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Beartooth

Rock Is Dead

Release date: 2nd June 2016

From AggressiveTrack 113:44
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About This Track

'Rock Is Dead' by Beartooth is a hard rock track from the album 'Aggressive' (2016). The lyrics are a defiant plea for escape through volume, pitching being unable to hear as preferable to being mentally numb: “I’d rather be deaf”. Over a confrontational, high-energy stance, the song frames feeling okay as something that comes from turning the music up, while the speaker rejects the idea of life becoming dull as the world shifts around them.

"Rock Is Dead" is a track by Beartooth, from the album Aggressive, released 2nd June 2016. The track is 3:44 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Beartooth.

About the Artist

Beartooth

Beartooth

Lyrics

Rock Is Dead

The only way I could feel okay
Turn it up, let the music save me
If I need to ease my pain
When everyone says my world is changing
I'd rather be deaf
I'd rather be dead than bored out of my mind
I'd rather be deaf
I'd rather be dead than bored out of my mind
If I make sound, it better be loud
Till my voice is blowing out
What if one day everything changed
Will these words have any use to me
I didn't make it here to let anyone drag me down
If I make sound, it better be loud
If rock and roll's dead you can kill me right now
So you don't understand a word I say
Either way it's probably worth listening
If this whole thing's fading away
You better know it's going down swinging
I'd rather be deaf
I'd rather be dead than bored out of my mind
I'd rather be deaf
I'd rather be dead than bored out of my mind
If I make sound, it better be loud
Till my voice is blowing out
What if one day everything changed
Will these words have any use to me
I didn't make it here to let anyone drag me down
If I make sound, it better be loud
If rock and roll's dead you can kill me right now
If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now
If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now
If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now
Turn this riff up
If I make sound, it better be loud
Till my voice is blowing out
What if one day everything changed
Will these words have any use to me
I didn't make it here to let anyone drag me down
If I make sound, it better be loud
If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now
If rock and roll's dead, you can kill me right now

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Track details

From Aggressive

3:442016
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3rd June 2016
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