Deftones
My Own Summer (Shove It)
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Six seconds of almost nothing. Then a dry guitar figure lands alone and starts turning over itself.
The drums come in and pin that figure down. Same riff, now with a body under it.
Chino enters close and fairly clean. “Hey you, big star” sits inside the loop rather than above it.
The verse stays narrow. Low guitar, steady drums, not much air around the words.
“Guide me to shelter” still gets no real shelter from the arrangement. The pocket keeps pressing the same small shape.
The line about the two hitting the six gives the heat a clock. The voice is firmer here, but not broken yet.
Then the first “Shove it” tears through. That is the first true scream peak. The riff does not open up for it. It just takes the hit.
Back into the next verse, and the temperature changes more than the form does. “I think God is moving its tongue” arrives over the same locked motion.
“No crowds in the street and no sun, in my own summer.” Absence sounds like the only relief he can name, while the band keeps the room closed.
“The shade is a tool, a device, a savior.” Practical, not soft. Shade as gear against glare.
A non-word vocal scrape cuts through for a second. More friction than lyric.
When “Shove it” returns, it lands as impact again. Short, repeated, physical.
After that, the track eases more than it erupts. The vocal gets cleaner and more controlled. The band is softer here too, still circling the riff without leaning all the way on it.
That held-back stretch matters. The pressure is present, but it is not at the limit yet.
Then the late “Shove it” comes back hard. Now the voice is pushed to the edge, screaming the command while the band finally hits underneath it again.
By the end the loop has turned into compulsion more than hook. Riff, shove, heat, shade, the same pieces cycling until the sound just stops.
Last updated Aug 8, 2026

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