Skill Issue
Glitchy industrial / spoken-word electronic / post-punk
Skill Issue
Glitchy industrial / spoken-word electronic / post-punk
Lyrics
Tempo: 85-95 BPM, mechanical pulse
Key: Minor, repetitive, hypnotic
Verse 1 – staccato, clipped
Forgot the pencil
Forgot the quiet
Forgot the number
Forgot the face
Used to know the way ... argh not anymore
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Chorus – percussive, chanted
Skill issue
No, not you
Me
Everyone
Outsourced our fingers
Outsourced our shame
Outsourced the dying
Forgot our own names
Skill issue
No, not you
*Yes you*
*Yes me*
Get out the loop
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Verse 2 – rhythm intensifies
Can't read a map, can't read a room
Can't read the sky, can't explain why
Can't butcher, garden, mend, or mourn
Can't sit with it
Can't
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Chorus
Skill issue
No, not you
Me
Everyone
Outsourced our patience
Outsourced our boredom
Outsourced the space where something grew
Skill issue
Get out the loop
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Bridge – spoken, glitching
What atrophies?
Muscle. Memory. Mercy.
tool became the hand
no skin, no flesh
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Final Chorus – massive, then collapsing
Skill issue
Not a bug
Feature
Outsourced our fingers
Outsourced our death
Outsourced the breathing
Forgot how to
Skill issue—
The loop is the product
The loop is the—
Outro – quiet
I want to be bad at something
Long enough
I want to sit in a room
With only the room
I want to die
In my own arms
Whispered
The skill was never the point
The issue
Was the loop
Better?