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Unfamiliar Optimistic View

from Help Yourself by elias and the error

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    The original 2013 album on cassette for the first time
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    Arcane
    A: As I Was Going to St. Clair (Dreampop version)
    B: Depraved Indifference (Dreampop version)

    Annul
    A: Now I'm Fine (Punk version)
    B: Satic Onanism (Punk version)

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lyrics

Who we are, we're the ones that they said were not right
Who we are, we're the ones who've gathered here tonight
Who we are, we're the exiles of the town
Who we are, we're the flame that melts it down

It never ends, me and my friends
Drinking wine and rarely making sense
If I've got you to see me through
Unfamiliar optimistic view

Let it go, all our pennies in the well
Let it go, all our destinies in Hell
Let it go, all our value they can't see
Let it go, all those people we don't need

The secret, I've found, is never give up
Always be firm, don't give a fuck
All that we need is not what they say
They ought to know since they made us this way

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from Help Yourself, released April 16, 2013

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20 years in service of electronic punk

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