Its not often we get official lyrics for Julian penned songs but my copy of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories turned up today and I was delighted to see the lyrics for Instant Crush were included! It is such a wonderful song and reading the lyrics makes me adore it even more.

Instant Crush Lyrics

I didn’t want to be the one to forget
I thought of everything I’d never regret
A little time with you is all that I get
That’s all we make because it’s all we can take

One thing I never see the same when your ’round
I don’t believe in him, his lips on the ground
I wanna take you to that place in the “Roche”
But no one leaves us any time anymore

He ask me once if I’d look in on his dog
You made an offer for it then you ran off
I get this picture of us kids in my head
And all I hear is the last thing that you said

‘I listened to your problems
Now listen to mine’
I didn’t want to anymore, oh

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chain myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a door

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chain myself to a friend
Some more again

It didn’t matter what they wanted to see
He thought you saw someone that looked just like me
The summer memory that just never dies
We worked too long and hard to give it no time

He sees right through me, it’s so easy with lies
Cracks in the road that I would try and disguise
He runs his scissor up the seam in the wall
He cannot break it down or else he will fall

One thousand lonely stars, hiding in the cold
Take it, I don’t wanna sing anymore

‘I listened to your problems
Now listen to mine’
I didn’t want to anymore, oh

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a door

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a …

I don’t understand, don’t get upset, I’m not with you
We’re swimming around, it’s all I do
When I’m with you

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a door

And we will never be alone again
‘Cause it doesn’t happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away
Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
‘Cause I know it unlocks like a door

Things are quiet still with The Strokes but a track some of us have been anticipating for the last month or so is Julian Casablancas song with Daft Punk. Instant Crush is beautiful, Julian has some serious 80s vocals going on but somehow still manages to sound full of longing and sadness.

Edit: The Sound Cloud link has been taken down already, listen to it at this Tumblr blog

News round up

+ Comedown Machine sold 96, 000 copies worldwide in its first week, this is considerably down from Angles which shifted 177,000 but with no promotion or live dates the band must have expected this

+ Julian is rumoured to be appearing on Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories [via Kobini]

+ Whilst Fab is going to be on Har Mar Superstar’s new record Bye Bye 17 on a track called Prisoner

+ Hottest band of the moment Haim covered I’ll try Anything Once for a recent radio session, Danielle of course was part of Julian’s touring band.

+ Three new t-shirts are now available at the band’s official store

+ Albert attended a Q & A session at a recent screening of Woody Allen’s Bananas, you can find photos here

Gallery Update

Albert and Fab attended the premiere of The Company You Keep on 01 April

Albert attended the premier of Trance on 02 April

Thought it would be fun to find out what the fans favourite songs are from Comedown Machine, because I personally find it too hard to pick just one you can vote for up to 3 songs.

There has been much speculation over the artwork for Comedown Machine, the Is This It portraits cast as silhouettes could seem like an ominous sign for the future of the band but Albert reassured fans on Twitter last night that whilst it was the end of an era that it was meant to simply represent the end of their cycle at RCA records

“@jakeprice24: @alberthammondjr The Strokes as a band cycle? Or just The Strokes on RCA cycle?”Obviously the RCA cycle

— Albert Hammond, Jr. (@alberthammondjr) March 25, 2013

Check out the scans at the link below.

Gallery: Artwork: Comedown Machine: Album