[Verse 1]
I can walk on water
I can raise the dead
We joined the Exodus
Headed out from Dollywood
[Refrain]
Every daughter of God
Has a little bad luck sometimes
Every daughter of God
Has a little bad luck sometimes
[Verse 2]
Kid in Bath County, Virginia
Sippin' piss-colored bright yellow Fanta
Heard someone died in the Planet Fitness parking lot
Fire trucks rolled in and people stood around
[Verse 3]
Hit 'em with a dose of Narcan
Sat right up in the leaned back seat of his two-door sedan
On the way home, play Drive-By Truckеrs songs real loud
Be my baby 'til my body's in the ground
[Chorus]
Drunkеn laughter
Violence after
Killing the heat
Salt strips the paint
Bath County was written by Xandy Chelmis & Karly Hartzman & Margo Schultz & MJ Lenderman & Alan Miller.
Bath County was produced by Alex Farrar.
Wednesday released Bath County on Thu Feb 23 2023.
This is a song I wrote on a porch in Bath County, Virginia, when me and [lead guitarist] Jake [Lenderman] were visiting Jake’s moms hometown. It includes some imagery I saw on that trip as well as a description of a guy we saw overdosed in a parking lot early one morning on our way to Dollywood.
—K...
A song I wrote in Bath County, Virginia, when we were visiting where Jake’s mom grew up. I enjoy driving scenic routes; I love driving in general. And just on our way there, I took a couple of county roads and backwoods shit, and at one point we stopped at a school and there was a high school footba...
There’s also the “Bath County” video, which Hartzman directed and modeled after PJ Harvey’s “Man-Size” music video. The original clip, save for a short opening sequence, is entirely Harvey performing the song, looking straight at the camera, all one take. Hartzman, awed by Harvey’s confidence, chann...