The Bitter End

from Meteors Could Come Down by LAL

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Bitter End

The beginning. We wrote this album just after finding ourselves back in Toronto when our US tour was cancelled midway. The world changed almost overnight and all we could do was make music. We needed to make music.

Bitter End is about our journey as friends, lovers and artists. The rest of the album is a love letter to our community, past, present and future. The starkness of the music reflects our mood during this time, one of deep reflection. For those of us already leading or trying to lead alternative lives—those aware of what havoc patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism continuously wreaks—this song asks why, despite it all, we can’t just be happy with what we got.

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Bitter End

I felt you in the silence
Of hate from long ago
Stuck inside of our bodies
Are angels
Are angels
Are angels

Searching for a way out
Is all I wanna do
Sometimes I wish that my heart
Could fly away from you

Why do we need to be
Need to
Fulfilled
Why can’t we why can’t we just pretend
That we got
Everything we need
Till the bitter, till the bitter end

La la la la la - la
La la la la la
La la la la la la - la
La la la la - la

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from Meteors Could Come Down, released November 6, 2020

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LAL Toronto, Ontario

For over two decades, Polaris Prize longlisted Toronto's downtempo soul saviours electronic duo LAL, comprised of Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray, have built a catalogue of silvery, internationally-influenced electronica that insists that the dancefloor remain a place of resistance. ... more

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