Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
“Statuette” incorporates elements from “Shrine to Fast Goodbyes,” a song which Haines played live during the tour for the first Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton record, Knives Don’t Have Your Back, but of which a studio version was never released.
The song was accompanied by a music video direc...
[Verse 1]
With a feather in your cap
Another jewel in your crown
Another notch in your belt
You’re the captain at the helm
The statuette on your shelf
Says you’re better than me
Better than me
[Chorus]
With all the coal in the core
All the water and the oil
You can buy any girl in the world
With the soil that you borrow
And the moral you deny
You can buy the eyes of the world
With all the coal in the core
All the water and the oil
You can buy any girl in the world
With the soil that you borrow
And the moral you deny
You can buy the eyes of the world
[Post-Chorus]
Better than me (You’re better than me)
Better than me (You’re better than me)
Better than me (You’re better than me)
[Verse 2]
Like oil in the ocean
I couldn’t keep to myself
Your father was a merchant
And I’m a salesman myself
See what we have in common
Is so easy to find
We’re wound around each other
Like wires and vines
Wires and vines
[Bridge]
Build a shrine to fast goodbyes
And we played Sweet Adeline
Who should you apologize to?
What is there to say?
Build a shrine to fast goodbyes
And we played Sweet Adeline
There’s nothing more to apologize for
What is there to say?
[Chorus]
With all the coal in the core
All the water and the oil
You can buy any girl in the world
With the soil that you borrow
And the moral you deny
You can buy the eyes of the world
With all the coal in the core
All the water and the oil
You can buy any girl in the world
With the soil that you borrow
And the moral you deny
You can buy the eyes of the world
[Post-Chorus]
Better than me (You’re better than me, you’re better than me, you’re better than me)
Better than me (You’re better than me, you’re better than me, you’re better than me)
Better than me (You’re better than me, you’re better than me, you’re better than me)
Better than me (You’re better than me, you’re better than me, you’re better than me)
Statuette was written by Emily Haines.
Statuette was produced by James Shaw.
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton released Statuette on Tue Aug 15 2017.