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Chance in Hell

by Matt Badger

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Chance in Hell 04:24
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I haven’t got a chance in hell Of seein the great beyond I haven’t got a chance in hell Of stickin it out for that long I’ve been outside walkin a thousand steps gone wrong I haven’t got a chance in hell for us We haven’t got a chance in hell Of makin it out of this fog We haven’t got a chance in hell Of seein that light in the dark I could burn my eyes out on a thousand setting suns We haven’t got a chance in hell for us Ooh I haven’t got a chance in hell I haven’t got a chance in hell To be anything beyond The man that I was then, and now The ways that I’m falling apart I’ve been lost and blinded And I’m out here on my own We haven’t got a chance I haven’t got a chance alone
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Waterside 03:47
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It’d be so much better if I slept The moment I start to feel tired Turn my mind into a cinema of lives Where I’m just a worn out villain And what it is, is what it is This is a contract This is a phrase To sing to yourself when your lying awake Don’t be hard on yourself.. And my steps grow heavier each day Like I’m tunneling down But I’ve awoken to Hero’s pain and ordinary saviors Who take their medals in the grave And what it is, is what it is This is context This is reprieve And you’ll learn to burn the sad and hateful days And out of the ashes You’ll be unchanged Cause fuck it all underneath everything you’re still the same Don’t be hard on yourself Don’t be hard on yourself You can be hard on yourself But not for long

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Behold, Chance in Hell, the new two-track single from Seattle indie-rocker, Matt Badger.

"Chance in Hell" is the refrain echoed throughout the song lamenting an implicit hopelessness of the spirit struggling to survive against the often lonely backdrop of a beautiful and haunted world.

"Waterside" is an appeal from the soul to the psyche for grace and forgiveness when self-image and sense of worth become battered by the unyielding forces of fear and depression. The song attempts to bear the weight of anxious thoughts that tend to be heaviest at night and, through dogged repetition of rhythm and mantra, carve a pathway towards acceptance and appreciation of the self. Two key phrases echo throughout that seek to extricate the guilt and shame of careless living from the individual embodying the life, “it is what it is,” and “don’t be hard on yourself.”

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released February 25, 2023

Artwork by Fukashima Breeze
Recorded by Matt Brown at Avast in Seattle, WA.
Mastered by Sean McCullough
Songs written by Matt Badger

Performers:

Guitar, Drums, and vocals: Matt Badger
Vocals: Hannah Ramone
Guitar: Matt Brown
Piano and bass: Sam Miller

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