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Breaktime Broadsword

from Compilation by Jack Fallows

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We put this on the second Skull Puppies EP 'Venus Crytrap'. It's a rare example of a song I composed entirely in my head, doing so while I hid in the bathroom at an old job I hated to avoid a panic attack. I had to figure out the chords and write down the lyrics and structure based on a bunch of whispered/hummed voice memos saved to my phone before I could bring it to the band. It's another song of survival, but centres more on solidarity during the worst of it; accepting that some storms need to be weathered, but maintaining that we don't have to be happy about it.

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I never understood why it felt so cool
To be wearing black and fake feeling blue
'Cause we all learned hard lessons from adolescence
We sang 'sticks and stones' to heal broken bones
But the worst pain comes from your own sick guts
Not those short-lived breaks or those shallow cuts

There are scars you wear like badges
There are scars you want to hide
There's a broadsword cutting up your fucking insides
And this song is for the ones who survive

You think about the friends who extended their hands out to you,
The way you feel so ashamed just for causing them to,
The bathroom door that you lock behind you,
Raise your knees to your face, let the dark remind you.
You feel fucked and you probably are fucked.
But I'm here at least, I won't insist on speaking,
I will douse this house in gasoline if you wanna strike your match and burn it clean.

You wanna trade this pain for one more mild,
Like the arm you broke when you were a child,
'Cause the break that really makes you hurt,
Is the one you take on your own at work,
Where your thoughts swell up and your nerves start screaming,
Daily tasks have lost all meaning,
The folks you know seem to come and go but you are not alone.
No, you are not alone.

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from Compilation, track released October 24, 2014

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