Phoenix - Alpha Zulu Lyrics

Phoenix Lyrics

"Alpha Zulu"

Take a moment to decide to compromise
You let me know some other time, some other day
You're now closer to the start than to the limit
Take a bow, vow to the sky, if you want to wait, great

Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Pray to your God, cover your lies
God or guru, hey, hey, hey
Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Run for your life, cover your eyes
Alpha Zulu, hey, hey, hey

Tell me why, don't tell me when, don't tell me how
I must have died at fifty-one in 1953
Just accountin' to the stars, the only reason I'm allowed
There's a purple cloud in the consommé, ouais

Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Pray to your God, cover your lies
God or guru, hey, hey, hey
Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Run for your life, cover your eyes
Alpha Zulu

Why choose your body over time?
Why choose your body over time with me?
Why choose your body over time?
Why choose your body over time with me?
Hey, hey, hey

I get your close up to sublime the alibi
Your Mona Lisa immortalized, décapitée
I wouldn't change, I wouldn't try another second
'Til I rise, a hologram waiting for the tiebreak

Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Pray to your God, cover your lies
God or guru, hey, hey, hey
Woo ha, singin' hallelujah
Run for your life, cover your eyes
Alpha Zulu

Why choose your body over time?
Why choose your body over time with me?
Why choose your body over time?
Why choose your body over time with me?
Hey, hey, hey

(Why choose your body over time?
Why choose your body over time?)
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

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Writer(s): Christian Mazzalai, Deck D Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, Thomas Mars

The title of "Alpha Zulu" comes from a phrase that Phoenix's frontman Thomas Mars heard on a airplane's intercom during a bumpy flight in a storm. He explained in an interview with Apple Music, "I'm so scared of flying that it sounds like Mayday when I heard this the first time. Like, 'Alpha Zulu, Alpha Zulu, going down.' And so I guess it stuck with me, and it came out in a strange way in the studio."

This track, released via Glassnote on the 1st of June, 2022, was the first music from Phoenix after "Identical", their contribution to the soundtrack to the film "On The Rocks" in 2020. The film was directed by frontman Thomas Mars' wife, Sofia Coppola.

album: "Alpha Zulu" (2022)

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