Giving It Up

Album: Wired (2016)
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  • The lead single from Wired, "Giving It Up" was released on November 1, 2016. Mallory Knox frontman Mikey Chapman told Kerrang: "It's about putting your all into something and relying on external factors to come to fruition. You can be the best person you can and make every effort to do the thing you want, but all it takes is one thing to go against that to tear everything down."

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