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The First Song! (Freestyle)

from The Skin Of My Teeth by Happy Tooth

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This is a freestyle, I stopped it twice and started off of what I had already tracked. But it is a freestyle, scout's honor.

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One, two, three, four, five, six,
I just wanna find some sticks and burn down some shit.
But I can't start a fire when my heart is tired,
wrapped in barbed wire and I'm uninspired.
I just wanna run and get higher then I was before.
I guess that I've done this chore a thousand times,
and I know I'll just doubt my spine.
The mountains climbed. It's done for.
It was just this one war
and now it's kind of just some sport that people wanna afford.
Because they can't even enjoy it.
So they try to get an employment and it mixes with poison.
It's just so poignant and sharp,
and it just feels like the sharpest.
I just wanna be an artist but I'm not sure where my heart is.
So I start this and stop again.
I guess that I'm not a friend,
I guess that I'm not a son, I'm not a gun,
I'm not a pun that you can relate to,
and maybe you just hate you and that's okay too,
but I just wanna see if the days through.
Or just beginning. Maybe it's us we're skinning.
I'm not sure why I'm grinning.
I'm just looking at these thin wings.
And I know I'm not an angel.
I'll probably just dangle or get strangled, or get tangled,
or hung up by my ankles.
Either way I believe today that we can escape if we try,
and if we can't that's cool, cause I know we'll break inside.
Hate the light, hate the time,
hate everything in between.
Hate all of your dreams it doesn't matter what it means.
It seems like it's worthless,
so throw it right into the furnace.
You're not a person, you're just vermin
squirming inside of what you're submerged in.
Which is acid, it's massive.
I feel so passive aggressive,
I know the lessons and questions I learn
won't ever express this.
So I get stuck in my thoughts.
Wanting to get it across but I can't cause I'm lost.
Dead or alive?
I can't tell whats inside.
I guess I'll dive down and strive to become
something that's not as high.
But right now I don't really feel sober.
I feel like I could go over the edge of the cliff for closure.

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from The Skin Of My Teeth, released May 12, 2015

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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