FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND
La Dispute * Track #8 On Panorama
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Album Panorama
- #1
ROSE QUARTZLa Dispute
- #2FULTON STREET I
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- #3FULTON STREET II
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- #4RHODONITE AND GRIEF
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- #5ANXIETY PANORAMA
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- #6IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN
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- #7VIEW FROM OUR BEDROOM WINDOW
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- #8FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND
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- #9THERE YOU ARE (HIDING PLACE)
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- #10YOU ASCENDANT
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FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND by La Dispute
Release Date
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La DisputeWrited by
Jordan DreyerAbout
The second single released ahead of La Dispute’s fourth LP, Panorama.
Within this three and a half minute tour de force, we are presented with a narrator lamenting over a declining relationship with a close, personal friend or perhaps even a loved one, while at the same time coming to the realizati...
FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You were breaking like the ground beneath me
Burn up like a dream
I keep off lightning strikes
On summer nights
On television
Now
I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep
That night I tripped and broke my ribcage
On a bar seat
Drunk for weeks
Chasing ambulances
Stumble to my bedsheets
Softly drift off after peaceful things
I had once and released down in the streets
Now here and beyond
All footsteps ended at the pond
[Verse 2]
Don't get why you believed in me so much
To follow and retrieve it all
That sanctity I scattered so indifferently
Still you called on me to breathe you out
You begged the breeze relieve
Me from what settles deep and
Burns down underneath
If you believe
My love like a battered dog
Wanders under street signs
Limps out into nothingness
Burns up like a bad dream gone
[Chorus]
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I think you needed me
To bleed out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I guess you needed me to leave
[Verse 3]
Still you carried me to sleep
Leaving when the dream retreats
Grasping for an older me
Some faded image
And it carries you to sleep
Breathes out in the fog before me
Cattails hit your knees to send
Some subtle promise
To scatter all their seeds
To grow before they leave
For life and all its consequential
Complicated scenes
That shake you out of sleep
Scrape your knees beneath your feet
I think we bleed because we need to bleed
We bleed because we need
[Bridge]
I just wanted you to carry on and carry me
I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be
I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me
I guess I wanted you to leave
I guess you needed me to bleed
[Chorus]
Out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I guess you needed me bleed out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I guess I needed me to leave
[Outro]
Come and shake me from my sleep
Burn up in a bad dream
I could believe
Come and shake me from my sleep
Come and help me believe
FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND Q&A
Who wrote FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND's ?
FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND was written by Jordan Dreyer.
Who produced FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND's ?
FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND was produced by La Dispute & Will Yip.
When did La Dispute release FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND?
La Dispute released FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND on Wed Jan 09 2019.
What have the artists said about the song?
In an interview with Fader, vocalist Jordan Dreyer had this to say:
Footsteps at the pond. Bootprints in snow on hills sloped downward toward water and toward broken ice. Had that vision all summer in the same place driving back and forth between homes while we were writing. This song is about reck...