Bruce Hornsby & Ezra Koenig & Blake Mills
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby & Danielle Haim
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Bruce Hornsby & Ethan Gruska & Rob Moose & Z Berg
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[Verse 1: Bruce Hornsby]
I'm traveling now to Salem
I'm a judge at a jury trial
Got to get there by morning sunrise
Got to save someone's innocent life
[Chorus: Bruce Hornsby]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky, moving sky
[Verse 2: Ezra Koenig]
Moving road, billboards flying by
Rental cars, tubes and tires and chains
Everything around me silently linked
Signs generating reality
[Chorus: Ezra Koenig & Bruce Hornsby]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky, moving sky
[Verse 3: Bruce Hornsby]
Now every surface lethal
Wipe it down and change your mood
A shapeless, creeping, growing thing
A Salem barrister's Waterloo
[Chorus: Ezra Koenig]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators, antennas out
Under the moving sky, moving sky
[Chorus: Bruce Hornsby & Ezra Koenig]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky moving sky
As we sit on the sidelines
(Open up, open up hysteria)
Sidelines was written by Blake Mills & Bruce Hornsby.
Sidelines was produced by Bruce Hornsby & Ariel Rechtshaid & Wayne Pooley & Tony Berg.
Bruce Hornsby & Ezra Koenig released Sidelines on Fri Mar 25 2022.
‘Sidelines’ is a song about hysteria in various forms, starting with the Salem witch trials of the 1600s then to the present-day pandemic-era panic. It features angular melodic content vocally and a pointillistic middle instrumental section.
–Hornsby in the press release for “Sidelines.”