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'Risk' confronts profound vulnerability and the impulse to rescue someone from darkness. Chino Moreno's vocals move between anxiety and determination, the lyrics cycling through pleas and promises: "I will save your life" becomes both mantra and confession of helplessness. The song builds on a foundation of restraint, letting space breathe between moments of intensity, which makes each surge feel earned rather than automatic. The track deals with the coma that claimed the band's former bassist Chi Cheng following a car accident. It is not a song about recovery or redemption, but about the specific anguish of standing outside someone else's crisis, wanting desperately to pull them back but knowing you cannot. That tension between will and powerlessness gives the song its emotional weight, and Deftones refuse to resolve it neatly.
"Risk" is a track by Deftones, from the album Diamond Eyes, released 22nd April 2010. The track is 3:39 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Deftones.
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