Matthew Mayfield Addresses Addiction with Lyric Video for “Warfare on Repeat"

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Veteran singer/songwriter Matthew Mayfield has released the lyric video for his song “Warfare on Repeat” from his latest LP RECOIL. The namesake for his recent fifteen-city tour is one of the more upbeat tunes from the project but is one of the hardest hitting lyrically highlighting the subject of addiction and the struggle that accompanies it. “Can’t recall an evening that I didn’t end up drowning at the bar. Yeah…loneliness is crippling and memory is frankly just too hard. Do I fear that I will change if I empty all the booze down the drain,” sings Mayfield to cheerful melody. 

“Addiction is a hell of a thing as we all know. It could be anything: drugs, booze, sex, gambling, cutting, food...the list goes on forever. I never intended to write this song - it wrote itself," says Matthew. "I have had so many fans tell me how this song and other songs in my catalog have helped them gain some perspective on those issues and for some, they’ve told me it saved their life. There’s no higher honor than that. THAT will bring you to tears. It’s why I do this in the first place...to make a difference." 

RECOIL is a sonic and lyrical departure from Mayfield’s previous release, Wild Eyes. Wild Eyes was a collection of songs created over time that reflected different periods in Matthew’s life. RECOIL, by contrast, was born quickly and violently, the fruit of an intense effort by Mayfield to depict the good, the bad, and the ugly in the present world he inhabits. According to Mayfield, “making RECOIL was extremely hard—I had to drag the songs out of me and stick with them until they said exactly what I needed them to say.” 

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