Machine Gun Kelly & Songwriting: Gems From ‘Tickets to My Downfall’
Machine Gun Kelly has officially crossed a new milestone in his career and we couldn’t be prouder. The young star just earned his first No. 1 claim on the Billboard 200 Albums chart with his fifth studio album, “Tickets to My Downfall”. The set earned 126,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending October 1st.
Machine Gun Kelly crafted this album with a little help from Travis Barker of the iconic band, Blink-182. Interestingly, “Tickets to My Downfall” marks the first rock album to score the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 in over a year. The artist even took to Twitter to share his excitement over a brief statement. “Waited my entire career to repost this,” he captioned a picture of Billboard’s official announcement. Now, the album nurses a good 15 tracks and we figured, in celebration of Kelly’s new career high – we’d pick out the greatest gems from this record.
So, with “Tickets to My Downfall” under the microscope, we’re cherry-picking his brightest bits of songwriting that have lent to all the victories swarming around the album. And on that note, let’s dive right in, shall we?
Photo Credits: Machine Gun Kelly Official Instagram
Machine Gun Kelly & His Lyrical Gems
1. ‘My fingers are burning from the temperatures
My preacher led me off the precipice
If I’m a painter, I’d be a depression-ist
I need this time to decompress from this’
– “Title Track”
2. ‘I’m still young wasting my youth
I’ll grow up next summer’
– “Drunk Face”
3. ‘Like hand prints in wet cement
She touched me it’s permanent
In my head, in my head
I couldn’t hear anything you said’
– “Bloody Valentine”
4. ‘My bad dreams are silk screens
‘Cause I taste blood when you bleed
It’s eating me alive
We’d both be better off alone’
– “Forget Me Too”
5. ‘The last time I heard you
They held the phone, you took your last breath
Lonely lonely, even when the room is full
I’d trade it, trade it, I would trade it all for you’
– “Lonely”
6. ‘The headlines say, “The world is over”
Whatever happened to a fairy tale ending
You can’t pass if you don’t know the code word
I’m inside of a UFO crash landing’
– “Concert For Aliens”
7. ‘Would it kill you to smile?
Let me occupy your mind
With a million miles an hour
And it f**ked up your design’
– “Jawbreaker”
8. ‘I did this all for you
Look what I turned into
She looked dead in my eyes and she saw nothing inside’
– “Nothing Inside”
9. ‘I did this all for you
Look what I turned into
She looked dead in my eyes and she saw nothing inside’
– “Body Bag”
10. ‘I hope you get to go to all the places that I showed you
When I was on the road and couldn’t be home to hold you
Part of me doesn’t want this cruel world to know you’
– “Play This When I’m Gone”
By: Nina Karun
