Simple Pleasures

By Jake Bugg

On Shangri La

Released on November 18, 2013

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[Verse 1]

You've been hunting around for treasure

Find it all in the simple pleasures

I don't understand this life you lead

Trying to be somebody else and

Trying to be the one's who help

Want to find the one who helps you breathe


[Pre-Chorus]

Maybe it's all a big mistake

And you live on all you take

From the lives that have always been close

I've been roaming around for hours

Singing all your songs of praise


[Chorus]

How on earth can I complain?

How in hell can I be safe

From this sudden fear of change?

This sudden fear is strange


[Verse 2]

Trying to understand your ways

You hide them with convulsive rage

You tried to be the best you could be

People finding the most pleasure

All within the smallest treasures

This don't seem possible to me


[Pre-Chorus 2]

And maybe it's all that you've done wrong

So just bite your silver tongue

That you lied with, lied to yourself

I've been roaming around for hours

Singing all your songs of praise


[Chorus]

How on earth can I complain?

How in hell can I be safe

From this sudden fear of change?

This sudden fear is strange


[Instrumental break]


[Verse 3]

You've been hunting 'round for treasure

Find it all in the simple pleasures

I don't understand this life you lead


[Pre-Chorus]

Maybe it's all a big mistake

And you live on all you take

From the lives that have always been close

I've been roaming around for hours

Singing all your songs...


[Bridge]

...while standing at the edge, about to fall

Faces crushed against the wall

The sudden fear of singing all your songs of

Staring into space I hear the sound

From a voice that's never found

The sudden fear is strange


[Pre-Chorus]

But maybe it's all a big mistake

And you live on all you take

From the lives that have always been close

I've been roaming around for hours

Singing all your songs of praise


[Chorus]

How on earth can I complain?

How in hell can I be safe?

This sudden fear is strange

This sudden fear of change