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Who Bites Down

Track 4





This song came out of neccessity and became the light at the end of the tunnel. I was going through a bout of bad mental health for a few months which ended up just bubbling over. I had convinced myself I wasn't a good person, that I wasn't good enough to be in the band and that I didn't have anything worthy to bring to the table.




“I'd pretty much withdrawn & wasn't talking about it, until the rest of the band pulled me out the mud and started a conversation where i was able to freely talk about any worries I was having.”



The song was the start of a journey for me learning more about myself and I'm forever grateful to the rest of the band & feel incredibly lucky to be in their company.

The instrumentation started off as a bit of an experiment, we chose a key & went separately into the studio to record. We weren't allowed to listen to what eachother had done and just played whatever we wanted. We did this twice each on different instruments. Unmuted all the tracks to a wall of noise, Mike somehow managed to find loops that worked as verses and choruses.

Mike and I then worked on the lyrics, piecing streams of consciousness together to make sense of what I was going through.



Mike & Hattie in Netherlands 2022


Lyrics

All the seasons, come in teething
Gently weaving
Tell me who bites down
It's the murder of the day
Grateful saying what I say
Tell me who's let down, tell me who's let down

Looping, spinning wheel
Wind it up to begin
I'm a fraction of the turning
I'm a beginning I am turning
I'll keep on digging, I am not forgiving, I'm chewed up just listen
You want answers I get it, look around us the room is spinning

The room spins round
Though they won't believe it, we break
no new ground, i'll just keep on giving
who's let down, who's let down, tell me whos let down

Looping, spinning wheel
Wind it up to begin
I'm a fraction of the turning
I'm a beginning, I am turning
I'll keep on digging I am not forgiving I'm chewed up
just listen
You want answers I get it, my friend it's doing laps around us
Cut the bastard, it's laughing at you
Look around us the room is spinning, look around us the room is spinning
Look around us the room is spinning

I'll be back in a minute I'm only stepping out

Tell me who bites down
While the room spins round
Tell me who's let down, tell me who's let down
Who bites down
While the room spins round
Tell me whos let down
Tell me whos let down


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