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Track: People In The Streets
Artist: MGMT
Album: Loss Of Life

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MGMT is an American psychedelic rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio. Formed at Wesleyan University and originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia Records and Red Ink in 2006. On October 5, 2007, Spin.com named MGMT "Artist of the Day." On November 14, 2007, Rolling Stone pegged MGMT as a top ten "Artist to Watch" in 2008. The band was named ninth in the BBC's Sound of 2008 Top Ten Poll. They were also named as Last.fm's most played new artist of 2008 in their Best of 2008 lists. MGMT's first album, Oracular Spectacular, debuted at No. 12 on the UK album chart, No. 13 after 34 weeks in the New Zealand RIANZ charts, number six on the Australian ARIA Charts, and hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. It has also been named the 18th best album of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine. It was named the best album of 2008 by NME. MGMT also appeared prominently in Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 2008, coming in 2nd with "Electric Feel", 5th with "Kids" and 18th with "Time to Pretend". MGMT was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and their track "Kids" was nominated for Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals. These are the first Grammy nominations for the band. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, the Justice remix of "Electric Feel" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. Their second album, Congratulations, was released on April 13, 2010. In January 2011 they began work on their third album, which was released in 2013.

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Release: MGMT - Loss Of Life
Year: 2024
Genres: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Styles: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Pop, Indie Rock

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LYRICS

Life keeps on going
Showing you things that you can't unsee
In the sense of unknowing
Why anything happens to be
And just as the sun comes out again
Something is blocking the light
But it's all right

The inside's still glowing
Telling the heart what it wants to hear
But what if it's only lies
Twisted apart by fear?

That's when the brain waves goodbye
From the front of the train
Where the coal is burned
And you know the refrain
Without hearing a sound
So you sing it again
'Cause you won't learn
From the people in the streets

Wheels left the ground
Hoping to fly past the road ahead
Components start breaking down
And sooner or later you're dead
And just when the wool goes over the eyes
Somebody moves you along
But it's all wrong

And someone complained that the fire was out
So they shut off the rain and let the flames return
And they had to rename all the tricks in the book
Now I'm starting to doubt
Where I once stood
And there's people in the streets
There's people in the streets
People in the streets
There's people in the streets

End of the line
In real time
I stopped clinging to what's mine

They're marching to the beat of a different drum
Going over receipts with a magnifier
The people in the streets aren't singing along
'Cause they're probably sick and they're probably tired
I listen for the sound of the starting gun
But when you're living the dream
And your ears are bad
The people in the streets aren't part of the fun
And I'd go and join them but I'm so scared
Of the people in the streets
The people in the streets
People in the streets
The people in the streets