose (oh no)
One stubborn way to turn your back (oh-ho)
I guess I've tried and I refuse (oh-ho)

Oh don't don't don't get out
So I can see the sunshine
I'll be waiting for you, baby
Cause I'm through
Sit me down
Shut me up
I'll calm down
And I'll get along with you
Alright

Shut me up
Shut me up

. . .



Everybody sees me
But it's not that easy
Standing in the light field
Standing in the light field
Waiting for some action
Waiting for some action

No but why won't you come over here

Why won't you come over here
We got a city to love
Why won't you come over here
We got a city to love

Oh time merges
We die so slowly
I know you miss the way I saw you
And cold
Yes I'm cold
You're so cold
You're so cold

Nobody can see me
Everything is too easy
Standing in the light field
Standing in the light field
Waiting for some actress
Waiting for some actress
To say why won't you come over here
Why won't you come over here
We got a city to love
Why won't you come over here
We got a city to love

Oh time lonesome
We die so swiftly

You never trust me
For a while it was nice but it's time to say bye
Oh cold
You're so cold
You're so cold
You're so cold

No no no no
Cold
You're so cold
You're so cold
You're so cold

Oh no no no no
Cold
You're so cold
You're so cold

. . .


Well I don't feel better
When I'm fucking around
And I don't write better
When I'm stuck in the ground
So don't teach me to listen
Cause I've already learned
Yeah the sun will be shining
And my children will burn

Oh the heart beats in its cage

I don't want what you want
I don't feel what you feel
See I'm stuck in a city
But I belong in a field

Yeah we got left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left

Now it's three in the morning and
You're eating alone

Oh the heart beats in its cage

All our friends they're laughing at us
All of those you loved, you mistrust
Help me, I'm just not quite myself
Look around there's no one else left
I went to the concert and I fought through the crowd
Cause I got too excited when I thought you were around

Oh, he gets left, left, left, left, left, left, left

I'm sorry you were thinking I would steal your fire
Oh the heart beats in its cage
Yes the heart beats in its cage

and the heart beats in its cage

. . .



Razor blade, that's what I call love
I bet you pick it up and mess around with it
If I put it down
It gets extremely complicated
Anything to forget everything

You got to take me out
At least once a week
Either I'm in your arms
Or I'm at your feet
I know exactly what you're thinking
You won't say it now
But in your heart it's love

Oh, my feelings are more important than yours
Oh, drop dead, I don't care, I won't worry
Let it go

Oh, the razor blade
Wish it would snap this rope
The world is in your hands
Or it's at your throat
At times it's not that complicated
Anything to forget everything

He would never talk
But he was not shy
She was a street-smart girl
But she could not lie
They were perfect for each other
Say it now
Cause in your heart it's loud

Oh, my feelings are more important than yours
Oh, drop dead, I don't care, I won't worry

Sweetheart
Your feelings are more important of course
Of course
Everyone you wanted
Everything that we would take from them
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know
Tell me, tell me, tell me


. . .


Nobody's waiting for me on the other side

I hate them all, I hate them all
I hate myself for hating them
So I'll drink some more, I'll love them all
I'll drink even more...
I'll hate them even more than I did before

On the other side, on the other side
Nobody's waiting for me on the other side

I remember when you came
You told me how to sing
Now it's seems so far away
You told me how to say

I'm tired of
Being so judgemental of everyone
And when the ghosts sleep
I will train my eyes to see
And my mind is as wide as the bird's on the tree

On the other side, on the other side
I know what's waiting for me on the other side
On the other side, on the other side

. . .


Sing me a song, you can be
Tell me a tale, just like me
To turn in my way, I'm being free
I'll try not to shake, I'm being free

Oh ooh

All that I do is wait for you
All that I do is wait for you
I can't get along with all your friends
Don't know how to act
It's all there is
Why do I accept the things you say?
You know what to change
But now it went away
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?

I am not you, we can have
Fun I'm almost thru, great success
It's about time, such a success
But you came thru, no expense

Oh ooh

All that I do is wait for you
All that I do is wait for you
I can't get away from all your friends
I'm not coming back
Its all there is
Why do I accept the things you say?
You know what to change
But now it went away
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?

. . .


Right, wrong, what to do?
Someday it will come to you
Hostile indians
We named our summer camp for you

I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I'm in utter dismay
I've got nothing to say

Harmless children
We named our soldiers after you
Don't be a coconut
God is trying to talk to you
We could drag it out
But that's for other bands to do

I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to give
Got no reason to live
But I will fight to survive
I've got nothing to hide
Wish I wasn't so shy

I lied to urge
I'd like to read
I'd like a part
I'd like the lead

But
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to say
I've got nothing to give
Got no reason to live
But I'll kill to survive
I've got nothing to hide
Wish I wasn't so shy

. . .


Oh the strange to impress on me
Old friends don't realize I'm here
I wish two drinks where always in me
Oh today I'll have the perfect day

Take me to the water
Make me in the sky
But I was wrong

For me tomorrow is my first day
So please don't turn me in the wrong way

It's almost after midnight
I can see the city lights are here

Change your mind tonight
You belong to the city now
With your clothes
And now I know
You belong on the radio

I swear I'll give it back tomorrow
But for now I think that I'll just borrow
All the chords from that song
And all the words from that other song I heard
Yesterday

Change your mind tonight
You belong to the city now
With your clothes
And now I know
You belong on the radio

I will not disturb you
I was just the child in you
The color blame me

. . .


