Crushed Laces from Lunchroom Legends by Headsway

# About This Track: Crushed Laces

Dodgeball day became dodgeball doomsday when Mason's signature headband got stomped on purpose by the same guys who used to have our backs. That raw betrayal lives inside every reverb-soaked guitar stroke and thundering drum hit on "Crushed Laces." We turned the gym's battlefield into this sonic assault that starts with stomps recorded from actual bleachers—those same metal seats where alliances crumbled.

The track builds like tension in a tied game. Our normally clean guitar lines get deliberately roughed up through a distortion pedal Jake's older brother lent us, mimicking how friendships fray at the edges before they snap completely. By the chorus, we're all shouting those gang vocals together like we're standing back-to-back against everyone else.

That breakdown at 2:13? Pure catharsis. We literally gathered fifteen friends in Mason's garage, taught them the stomping pattern, and captured that hallway confrontation energy in one take. No instruments—just handclaps, stomping, and raw voices shouting "hey!" The resulting wall of sound feels like twenty kids rallying behind you when you've been wronged.

"Crushed Laces" tackles betrayal head-on but ends with the dust settling. We've all had someone we trusted turn on us without warning, leaving us to figure out if those broken ties can ever be retied. Sometimes they can't—and that's what the feedback fade at the end represents—some things stay broken, but you still move forward.

This is our anthem for anyone who's ever had to rebuild their squad from scratch. Play it loud when you need to remember that sometimes what falls apart makes room for something stronger.

We're that notebook-margin anthem you blast when the hallway feels like forever. Raw guitar hooks, teenage overthinking, and melodies you'll sing in the shower. Sorry 'bout the noise—actually, we're not. Catch us live or in your headphones?