Broad-Shouldered Beasts

Album: Wilder Mind (2015)
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  • Broad-shouldered beasts fill the sky
    Manhattan beats at the night
    But you are wrapped up in wire
    Curled up in fright

    So I took you to the city for the night
    To dance under dizzy silver lights
    But for a moment, you were wild
    With abandon like a child, just a moment

    But wasn't it you who said I was not free
    And wasn't it you who said I needed peace
    And now it's you who's floored by fear of it all

    And it's alright
    Take it out on me
    And it's alright
    Take it out on me

    These apartment walls are paper thin
    And no one is trying to listen in
    What to hear our doubts
    Hear our whispered shouts, they don't care

    Wasn't it you who said I was not free
    Wasn't it you who said I needed peace
    And now it's you who's floored by fear of it all

    And it's alright
    Take it out on me
    And it's alright
    Take it out on me

    But when you feel the world wrapping 'round your neck
    Feel my hand 'round yours
    And when you feel the world wrapping 'round your neck
    Don't succumb

    But it's alright
    Take it out on me

    And it's alright
    Take it out on me
    And it's alright
    Take it out on me Writer/s: BENJAMIN WALTER DAVID LOVETT, EDWARD JAMES MILTON DWANE, MARCUS OLIVER JOHNSTONE MUMFORD, WINSTON AUBREY ALADAR MARSHALL
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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