[This song is someone talking to me]
Oh my god stop pulling that card
you're too smart
Watch your tone
Low voice
All the time
Your choice
Is the choice
We choose
Coming out and out of you
Watch your tone
Attitude
Gotta be an attitude
Change in pitch and mouth movement
That's gotta be an attitude
I don't care what you said
I don't like how you said it
I know if you had the choice you would reset it but
You did it on purpose
And you're out of control
Even if you're nervous
You should have total control
Of those words coming out
And your fight or flight response
Doesn't dictate how we want you to respond
Who cares if I'm wrong I've been around longer
Your rightness doesn't make me any more wronger
You're definitely gaslighting me
I see it in your eyes
Maybe not at the surface
But there's probably some lies
Deep in your center
I'm gonna burn it out of you
Drill into your core
I'm gonna find out the truth
I have sworn I'm gonna find out
So I'll shout and shout and shout and shout
Did you just call me stupid
I heard it in your words
I put some syllables together
From separate strings of verbs
And then I sorted them however I really wanted to
After putting them in your alphabet soup
And I saw you look away from me for seconds so today I'll be the CSI and FBI and chief of my own police team
And I will catch you in the act of something unrelated and connect it over years and say you do this every day and then
I'll figure out your secret and I will say I won
Your rightness doesn't make me any less wrong
I swear to god I'm winning I just need to find the proof
Didn't find it but I found out how you could use an excuse
I've been digging and I'm focused on finding every clue
I could stack up in a pile and push on you
I wanna bury you in facts
Wanna save my ass
From looking less smart
And looking like crap
More folk-inflected confessionals on love, loss, and anxiety — plus a Kacey Musgraves cameo —from the Nashville indie pop auteur. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 11, 2024