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Perfume Genius - Slip Away

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CHAPTER

The Shape We Take

"We take, oh, baby, let all the voices slip away," he says. "The way that Mike writes, you know, to say they'll never break the shape we take is such a poetic way to talk about a relationship" The song's actually a thumbtack piano; if you open it up on the stoppers, they're a little thumbtack. So when they hit the strings, it has a harsher, more harpsichord sound to it.

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