thia song i wrote when i was 19, making it the oldest song on the record. it's also the one we have reimagined the most times. we also played it at my sister's wedding, right a she walked down the aisle. so you can imagine how meaningful it is to me.
obviously its about being young and in love. i was like "okay, I probably won't remember exactly what this feels like forever - i had better capture it as best i can, before it's too late."
it's not that i miss being that age, or that unreasonably in love, the type of unconditional devotion that borders on obsession... i truly enjoyed the intoxication of it all. i almost enjoyed the intoxication so much that whatever was real about the love i shared with whatever girl.. slipped past me. I was not a whole person because of it, but a person enamoured with love itself...
anyways, I felt it closing like a flower inside me, and said 'good riddance'; i never want to be that powerless again. Love and lust shouldn't take over a person like, that, or at least an adult. There's a kind of freedom in losing yourself to an experience like that. I remember riding my bike in Tokyo, headphones always, helmet never, not even caring much if I crashed.. "at least I'm in love..."
I feel like I am back there, and then the song ends seconds later. I love playing Adolescence every time, but this recording is the vision I always had for it, but could never execute. I hope it awakens the hopeless romantic in anyone who hears it.
true romance is hopeless, anyway - i really believe that.- a complete surrender of reason.
lyrics
somewhere in the distance
i saw you standing barefoot by the bridge
and the sand underneath my sneakers
fell like an hourglass
and suddenly, I’m under your command
yeah suddenly i'm under your command
command
there’s no snakes under the temple
there’s a wolf under my skin
someone good standing beside you
and you let them all vanish
we built a little homestead
where your picture hangs on
walls inside my head
and i imagine the fire that burns so bright
it kept my baby warm
warm
but the body that i hold is always cold
and the rest of both our lifetimes is unknown
unknown
you’re so cold
credits
from sky high,
released February 6, 2023
Beni Hobson-Dimas, Allyson Lowry
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