Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming In Blood Lyrics






Tinseltown swimming in blood
Tinsel ribbons dancing in the rain
Flowers on the skyline, hey how was the wine?
What comes round's going round again
Towers coming up for air

I couldn't see, I was blind
Off in the corner, doing poet's work
That's alright for now
It was just a dream of your blue eyes

Tinseltown dripping in blood
Tinsel women dancing in the wind
Dead flowers on the skyline
Hey how was the wine, baby?

What comes round is going round again
Now let me tell you about the dream:

I had no feeling, I had no past
I was the arctic, I was the vast
Spaces without reprieve

I was a dreamer
Watch me leave





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  1. j.... ....

    Chirs Marker's sci-fi short La jetee (a French New Wave classic) is the clear inspiration for this music video

  2. J.... B....

    ¿Existe algún latino al que le encante esta melodía?

  3. K.... _....

    ⚡️🌸⚡️

  4. G.... ....

    Is this spoken word poetry set to unreleased New Order tracks?

  5. N.... E....

    Excelent music!!!! Oroya city present ! <3

  6. A.... h....

    Nike trust fall - Blake Carpenter🔥

  7. A.... P....

    i was a dreamer... watch me leave

  8. A.... P....

    who loves Dan Bejar as much as I do?

  9. P.... M....

    Beautiful track

  10. m.... ....

    College radio brought me here

  11. Z.... K....

    This is so feel-good. So truly 80s.

  12. S.... ....

    MUY BUENO LIMA PERU

  13. E.... C....

    い丼とl likeていs

  14. M.... M....

    Wow… this is beautiful

  15. A.... A....

    Sex education

  16. Y.... V....

    número 2 del ranking de radio doble 9 del año 2018

  17. A.... M....

    Du Nutte geh mal Haare färben

  18. D.... T....

    doble nine chicichcic doble nine

  19. W.... W....

    This beautiful song , combined with the video of Vancouver’s La Jetee-ish “Tinseltown” is a delicious smorgasbord of painful nostalgia. Strangely familiar déjà vu. Thank you, Destroyer.

  20. 6.... ....

    A little on the nose with its New Order influences, but good nonetheless.

  21. J.... V....

    I think you sound like YOU; and you like chorus effect on the bass. Love it!

  22. M.... Z....

    Excelente tema, primero en sonar por supuesto en 99

  23. t.... c....

    this straight up sounds like disorder by joy division slowed down?? idk its not a bad song obvs but kind of (feels like a rip off) srry.

  24. F.... G....

    Destroyer's keyboard player looked like a heroin addict at one their in studio performances. Didn't miss a note and played steady.

  25. d.... ....

    Am I the only one that noticed him get his arm tied up by his buddy in prep for a hit of smack? Then stumble around the rest of the video in an opiate nod?

    d.... ....

    Oh, right at 0:32, right? Interesting idea.

  26. M.... ....

    Wow this song is like Destroyer's Kaputt and Damien Jurado's A.M AM put together and it's fucking incredible

  27. S.... H....

    I'm really curious about the lyrical meaning here. Seems like someone disillusioned with the world of Tinseltown after starting with high hopes. Everything started off great (flowers), then the narrator has reality hit ("I was blind") and is just getting by ("doing poet's work") rather than having success and then reflecting on how things aren't so great now ("dead flowers") and how it's time to go ("watch me leave").

    I'm terrible with song meanings, so I'm probably wrong, but this was an attempt.

    S.... H....

    It's about recesion, regress, and then in the end of the song's bridge he performs a consequential rollback. It assumes a failure, retrace its steps and eventually look for alternatives. In A Light Travels Down the Catwalk it reflects about lies. Social lies, daily lies, appearence lies, words of lies, becoming routine. In Ivory Coast it's about greed. In Stay Lost there is a big advice. La Regle du Jeu, the result - see the movie. This album is about the divisional state the world bases itself now - or more prominently, America

    S.... H....

    Why was the guy's arm tied off in Tinseltown at the beginning?

  28. M.... G....

    Wow...wow...I'm thinking. Put New Order, My Bloody Valentine, and M83 in a blender...hit liquify and transport it back in time to the 1980's via some Donnie Darko portal. Hit play

  29. H.... B....

    He's like the Serge Gainsbourg you'd leave alone with your kids.

  30. C.... R....

    Love that New Order baseline

  31. B.... G....

    Hannah :-)

  32. d.... p....

    Buen trip!!!

  33. J.... P....

    its different colorless photo shots ,the instruments, and the lyrics its all good to me .nice song i like it.

  34. P.... I....

    🎶👾🎶

  35. V.... 0....

    La mejor radio la mejor, grandes momentos y los rankings locazos, tal vez un resurrection sunday grandioso

  36. A.... T....

    La Jetée en estado puro...sonidos del futuro...HOY

  37. M.... ....

    John Lennon?

  38. L.... G....

    13 reasons why...

    L.... G....

    Laxmikant Gabel I knew id see a comment about that. prolly for every song that's in 13 reasons why. 😂👌❤

  39. R.... ....

    13 REASONS WHY!

    R.... ....

    arjun gupta this was popular long before that show even thought about using it.

    R.... ....

    Such a great soundtrack!

  40. S.... ....

    So I stole her poem.
    It was just one poem...

  41. P.... C....

    I love this song

  42. K.... H....

    Definitely a Joy Division vibe. Love this.

  43. O.... D....

    What is the horn instrument? Is that a saxophone?

  44. A.... F....

    PERFECT

  45. B.... D....

    best song of 2018 for me (so far)

  46. R.... M....

    Thanks Matt Lech

  47. B.... M....

    Yeah can definitely hear some New Order. Great song.

