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The Lean Years
10
Metal
The Lean Years was released on June 26, 2020 by WILLOWTIP INC. (WTP) as a part of the album Abcess Time
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Release DateJune 26, 2020
LabelWILLOWTIP INC. (WTP)
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM153

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Pyrrhon
Pyrrhon
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Erik Malave
Erik Malave
Composer
Dylan DiLella
Dylan DiLella
Composer
Doug Moore
Doug Moore
Composer
Steve Schwegler
Steve Schwegler
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Pyrrhon
Pyrrhon
Producer

Lyrics

The old days look so rich
Resplendent in retrospect
Your milky lenses reflect, refract
Glinting with the sweat of the lean years
When you’re sliced up whip-thin
No more marbled fat, just gristle and fear
You were swollen with moments to lose, when
The digits dialed up their demand: “Choose:”
“Trade time for our tender or fade like a bruise,”
So you fed yourself in, you fed yourself in
And everything’s efficient now
You praise the daily miracles
That tumble from each slice of blue
Light that models, fosters fools
Oh, you know it felt just fine
To live surveilled, revealed inside
Each thought coded and catalogued
To hide nothing, nothing at all
And what a subtle price you paid
Grey flab strip-mined like clay
For canny chips to carve away
And those artfully arbitraged wounds
Seeped spirit into the gloom
Where sieves abide, unseen by your side
Discerning the churning, confined lusts that drive you
And when your flensed focus ran thin
Your shameful suckling began
With thirst unslaked, you’d take and take
The patent cures and devil’s bargains
So in the end, those fatty folds
Weren’t worth so much at all
Just another flipped commodity
One more thing your old self owned
But God, you were so rich
In the head, way back
Not broke, blind, or slack
Like the lean years
Written by: Doug Moore, Dylan DiLella, Erik Malave, Steve Schwegler
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