Bitter Breath is HUNGER's resident slow-burner track. We would describe it as pensive, melancholy, and coarse, though like any artistic medium that will be subject to personal interpretation. This track represents a compositional intermission in forgoing the more chaotic sonic elements present within its EP counterparts, instead emphasising a more minimalistic quality of instrumental delivery influenced by acts like Defeater. Bitter Breath was something of a unique songwriting experience for us in terms of how it utilizes reprise and motif, and the track also saw significant compositional input from producer Tim Creviston, who can be credited with really bringing this track to life. We chose this song as our 3rd EP single as we believe it embodies a musical quality that acts as a strong counterpoint to the existing singles, and demonstrates our approach to a slower and more emotive form of hardcore.
lyrics
This gruesome constitution
Has stripped me down once again
This fire’s weak and tired
You were so resistant to let me in
And I repaint these walls inside my head
And I fall for dissociation, over and over and over again
But time is running faster than my legs could ever take me
I wrote these words in lieu of all the bullshit
So here’s to you
You’ll never understand the way that this has taken hold of me
You front like you know what I’m going through
But I know that’s not true
You pretend to support me through this fight
But I am never right
You only disapprove
But how could you, when the same thing happened to you
Wander into darkness, maybe then you’ll finally see
That this is not who I am, there is something very wrong with me
Wander into darkness, maybe then you’ll finally see
That this is not who I am, there is something very wrong with me
I wonder which way to go, I am oh so alone
Like a child with no way home
Running back to the smack it continues to grasp at me
It holds me back
And I can’t breathe on my own
Yet you continue to cast your stone
But we are the same you and I its an eye for an eye as my life goes crashing by
Never wondering why
This is hell I mean well you stood up as I fell
What is real I can’t feel blacked out youth scars reveal
This is hell I mean well you stood up as I fell
What is real I can’t feel blacked out youth scars reveal
Wander into darkness, maybe then you’ll finally see
That this is not who I am, there is something very wrong with me
Wander into darkness, maybe then you’ll finally see
That this is not who I am, there is something very wrong with me
No one can help me (help me)
Forever ill be
Encased in apathy
I wither happily
With bitter breath and a sour smile
I’m going away for a while
This is hell I mean well you stood up as I fell
What is real I can’t feel blacked out youth scars reveal
This is hell I mean well you stood up as I fell
What is real I can’t feel blacked out youth scars reveal
credits
from HUNGER,
track released September 23, 2019
Written by: Cole Lamb, Graham Scanlon, Alex Pearce
Produced by: Tim Creviston
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