Attack & Release

The Black Keys Attack & Release Lyrics
1.All You Ever Wanted

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You're just like time
Except you can feel the shame
All hands on deck, now
The sea is getting rough again
You see me out your window
Even when you close the blinds
And all you ever wanted,
Was someone to treat you nice and kind
Take a step before running
Take a breath now before you die
When you work the streets, darlin'
Make sure your sneaker laces they get tied
I'll be your black bird darlin'
Hanging on your telephone wire
Flap my wings, oh yeah
And set your heart to fly


2.I Got Mine

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I was a movin' man
In my younger days
But I've grown out
Of my ramblin' ways

I left that road
So far behind
And now I know
I got mine

So baby when I rolled
I rolled deep
So much so
I couldn't get no sleep

Rock and roll hustle
All the time
And now I know baby
I got mine


3.Strange Times

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Kings and sons of god
travel all their way to hear
calming restless minds
easing all of their, all of their fears

Strange Times
Are here

Statue in the square
meant so much when it first stood
people come from far and near
bless them if, bless them if you would

Strange Times
Are here

Stay here to dry your tear
I will be the one
to pull you through the mirror
before you come, before you come undone

Strange Times
Are here


4.Psychotic Girl

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I heard your boo your marrow
Pick em up just to let em down
You're the same baby but I always know
Just the way your gonna do

Oh lord oh lord
Just a psychotic girl and I won't get lost in your world

Friday night party life
You were acting like everything was alright
Later on with no one around
Had me fighting for air laying on the ground

Oh lord oh lord
Just a psychotic girl and I won't get lost in your world

I thought you changed but I should have known
You play nice for a time but then you do me wrong
I thought long and hard about what I should say
But when I was through it just came out this way

Oh lord oh lord
Just a psychotic girl and I won't get lost in your world


5.Lies

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Said the moon was ours, yeah
Said the moon was ours, the hell with the day
The sunlight is always gonna take love away
Brings up suspicions and alibies
But I can see blue, tear-blinded eyes
Lies, lies, lies, ohh lies

I got a stone where my heart should be
I got a stone where my heart should be
And nothing I do will make you love me
I'd leave this time, break all my ties
Be no more use for any disguise
Lies, lies, lies, ohh lies

I wanna die without pain
I wanna die, oh, without pain
All this desception I just can't maintain
The sun, moon, the stars in the sky
It'd hurt me too bad if you said goodbye
Lies, lies, lies, ohh lies


6.Remember When(Side A)

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It happened when I heard her name
Same 'ol thought crept back again
Oh and grew, they grew

And somewhere in my sorry state
The lightn' struck the old iron gate
It's true, it's true

With sonw in tow, the winter winds
smacks you on your cheeks again
Oh it stings, it stings


7.Remember When(Side B)

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8.Same Old Thing

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No matter where you been
Those people try to do you in
Every day till dawn
There's some thievin' goin' on

Oh no, it hurts me so
Just the same old thing
Just the same old thing
No matter how much love you try to bring
It's just the same old thing

You got a callous heart
From being torn apart
Now you labor every day
Your love life drifts away

Oh no, it hurts me so
Just the same old thing
Just the same old thing
No matter how much love you try to bring
It's just the same old thing


9.So She Won't Break

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Gone like the wind
And the state it put him in
To hold his head high
When he really wanted to die

And you know the difference it makes
And you know all that it takes
Is love, so he won't break

He's crazy from the pain
And can't get hurt again
If he ever falls
I'd be sorry for us all

And you know the difference it makes
And you know all that it takes
Is love, so he won't break

Right around the way
Is where they go to pay
For remedies and pills
To ease their ills

And you know the difference it makes
And you know all that it takes
Is love, so he won't break


10.Oceans And Streams

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With guilt that no man should carry
Heavy enough for me to get buried
I feel death on the road tonight
It's got me to where I wanna run and hide

Oh I used to dream of oceans and streams
Flowing and growing strong
Where have all
Those days gone

These days I'm so slow
All these thoughts and no where to go
My aim used to be so true
And my world had a place in it just for you

Oh I used to dream of oceans and streams
Flowing and growing strong
Where have all
Those days gone

Excuse me I gotta go
Can't stand to be here anymore, no
I'm sick and I gotta go to bed
If I stay here I'm better off dead

Oh I used to dream of oceans and streams
Flowing and growing strong
Where have all
Those days gone


11.Things Ain't Like They Used To Be

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Went around the way for you
Did all the things you asked me to
I thought it was the perfect day
To see just open love to say

It doesn't mean a thing to me
It doesn't mean a thing to me
And it's about time you see
Things ain't like they used to be

I headed out to Lester Hill
But that just made me weaker still
She's got the kind of love I need
The kind that's never good on me

It doesn't mean a thing to me
It doesn't mean a thing to me
And it's about time you see
That things ain't like they used to be

Walked into the battle blind
It happens almost all the time
The yard is kinda overgrown
And all those happy times are gone

But it doesn't mean a thing to me
It doesn't mean a thing to me
And it's about time you see
That things ain't like they used to be

It doesn't mean a thing to me
It doesn't mean a thing to me
And it's about time you see
Things ain't like they used to be