Omar Apollo - Go Away

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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Mexican-American singer-songwriter Omar Apollo [real name: Omar Apolonio Velasco] has had an inspiring rise to fame: while living in an attic and working two jobs (at Jimmy Johns and Guitar Center), he uploaded one of his songs to Spotify where it got 20,000 streams in a day. Shortly thereafter, his career blew up, culminating in his debut album Apolonio, released last year.

On today's Song of the Day, the 24-year-old singer/songwriter worked with producers Carter Lang and Chromeo to craft the lovesick synth-laden track.

Omar Apollo is scheduled to perform Sunday, October 17th at The Showbox in Seattle. – Janice Headley

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0:00.0	You can take the throne, but it looks like gold
0:23.0	Be it hard, slight close, but I do the time will slow
0:30.0	Do you think that I could stay?
0:34.0	Because if I needed, I couldn't play
0:38.0	I know this feeling is not a crime
0:42.0	You said you fitted all the time
0:45.0	But if you had to go away
0:50.0	Again, I just don't see you enough
0:56.0	I wish I saw you enough
1:00.0	It's something in the way I've been
1:05.0	You scared me
1:08.0	I just don't see you enough
1:11.0	I wish I saw you enough
1:17.0	If you saw me every morning
1:19.0	But you fell at some parties
1:21.0	That's too much of a sin
1:23.0	Because I don't want to be much
1:26.0	I love the way to retouch
1:32.0	Do you like all of my plans?
1:34.0	I want your attention
1:36.0	Before you'd never mention
1:38.0	That you got time in your stake
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