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  • Takeover

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    Beartooth

    Takeover

    Release date: 6th November 2018

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    About This Track

    'Takeover' by Beartooth is a 2018 track from the album 'B-Sides'. The lyrics are a confrontational, resigned address, with the narrator insisting that things are shutting down and nothing is working out, while rejecting the idea of love or fame, and closing on the line “You’ve already”. The song leans into blame and failure, treating the speaker’s stance as final, and the surrounding world as indifferent.

    "Takeover" is a track by Beartooth, from the album B-Sides, released 6th November 2018. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Beartooth.

    About the Artist

    Beartooth

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    Lyrics

    Takeover

    [Verse 1]

Time for you to face it, never gonna make it

Everything is shutting down

Blame it on the outcome, blame it on the system

Nothing is working out

[Pre-Chorus]

No love, no fame

They won't ever know your name

[Chorus]

No one here cares what you gonna say

You’ve already lost this anyway

Try to run your mouth, try to play the game

You'll never stop the takeover that's happening

[Post-Chorus]

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

(You’ll never stop the takeover that's happening)

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

(You'll never stop the takeover that's happening)

[Verse 2]

Looking for a free ride, looking for a handout

Everybody knows the truth

Tell me I'm a reject, tell me I'm a coward

Tell me I'm born to lose

[Pre-Chorus]

No love, no fame

They won't ever know your name

[Chorus]

No one here cares what you gonna say

You’ve already lost this anyway

Try to run your mouth, trying to play your game

You’ll never stop the takeover that's happening

[Post-Chorus]

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

(You’ll never stop the takeover that's happening)

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

(You'll never stop the takeover that's happening)

(That’s happening, happening, happening, happening)

[Bridge]

Looking for a bullfight underneath the spotlight

What are you gonna do?

Could have been a contender

You should have surrendered

Now you're leaving black and blue

Set it off

[Chorus]

No one here cares what you gonna say

You've already lost this anyway

Trying to run your mouth, trying to play your game

You'll never stop the takeover that's happening

[Post-Chorus]

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

('Cause it's happening)

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no)

('Cause it's happening)

[Chorus]

No one here cares what you gonna say

You've already lost this anyway

Trying to run your mouth, trying to play your game

You'll never stop the takeover that's happening

[Outro]

You'll never stop the takeover that's happening

    Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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    Track details

    From B-Sides

    2018
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    1. —Takeover
    2. —Messed Up

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    Credits

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    Caleb Shomo, Oshie Bichar
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    Drums
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    Guitar
    Caleb Shomo, Kamron Bradbury, Zach Huston
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