Buffalo Replaced is the second track on Mitski’s seventh studio album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We. It is a wild and reckless expression of free will and self confidence, setting a high energy and hopeful tone for the album, that is challenged numerous times, before being settled into ag...
[Verse 1]
Mosquitoes can enjoy me, I can't go inside
I'm suckin' up as much of the full moon, so bright
Fireflies zoomin' through the yard like highway cars
Someone out here burnin' something, kids feelin' alive
[Chorus]
Freight train stampedin' through my backyard
It'll run across the plains like the new buffalo replaced
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
[Verse 2]
I have a hope and though she's blind with no name
She shits where she's supposed to, feeds herself while I'm away
Sometimes I think it would be easier without her
But I know nothing can hurt me when I see her sleepin' face
[Chorus]
Freight train horn howlin' out mad and wild
Headin' somewhere far away like the new buffalo replaced
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah, ah
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Buffalo Replaced was written by Mitski.
Buffalo Replaced was produced by Patrick Hyland.
Mitski released Buffalo Replaced on Fri Sep 15 2023.