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MGMT’S ‘LITTLE DARK AGE’ (2018) LYRICS STARTERS !

feel free to change pronouns etc. as you see fit!

SHE WORKS OUT TOO MUCH

• Get ready to have some fun! 
  
• Alright, here we go!
  
• Don’t take it the wrong way, I can never keep up.
  
• It’s never relaxing, I need a new routine.
  
• The only reason we never worked out was he didn’t work out enough.
  
• Welcome to the shitshow, grab a comfortable seat, find me in the front row.
  
• Nothing’s ever as easy as when it never begins. 
  
• The end is just a dream.
  
• It didn’t work out.
  
• No, it never works out.

LITTLE DARK AGE

• The feelings start to rot, one wink at a time.
  
• Just know that if you hide it doesn’t go away.
  
• The humor’s not the same coming from denial.
  
• I grieve in stereo.
  
• Burn the page.
  
• If you get out of bed, don’t end up stranded.
  
• You’ll see me standing all alone, horrified.
  
• I know my friends and I would probably turn and run.

WHEN YOU DIE

• I’m not that nice.
  
• I’m mean and I’m evil.
  
• Don’t call me nice.
  
• I’m gonna eat your heart out.
  
• I’ve got some work to do.
  
• Go fuck yourself.
  
• You heard me right.
  
• Don’t call me nice again.
  
• Don’t you have somewhere to be at seven thirty?
  
• You die – and words won’t do anything, it’s permanently night.
  
• I heard you the first time.

ME AND MICHAEL

• Not everyone can be like me and ______.
  
• The only problem is forgetting which side you’re on.
  
• The burning light will reappear on summer nights like all the rest. 
  
• But they can’t find out.
  
• The danger signs will never let the feelings die.
  
• It’s not a question now
  
• It’s me and _____, solid as they come
  
• Too happy with ourselves to notice when the change had come.
  
• The losing side would never break dividing lines.

TSLAMP

• Find me when the lights go down.
  
• Gods descend to take me home.
  
• I’m wondering where the hours went.
  
• Nothing can compete with the first time you saw her passing strangers on the street.
• I would never let you die, even if our love is ornamental
  
• You know what you need is a way to remember
  
• You can never find the time if you spend every moment looking at your phone.
  
• You should come with me, we can lose ourselves in nothing.
  
• Even if you choose to believe that it’s ending, you’ll come back to me again.
  
• You can go ahead and stop pretending.

JAMES

• Home is there – wherever you will make it
  
• You can always say, “Who’s laughing now?”
  
• If you need a friend, come right over, you don’t even knock. 
• I’ll be home, the door is always open.
  
• And we both can say, “Who’s laughing now?”
  
• Oh, you’re never too far off.
  
• If your fire’s out, there’s no need to shout
  
• I’m always home.
  
• Walk on in, I’ll make you tea and breakfast.

ONE THING LEFT TO TRY

• There’s one thing left to try if you want to save your life.
  
• Fear is his name, but his friends still call him God.
  
• Again and again, the thought remains.
  
• I don’t wanna die!
  
• Wishing I’d done something more than what’s required to last until the sunset.
  
• No, I don’t wanna die thinking that I’m dreaming.
  
• There’s one thing left to try if you want to change your life.
  
• Today I left those thoughts behind.
  
• Over and over, you die just to feel alive.
  
• The only way to get rid of the feeling: you have to draw the line.
  
• Remember there’s more than you’re seeing.
  
• Decide.
  
• Do you want to keep us alive?
  
• Do you want to feel alive?
  
• Fun is over tonight.
  
• There’s one thing left to try.

WHEN YOU’RE SMALL

• You can almost miss the dirt.
  
• You tell yourself it couldn’t hurt.
  
• When you’re low you reach a certain point where you can’t really see the point.
  
• You can try.
  
• You can’t see eye to eye.
  
• Yet when you’re low then you really know.
  
• You don’t have to know why.
  
• When you’re small, you don’t have very far to fall.
  
• When you’re small, you feel like you belong
  
• When you’re small, you can curl into a ball
  
• No, you’re not very big at all.

HAND IT OVER

• The smart ones exit early, and the rest hope for a shoulder.
  
• If we lose our touch, it won’t mean much.
  
• If everyone’s confused, which door do we open?
  
• Now there’s one thing to left to do.
  
• It’s time.
  
• It’s yours and it’s mine.
  
• One thing on my mind.
  
• It’s rightfully mine.
  
• In the dark what’s yours is mine.
  
• Make it right and give me what’s mine.
  
• Hand it over.
  
• Oh, this time.
  
• It’s time to hand it over.
  
• Just give me what’s mine.
• Oh, I need time.
  
• No, no, it’s rightfully mine.
  
• Oh, anytime.