Breaking Skin

by RIKKI RAKKI

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Telling me your secrets, I don’t want to know
Follow in your footsteps, I don’t want to go there anymore
We’re filling in the blanks and measuring our tone
But I don’t want to talk about this anymore
Just want to trudge along the shore
And find some place to be alone

Walking through the city, walking til it hurts
Walking til the light’s out, so no one sees my curse, but which is worse?
Shadows always in the background following me now
The demon’s in the kitchen stirring up the first time we talked about it,
There beside you crying on the couch

Falling on the pavement, tripping up the stairs
Spending all my paycheck to wash away my cares, but fair is fair
Breaking skin again, but then it is such fragile packaging
To hold a soul, when no one knows what all goes on below the surface

Walking through the city, running through my mind
Walk into the bar and no one is inside, but I don’t mind
Brother’s on the phone and I’m spilling out my guts
The conscience is a gun and I’m holding myself up
To give my words and end this violence
Or keep and introspective silence
Falling in perpetual spiral

And I don’t want to talk about this anymore
And I don’t want to talk about this anymore
And I don’t want to talk about this, and I don’t want to talk about this anymore

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released April 21, 2023
Written by Erika Blatnik.
Recorded by Rikki Rakki, mixed by Matt Luger and Erika Blatnik.
Cover design by Erika Blatnik.

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RIKKI RAKKI Richmond, Virginia

Hazy-jangly, stargazey rock&roll from Richmond, VA.
Rikki Rakki is Erika Blatnik (vox/guitar), Matt Luger (guitar/keys), Andy Brown (bass), and Jay Kole (drums).

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