it's never too late to start from square one!

my twee monsters

claws (traceybreaksurbeakremix)

thank u 2 @thirtyonetwentyfive & @cnricnri for doing this w me ;-;
special thank u 2 @trndytrndy for letting us do this they r super nice <3

minimal beat (tracey brakes & thirtyonetwentyfive cover/remix ft. lovesickCPU)

thank u 4 1k :,3

lyrics:
and all these thoughts of you
just shaking my whole body to my head
i hope it all goes quiet soon
just carry on pretending i am dead

there’s not a 
sob story in the world that can fix that trust 
but if it's ever burning bridges then it's fix or bust
keep running running circles nothing seems to change
i’m just done with being anxious done with taking blame
with my patience running thin my heart ticks like a clock
and with every pulse a bit of joy and love is lost
till i hate the way you laugh and love to hate your guts 
now i’m nothing short of broken heart consumed by rust

a hundred years have made her fear 
all the time worth wasting
but not as much as the heart she lost 
its yours for the breaking

and all these thoughts of you
just shaking my whole body to my head
i hope it all goes quiet soon
just carry on pretending i am dead

there’s not a 
sob story in the world that can fix that trust 
but if it's ever burning bridges then it's fix or bust
keep running running circles nothing seems to change
i’m just done with being anxious done with taking blame
with my patience running thin my heart ticks like a clock
and with every pulse a bit of joy and love is lost
till i hate the way you laugh and love to hate your guts 
now i’m nothing short of broken heart consumed by rust

nothing short of broken heart consumed by rust (x4)

dust rigs

im looking for The Day You Left in m4a dot jpg

rise up! o mother of all pains

lyrics:

~ verse 1 ~
pressure building spitting steam from the vents
you caught me in the middle of a fix of the lens
the portrait on the wall will show you what you protect
ironically you are the very lord you resent
tell me again about your mountain of men
i heard a little rumor you belittle your friends
i heard that every soul can lose a chance to repent
admonish me again and ill make war for the spent

~ chorus ~
my head is spinning
im moving sideways 
no chance of winning
its just like always 
the sky is all grey 
torment of all days
cant eat cant sleep cant just stop thinking bout it

my heart is lost now
so much for trying
given up hope now
reign on you tyrant
rusted my lifeline
no use in crying 
cant bleed cant sleep cant just stop thinking bout it

~ verse 2 ~
Rise up! 
O mother of all pains 
to the altar of my verses!
no god 
or hell can make up 
the pitiful misery you wrought thee 

[chorus]

~ verse 3 ~

pressure spent look at the mess you created
when all is said and done theyll only groan at your name 
no pride behind a legend full of nothing but shame
100 years of silence broken only in vain 

[chorus x2]

wand of tens

cover art by: @RyanGurry on twitter

i tried to run away but you always come back to haunt me
offbeat oscillations falling in and out of phase left you stuck in my teeth
wherever you are i hope that youre not hurting 
fallen to earth seemingly holy mourning
things you would say echo around my heartbeat
never thought itd end like this 
angels in my head they go

head in my hands i know that you stopped trying
something to hold onto when i feel like dying 
things that you said forever haunt my psyche
always feared itd end like this 
angels in my head they go

been bleeding for a few days
for a few days 
never leave my room i fall up
this was never my intention 
my intention
angels in my head they go

treehome

cover art by @RyanGurry on twitter

lyrics:

[tracey brakes]
i need u to back off (back off)
im running for myself now (myself now)
raygun make ur head knock (head knock)
brains all in the sand now (sand now) 

i need u to back off
ur giving me bad thoughts 
could never be ur sparkledog cuz my hearts in padlocks
ive seen the way that u talk ur nothing but bad luck
block u from my feed go smoke some weed or just get lost 
im staring at the desert i see nothing but night sky 
im staring at my phone and all the things that made me cry 
magic in my heart beat lost in a thread tweet 
ive never felt so high from not saying goodbye

i need u to back off (back off)
im running for myself now (myself now)
raygun make ur head knock (head knock)
brains all in the sand now (sand now)

[dj: recode]
leave me alone
i’m not checking my phone
feeling cold like a stone
while you still sit on your throne

i need you to back off
i don’t see you anymore
why don’t we open that door
so we can settle the score

i need you to back off, back off
still think about the summer, summer
wish it never happened, happened
wish you’d never say that, back off.