Fire a press now
Don't you skate now
You broke sailboat
We might get some
We might get some
Hands troublesome
But don't you worry
You can help me

Killing lies
Killing lies
Killing lies
Killing lies

First you worry
Then you'll hurry
Don't think that everything is gonna stay the same
That's impossible
Before I let you go
Let me look at you
Don't you worry
You will help me

Killing lies
Killing lies
Killing lies
Killing lies

Oh yes I know you're still
You are a friend of mine
Oh yes I know you're still
You are a friend of mine

. . .


I beat anybody found out where I was
I beat anybody from the
I waste hiding from the way I was before
The two top down my tree

Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Ooh Fear of sleep
Can't you wait
I'm not done
Fear of sleep
Here you come
For I sleep [x3]
You're no fun [x10]

I guess everybody is leave my seven pretty rough
Cause everybody is drunk right and pissed off
I know you hate to be in perfect form ---
But you know trying to hold back I'm being someone else

Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Fear of sleep
Where'd you go?
Fear of sleep
Ooh Fear of sleep
So you know
I'm not done
Here we go
Here you come
For I sleep [x3]
You're no fun [x17]

. . .



I was all just a dream, Oh no
The worst it was real
All my pets they were there and they smiled
Take a seat it looks fine

Everybody so inviting

They got it in for me I know
It's not that I don't really love you
It's just that I don't really know
The hateful things you think you want to say
Time will turn them into jokes

If it was all just a dream, Oh no
Was it real? I don't know
If it was you were on there with me
Overjoyed in a peach

Oh Get, Get a pain, Get a watch
It was like a moonlight in life
I saw worst in a stop liner cuz
It go fast aint got time is been shot
Everybody got to party
Should've waiting for me
Everybody got to party
Should've waited till way
Cause today they talk about us
And tomorrow they won't care

Is a life is it a dream I can't tell
I got up and I wait in a throw
I will call you up every day
Overjoyed in a case

First time around
Second take so long
Third time's the charm
Second falls
Five days to rehearse
Six American work
Seven's in a scale
Eight circum change
Nine intoxicate
Ten is you & friend
Eleven seconds there

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I think I know what you mean but watch what you say
'cause they'll be try to knock you down in some way
Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?

You never wondered and searched for this place in the night
You gotta follow this field like following light
But such a music was born and brought you round
And I'll take you right there but it's meaning direction
I'll trip you up

You said that you smiled
It not in your eyes
Your eyeballs won?t change
It's the muscles around your eyes

An egg to fertilize
A pulse to stabilize
A body to deodorize
A life to scrutinize
A child to criticize
We live just to modernize
Instead of being terrorize
Generations to desensi?

You're dreams are sweet and obsessed
And you're overworked
You've over taken my visions of being overlooked
I'm disappointed with the idea P-P-B
To see such our power in our hands all wasted on greed
In my head
There's not two instincts
I don't like that chances
Thus free and detached
Bullshit they don't!

She said that music was born
And a touch from your heart
Easy free time to free months
Are from falling apart

Night after night
You turn off the light
You don't fall asleep
Right away
Only, only then

A bed to organize
A product to advertise
A market to monopolize
Movie stars you idolize
News to scandalize
Enemies to neutralize
No time to apologize
Shot them to tranquilize
Weapons to synchronize
Cities to vapor-i

. . .


They love you or they hate you
Cause they will never let you be
They thrill you or sedate you
But they will never let you see

Amber evening sun
Amber evening sun

In parent and deranged you
Watch you walking scared along
Despite intimidation
Used to watch you dance along

Amber evening sun
Amber evening sun

Call you a sappy whiner
Someday you'll come back and I'll be dreaming of a sundown
I don't wanna make your heart
And break your heart in two halves
Give point and forget, fun have to meet
Eye of the sun, miss you so much
Tell me what you do, nothing will do

All actors they're pretending
And singers they sometimes lie
Oh kids are always honest
Cause they don't think they're ever gonna die
You're the prettiest smartest captain of the team
I love you more than being seventeen

Amber evening sun
Amber evening sun

. . .


Two can be complete without the rest of the world
Two can be complete without the rest of the world
Do it for the people that have died for sake
An entire generation that has nothing to say
How to make your way to me

Oh let say you made a deal with me
And I got your name and your home adress
And you're all dressed up with your big red belt
And you almost said that you might need help
I could drop you off at the next red light
If it don't make sense or it don't feel right

All the girls could never make me love 'em the way I love you

Can't you see the sky is not the limit no more?
I can see the elevator crashed in the floor
I can still see yesterday sailing away
Seven billion people who got nothing to say
Are you coming on to me

Oh I saw your face and I had that song
It was so inviting and hurt my bones
Well it looks like you but your eyes are grey
And your hair is gone but your mind's okay
Yes I like your smile but your forehead's cold
I don't want you to be afraid and go

I would cheat and lie and steal now stay I'll only kneel for you

I was waiting
For my baby, to arrive
Right by my side

Oh please
Leave me alone tonight
Forget the past

Two can be complete without the rest of the world
Oh you know I said it just to get you to laugh
Do it for the people that have died for sake
An entire generation of entertainers to blame

The light is red
The camera's on
Get yourself a lawyer and a gun
Hate your friends' new friends like everyone
Childhoodin' can be so competitive
Oh the sky is not the limit
And you never gonna guess what is....

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