Exit Wound for a World
rock, Wide-open 90s alt-rock with Foo-style drive: jangly overdriven guitars on the verses, bigger power chords in the chorus. Mid-tempo, straight-ahead drums with crashing cymbals in the hook, bass glued to the kick. Male vocals, earnest and slightly raspy, starting resigned and reflective, then opening to a raw, triumphant belt on the final chorus; subtle octave-doubled vocal on the last hook, guitars chiming into a long feedback tail., vocal
Exit Wound for a World
rock, Wide-open 90s alt-rock with Foo-style drive: jangly overdriven guitars on the verses, bigger power chords in the chorus. Mid-tempo, straight-ahead drums with crashing cymbals in the hook, bass glued to the kick. Male vocals, earnest and slightly raspy, starting resigned and reflective, then opening to a raw, triumphant belt on the final chorus; subtle octave-doubled vocal on the last hook, guitars chiming into a long feedback tail., vocal
Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Every wrong turn
Left a scar on the map
Burned-out signs
And a pack that I can’t unpack
I chased answers
‘Til the questions turned to rust
Ran so far
That the road ran out of dust
[Pre-Chorus 1]
And I don’t know the language
Of the air outside this sky
But I’ve been talking to the silence
For a long
Long time
[Chorus 1]
This is the exit wound for a world
Peeling my fingers off the edge I know
Truth never asked me to be sure
Only to love it more than life I own
I’m not afraid
Just worn and wired
A little lost
A little tired
Yeah
This is it
I’m ready to let go
[Verse 2]
Static halos
Round the people that I’ve been
All their shadows
Filing out
They fade
They thin
Every dead end
Was a door I had to try
Birth was dizzy
Why should leaving feel like right?
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I keep seeing that horizon
Fold itself into my eyes
I’m not betting on an answer
Just a cleaner sky
[Chorus 2]
This is the exit wound for a world
Peeling my fingers off the edge I know
Truth never asked me to be sure
Only to love it more than life I own
I’m not afraid
Just worn and wired
A little lost
A little tired
Yeah
This is it
I’m ready to let go
[Bridge]
If I come up on the other side
Gasping at a brighter tide (oh)
Will I recognize my name?
Or will I laugh at all this weight I gave?
If it all just falls away
Like a coat I never liked anyway
I’ll say thanks for every wrong-way sign
They got me to the line
[Chorus 3]
This is the exit wound for a world
Peeling my fingers off the edge I know
Truth never asked me to be sure
Only to love it more than life I own
I’m not afraid
Just worn and wired
A little lost
A little tired
Yeah
This is it
I’m ready to let go
[Outro]
One last deep breath
Then I lean into the slide
If birth was chaos
Then this can be collide
I close my eyes
Let the old sky fall behind
I don’t know what I will find
I don’t need to know this time