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Oftentimes is the first full length to come from A Genuine Freakshow, who have already begun to make a name for themselves in the UK with a tremendously unique sound that takes a traditional approach to pop songwriting but colors it with a dynamic pallet of orchestral timbres. Now that their music is crossing the pond, the band finds themselves in comparison to other indie rock American favorites such as Arcade Fire and Of Monsters and Men who have a similar knack for the tastefully grandiose. Yet, A Genuine Freakshow have truly found their sweet spot and carved out their own niche, creating a style of music that is intricate but unafraid of big melodies, as witnessed throughout the album and in particular on the lead track, “I Can Feel His Heartbeats” and single “Hopscotch Machine Gun Madness.”

• We Are The Undercurrents

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    We are the cast iron certainties
    Who'll wreck your plans
    We are the marching thousands
    With hoisted flags
    Stop where you are
    And we'll hide around every corner
    Just so you know

    We are the undercurrents
    Rushing through the sea
    We are the nation's conscience
    Scaling effigies
    Stop where you are
    And we'll hide around every corner
    Just so you know

• I Can Feel His Heartbeats

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    This house, this house
    Could fill my lungs with lies
    And I'm scared of the walls
    And everything they hide

    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    And we want you to know

    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    And we want you to know
    That we love you

    Maybe it's your footsteps
    Maybe it's his heartbeats
    Maybe it's your footsteps
    Well I can feel them all

    Maybe when you get home
    Maybe when you get home
    Maybe when you get home
    Well I can feel them all
    When we're in love

    My hands and my head
    Are not connected up
    Stop me, stop me
    If we're fucking all this up

    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    And we want you to know

    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    We're getting better
    And we want you to know
    That we love you

    Maybe it's your footsteps
    Maybe it's his heartbeats
    Maybe it's your footsteps
    Well I can feel them all

    Maybe when you get home
    Maybe when you get home
    Maybe when you get home
    Well I can feel them all
    When we're in love

• Hopscotch Machine Gun Madness

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    Stop this
    'Cause you're stressing me out
    My mind works
    Far too fast
    I should trust you
    Well I've never fucked up
    And I'm just
    Hurting me
    Are you hell bent?
    I never said I am
    So why so serious?

    Stop
    That's your answer always
    What to walk behind your lines?
    Are you holy?
    Only when I'm at home
    So when
    It suits you best
    Are you hell bent?
    I never said I am
    So why so serious?

    If this is our life
    Then we should make the most of what we have
    Don't want to waste my life
    On chasing silver screen in Cannes
    I could be famous if I really really wanted to
    But I would just rather spend my life

    And it's all in your head
    And it's more than you'd care to think about
    You're no use to me dead
    I need you by my side and stuck to me

    Stop this
    'Cause you're stressing me out
    My mind works
    Far too fast
    I should trust you
    Well I've never fucked up
    And I'm just
    Hurting me
    Are you hell bent?
    I never said I am
    So why so serious?

    If this is our life
    Then we should make the most of what we have
    Don't want to waste my life
    On chasing silver screen in Cannes
    I could be famous if I really really wanted to
    But I would just rather spend my life

    And it's all in your head
    And it's more than you'd care to think about
    You're no use to me dead
    I need you by my side and stuck to me

• New Houses

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    We'll build a house
    We'll build a house and we'll make it better
    Than it was before
    We walked through walls

    This is how we'll leave here
    We can help ourselves if we want to
    And behind our eyes
    We have sold out for our families

    We're lost when you're gone
    And we'll be here
    We're lost when you're gone

    We could end up dead here
    On the news not national but local
    Leaving all we know
    And all we loved

    This is how we'll leave here
    On our own to make us better
    Than it was before
    We lived among the needy

    We're lost when you're gone
    And we'll be here
    We're lost when you're gone

• She's Got a Shooter (Part 1)

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    You're heading down a road you know
    With flashlights on and weapons drawn
    To harm yourself, protect yourself
    Don't harm yourself

    You're heading down a road you know
    With flashlights on and weapons drawn
    She thinks that I would cut her skin
    She thinks that I would let her in

    Your ignorance it makes me sick
    You load your guns before you think
    You drag the king in from his trail
    With all arms raised and TVs on
    We'll drag the killers from their beds
    Will hand them over to their dead
    They'll be no trial for these men, these men

• You Cut Me Out

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    Won't you see
    Won't you see
    You're always looking through me
    You cut me out

    Won't you see
    Won't you see
    You're always looking through me
    You cut me out

    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire

    Won't you leave
    Won't you leave
    You're always looking through me
    You cut me out

    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire
    You're like me when I'm on fire

    Tell me now how does it feel
    To be dead from your neck to your knees?
    I swear this is the last time that I'll stand
    With my eyes fixed on you

• Our Bodies

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    Our bodies, look into our bodies
    Consider us and cover us in angel dust
    And we won't waste our lives

    Hollywood, we could live in Hollywood
    Or anywhere as long as we are safe and cared for
    And we won't waste our lives
    No we won't waste our lives

    You're what we came for

    Heroin, you could be my heroine
    Controlling me, forever more loving me
    And we won't waste our lives
    No we won't waste our lives

    You're what we came for

    They'll have to prise our bodies apart
    They'll have to prise
    They'll have to prise our bodies apart
    They'll have to prise

• Holding Hearts

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    We are your catalyst
    We are your nightmares
    We could start a riot
    We could start a riot

    We are your nightmares
    We could start a riot
    We could start a riot

    We're holding our hearts
    Like we have never before
    And I went into your house
    And stole all the pictures from the walls

• Warning Shot

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    A wiser man than me once said
    You can't lose something you never had
    Well that don't feel the same with you

    What he lost I don't quite know
    His wallet from his pocket gone?
    Well that don't feel the same with you

    I'm just firing a warning shot to you
    White flag goes up above my door
    Yeah I'm just firing a warning shot to you
    Grab your things and run away

    There was a man who spent his life at sea
    He hardly saw his family
    But that don't feel the same with you

    He lost his life with whom he shared
    His wife his kids
    For whom he cared
    Well that don't feel the same with you

    I'm just firing a warning shot to you
    White flag goes up above my door
    Yeah I'm just firing a warning shot to you
    Grab your things and run away

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