Skrillex

Released: April 7, 2009

Songwriter: Skrillex Sean Friday

Producer: Noah Shain

[Verse 1]
Take a step off of that silver bird from your planet
And you brought a little bit of that cold with you
Now wring me out like you would your bastarding father
And you're so quick to stick to that scum, hungry like a piranha

[Chorus]
Swallow a little of that sea
Now, taste a little bit of that salt in me
Throw up a little of it on your knees
Now, doesn’t that bring you back to the beginning?

Before you poured your elements away
Now, sink back to the bottom of it all

[Verse 2]
Seal your lips with the black stitch of a secret
Parade with that speechless dryness of the desert air
Lay flat, under the limelight and feed off all the fiction
Cold, callous, and boiled
Between the bleak deep of your dirty hands

Kiss your son, now kiss your Bible
You know I never wanted to see your screams
Oh, I just won't believe it

[Chorus]
Swallow a little of that sea
Now, taste a little bit of that salt in me
Throw up a little of it on your knees
Now, doesn't that bring you back to the beginning?

Before you poured your elements away
Now, sink back to the bottom of it all

[Bridge]
You’re sinking, you're sinking!

[Chorus]
Swallow a little of that sea
Now, taste a little bit of that salt in me
Throw up a little of it on your knees
Now, doesn't that bring you back to the beginning?

Before you poured your elements away
Now, sink back to the bottom of it all

[Outro]
Before you poured your elements away
Now, sink back to the bottom of it all

Sonny Moore found club and mainstream stardom beginning in 2008, when he swapped his gig as post-hardcore frontman for From First to Last and created the dancefloor-oriented project, Skrillex. He initially used the name for live DJ sets, but in 2009 the project moved into the studio with Skrillex remixing the likes of Lady Gaga and Snoop Dogg.

Now he strives in mainstream success, playing monstrous live sets, releasing songs that rack up millions of listens and producing for the likes of Justin Bieber, A$AP Rocky, Ty Dolla Sign, and Ellie Goulding, and formed the duo Jack U with equally successful producer Thomas “Diplo” Pentz.

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