tracey brakes & DJ Re:Code - Back Off

surrender (traceybrakesthebass remix)

bandcamp

THROW SOME ASS YOU FUCKING FURRY (tracey brakes your muzzle remix)

lyrics:

back in the cut
break-back
cement 40 oz
so minimal in our heads
drown drone beggars
where are you glory
under the bitten sky we play
back in the past
we were born to suck so diligently
be the concrete floor
or this cougar-whore
you can’t trust the dust that’s been given

bring me close to love
would you give me a reason to believe
trapped by the world
would you give me a reason to believe

father said
“you can find me on broadway”
father told me
“you can find me on broadway”

so many ways to flip our heads up-side-down
it’s a fellow eclipse of a bit fist
we cry wolf under the hemorrhaging crown
back in the past
we were born to suck so diligently
our lips are not to be closed
under the shade of all your sniveling
taking in all the wind of your jump-cliff
and whisper ever so

bring me close to love
would you give me a reason to believe
trapped by the world
would you give me a reason to believe

father said
“you can find me on broadway”
father told me
“you can find me on broadway”

oh I crave that over-the-hill we pave
here I am
will you shun me now
no
the loved you’ve claimed was just a whisper
here I am no shun me

father said
“you can find me on broadway”
father told me
“you can find me on broadway”

father said (tracey brakes ur eardrums cover)

[chorus]
i wanted a dubstep boy to rock me out
one with big old drums that make my heart beat bounce
i spotted a dubstep boy in the crowd
but i guess his bass was just a little too loud
[x2]

[verse 1]
tell me what you're all about 
i get a bit intoxicated off your hollow vows 
i get the sense that i'm forbidden fruit to cart around
there's something sensitive about the way you put me down
i talked to all my friends about you, 'bout the way you are
operate with little passion, malice in your heart
always have to be the champ, they think you got it wrong
now it's 3 am again im feeling all alone

always let your boys boys get the best of you you
never mean what you say or check what you do
always put up shit between us, fuck a steady hand
always hungover, taking acetaminophen

[prechorus]
all my life i've waited for ya boy 
the drop hits and my heartbeat goes out
all my life i've waited for the noise
the buildup hits as i break down 

[chorus]

[verse 2]
your hand on my thigh
spilt mike's hard in my eye
shove me aside
you love to make me cry
x2

[chorus]

dubstep boy

i got anthony kiedis...

cover art by @raystarkitty on tumblr!! 
https://www.tumblr.com/raystarkitty

billy knows jamie (tracey brakes ur swaws remix)

how'd you end up with a cutiemark like THAT ?

when the alien is hesitant

lyrics:

We want television bodies that we can't keep
We have battles in the dark when she falls asleep

We can make it up again
We can make it up again
And we don't care we just pretend
With our faces on the mend
And don't ask a lot
And you won't lose a lot
Don't ask for much

Every accidental damage I wouldn't shake
And the heart I left behind that you couldn't break

We can make it up again
We can make it up again
And we don't care we just pretend
With our faces on the mend
And don't ask a lot
And you won't lose a lot
Don't ask for much

And I said I miss you
Say "I miss you too"
Said I miss you
Say "I miss you too"
Say "I miss you too"
Said I miss you
Say "I miss you too"

We want action and decision that we can't fake
We got firecracker wishes that we can make

We can make it up again
We can make it up again
And we don't care we just pretend
With our faces on the mend
And don't ask a lot
And you won't lose a lot
Don't ask for much

Do you miss me?
'Cause I miss you
Do you miss me?
'Cause I miss you
Do you miss me?
'Cause I miss you
Do you miss me?
'Cause I miss you too

action cat

{ re doin the standard model }

cover art by my older sibling, @squid_express on tiktok, instagram, and twitter

lyrics:

throw down the keys on the table
playing it down's getting played out
put on a new shirt when i'm able 
with a year's old stain, still looks the same

human condition loops endlessly; it sticks to my skin
is that all you got
patterns in my arms
you're totally full of it

i'll grow a new lung when i'm able 
an endless refrain: back to square one
if i'm nothing but lazy and stable 
why does my old pain still ache the same

