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The lead single for Mothership, Dance Gavin Dance’s seventh album and eighth release overall, “Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise” deals with the narrator’s feelings of failure and shame as he turns to substances to give his life meaning and feeling, despite his longing to feel alright without them.
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[Verse 1: Jon Mess, Tilian both]
Gimme that canvas, let me paint some shit
Pass me some poison, let me take a hit
I'm just embarrassed and comfortably numb
But failure is painful and lying is fun
Dress code, cocktails, looking so fancy
We feel like we're a little bit classy
Cheers to the fact that we're not dead
Swimming with the sharks, but we're still not dead yet
Psycho I go right to buy those
Optimistic magic fix it pills
I'm so right though, that's my life, bro
Underwater, coughing with my gills
[Pre-Chorus: Tilian]
Don't let this moment go to waste
You don't know when the feeling could happen again
Don't let this moment go to waste
You don't know when the feeling could happen again
[Chorus: Tilian]
Touch me, taste me, tell me I'm not fading
Tell me that I look just like a man
'Cause lately, baby, I've been going crazy
Trying not to be an embarrassment
Touch me, taste me, tell me I'm not fading
Tell me that I look just like a man
'Cause lately, baby, I've been going crazy
Trying not to be an embarrassment
[Post-Chorus: Jon Mess]
I'll go in cryo and return to life, ho
And make a bisque, tomato basil shit
Riding a rhino, pico de gallo
Roosters beak, I'll sleep when I leap that jeep
[Verse 2: Jon Mess, Tilian both]
Gimme that canvas, let me paint some shit
Pass me some poison, let me take a hit
I'm just embarrassed and comfortably numb
But failure is painful and lying is fun
Dress code, cocktails, looking so fancy
We feel like we're a little bit classy
Cheers to the fact that we're not dead
Swimming with the sharks, but we're still not dead yet
[Chorus: Tilian]
Touch me, taste me, tell me I'm not fading
Tell me that I look just like a man
'Cause lately, baby, I've been going crazy
Trying not to be an embarrassment
Touch me, taste me, tell me I'm not fading
Tell me that I look just like a man
'Cause lately, baby, I've been going crazy
Trying not to be an embarrassment
[Post-Chorus: Jon Mess]
I'll go in cryo and return to life, ho
And make a bisque, tomato basil shit
Riding a rhino, pico de gallo
Roosters beak, I'll sleep when I leap that jeep
[Bridge: Tilian]
Don't close your eyes tonight
Perfect melodies are hard to find (I got a feeling)
I got a feeling we can touch the sky
Let's live in this delusion
That we don't live in perpetual confusion
And there's meaning to our lives
[Outro: Jon Mess Jon Mess & Tilian]
Hades arc, golden tarp, black hole
Slack is for- slack is for cutting me more
Mountain, fountain, shrieking, preaching
Slack is for- slack is for cutting me
Slack is for cutting me more
For every little bit of sunshine, I call freedom
White 21 is the maximum fun
For every little bit of sunshine, I call freedom
White 21 is the maximum fun
Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise was written by Will Swan & Matt Mingus & Tim Feerick & Jon Mess & Tilian & Zachary Garren.
Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise was produced by Kris Crummett.
Dance Gavin Dance released Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise on Thu Aug 18 2016.
Guitarist Will Swan discusses the making of the title of “Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise” in an interview poster on The Noise.
Chucky was a name I came up with. I had been watching the Chucky movies and I go on little horror movie marathons all the time – especially 80′s movies. I just happened to b...