Like “Hourglass,” fellow single from their fifth album, Local Natives craft “Desert Snow” around natural imagery. Indeed, the image of “desert snow” serves as a fitting backdrop for lyrics about apathy (“I don’t care, just drive”) and emotional searching (“Lost somewhere between / Where I was and wa...
[Chorus]
Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell ya
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow
[Verse 1]
Run while you've got a head start
'Cause it's a phantom
And it never tires
You wanna run out the clock
You take the back seat
Saying, "I don't care, just drive"
[Chorus]
Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell ya
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow
[Verse 2]
Lifted up, lifted up, lifted up
No, I don't care about any of that now
It's all been put behind
It's falling through the cracks
Lost somewhere between
Where I was and wanna be now
[Chorus]
Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell ya
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow
[Outro]
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Desert Snow was written by Kelcey Ayer & Matt Frazier & Nik Ewing & Ryan Hahn & Taylor Rice.
Desert Snow was produced by Michael Harris.
Local Natives released Desert Snow on Fri Jul 22 2022.