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Grooming My Replacement by Code Orange

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Code Orange

Grooming My Replacement

Release date: 27th September 2023

From The Above
Track 10
2:55
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About This Track

'Grooming My Replacement' by Code Orange is a 2023 metal track from the album 'The Above'. The lyrics skewer a relationship built on gossip and misinformation, framed through a cold, predatory sequence of accusation and replacement, with the narrator insisting that “Truth comes in twos” and depicting the other side’s confusion as they try to recant. The language leans into aggressive, contemptuous imagery, turning talk into contamination and sound into silence as the narrator carries out the final step of the plan: replacement.

"Grooming My Replacement" is a track by Code Orange, from the album The Above, released 27th September 2023. The track is 2:55 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Code Orange.

About the Artist

Code Orange

Code Orange

Lyrics

Grooming My Replacement

Truth comes in twos
One is mine, one is yours
Gossip reaffirms
What you thought that you heard
Now you're deaf, blind dumb and confused
So you spew like a sewer of your truth
Until you purge it out
All those words that you puked
Turned our blue into brown
I'm grooming my replacement
Consuming all their hatred
The insects come to life
Under the movie lights
Keep a list in my mind of the times (all the times)
That you cried "neophyte" (that you whined)
You wear me like a suit
Spine upright, filled with screws
Stand up tall
Like your old man wanted you to
Show some gall and be mean
Like I want you to be
I'm grooming my replacement
Consuming all their hatred
I'm grooming my replacement
Consuming all their hatred
Accruing a debt that you can't afford
But you've heard it all, said it all, done it before
I gnawed at your center, I rotted your core
But you've heard it all, said it all (right?)
I'm already in your mind
Your brain's a vehicle for my failures
So give me the fucking light
Give me the light
Give me the fucking light
Give me the

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Track details

From The Above

2:552023
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Album
The Above
The Above
Code Orange
28th September 2023
Track number
10
Release year
2023
  1. 1Never Far Apart
    3:54
  2. 2Theatre Of Cruelty
    3:58
  3. 3Take Shape (feat. Billy Corgan)
    3:24
  4. 4The Mask Of Sanity Slips

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dominic Landolina, Jami Morgan, Joe Goldman, Max Portnoy, Reba Meyers, Shade Balderose
    Producer
    Jami Morgan, Shade Balderose
    Engineer
    Steve Albini
    Drums
    Max Portnoy
    Guitar
    Dominic Landolina, Reba Meyers, Shade Balderose
    Keyboards
    Shade Balderose
    Vocals
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    Bass Guitar
    Joe Goldman
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