  48. R.... S....

    His voice reminds me so strong to "Amanda Lear"

  49. J.... H....

    Good job, Destroyer! is the best in this time

  50. H.... M....

    Wow, what happens to me at 1:05??
    Great song!!

  51. J.... H....

    buen tema, de los pocos buenos de doble 9 en la actualidad

    J.... H....

    Yo también conocí esta rola por doble nueve <3

  52. J.... H....

    influencia killing joke, new order, omd

  53. J.... F....

    good song Tinseltown Swimming in Blood

    J.... F....

    Javier Fernandez 👍

  54. A.... P....

    wonderfully uplifting! I am sharing it now, this electronic just kills gravity

  55. J.... P....

    If Peter Hook and Love & Rockets had a baby.

  56. 2.... ....

    Regresando a erasure, Depeche Mode, etc

  57. s.... ....

    Old school sound

  58. M.... R....

    New Order + Bowie... Great 😉

  59. J.... C....

    La primera vez q escuché a Depeche Mode y a New Order hace 20 años cambiaron mi vida respecto a la música. Esta canción y Destroyer en general hacen que vuelva a sentir lo mismo. Q buena canción

  60. p.... ....

    This video is truly awful but the song is great.

    p.... ....

    poopballoon why is the video awful?

    p.... ....

    rpastevens Stevens maybe because it’s reimagining cris marker’s ‘la jetee’? you don’t mess with classics.
    anyway, i have no problem with it :)

  61. a.... ....

    I've fallen in love with this song.

    a.... ....

    agutterfan right!?

  62. E.... T....

    Los Joy Division del siglo XXI.
    Brillantes.
    Cada disco es distinto y mejor.
    "A saucerfull of secrets"

  63. E.... D....

    Linda canción!
    Excelente!
    Inolvidable!

  64. H.... ....

    Wasted a perfectly good band name. I guess that makes them an ironic success.

  65. H.... A....

    lo escuche en radio doble nueve la mejor radio del mundo lo maximo

  66. A.... V....

    Para los compatriotas de Perú, el intro de esa canción me hizo recordad a una canción de Dolores Delirio - No ves el sol... Saludos Radio Doble Nueve.

  67. M.... Z....

    como me agrada este tema

  68. D.... F....

    It seems the same that this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yA82CFvisw&list=PLpWNqWCqZZ07HvCbPpoJApGpdVjxMZZIM

  69. r.... S....

    PanterA

  70. A.... M....

    Jodidamente chingona!!!

  71. G.... P....

    Fantastic Song

  72. Y.... F....

    Doble 9!

  73. S.... S....

    La radio rock en lima.
    Doble nueve.
    La mejor musica del mundo.

    S.... S....

    sol solo prefiero mejor Spotify o deezer

    S.... S....

    Ya cansate

  74. S.... S....

    Tu estas en
    Doble 99

    S.... S....

    jaja noo, él lo dice por la parodia que hacen/hacian Gonzalo Torres y Daniel Marquina en Mañana Maldita de Radio Planeta, ellos se hacen llamar "triple 6". Hay audios en yt de ellos, escuchalos. Saludos.
    eLKoKo Cd

    S.... S....

    jaajajajajaja

    S.... S....

    El mejor rico rico rock del mundoooo jskajdjsdd

    S.... S....

    La radio rock en Lima

    S.... S....

    chk chk chik....

  75. r.... c....

    radio doble nueve..........

  76. D.... C....

    radio Doble 9

  77. a.... ....

    Love it so fmuch

  78. M.... ....

    And all of a sudden I realized that it was Marker's "La Jetée". Well done, Karen Zolo and Dan Bejar. By the way, Savage Night at the Opera is such a great nod to "C'était Un Rendez-Vous".

  79. L.... M....

    Scenes from a mall, but it's not Tinseltown

  80. J.... J....

    swarthy

  81. C.... R....

    Reminds me of Bowie a bit!

  82. J.... K....

    Thank you Destroyer.

  83. S.... ....

    Really enjoying Jason Mantzoukas's new band.

    For real though…this is great.

  84. A.... A....

    This song feels new, but it also feels like I've known it my whole life

    A.... A....

    I only just read this comment, but you basically summed up exactly how I feel about this song :). Soooo good!

    A.... A....

    Great way of describing it!

    A.... A....

    I mean it is practically a cover song of New Order from the 80s, so it makes sense you’d feel that way since they were really famous. Not saying it’s not good, but it’s extremely heavily influenced in every way by that era.

    A.... A....

    I know :::cry:::

  85. J.... T....

    “I was a dreamer,
    Watch me leave...”

    Love this song and the guitar work during the above refrain reminds me of the incredible guitar work by the Cocteau Twins. That amazing ethereal “twang”. Awesome. This is what GOOD music sounds like.

  86. J.... M....

    the way to keep writing great songs....stay lost

  87. J.... M....

    amazing band...

  88. M.... ....

    She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life...

  89. S.... G....

    Peter Hook is very proud of this sound ;) "KEN" is the best release of 2017 for me.

  90. E.... M....

    Featured at http://escafandrista-musical.com/2017/12/destroyer-ken.html/

  91. M.... G....

    No donnt woerrrrfyy

  92. M.... G....

    I can heip you . mack that

  93. J.... E....

    AWESOME!!!

  94. B.... ....

    New Order/Joy Division influence. fucking love it.

    B.... ....

    Influence? It's a blatant rip off.

    B.... ....

    rip off? of which song? Believe it or not, everyone is influenced and inspired by someone else...