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Scowl
Are We All Angels
Special

SINGLE

Special

Release date: 3rd April 2025

From Are We All Angels

Track 1

2:58

Hard Rock Music Rock

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About This Track

'Special' by Scowl is a 2025 hard rock track from the album 'Are We All Angels'. The lyrics frame someone trapped in a cycle of escape and self-sabotage, with desperation wired into the urge to feel alive. Repeated insistences that they do not want to be special land as a plea to avoid the spotlight, even as the song presses toward survival at any cost. One line gives the game away, “I don't wanna be special”, and the rest doubles down on the same tension between fleeing, staying, and being brought back to the body.

"Special" is a single by Scowl, from the album Are We All Angels, released 3rd April 2025. The track is 2:58 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Scowl.

About the Artist

Scowl

Scowl

Lyrics

Special

Caught running away again
Thought by now I'd figured out
Hell of my undoing
Desperation, feel alive

I don't wanna be special (just tell them a lie)
I don't wanna be different (just to stay alive)
You just wanna hear my screams (just to feel alive)
Bring me back to my body

Is it in vain to think I'm worthy
Of standing for something (last life, damn, what?)
More than a body (damn, what? This the best lie)
I am nothing (last life, damn, what?)
I am everything (you could tell by the look on your face)

Failure finding (last life, damn, what?)
Balance in philosophy (fresh air, now you're runnin' away)
I am nothing (last life, damn, what?)
I am everything (damn, what? This the biggest lie)

I don't wanna be special (just tell them a lie)
I don't wanna be different (just to stay alive)
You just wanna hear my screams (just to feel alive)
Bring me back to my body

Didn't really wanna be myself
Now I never wanna see myself
Didn't really wanna be myself
Now I never wanna see myself

And I wanted to scream all the things that you do
When you're talkin' to me and manipulatin'
And I know I'm no angel, I think that's okay
I need you to feel something, sick and tired of waitin'

I don't wanna be special (just tell them a lie)
I don't wanna be different (just to stay alive)
You just wanna hear my screams (just to feel alive)
Bring me back to my body

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From Are We All Angels

2:582025Single

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Album

Are We All Angels

Track number

1

Release year

2025

1Special
2:58
2B.A.B.E.
2:33
3Fantasy
3:30
4Not Hell, Not Heaven
3:01

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2:49
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—Tonight (I'm Afraid)

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Bailey Lupo, Cole Gilbert, Kat Moss, Malachi Greene, Michael Bifolco, Will Yip
Producer: Will Yip
Bass: Bailey Lupo
Drums: Cole Gilbert
Guitar: Malachi Greene, Michael Bifolco
Vocals: Kat Moss
Mastering Engineer: Howie Weinberg
Mixing Engineer: Jeff Citron, Rich Costey
Video Assistant Wardrobe Stylist: Caroline Macou, Ivy Hahn, Keighty Gallagher, Tiana Aiello
Video Best Boy: Anthony Yamamoto
Video Director: Silken Weinberg
Video Director Of Photography: Shane Bagwell
Video Editor: Lena Redford
Video Focus Puller: Grace Gallagher
Video Gaffer: Evan Cox
Video Hair Stylist: Gabriella Mancha
Video Makeup Artist: Gabriella Mancha
Video Producer: Caris Kuhn
Video Production Assistant: Jeff Perry
Video Production Designer: Ella Trimarchi
Video Wardrobe Stylist: Catherine Hahn

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