Ben Howard - The Defeat Lyrics

There is no rush when you don't belong
Turns out we don't all fight like dogs in the end
Most of us want to roll out, roll under the grass
You are limbless, cartoon, no bridge in your song
Spirulina won't kill my heartbreak
I was a dreamer when I learned to take
In between her and a fireplace
There are factors that conditioned me, something in the canopy
(Clearly)

And the blank ones cartwheel out of the furnace
The mould never cracked, you see
The girls in St Denis
Still sleep on their backs
Understood a fact
When you spoke in all your marvelous ideologies
The world is always at ease, at ease, at ease
Don't you see?

And the deaths on the highways
From drink at casinos
Feels so natural
Every day a dice roll, everywhere you gamble
Wearing something I can handle
And the world void of Petrov, our savior
We are taught to savor everyone else's failures
Endlessly

Even the greatest, the very, very greatest
Gave up, tapped out
Told all you fuckers to lie down
Yet, still, you found cathedrals of deceit
Where does the robber go
Where does the robber go to repent?
Tell me

'Til there you were, you wouldn't buy a round
For your best friend
See it's trickled down on you
I don't depend, there you go, then
Bye, another end
Bye, infinitum
Bye, there you go then, bye
It's such a heavy sound

There is no rush when you don't belong
Turns out we don't all fight like dogs in the end
Most of us want to roll out, roll under the grass
You are limbless, cartoon, no bridge in your song
Make me wonder again
Or make me learn to pretend
Make me wonder again
Or make me learn to pretend
Make me wonder again
Or make me learn to pretend