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Grit Your Teeth

by A Total Wreck

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1.
A Spectre with a Beating Heart 05:08
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I'm disgusted by my own fluids Viscus putrid Please, oh please, won't you be mine One in your slime Save the drink of my sick Make you live for it Force me down to my knees You can watch as I grimace You can melt right into this You can bare it all to me Snail trails linger Flushed cheeks, pinker Saliva mixed Tears transfixed Sputtering sludge Slippery liquid Vibrating mucus In the end, just us You're like a pair of legs That sink and melt as they walk I'll scoop the puddle of you From the ground, drink you down Flesh and blood, I tore into you Scratch at the membrane First impulse, "Are you suffocating?" Begin life, breathing slime Drip, by drip, you squirm, I sip I'd spare your flesh if you really wanted it Drink up, wipe your tears In your slime, I felt fear Entranced, enamored, as tense as The demons in a string of spit Will grab onto all of my senses And unleash them unto me Save the drink of my sick Make you live for it Force me down to my knees You can watch as I grimace You can melt right into this You can bare it all to me Snail trails linger Flushed cheeks, pinker Saliva mixed Tears transfixed Sputtering sludge Slippery liquid Vibrating mucus In the end, just us Disgusted by my own fluids I'll scoop the puddle of you Disgusted by my own fluids From the ground, drink you down Disgusted by my own fluids I'll scoop the puddle of you Viscus, putrid From the ground, drink you down Please, oh please, won't you be mine I'll scoop the puddle of you One in your slime From the ground, drink you down, I would
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The Retaliation 03:33
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Monetary paradise Security and aid If you can’t work hard You’re called lazy and afraid Force my smile to rise Consume and try to stay alive Fruits of labor have gone rotten Moldy, wayward, and forgotten These are the highest stakes Forced to run and be afraid Compelled my limbs to rise Coerced my eyes to stay alive Sacrificial makeup To hide the daily wear Of pretending that it’s ok So my life won’t go to hell Each limb bears the heaviness Of fighting off itself Instead of peace and calmness I stay wishing I worked well Able-bodied robots Go to work and slave away My broken human body Fumes with jealousy and rage Monetary paradise Security and aid If you can’t work hard You’re called lazy and afraid Force my smile to rise Consume and try to stay alive Fruits of labor have gone rotten Moldy, wayward, and forgotten
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Edges 04:10
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When it hits I awake into a body of someone else’s Softness Someone else’s stomach, someone else’s bliss What if I Woke up into them Flawlessly Carved out, everything empty Not a crease or fold would out me And just like that The infatuation of feeling edges will be Satisfied If only I could live In a constant loop of Rage, sweat, and bliss I seek better days In a body I will Never have Rage quit the world I dove into anything I could put inside To make it not hurt And I’m still on the edge Getting cut by its Sharpness Touched my smooth and scarred skin You can’t legislate That power Away Over again It dissipates the feeling I feel bliss for the first time What’s home when it never Felt that way? I said goodbye body I said goodbye body I said goodbye body I said goodbye body I said goodbye body Fuck! If only I could live In a constant loop of Rage, sweat, and bliss I seek better days In a body I will Never have Rage quit the world I dove into anything I could put inside To make it not hurt And I’m still on the edge
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Ritual for the Only Good King 06:32
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Devil’s claw on golden seal A highland flag on a red cedar In the woods you will find me near The black oak in burgundy with dead roots Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root A pennyroyal in the clover Shepherd’s purse full of rue Bitter water washes down sweet We’ll watch over you til the dawn breaks with Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Burdened glory in a hopeless time Sever me from the vine Traveled across a sea of demons To regain all my lost freedom Lost and crawling through the burning snow Funeral flames that chill the bone It’s times like this that’ll will make you know That we are never going home Times so much you can't remember how to breathe Fear is what has come over me This is nothing like I thought it would be This bitter winter’s been rapping at my door And she won't go In the face of apocalypse you'll know love In the name of your gods we shed blood Though your salvation will never come Live through tonight and we'll be as one I Am Be Come Spectre Be Come The thing That haunts you What You see When you Sleep