stare out the window
losing my purpose, i stand there for hours 
show me what you got
circles 'round my eyes
yeah i must be full of it 

my headache's eating all my words again
you got a problem it must be my fault
sorry for being vain, you need your space
there's ringing in my ears and screeches in the dark
she lets her cassette record everything
so she can record her mistakes and play her part 
but all she hears is every mess she's made
and again she marks the progress on her arm

my feet are swollen and my arms are sore 
stare at the razor i left sitting on the floor
i bite my tongue and fight the art again
whatever i wanted just wasn't in the cards
she watches all her work coagulate 
the hollow noises eating at her start to fade
rewinds her cassette and restarts the tape
the cycle looping over and over again

her hollowed heart promises to refill again

the cycle looping over and over again

behave, hollow automaton

bass bitch

power

artwork by @avoidalmond on twitter!!

lyrics:

rattling chains
eosin waste, recolor my heart
haunt the same place

i don't eat for days
carry that weight
high off of the bleeding just to feel sane

what are you talking bout 
i can't hear you over the magic stuck in my head
night light's been flickering out 
i can't catch a break it's all so innate

logging out forever 
i don't really wanna talk right now wanna talk right now 

gilded's not forever 
i don't really wanna act like i know what it feels like

body torn to shreds let the angel numbers guide me
rosary ice me
3s all in the sky but there’s sixes in my eyes
swallowed heart keep it frosty 
absent in living costly 
can you stake my heart

stigmata in my eyes 
prada on the brain
absinthe in my cup 
i've been in a haze for days
days all feel the same
take away the pain, take away the pain
make it go away, make it go away
i just need a break 
meet me in the sky or just meet me in real life
i got three sevens looking down on me
was it all a waste why can't i catch a break
it was all a waste my feelings stay the same

drink until i die
fade away
i got dog blood, i'm a vampire in the night
eat away my pride 
cross my heart and hope to die sometime,
die sometime

purgatory pony

artwork done by @avoidalmond on twitter !!

edit that the drop 1 fake-out was based on originally done by @ascii_dragon on twitter

my twee monsters coming soon...

wonderloud (flutterwonder tracey brakes the club sub remix)

every room becomes a mouth!!!!

lyrics:

and you got folded in the cards again
she says 'it's not a bet worth taking at best'
'oh'
'why don't you go and talk to all of your friends
tell you what, give it a year you'll stay a boy in the end'

i don't know why but i feel like something's gnawing at me
and it's dying to come through
'you can feel what you want, but see this complicates things
and i don't wanna deal with you'

and you got stuck on the internet again
he said 'you'll never be that angel you dreamt'
'oh'
'you perverted little molehill of flesh'
his words are feedbacking endlessly in my head

i don't know why but i feel like something's gnawing at me
and it's dying to come through
'you can feel what you want, but see this complicates things
and i don't wanna deal with you'

once wore mascara to school
'almost just blew my cover'
'let's see those eyes one last time, how come you seem so afraid'
those girls told me what to do
pet project like no other
'we've been living like this our whole lives, you don't know a thing'

ten years wearing death on a vest
'jig is up'
got on the drugs that sink veins into the rest
time is what's
still got that longing feeling stuck to your chest
so buck up
you've come so far being scared of what's next

i don't know why but i feel like something's gnawing at me
and it's dying to come through
'you can feel what you want, but see this complicates things
and i don't wanna deal with you'

'do me a favor and sink into your chest
while i do my best to forget your mess'
i'm always looping back like i'm on cassette
drifting the tenor of the ways i digress

carbonhead

a fish named justice

fireside thaumaturgy

lyrics:

tomorrow when i wake up
i hope i'm either under six feet, or six feet under
patterns in the babble reaping confidence in cover
cross examine this experience with one another
can you wait up
at least i'm on the pill and i've got proof more than poetry
TV taught me to scream whenever i see a monster
glimpses in the mirror's where this usually fosters

pressure spent, now you're already dead
and you're thoughts are on a speaker looping over again
it was never in the cards, you never had any chance
TV static in your eyes, your claws make nothing but sense

TV taught me to scream whenever i see a monster
glimpses in the mirror's where this usually fosters

