Knives

**KNIVES** is Neoni's 10th release of 2023, and is a collab with Savage Ga$p. It was released on November 17, 2023.

Listen to **KNIVES**

## Theme

*"This song is about how sucky the world is, and how brutal you have to be to survive it. There are some people in this world that you get to be a nice, happy, kind version of yourself to. There's like three of those people. You're lucky if you find a few people where you can truly be yourself, but a lot of people are assholes. And sometimes you can't be sweet to assholes, because then they'll just be an asshole to you, and you'll just get annoyed and treated poorly and you gotta feel bad. You have to put up your walls a little bit and get through those types of people. Even, theoretically, sharpen up your knives. Let me just clarify, the song is not about stabbing people. They're metaphorical knives. It's a metaphorical situation about protecting yourself from the people."*

## Background

* The song's title was first mentioned by their mother in the Discord chat during the **HYPNOTIZED** post-premiere Discord live.
* A snippet of the song was shared on discord on November 4, 2023.
* The song was announced on their socials on November 6, 2023.
* They played a live acoustic version of **KNIVES** in a TikTok Live on November 10, 2023.
* The collaborator was revealed to be Savage Ga$p on November 12, 2023, as well as the album art on Discord.

## Lyrics

[Intro: Neoni]

(La-da-da-dum)

(La-da-da-dum)

[Verse 1: Neoni]

Oh, the zombies on the streets

Yeah, they're looking for a feast

Screaming "Man down

Yeah, that's another one deceased"

And they're plotting and scheming

And committing treason

Like it's hunting season

You better believe there

[Pre-Chorus: Neoni]

Ain't no rest for the wicked

New blood, better go get vicious

You better, you better sharpen up your

[Chorus: Neoni & Savage Ga$p]

Knives

If you wanna make it through the

Night

You better remember that you

Can never trust nobody

Take the gloves off, things get ugly

Knives

Sharpen your knives (Um, ok like)

[Verse 2: Savage Ga$p]

Knife to a gunfight

Shit is getting sticky

Kill you with a smile, now you're bleeding out your feelings

It get wicked, wicked, wicked, when I'm coming to your city

Leave you H-A-U-N-T-E-D, rest in peace, bitch

Moon shaped blade in the cut, black cat whip for the luck

Hellhounds, hellhounds

All my dogs really out for your blood

Gunblade, bitch, I'm versatile

I love knives it's personal

Put a motherfucker in my grave right quick

Like get some sleep

You work tomorrow bitch

[Pre-Chorus: Neoni]

Ain't no rest for the wicked

New blood, better go get vicious

You better, you better sharpen up your

[Chorus: Neoni]

Knives

If you wanna make it through the

Night

You better remember that you

Can never trust nobody

Take the gloves off, things get ugly

Knives

Sharpen your knives

[Bridge: Neoni & Savage Ga$p]

Ain't no rest for the wicked

New blood better go get vicious

Bleed with me, rock with me

Cutter gonna talk for me

No heroes no villains

No sympathy just venom

Moon shaped blade

Send them to the grave

Ain't no rest for the wicked

New blood better go get vicious

Bleed with me, rock with me

Cutter gonna talk for me

No heroes no villains

Just do it for the thrill and

Sharpen up your

[Chorus: Neoni]

Knives

If you wanna make it through the

Night

You better remember that you

Can never trust nobody

Take the gloves off, things get ugly

Knives

Sharpen your knives

## Trivia

* They shot the video for **KNIVES** in their attic. "It had slight serial killer vibes" - Sidney
* The video shoot for **KNIVES** took 2–3 hours.
* They had 3 weeks warning before the song was going to be released. Their next release was going to be **BLEACH**, but a night before the release of **VILLAIN**, they found out that they were releasing **KNIVES** before **BLEACH**.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cYQMBRbP0
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7298410469419732270
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/Fn6F\_88zMtQ