"Guillotine is an exploration of grief. It’s the fine line between wanting to retaliate to someone who has caused you hurt, or choosing to cut out the dead weight they have created in your life. It’s also acceptance that it’s ok to be angry, and to feel fragile. The track has a strong emotional undercurrent, but we’re still showing our teeth. Dead Naked Hippies has always been about the connection & energy between the 3 of us and our audience, it's become a lot more prevalent over time too. We went into the studio set on capturing some intimate moments & decided it was integral for us to only record what was vital in our three piece set up, adding minimal overdubs. It’s exciting for us, writing the lyrics was a release for me after personally facing a difficult past year & instrumentally it’s the most honest we’ve ever been. A lot of my lyrics revolve around my own struggles with mental health & as a young woman facing modern society. We want Dead Naked Hippies to be a place where everyone can come together and open up and deal with what they’ve going on, it’s important to know that everyone goes through hard times in life and has good and bad days. I think society has a lot of people caught up in a pursuit of perfection that just doesn’t exist, & it’s so important that we stick together and keep it real." Lucy DNH

LYRICS I want to deceive you Let your secrets seep through But I guess, you’d sense A long hard reminder As time moves we’re blinded Regress to past tense I like to turn the air blue I hold it up against you What if all I swore to you Was laid out bare Do I join you or do I ignore you What’s the point of answers You swear you swear What’s the point of peace I’m cut short My guillotine I’ll cut your Lines of lies that you swore We’re fair out Our cheeks lost their colour in distorted culture and we slashed the silence I held my eraser
You turned on your tracer And we thrashed in violence I like to turn the air blue I hold it up against you What if all I swore to you Was laid out bare Do I join you or do I ignore you What’s the point of answers You swear you swear What’s the point of peace I’m cut short My guillotine I’ll cut your Lines of lies that you swore We’re fair out Once more My head spins round and you soar I never wanted to adore I never wanted to deplore You don’t know what you’re running for
Well what’s it for I’ll put this right, right I’ll pull your skin tight Cover your sight, sight Shut out your night light What’s the point of peace I’m cut short My guillotine I’ll cut your