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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Available for the first time in the physical form in almost a decade. This 2020 re-release Includes two bonus songs, American Colossus and Lighthouse; which are not available on any of the streaming sites.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Giraffe Attack Collection (2020 Reissue) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Get all 8 Eric Bettencourt releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Offerings for Impermanence | (Singles | 2019-2023), Bric-á-Brac, Weightless Embrace Vol. 2, An Underwater Dream, Weightless Embrace Vol. 1, Secret Songs For Secret People, The Giraffe Attack Collection (2020 Reissue), and Fine Old World. , and , .

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lyrics

What Works

I am a man I fuck with what works
Piece by piece I’ll disassemble my world
The forces of habit leave no will to resist
Though the cycle continues to spin emptiness
Maybe it’s pride or jealousy
That harbors the weight that’s residing in me
But the jury is in the judgment’s been passed
The gavel’s been dropped on my castle of glass

Do you believe you can outdo perfection?
Do you believe you can outdo your god?

You are woman you fuck with what works
Your boredom and comfort always comes first
Save up your grief, compile a list
You’d trade in your dreams for your own hopelessness
Life it gets messy, the cleanup ain’t free
This I regard with most certainty
So keep some distance from your back to the wall
And don’t let the aftermath pay for it all

You are the one you are my queen
You’re beyond everyone that’s ever mattered to me
You are the one a tangible dream
And I’ll trade it all in for my stupidity
Love, you are my dream

We are human and we fuck with what works
Self-destruction is our guaranteed course
We play with the future ignore the past
Every new great achievement turns an old bridge to ash
This is your life from here I resign
Don’t let your selfishness impose on mine
When you chase your desire from one tree to the next
I’ll no longer be following you with a ladder and net

Do you believe you can outdo perfection?
Do you believe you can outdo your god?
Do you believe you can outdo perfection?
Do you believe you can outdo your god?

credits

from The Giraffe Attack Collection (2020 Reissue), released September 15, 2009
Eric: Lead vocals, guitars, bass, piano, percussion
Ryan Cyr: Backing vocals, drums
Mixing: Eric, Billy Slifka, James Whalen

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