Drifting

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Drifting
Song	Drifting
By	Recoil
Songwriter	Alan Wilder Siobhan Lynch
Produced by	Alan Wilder
Recorded at	The Thin Line (Sussex)
Mixed by	Alan Wilder
Mixing assistance	Paul Stevens Simon Shazell
Mastered by	Ian Cooper
Studio assistance	Hepzibah Sessa
Published by	Mute Song Not Normal Music Zoetrope Music Company Carlin Music Corp. Chappell, Inc. Warner/Chappell Music Ltd.
Recorded	September 1996 - June 1997
Originally released	27 October 1997
Live performances as Recoil	0 times *
Total live performances	0 times *

"Drifting" is a song from the 1997 album Unsound Methods by Recoil. It was released as a lead single on 13 October 1997.

Lyrics

Drifting

With your wild, call the pace

Taste the tracks of the waste

With your wild, with your sweet

With your cold black-eyed teeth

I close my eyes and I pray, yes I pray

Let it slide, let it slide

Ignore me and everything I've done

For I am stupid, I am poison

I take this one

And I taste the tracks

I taste the tracks

of the waste in my head

And you face me instead

I must be drifting somewhere

I held in my hand, but it's hard, so hard to see reason

The burning is here, is only here to follow through

But here it is harder than a screaming fist, and I hate it

It's dark behind your smile, and I can follow through

Let it slide, let it slide

Ignore me and everything I've done

For words, like bullets, they know when to come

And taste the tracks, and taste the tracks

Of the waste in my head, and you face me instead

Well, ignore me and everything I said

For I am stupid, I am poison

I held in my hand, but it's hard, so hard to see reason

It's dark behind your smile, and I can follow through

I close my eyes and I pray, yes I pray

With your wild, call the pace

Taste the track of the waste

With your wild, with your sweet

With your cold black-eyed teeth

Songwriter: Alan Wilder/Siobhan Lynch
Publishing Information: ℗ 1997 Reprise Records

Music video

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