{"id":9,"slug":"slipaway","title":"Slipaway","artist":{"slug":"2-bit-pie","name":"2 Bit Pie","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/api/discography/artists/2-bit-pie/","type":"application/hal+json"},"alternate":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/discography/2-bit-pie/","type":"text/html"},"collection":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/api/discography/artists/","type":"application/hal+json"}}},"lyrics":"Looks like the summertime's been forcing all the freaks onto streets again\nEveryplace i look a crazy face, just stopping short of looking real insane\nThe madman on the corners shouting truth before dishonour, no one knows his name\nAs a thousand border liners passing by, how hard they tryin just to miss his gaze\nWhy don't you slip away\n\nThis could be heaven, but the heat makes even angels start to feel the strain\nNow no one seems too bothered, no one looks at one another, that's the state of play\nAs the derelict Messiahs preach to hoardings under flyers about sume judgement day\nAnd the temperature keeps rising 'till the tension fills the sky and only dreams escape\nWhy can't we slip away\n\nWhy can't we slip away\nWhy can't we slip away\nWhy can't we slip away\nWhy can't we slip away\n\nThe sunlight burns the eyes, so now nobody sees the signs\nToo busy hunting shade, the pretty girls all shine and all the boys just stand in line\nLike there's no finer place, too hard to sleep\nLooks like the dream will have to keep until some other day\nToo hard to breathe, this city suffocating me, if that's the price i'll pay\nGuess i'll just slip away","comments":"Source: 2 Pie Island Booklet","url":"https://fluke.fm/lyrics/slipaway/","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/api/discography/lyrics/slipaway/","type":"application/hal+json"},"alternate":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/lyrics/slipaway/","type":"text/html"},"collection":{"href":"https://fluke.fm/api/discography/lyrics/","type":"application/hal+json"}}}