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Rust & Ruin

Rust & Ruin is an acoustic-driven, Southern Gothic autopsy of the small-town soul. Moving away from the industrial pulses of Digital Skin, GLΛSS HABIT returns to the dirt, the porchlight, and the "crooked bloodlines" of the rural landscape. This is an album about the saints found in trailers and the sinners found in pulpits.

It’s an exploration of toxic masculinity inherited like a "beer bottle bruise," the quiet tragedy of a "Sunday morning affair," and the defiant liberation of those who find love in the "man she wasn’t" or the "down-low" heat of a pickup truck. Rust & Ruin is for the misfits, the runaways, and the ghosts who still haunt the county lines—proving that even in the wreckage, there is a stubborn, unpolished kind of grace.

Rust & Ruin – Track by Track

1. Trailer Park Halo

Theme: Maternal Survival

A raw, intimate tribute to the single mother surviving on grit and cigarettes. It’s a song about realizing that your "miracle" was a woman with "bent-up wings" who held the house together while it was falling down.

2. Porchlight Confessions

Theme: Shared Isolation

Two outcasts stitching their pain together under a buzzing bulb. It’s a quiet anthem for those whose names are dragged through town gossip, finding a holy kind of truth in the secrets they keep for each other.

3. Redneck Burial

Theme: Generational Silence

A heavy, Southern Gothic look at the things families bury in the backyard instead of dealing with. It’s a warning that the past eventually "claws up" when the dirt of silence is no longer enough to keep the ghosts asleep.

4. The Man She Wasn’t

Theme: Sapphic Liberation

A tender coming-of-age story about a woman finding her truth in a town that only offered her hollow scripts. It’s a song about "wildfire eyes" and the quiet courage of choosing a home that the world calls "unclean."

5. Beer Bottle Bruises

Theme: Toxic Inheritance

A confessional about the "stone" masculinity passed down from fathers to sons. It’s a heart-wrenching determination to break the cycle—to learn that strength is "softer when you let it be."

6. Sunday Morning Affair

Theme: Lonely Sacrilege

The tragedy of a pastor’s wife seeking a "gentle touch" in the dark. This isn't a song about lust, but about two broken people needing a "quiet mercy" that the pews couldn't provide.

7. She Took the Baby & the Keys

Theme: The Great Escape

A runaway ballad for the woman who finally chose dignity over the "bruises on the wall." It’s the sound of a highway washing away a dark past and the first breath of a future that doesn't smell like fear.

8. Down-Low in Dodge Country

Theme: Forbidden Desire

Two men, a Bible on the dashboard, and a love that isn't allowed. This track captures the "trembling heartbeat" of a secret affair in a town that watches the mirrors as closely as the people do.

9. Meth Lab Valentine

Theme: Beautiful Disasters

A dark-humor love song for the couple that is a "system crash" in thrift-store lace. It’s a chaotic, sweet celebration of finding the one person who fits your specific kind of ruin.

10. Cowboy Funeral

Theme: Hidden Grief

A gut-punch story about the "scared kid" behind the rough-and-tumble mask. While the town gossips about his sins, the narrator mourns the soft, quiet boy that no one else was allowed to see.

11. Backseat Baptism

Theme: Teenage Innocence

Lust as a ritual of growing up. In the back of a rusted truck, two kids find a "guilty bliss" that feels more honest than anything they’ve been taught, discovering themselves through the "trembling kiss."

12. Dead Roses on Route 9

Theme: Vengeful Closure

A betrayed lover leaves a "funeral gift" on a liar's truck. It’s a poetic, sharp-edged exit—leaving the wilted red behind and driving off into a night that finally belongs to her.

13. Holy Water, Dirty Mouth

Theme: Defiant Fluidity

A celebration of the town’s most beautiful "contradiction." She’s bisexual, unbothered, and burns down hypocrisy with a wink. She is the "hurricane sway" that the fragile town can't help but crave.

14. Dirty Blood, Clean Hands

Theme: Breaking the Chain

A powerful declaration of independence from a violent legacy. It’s a song about standing in a "loud man’s house" and deciding that the cycle of slamming fists stops here. It’s the realization that while you can’t change your "dirty blood," you can choose to keep your hands clean.

15. The Babylon Girl of Burke Road

Theme: The Weaponized Rumor

A cinematic character study of a woman who stopped running from the town’s labels and started wearing them as armor. She is the "legend they bestowed"—a petty saint who ruins reputations with a side-eye because she’s done being the victim of their church-pew gossip.

16. Welfare Cowboy

Theme: Resilience in Chaos

The patron saint of "trying the most." A raw, humorous, and heartbreaking look at a single dad surviving on EBT cards and stubbornness. He isn’t polished or calm, but he’s "one meltdown shy of holy distress" and staying for his kids when everyone else ran.

17. When the Trailer Burns Down

Theme: The Final Purge

The album’s grand finale. This is the funeral pyre for a "rusted cage." As the walls that held years of swallowed rage go up in sparks, the narrator finally breathes. It’s not just a fire; it’s a "broken prayer" that frees the ghost of the boy they never knew was there.

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