“Baseball” is the opening track of Hippo Campus' third EP Warm Glow,. The track been played at Hippo Campus shows for a long time prior to release, with the first recorded live version posted on May 3, 2016. It was originally set to be the closing track on landmark, but was replaced with “Buttercup”...
[Verse 1: Jake]
I saw a cigarette contend
It was the smell of death that kept strolling in
Maybe that henna'd back of yours
That held me back, back from keeping score
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
There goes that moonboy
Looking jungly
With all his leaves a-growing
Split down that long back
He would’ve thought that
If you got to know him
True blue with your fists up
You little kiss up
Wishin' things were heavy
That's fine in the end though
Where'd all our friends go
We can dip if you're ready
[Verse 2: Jake]
I bet you take me for a fool
Nothing like, like rules the cool sensation of Pollock and Jules
Some weird abandon in sheets
Though the tongue tastes good
My grammar's falling from the cheeks
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
There goes that moonboy
Looking jungly
With all his leaves a-growing
Split down that long back
He would’ve thought that
If you got to know him
True blue with your fists up
You little kiss up
Wishin' things were heavy
That's fine in the end though
Where'd all our friends go
We can dip if you're ready
[Refrain: Jake]
I was wrong
You were a friendly kid
I was wrong
You were a friendly kid
[Bridge: Jake]
Fill the rafters
Right field dances
Baseball diamonds
Take our chances out
[Pre-Chorus: Jake]
There's somethin' fiction 'bout the way that reality's going
Seems like the chakras playing hopscotch
Anxiety a-growin'
Some cordial framework of the sunset
A yellow made out of gray
My bones are tired of the body
That woke me up today
[Chorus: Jake & Nathan]
There goes that moonboy
Looking jungly
With all his leaves a-growing
Split down that long back
He would’ve thought that
If you got to know him
True blue with your fists up
You little kiss up
Wishin' things were heavy
That's fine in the end though
Where'd all our friends go
We can dip if you're ready
[Outro]
I was wrong
You were a friendly kid
I was wrong
You were a friendly kid
I was wrong
I was wrong
I was wrong
Baseball was written by Mono Moon & Whistler Isaiah & brotherkenzie & Lupin & Hippo Campus.
Baseball was produced by BJ Burton.
Hippo Campus released Baseball on Tue Sep 12 2017.
I’m pretty sure it was a joke, like “let’s call it Baseball.” We’ll record voice memos on our phones when we’re jamming out ideas and somebody will just throw out down name for it. Baseball was just thrown down as the voice memo name. We just wrote some lyrics that had baseball.
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