The opening track to her self-titled album and the first single to be released. It’s a raucous expression of rage on behalf of a loved one nearly dying.
It’s about pure rage. I was so angry when everything was happening. It was this anger that was frightening, that it was huge, that it could move m...
[Verse 1]
How we all spill out of the earth?
Naked like sick birds
Uncomfortable with words
Visceral and unfurled like blood feathers under the skin
I’m in a state again, but I stay polite
I stay polite
[Chorus 1]
It keeps me alive
It keeps me alive
It’s easier, right?
[Verse 2]
And the state washes over me
And the dust from the cars and the cussing in halls
And the trucks and the shards and the spoiling stars
[Chorus 2]
My memory fades
My memory fades
And every day it gets so hot
So hot
So hot
[Verse 3]
What a sterling way to come
I become rage
A shining example of pure anger
Pure and real and sticky and moving and sweet
State was written by Laura Stevenson.
State was produced by John Agnello.
Laura Stevenson released State on Tue Jun 08 2021.