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STARSET

Monster

Release date: 28th October 2016

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About This Track

A portrait of psychological corruption, 'Monster' casts the narrator as a victim remade into something unrecognisable by another's will. Starset build the song around a central inversion: the person who shaped this damage becomes inseparable from the damage itself, a presence so total it reads as addiction, as war, as the very pulse of survival. The chorus circles the same question repeatedly, each repetition a small act of desperation, asking whether transformation is still possible or whether the monster has become permanent. The bridge abandons the direct address and turns inward, the narrator cataloguing their own hollowness with clinical precision. There is no redemption offered here, only the acknowledgement of complicity and loss. The song's power lies in this refusal to separate victim from the violence done to them; by the end, the distinction has collapsed entirely.

"Monster" is a track by STARSET, from the album Vessels, released 28th October 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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STARSET

STARSET

Lyrics

Monster

[Verse 1]

Under the knife I surrendered

The innocence yours to consume

You cut it away

And you filled me up with hate

Into the silence you sent me

Into the fire consumed

You thought I’d forget

But it’s always in my head

[Chorus]

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

You're the love that I hate

You're the drug that I take

Will you cage me?

Will you cage me?

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

From the monster you made me?

From the monster you made me?

[Verse 2]

This is the world you've created

The product of what I've become

My soul and my youth

Seems it's all for you to use

If I could take back the moment

I'll let you get under my skin

Relent or resist?

Seems the monster always wins

[Chorus]

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

You're the love that I hate

You're the drug that I take

Will you cage me?

Will you cage me?

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

From the monster you made me?

From the monster you made me?

[Bridge]

My heart's an artifice, a decoy soul

I'll lift you up and then I'll let you go

I've made an art of digging shallow holes

I drop the darkness in and watch it grow

My heart's an artifice, a decoy soul

Who knew the emptiness could be so cold?

I've lost the parts of me that make me whole

I am the darkness, I'm a monster

[Chorus]

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

You're the love that I hate

You're the drug that I take

Will you cage me?

Will you cage me?

You're the pulse in my veins

You're the war that I wage

Can you change me?

Can you change me?

From the monster you made me?

From the monster you made me?

From the monster you made me?

From the monster you made me?

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Track details

From Vessels

2016
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Vessels
Vessels
STARSET
20th January 2017
Release year
2016
  1. —DIE FOR YOU
  2. —The Order
  3. —Monster
  4. —Everglow
  5. —Ricochet
  6. —Telepathic
  7. —Bringing It Down
  8. —Starlight
  9. —Into The Unknown
  10. —Unbecoming
  11. —Gravity Of You
  12. —Satellite
  13. —Last To Fall
  14. —Frequency
  15. —Back To The Earth

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Dustin Bates, Johnny Andrews, Rob Graves
Producer
Rob Graves
Drums
Joe Rickard
Guitar
Dustin Bates, Rob Graves
Vocals
Dustin Bates
Bass Guitar
Rob Graves
Cello
Anthony LaMarchina
Digital Audio Editor
Joe Rickard, Paul DeCarli
Mastering Engineer
Bob Ludwig
Mixing Engineer
Ben Grosse
Orchestra Arranger
Igor Khoroshev
Programmer
Alex Niceforo, Dustin Bates, Igor Khoroshev, Josh Baker, Paul Trust, Rob Graves
Recording Engineer
Bobby Shin, Justin Spotswood, Mike Plotnikoff, Rob Graves
Strings Arranger
Igor Khoroshev
Viola
Elizabeth Lamb
Violin
David Angell, David Davidson
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