I Am Become What haunts you What haunts you What haunts you What haunts you I pray, oh I pray, for the flood To wash away the disease of me I pray, oh I pray, to gods I don't believe Just wash away me In the face of apocalypse you'll know love In the name of your gods we shed blood Though your salvation will never come Live through tonight and we'll be as one No life can grow where blood has salted the earth Battlefields lost and fruitlessly won Cursed and scared, barren and bruised Cowardice forgotten by the warriors decay Fought for kings who ignore their ways All those kings just laugh and sway Thinking all their troubles float away Until they fall, fall away Fallen kings kiss the dirt Fallen kings kiss the dirt Fallen kings kiss the dirt Fallen kings kiss the dirt Only good king is a dead man king Only good king is a dead man king Only good king is a dead man king Only good king is a dead man king Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root Black oak, burgundy, and dead root
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Essence 02:49
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Sink and swim I died a million times Again Through wonder And fear Sacrifice my Wandering last breath Sink or swim The weight Of the blade through my skin Taken Day by day At the end I’ll finally float away Cracking Against my Bones Fuck It hurts! Erratically Attacked Then dispersed Breaking through my skin Yeah my skin Like a parasite Breaking through my skin Like a parasite Jumping out Fading Into the mountains A mist That’s finally free to roam Immortal As they drank from the fountain They wished For the bliss of unknown Never have to show their face Never have to hide away Batted to the knee Cracks and snaps A life defined by Self attack An auto response of killing Everyday, every hour Wish I could fly back To this earth Before my body breaks Grit my teeth Become the seething Grit my teeth Become the seething Don’t wanna die Just become as light as A blade of grass Grit my teeth Become the seething Grit my teeth Become the seething Don’t wanna die Just become as light as A blade of grass
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404 03:31
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Bare knuckle brawlin’ by the side of the road Bad luck hit you, bet your blood ran cold Beggars want plastic memories Cellophane cryptid similes Better be backin’ off that weak back bone, let it leak Crash course Casket Limitation Frantic Feeling vain Dash cam Inbound Assimilation Transit We’ll be as one Fast back Eight track Stimulation Habit Shifting gears Thrash it Gasket Radiation Spastic I'm not okay When I find you Will you be refined As I remember you Or redesigned As my conscious fades The fulcrums misaligned What's with your drive? You're not my kind Increase the dosage ‘til the virus is dead Increase the voltage ‘til I can't feel my head Beggars want plastic memories Cellophane cryptid similes Shillin out, scroungin’ all that change up from the couch Fast times Past time Generation Decline I'm feeling old Screen time Online Information Sublime Overload Blank check Break neck Operation Defect Her disease In line On time Sign papers You're mine A nervous scratch Well it’s hard to stay humble When you’re breathing trouble Oh, I’m seeing double Hey, let’s rumble Hot wire Mainframe Simulation My shame It’s breaking down No fun I’m done Resignation’s Begun Signal loss Hands shake Bones break Annihilation Heart ache You’ll get away I'm here today But it's not the way I thought I'd be When I find you Will you be refined As I remember you Or redesigned As my conscious fades The fulcrums misaligned What's with your drive? You are not my kind Increase the dosage ‘til the virus is dead Increase the voltage ‘til I can't feel my head ‘Til I can't feel my head ‘Til I can't feel my head ‘Til I can't feel my head I can't feel my head
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Seen 03:14
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The room dances, the windows gaze It's New Year's Eve Dry bar hears all, I's a fly on the wall Until I was seen Until I was seen Until I was seen Smiling faces in the camera's eye I can't bare to look At the Polaroid's happy boy For the sad girl's eyes Because I was seen Cause I was seen Buckle down Grit your teeth Smile, smile Be happy Consciously Imitating A good time Taken away, yeah Ruining Being Being Noticed Unapparent Feelings Feeling Spoiled Ruining Being Being Noticed Unapparent Feelings Feeling Spoiled Buckle down Grit your teeth Smile, smile Be happy Consciously Imitating The good time Taken away from you

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Recorded in single takes, Grit Your Teeth is a raw and noisy EP that showcases our eclectic pouty & rowdy sound.

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released August 2, 2023

Vox: Emmy Pritykin and Jordan Tyler
Bass: Emmy Pritykin and Jordan Tyler
Guitar: Sergio Graman
Drums: Nick Papazian
Mixed and mastered by Slack

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