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Movements

Third Degree

Release date: 19th October 2017

Track 23:46
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About This Track

'Third Degree' traces the architecture of an unequal attachment, one built on cycles of pull and release. Movements map the dynamic with precision: a partner who hooks deep, extracts what they need, then discards. The narrator knows this pattern from experience, has lived the other side of it more times than they care to count, yet chooses to stay anyway, willing to be used if it means proximity. The song's central image is one of controlled combustion. To be someone's "third degree" is to burn, to leave scars that become material for future songs. There's a grim acceptance in that trade-off: the pain becomes the work, the wound becomes the record. Movements hold the tension without resolution, letting the chorus loop and repeat until the distinction between desire and self-destruction blurs entirely.

"Third Degree" is a track by Movements, released 19th October 2017. The track is 3:46 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Movements.

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Movements

Movements

Lyrics

Third Degree

You've got your hook pretty deep in me
Like your tongue pushing through your cheek
You pull me in, catch and release
Once you've had your fix throw me back to bleed

But I wanna keep you
Keep you close to me
Keep you
Keep you close

Keep you
Keep you close to me
So I can feel you
Be my third degree

But I can feel me slip and fall right through the cracks
Between your fingertips
There's no going back, there's no easy fix
'Cause I know this path from experience

I know the other side, the other side of it
I've been on the other side more times than I'd like to admit

So I'm gonna keep you
Keep you close to me
So I can feel you
Be my third degree
Burn yourself into me and leave my body charred
So when you decide to leave I can write about my scars

Spill your spirit
Reach your limit
And burn my body
Your match was me
I'm beneath you
Fine with being used
Just a cheap thrill
You could end my life and I'd still

Keep you
Keep you close to me
Keep you, keep you close
Close

So I'm gonna keep you
Keep you close to me
So I can feel you
Be my third degree
Burn yourself into me and leave my body charred
So when you decide to leave I can write about my scars

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Third Degree

3:462017
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Release year
2017

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Patrick Miranda
    Lyricist
    Austin Cressey, Ira George, Patrick Miranda, Spencer York, Will Yip
    Composer
    Austin Cressey, Ira George, Patrick Miranda, Spencer York, Will Yip
    Producer
    Will Yip
    Bass
    Austin Cressey
    Drums
    Spencer York
    Lead Vocals
    Patrick Miranda