Youth and Lust

from Love Comes Close by Cold Cave

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Love Comes Close is the debut full length from Cold Cave. Written and recorded in Philadelphia in 2008-09, the album was released by Heartworm Press and then re-released by Matador Records just as the band was beginning its foray into cult status.
Late night bedroom dark anthems for isolated dreamers with nods to the early years of synth pop and experimentation ala The Human League, Throbbing Gristle and New Order. Along with the title track, songs like "Life Magazine", "Heaven Was Full" and "Youth and Lust" went on to become live staples with their equal measures of romance and nihilism.
Remastered and cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.

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lyrics

Dethroning the dream
Of neon nights in rain
I stripped from the skin
But kept it in
 
Same remains the same
Cold sheets and mattress stains
There's no telling you
To want me too 
You miss the disco lights
Its all pleather now
A synthetic world without end
Sheds a tear of plastic deception
 
The last dance
With the rain
On the nod
On the train
Hunting the haunted with shame
I will remember your name
I had hoped my love alone could outlive my past
I had hoped to thread the black hole with no strings attached
 
Thorn to finger again
A head in a strange hand
I prayed for some truth
'Til my face turned blue
 
To fill the void between
Your youth and lust
You'll cross the bridge between
My knives and trust
 
You miss the neon lights
Its all plastic now
A sympathetic world without end
Hums a hymn of misdirection

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from Love Comes Close, released November 6, 2019

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