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High On Empty Dreams

by Divide and Rule

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(So high on empty dreams, so high on crazy schemes...)

You're so high on long-gone glories
Hold tight your crown, spice up your frown
Beefing you up, holding you down.

You're so high on claiming victory
Down another vodka in the middle of the night
Finding ways to fill your empty dreams.

You're so high on counting following-me's
(Twitter can feed your vanity)
Sanctify your salary.

You're so high on Casino Royale
The house is your pal
Down another vodka in the middle of the night
Finding ways to fill your empty dreams.

Cynicism, just another naivety
Dress it up, but there is no mystery around you.

You're so high on empty dreams
You're so high on crazy schemes
You're so high on empty dreams
You're so high on crazy schemes, honey.

(Down another vodka in the middle of the night)
See your sad lonely eyes, chasing cool and sublime
(look around, no-one cares)
You're a minnow in this game that your melancholy forced on your life to be cool in your mind.

Cynicism, just another naivety
Dress it up, but there is no mystery around you, around you,
and your dreams
empty dreams
crazy schemes
empty dreams, honey.

(So high on Empty dreams...)

(You're, you're) You're so high on empty dreams
You're so high on crazy schemes
You're so high on empty dreams
You're so high on crazy schemes.

Down another vodka in the middle of the night
see your sad lonely eyes, chasing cool and sublime.

(You're so high on....)

Sticking up the finger as you call her a slag,
all because she didn't want your fag-ash tongue down her throat.

(You're so high on...)

Smash another glass and then it's home in the meat van,
How you love to play the lad
And how you're scared to be a man
Look around, no-one cares
You're a minnow in this game
that your melancholy forced on your life
to be cool in your mind
cool in your mind
cool and sublime
cool in your mind
chasing cool being blinded by your dreams
empty dreams
crazy schemes
empty dreams, honey.

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credits

released February 19, 2020
Lead Vocals - Justyna Grajewska; Backing vocals - Autumn Melody Thomas, Angus Coull; Keyboards/Production - Angus Coull; Written by Angus Coull/Sarah Urquhart.

With thanks to Graeme Watt at Seagate Recording Studio, Dundee.

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Divide and Rule Dundee, UK

Dundee-based electro-pop/modern folk outfit Divide and Rule formed in September 2009.
Keyboards/production - Angus Coull; Lead Singers - Katie Wills, Sue McPhail, Naomi Shields, Julie Lynas, Justyna Grajewska, Angus Coull;

Backing singers - Ciara Ann Breen, Jax Braidwood, Stephen Miller, Nadia Matiu, Eva MacFarlane, Bridget Quinn, Autumn Melody Thomas. ... more

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