This song is the first track off of Soccer Mommy’s 2020 album “color theory”. In this song, Sophie sings about how her childhood innocence is no more, and now she looks back on her childhood and wishes she could go back. The song also repeatedly references her 2018 studio debut Clean, serving as alm...
[Verse 1]
Remembering running through my yard like a wild stream
Just a little kid, blood flowing into my rosy cheeks
Now a river runs red from my knuckles into the sink
And there's a pale girl staring through the mirror at me
Maybe it's just a dream, wish I could go back to sleep
[Verse 2]
Hydrangeas blooming off the branches of park trees
It's a half-hearted calm, the way I've felt since I was thirteen
'Cause I may not feel it now, covered up the wounds with my long sleeves
But I know it's waiting there, swimming through my bloodstream
And it's gonna come for me, yeah it's gonna come for me
[Chorus]
What did you have that I didn't?
And why am I so blue?
Someone's talking in my forehead
That says, "I'll never be like you"
Happiness is like a firefly on summer free evenings
Feel it slipping through my fingers
But I can't catch it in my hands
Catch it in my
[Verse 3]
Old memories, ribbons running down from my bare knees
I ran too fast, fell down on my face in the concrete
I guess the lesson's learned, I've barely left my room in the past week
And I've got my guard up trying all the time to stay clean
But I don't feel anything, I don't feel anything
[Chorus]
What did you have that I didn't?
And why am I so fucked?
There's someone talking in my forehead
That says, "I'll never be enough"
And happiness is like a firefly on summer evenings
Feel it slipping through my fingers
But I can't catch it in my hands
Catch it in my
bloodstream was written by Soccer Mommy.
bloodstream was produced by Gabe Wax.
Soccer Mommy released bloodstream on Mon Feb 24 2020.
This song was hard to write because there was so much imagery that I wanted to include from different parts of my life. I wanted there to be a huge contrast from being young and happy, and then completely losing that, and struggling with that loss. There’s parts in the song about struggling with dep...
When I was writing “Bloodstream”, I couldn’t get the verse for that for like two weeks, and I had the rest of the song entirely done. I had all of these ideas for lyrics, and I couldn’t finish it for so long. But when I have a melody that I love, or a chorus, or a verse — then I won’t give up on fin...
‘bloodstream’ was one of the first ones I wrote. It took a while to finish it because I had to craft it a little bit more rather than just let all this stuff out. I felt I needed to piece together a lot of themes and ideas that I wanted in there, because it’s a song about being in a dark and empty p...