TV taught me to scream whenever i see a monster
glimpses in the mirror's where this usually fosters

endorphin heist

lyrics:

viscera in the drainage
i can't bear to think about it
going through the ages
lock myself away until i'm down and out of it
and i'm terrified of aging
heaven prove the mirror's the one that's wrong
i know you've never ever seen who's really me

skin, bone, fuzz, everything made to die sometime
tragically real in the meantime
desperately trying to shape mine, to shape mine
time, depth, space, losing my real in the same place
body's so sore to me most days
returning to form is a failstate, no failsafe

to watch myself become a monster
to feel my skin turn to scales
to feel my claws come in, it feels so much better than nothing changing at all
skin starts bubbling
my form starts stretching and changing
i still don't see myself in reflections
but it's still a direction

skin, bone, fuzz, everything made to die sometime
tragically real in the meantime
desperately trying to shape mine, to shape mine
time, depth, space, losing my real in the same place
body's so sore to me most days
returning to form is a failstate, no failsafe

viceheart

lyrics:

breathing, feeling
my skin, my skin
hush now, brush out
my fuzz, become undone

this is not what it's supposed to be like
that's not what it's supposed to be like at all
at all
make a face i can taste the napalm
i watch the colors fall out of your mouth
but i don't hear you

put me back to sleep, put me back to sleep
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep (sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep)
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep, put me back to sleep
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep (sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep)
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep

inside, outside, nothing but faking
i never felt i could tell you how you hurt my head
when i fall asleep, i hope i wake up truly naked
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
inside, outside, nothing but faking
i never felt i could tell you how you hurt my head
when i fall asleep, i hope i wake up truly naked
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep

this is not what it's supposed to be like
that's not what it's supposed to be like at all
at all
make a face i can taste the napalm
i watch the colors fall out of your mouth
but i don't hear you

put me back to sleep, put me back to sleep
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep (sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep)
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep, put me back to sleep
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep
put me back to sleep (sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep)
with my mind on the outside, put me back to sleep

back to sleep

lyrics:

(bend, break)

i gotta get me off my mind
heart is bigger than my eyes i'm paralyzed
i see both sides like ocean's eyes
stick a needle in my eye before my time
do you ever think i'm not like, like, like, you, you
not like you, not like you
do you ever think i'm not like like, like, you, you
you'd never get it, even if i gotta spell shit out

(bend, break)

i gotta get me off my mind
heart is bigger than my eyes i'm paralyzed
i see both sides like ocean's eyes
stick a needle in my eye before my time
do you ever think i'm not like, like, like, you, you
not like you, not like you
do you ever think i'm not like like, like, you, you
you'd never get it, even if i gotta spell shit out

spare parts no body of mine
cut open my chest
let my ribs be the wings that take you home
i want this cage to always keep you close
live off the light in your eyes
dig into my bones
let my sternum be the mast that guides you home
my breathing lungs will always keep you warm

log into my brain and change the password on my eyes
i overdid it, reality is down for the count
talking to my friends inside my head all night
you'd never get it, even if i gotta spell shit out

do you ever think i'm not like, like, like, you, you
not like you, not like you
do you ever think i'm not like like, like, you, you
you'd never get it, even if i gotta—
(number 5 alive)

i gotta get me off my mind
heart is bigger than my eyes i'm paralyzed
i see both sides like ocean's eyes
stick a needle in my eye before my time
do you ever think i'm not like, like, like, you, you
not like you, not like you
do you ever think i'm not like like, like, you, you
you'd never get it, even if i gotta spell shit out

orphan source

lyrics:

willow trees spill your solvent dissolve the levee
needles stem from the vivisection of memory
holding onto a promise i wish was empty
how's your frame holding up cuz my bones are heavy
shattered glass mimic synapses with envy
hide your eyes from the world until you're ready
steal the light from the moon while she scruples wearily
expunge all thoughts
until you mirror your walls, you're alone again already

give me a chance to redeem myself and we'll start again
free your hooves from the dirt which our bond was buried in
i've got no excuse
i— there's something in the water
you're guarded like your father, ignore your angel daughter
your heart is aching from feeling your bedside empty
so let your horn pierce the sky make clear your caring
i've got no excuse
i—her eyes feel like no other
your muzzle burrows further
in hopes of aching no more

tracey brakes

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