Name: Are We Underwater
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: Dave laid out the bones of a song while Meaghan free-wrote some words from scratch. They traded those lyrics back and forth until they came up with this. They tried not to be topical. They failed. Recorded using Logic Pro X and a little red Focusrite box.

David Newberry & Meaghan Kelly - Are We Underwater

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Dave laid out the bones of a song while Meaghan free-wrote some words from scratch. They traded those lyrics back and forth until they came up with this. They tried not to be topical. They failed. Recorded using Logic Pro X and a little red Focusrite box.

lyrics

The wind would disagree

That the storm is after me

brace yourself as a civic duty

ARE WE UNDERWATER HAVE THE WATERS RISEN

WHAT A STRANGE THING
ARE WE BREATHING

Is it a flood are we
afloat in our own neighbourhood
I’ve always wanted to feel useful but
I thought I never could

These days in my terror dreams
I’m told over and over
Don’t feel special

ARE WE UNDERWATER HAVE THE WATERS RISEN
WHAT A STRANGE THING
ARE WE BREATHING

Walking on the sidewalks
Everybody we meet is a decision:
Immediate, emotive in its distance,
Gleaned from body language
Who draws first
Who moves into an empathetic nod
A rare hey, hard times, weird times,
end times, what is time
Who turns into a twitch of a smile
A weaving in and out of pity or longing or guilt or aversion
Away from eye contact like the contagion is in the earned glance
In the dream, in the street

Don’t hold a dream too close
don’t touch anyone
I knew that it would happen
I thought it would be years from now

The end of end time talk
We must walk the end time walk
Don’t think you’re special.

ARE WE UNDERWATER HAVE THE WATERS RISEN
WHAT A STRANGE THING
WHAT IS HAPPENING

We stood inside until
We became the windowsills

Spring as a metaphor
is not working anymore

ARE WE UNDERWATER HAVE THE WATERS RISEN
WHAT A STRANGE THING
ARE WE BREATHING

ARE WE UNDERWATER HAVE THE WATERS RISEN
WHAT A STRANGE THING
ARE WE BREATHING

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from In Basements: In Isolation Vol 1, released March 20, 2020
Written and performed by David Newberry & Meaghan Kelly
Recorded by David Newberry

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