-Performing "Funeral" with slowthai
from his new album, "Friends That Break Your Heart",
please welcome James Blake.
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♪ I hold my ear to a shell ♪
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♪ I hear somethin' that no one can sell ♪
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♪ Y'know, I should've lived by the sea ♪
♪ 'Cause I feel invisible in every city ♪
♪ And I know this feeling too well ♪
-♪ Too well ♪
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♪ Of being alive at your own funeral ♪
♪ Goin', "Don't give up on me" ♪
♪ Please, I'll be the best I can be ♪
♪ I'll be the best I can be ♪
♪ Don't give up on me ♪
-[Rapping] ♪ I've never been one for horror movies ♪
♪ I fall asleep under your tongue, I hope you choose me ♪
♪ The shadow silhouetting the sun, I'm glued to your feet ♪
♪ I live in the shadows of, uh, under the loose leaves ♪
♪ I spread my wings, I got a nose bleed ♪
♪ I been the dust on top of trophies ♪
♪ The rust that makes it homely ♪
♪ The crust that no one wants, I was forgotten ♪
♪ I've gone moldy ♪
♪ They press mute, can you please pass the controller? ♪
♪ Been the rabbit in the lights and they already ran me over ♪
-♪ know this feeling too well ♪ -♪ Too well ♪
-♪ Of being alive at your own funeral ♪
♪ Goin', "Don't give up on me" ♪
♪ Please, I'll be the best I can be ♪
♪ I'll be the best I can be ♪
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