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about
Kuma + Maxx have a special bond. They recognize very specific dimensions in each other. This usually comes about between two creatures when they have both experienced the same degree of horror-- and sometimes the same degree of euphoria.
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Ugh I feel so good ab this art of Maxx. She's so... UGH. Anyway, yeah I've been writing a lot of spooky-sexy shit lately, and Maxx fits so perfectly for that, so this one is more-or-less about her and Kuma doing Emberlinks and probing at each other's minds and having fun being creepy and sexy and stuff. I think there's more to it than that, it's not so limited, but yunno I figure I always wanna share little lore/character/story bits when I drop music and stuff
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EDIT: Just replaced the file w a new mix! There were just a lot of little things that were buggin me that needed fixing (very hastily threw together the original mix of this haha idk why)
lyrics
Smearing the glitter on your face
Girl you’re a canvas I won’t waste
We’re in a world of black and pink
Of horizons that never sink
I know it’s a little twisted
I know, I know, I know
I know it’s a little twisted but
This time it’s more than fiction
So I’ll revel in this broken world
I’ll cradle this affliction
I know that parts of you are haunted
Know that parts of you are dead
Crave every naked inch regardless
As you crawl into my bed
Tangled up in power lines
Like ribbons
You lock eyes with mine
It’s heaven- well, it’s close enough
Your angel parts are up to snuff
We’re not so different, rebel girl
See a mirror, we stop, but we’re scared to twirl
Cuz it’s never enough to be alive in the light
So we flee to the darkness of each other’s insides
I know it’s a little twisted but
This time it’s more than fiction
So I’ll revel in this broken world
I’ll cradle this affliction
I know that parts of you are haunted
Know that parts of you are dead
Crave every naked inch regardless
As you crawl into my bed
We’re not like puzzle pieces
We’re more like shooting stars
That collide in these Rhinestone Skies
Like the truth you find in tarot cards
And I’m sorry it’s not meant to be
Like I’m sorry for a lot of things
That were never up to me
It’s still beautiful though, don’t you think?
(2x)
I know it’s a little twisted but
This time it’s more than fiction
So I’ll revel in this broken world
I’ll cradle this affliction
I know that parts of you are haunted
Know that parts of you are dead
Crave every naked inch regardless
As you crawl into my bed
I know it’s a little twisted
I know, I know, I know
welcome to Rhinestone Skies, where Kuma is making weird scene music ab being a freak w their freak friends in the fucked up lovecraftian nightmare that is their existence.
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