“Entertainment” is the lead single from Phoenix’s Bankrupt!
Released two months before the album, it was the first taste of the heavy synthpop sound that would dominate the record. Their preceding album, 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, had incorporated select elements of synthpop into their songwr...
[Verse 1]
Headline from this day on
Oh, why you keep pretending that you wanna let go?
Do, do you wanna let go?
Loud volume turns to low, low, low, low, low, low
[Pre-Chorus]
What you want and what you do to me
I'll take the trouble that you have in mind
[Chorus]
Entertainment
Show them what you do with me
When everyone here knows better
What I once refused to be
Is everything they long together
I'd rather be alone
[Verse 2]
I love, I love, I love, I notice
I heard it all before I died
Before I knew you
Once upon a time would take too long
Long, long, long, long, long
[Pre-Chorus]
What you want and what you do to me
I'll take the trouble that you have in my mind
[Chorus]
Entertainment
Show them what you do with me
When everyone here knows better
What I once refused to be
Is everything they long together
I'd rather be alone
[Post-Chorus]
I'd rather be alone
Entertainment was written by Deck d’Arcy & Laurent Brancowitz & Christian Mazzalai & Thomas Mars.
Entertainment was produced by Phoenix & Philippe Zdar.
Phoenix released Entertainment on Mon Feb 18 2013.