From the band’s Bandcamp page:
Charlie: This is the closest I’ve ever been able to come to truly convey the feeling of being controlled by opiates. I didn’t want some long drawn out graphic description, of getting high or detoxing. Just to convey the everyday struggle, of not being able to quit thi...
[Verse: Charlie]
My blinding distraction
Gone in seconds for hours of your wasted moments
I dug a grave for my purpose
Tuned in to a bright future, sat front row as it crumbled and fell
Tie me up nice so I don't have to feel this
Relief flowing through my veins, I traded my soul for a rush, my fix, and now I hurt without even with
Always chasing, always hating, ever loving, never enough
My subconscious effort not to succeed
Where did my refuge go? You used to hold me, now we embrace and you turn your back
Show Me How You Self Destruct was written by Charlie Singer.
Show Me How You Self Destruct was produced by Matt Baltrucki & Will Killingsworth.
Old Gray released Show Me How You Self Destruct on Mon Mar 11 2013.