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'Violence' arrives as a restless, shape-shifting track that refuses to settle into a single groove. Yung Lean's vocal delivery shifts constantly across the song, matching an instrumentation that lurches between registers without warning. The lyrics sketch a portrait of someone caught between aspiration and moral compromise, moving between cities and identities, chasing money and status whilst acknowledging the emptiness that follows. The song builds around a repeating hook that collapses the distinction between taking and borrowing, between ambition and theft. Lean's voice drops low and distant on the verses, then sharpens into something more confrontational, as if wrestling with different versions of himself. There's a fatalism running through the track, a sense of motion without direction, of living as though there's no tomorrow whilst simultaneously feeling frozen, hollow. The production mirrors this instability, refusing to let the listener settle into comfort.
"Violence" is a single by Yung Lean, from the album Starz, released 14th May 2020. The track is 2:52 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Yung Lean.
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