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Beartooth

Clever

Release date: 27th September 2018

From Disease
Track 12
3:42
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About This Track

‘Clever’ by Beartooth is a 2018 Hard Rock track from the album ‘Disease’. The lyrics cast intelligence as a defence mechanism, with the speaker hiding behind rhythm, language and walls they have built, trying to keep vulnerability from showing. There is a sense of self-contradiction, a polished lie at the centre of an act of control, ending on a blunt emotional register. The line “I feel like death” lands like the moment the mask stops working.

"Clever" is a track by Beartooth, from the album Disease, released 27th September 2018. The track is 3:42 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Beartooth.

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Beartooth

Beartooth

Lyrics

Clever

I guess being clever's just my safety net
I hide behind my cadence
I hide behind the walls
I built so tall the weakness never spills
I hide all of my burdens
I twist my words so well
I'm breaking but the lie is what I sell
If I'm clever you might never understand
I feel like death and me are walking hand in hand
When my happiness is hanging by a thread I finally feel content
I guess being being clever's just my safety net
I guess being being clever's just my safety net
I'll tell you I feel better
I'll tell you I can sleep
I hope that it can bring a sense of peace
When all the nights are getting darker
The day becomes so bleak
Another day I'm conscious is another day I bleed
If I'm clever you might never understand
I feel like death and me are walking hand in hand
When my happiness is hanging by a thread I finally feel content
I'm so messed up and inconsistent in my head
I feel my passing only benefits my friends
When I know nothing I say matters in the end I finally feel content
I guess being being clever's just my safety net
I'm out of ways to answer
I'm out of metaphors
I finally got so sick, there is no cure
I'm out of ways to answer
I'm out of metaphors
I finally got so sick, there is no cure
If I'm clever you might never understand
I feel like death and me are walking hand in hand
When my happiness is hanging by a thread I finally feel content
I'm so messed up and inconsistent in my head
I feel my passing only benefits my friends
When I know nothing I say matters in the end I finally feel content
I guess being being clever's just my safety net

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Track details

From Disease

3:422018
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Album
Disease
Disease
Beartooth
28th September 2018
Track number
12
Release year
2018
  1. 1Greatness or Death
    3:22
  2. 2Disease
    3:48
  3. 3Fire
    3:26
  4. 4You Never Know
    3:03

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
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    Producer
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    Drums
    Caleb Shomo, Connor Denis
    Guitar
    Caleb Shomo, Kamron Bradbury, Zach Huston
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    Additional Production
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    Bass Guitar
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