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Ancient Tattoos - Single

by Gentle Temper

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We are thrilled to share with you "Ancient Tattoos", the first single off our upcoming debut full-length album. This song began as a poem written by Marion, with music written and arranged by Ryan and Marion. It is a lyrical bloodletting for feelings of self-contempt, evoking the desire to be somebody, or something, else. We hope this song allows you to feel whatever it is you're feeling, and, by its end, to let those feelings go.

lyrics

Let me fall into a slumber so deep
It might just lock you up with me.
Maybe we'll sleep forever together,
Wouldn't mind that, would you mind that?
I wish I were an octopus, prowling a black sea
I wish I were anything but me.
No, there's no point to this
I've been rubbed raw and red, scars so tender then
But still it stings, the ink that buries
Engraved on my body for your eyes only.
I wish I were an octopus, prowling a black sea
I wish I were anything but me
I wish I were an octopus, drowning sailors in the sea
'Cause these ancient tattoos keep digging into me.
I'm no baby lying in an unattended crib,
Crying until my lungs give out.
I won't cry 'til my lungs give out.

These goddamn tattoos keep digging in.

credits

released July 14, 2018
Recorded and mixed by Peter Geiser at Red Bull Arts Studios in New York, NY.
Mastered by Randy Roos.
Photo by Ana Acevedo-Barga.

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hi we’re rymy & me thanks for being here! we’re a du-woah in the northeastern US who writes music and records some videos
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