The title of this track is a reference to Speedboat by Renata Adler:
Excerpt from Speedboat | Penguin Random House Canada
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Penguin Random House Canada
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist try...
Go to weddings
Go to funerals
Just try
To exist
Swap scenes in the morning
Ask him to bed again
I celebrate
With a fist
And I thought a lot of you today
But not in any special way
Just because
Today you’re 31
Was it too much to expect
You never asked
I never said
First the quays and then the rest
You were the only one
And never mind
The late night calls
I make them from
The city walls
But I’ve decided
Not to go there
For a while
The fireworks could cut us up
And I swear I wouldn’t give a fuck
One of us waits
The other’s stuck
And I can’t tell the difference
When I said
I didn’t mind
You didn’t mark
Her passing line
What I really meant was
I wish you’d been there
The months move on
And I decide
Though you like
To take my side
You never really told me
Anything at all
It’s not that I
Don’t love you still
(you might come
I hope you will)
It’s that even though I try
I just can’t keep up
Go to weddings
Go to funerals
Any dreams?
Keep them fixed
Any Dreams? was written by Morgan MacIntyre & Gemma Doherty.
Any Dreams? was produced by Morgan MacIntyre & Gemma Doherty.
Saint Sister released Any Dreams? on Fri Jun 25 2021.
We wanted to examine the experience of feeling trapped. Trapped in a relationship, trapped in our houses and trapped in our minds. This video explores the patterns we move in, the safe places we seek and what we do to find escape.
— Kev Freeney and Janna Kempermann via Total Ntertainment
The song moves along at a concentrated pace. It’s quite focused and forensic in its dissection of what you’ve been clinging onto, what’s been keeping you alive. All of a sudden the pace runs away with itself. You can’t keep up, you can’t cope and you’re about to fucking spin out of control.