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Breaking Grounds

from Hostile Music by Salem Wolves

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about

“‘Breaking Grounds’ is a fever-dream, the feeling of free-falling in the dark,” says Bouchard. “It honestly came to me in a dream – I was being chased by cats with amber eyes. The chase was some kind of test, and I was failing. I felt desperate, sick, and weak. I couldn’t outrun them, I didn’t know what they wanted, I didn’t know what they would do if they caught me. Every alley I turned into, every place I tried to hide, the eyes were already there, glowing marbles in the dark. In a moment of lucidity, I knew I was dreaming. And the fear gripped me that the dream would never end. The song is about that: The anxiety that you’re somewhere hostile and strange and the thought ‘I don’t want to die in here’. It’s that feeling that you’re the last person alive in a dangerous land, and that land is inside your own head.”

lyrics

Fool me once, call me a fool
Don't know that it is to win
When you're born to lose
In the dark of night
The cats with the amber eyes
You used to sing in tune
But now every note is a lie

Tell me boys, is it enough?
You can paint your face all white
But I was made for rougher stuff
The breaking ground
The razor’s edge
It's the kind of hunger
That follows you ‘till you're dead

How can anything good survive?
How is still alive?
The fearful symmetry
The space between you and I
No one gets out alive

You had your drink from the blackened cup
You drained it over and over
But you just can't fill it up
Become a monster, not a man
The sky tears off in sheets
So tired you can't even stand

How can anything good survive?
How is still alive?
The fearful symmetry
The space between you and I
No one gets out alive

How can anything good survive?
How is still alive?
The fearful symmetry
The space between you and I
No one gets out alive

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from Hostile Music, released January 19, 2022

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