Silver teeth behind a smile
Counting cracks along the tile
Every promise dressed in black
Leaves a fingerprint behind
Candy wrappers in the sink
Say the things we shouldn’t think
Everybody knows the game
Nobody remembers why
Keep it quiet
Keep it thin
Lock the door
And let it in
Velvet damage
Soft and savage
Running circles through my head
Velvet damage
Sweet disaster
Painting every warning red
I don’t need
Another cure
Nothing broken
Stays that pure
Velvet damage
Velvet damage
Wear it like a second skin
Telephones without a sound
Empty bottles on the ground
Every answer comes apart
Before the question hits the floor
Perfect faces on display
Changing colors every day
Everybody wants the truth
Until the truth becomes a bore
Hold the match
Count to three
Burn the version
Made of me
Velvet damage
Soft and savage
Running circles through my head
Velvet damage
Sweet disaster
Painting every warning red
I don’t need
Another cure
Nothing broken
Stays that pure
Velvet damage
Velvet damage
Wear it like a second skin
Pull the thread
Watch it fall
Maybe there was
Nothing there at all
Kill the picture
Cut the frame
Leave the silence
With the blame
Velvet damage
Soft and savage
Moving underneath my skin
Velvet damage
Sweet disaster
Let the beautiful mess begin
No forgiveness
No disguise
Keep the poison
Pretty tonight
Velvet damage
Velvet damage
Let the trouble pull me in
- Lyricist
Yutaka Sekino
- Composer
Yutaka Sekino
- Producer
Hoshitarou Akeno&the dark side
- Songwriter
Yutaka Sekino
- Other Instruments
Gimmick Drive
Listen to VELVET DAMAGE (feat. Gimmick Drive) by Hoshitarou Akeno&the dark side
Streaming / Download
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STATIC BLOOM (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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MIDNIGHT COLORS (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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BORROWED COLOR (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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LIGHT THE SKY (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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NEON HEART (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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NO MASK (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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PAPER CROWN (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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VELVET DAMAGE (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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RUN WITH THE SUN (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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STAY WITH ME (feat. Gimmick Drive)
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## Gimmick Drive - [Second Gear]
Dry guitars. Low-end noise. A signal coming from somewhere outside the city lights.
Gimmick Drive's second album takes the raw impulse of their debut and pushes it somewhere deeper, darker, and further out.
Sharp guitar riffs.
Heavy bass.
Stripped-down drums.
A voice carrying coldness and heat at the same time.
Written entirely in English, the album moves through the blurred edges of alternative rock, garage, punk, and indie without settling comfortably into any one place.
At times loud and abrasive.
At times strangely quiet.
There is no complete story here.
Only fragments.
Empty roads at night.
Flickering streetlights.
A half-broken amplifier.
Feelings that never found the right words.
Somewhere inside the noise, those fragments connect.
And become a record.
"Japanese girls band" no longer feels like enough of a description.
Gimmick Drive is heading somewhere.
No one knows exactly where yet.
But the engine is already running.
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