We Make Hits
Yard Act * Track #2 On Where’s My Utopia?
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We Make Hits Lyrics
[Intro]
(Watch me now)
[Verse 1]
I let my friend live upstairs in the spare room for a minute
He needed space and he paid, never relayed to our letting agent that we did it
(That's illegal)
I sublet, yeah, I admit it, document on tape
The greatest crime this nation's saving grace devised and then committed
[Verse 2]
I just wanna make a point that the culture would've died
And post-punk's latest poster boys wouldn't have got to ride
On the coattails of thе dead and claim that their derision
Is a vеhicle for their vision of subverting it instead
Now subliminal exposure is exploding in your head
'Cause you know that we were goading ya
[Interlude]
Yeah, one night up in the attic listening to Grammatics
Drinking cans and shooting the shit
We reeled off all of our hopes and dreams and made a list
And there was one singular ambition we had
That most musicians of our ilk aren't willing to admit
And it was to this mantra we would commit
[Chorus]
We make hits
Two broke millennial men
And we'd do it again
Every night on the back of the bus
You know it ain't no fuss
We're on the same wage
And we ain't afraid to get paid on stage
Fan fiction caught in the act is a fact
If you get your back backed up at that
[Post-Chorus]
You won't be missed (Watch me now)
Now we make hits
(But not hits like Nile Rodgers)
(Just that we ain't hook dodgers)
We make hits, we make hits
[Verse 3]
Right, so when we were done kissing
We finally formed this band
And we signed to a subsidiary of Universal, Inc.
'Cause the water keeps on rising
And we know there's no surprising
Anyone with eyes and ears 'round here
That we're all gonna sink
[Pre-Chorus]
And we just wanna have some fun before we're sunk
And if that's the attitude you exude, then you know you're really—
[Chorus]
We make hits
Two broke millennial men
And we'd do it again
Every night on the back of the bus
You know it ain't no fuss
We're on the same wage
And we ain't afraid to get paid on stage
Fan fiction caught in the act is a fact
If you get your back backed up at that
[Post-Chorus]
You won't be missed (Watch me now)
Now we make hits
(But not hits like Nile Rodgers)
(Just that we ain't hook dodgers)
We make hits, we make hits
[Outro]
I'm still an anti-C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-T
It just so happens that there's other things I happen to be
So I'm gonna keep flinging shit until enough of it sticks
Break down the walls
And if it's not a hit, we were being ironic
Yeah
We Make Hits Q&A
Who wrote We Make Hits's ?
We Make Hits was written by Christopher Duffin & James Smith (Yard Act) & Jay Russell & Ryan Needham & Sam Shipstone.
Who produced We Make Hits's ?
We Make Hits was produced by Remi Kabaka Jr. & Yard Act.
When did Yard Act release We Make Hits?
Yard Act released We Make Hits on Mon Jan 15 2024.
What have the artists said about this song?
James Smith:
“We Make Hits” started like most Yard Act songs do these days, in Ryan’s spare bedroom. He’d recorded a couple of basslines and I went round to throw some words on top just to see what might happen. I was reflecting on how things had changed so much for us over the last few years when...
What did Yard Act say about "We Make Hits"?
James Smith:
This was one of the last songs written. We wrote it in Ryan [Needham, bassist]’s spare bedroom in a break from touring. I think Ryan had been going for that kind of French disco, Daft Punk, Justice vibes and everything fell out of me quite fast. I started by writing the story of me and...