“70% Dead” is the first single released by Wargasm following their 2023 debut album, Venom and features Corey Taylor, best known as the frontman of nu-metal royalty, Slipknot. The song is Wargasm’s signature flavour of nu-metal with angry and high-energy lyrics layered over riffy and powerful guitar...
[Verse 1: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Sam Matlock & Milkie Way]
We're so pretty, we're, we're so pretty
Oh, I know you love me
But, but, but please don't touch me
Sun’s so bright I'm burning in my bed
You know some nights I feel alive but I'm 70% dead
We're so pretty, we're, we're so pretty
Pretty tired, uninspired
Of living in a world on fire
It's getting heavy, oh, the air is getting heavy
Yeah, it's getting heavy, the air is getting heavy
Oh
[Pre-Chorus: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Corey Taylor, Milkie Way & Corey Taylor]
We're killing innocence
With stylish ignorance
You can barely hold it together but
Don't I look better now you know that we won't live forever?
(Oh) We're killing innocence
(Oh) With stylish ignorance
You can barely hold it together, baby
Don't you look better now I know that we won't live forever?
[Chorus: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Milkie Way & Corey Taylor]
We're so pretty, we're just so fucking pretty
Oh, I know you love me
But, but don't fucking test me
Take my body, turn it into something ugly
Take my money, turn it into something dirty
[Verse 2: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Sam Matlock & Milkie Way]
Sell my right to autonomy (Take my blood)
Take, take everything out
It makes you enough to get high but
Never gonna catch me buying time
'Cause I'm too caught up tryna keep myself alive
[Pre-Chorus: Milkie Way & Corey Taylor, Sam Matlock, Corey Taylor]
We're killing innocence
With stylish ignorance
You can barely hold it together but
Don't I look better now you know that we won't live forever?
[Chorus: Sam Matlock, Corey Taylor, Corey Taylor & Sam Matlock]
(Oh) We're killing innocence
(Oh) With stylish ignorance
You can barely hold it together, baby
Don't you look better now I know that we won't live forever
[Breakdown: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Corey Taylor, Milkie Way & Corey Taylor]
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Yeah
([?])
Ah
[Bridge: Sam Matlock, Milkie Way, Corey Taylor, Milkie Way & Corey Taylor]
Fuck me, what went wrong?
I'm sick of sleeping on the barrel of a loaded gun
Fuck me, what went wrong?
I'm sick of slipping on the barrel of a loaded gun (Ow!)
Fuck me, what went wrong?
I'm sick of sleeping on the barrel of a loaded gun
Fuck me, what went wrong?
I'm sick of slipping on the barrel of a loaded gun
You know some nights I feel alive but I'm 70% dead
You know some nights I feel alive but I'm 70% dead
[Chorus: Milkie Way & Corey Taylor, Corey Taylor, Sam Matlock]
We're so pretty, we're so fucking pretty
Don't you look better now I know that we won't live forever?
We're so pretty, we're so fucking pretty
Don't you look better now I know that we won't live forever
We're so pretty, we're so fucking pretty
Don't I look better now you know that we won't live forever?
We're so pretty, we're so fucking pretty
Don't I look better now you know that we won't live forever?
Yeah
70% Dead was written by Ben Havok & Charlie Russell & Kieron Pepper (Кирон Пеппер) & Michael Taylor & Milkie Way & Sam Matlock.
70% Dead was produced by Charlie Russell & WARGASM & Kieron Pepper (Кирон Пеппер).
We were on the road in the USA with Corey – Sam ended up jumping on a mic with him during his set and we just felt like the voices sounded right together. It totally made sense to do something fresh with the three of us and well…. you don’t ask you don’t get.
Some OG fans might recognise the lyrics...