Written around March 2011, “Grease” is about life on the road, and about asking honest questions that don’t have simple answers.
What happened to youth? We’re not 22 anymore. Where did we go? Here we are. We’re still doing this. What do we have so far?
We've been here before
In a gravel lot, by the back door
We move the same
We say the same things
And the same song plays on the radio
Time for the show
And the road was long and slow
And I'm growing old
I was a boy not long ago
What happens to youth?
What happened to truth?
What happened to me?
This song won't change a thing
No, but the people want it all
The dancing bear, the bouncing ball
Oh, I hope they want it all...
Or the same song plays on the radio
Time for the show
And the road was long and slow
And I'm growing old
And the highways take a toll
Time for the show
And the road was long and slow
And I'm growing old
I was a boy not long ago
Grease was written by Gerrit Welmers & William Cashion & Samuel T. Herring.
Grease was produced by Chester Endersby Gwazda.
Future Islands released Grease on Tue Oct 11 2011.
This song “Grease” is about those places that we’ve been many times before, those kind of places that define what we do and why we do it. Those people that make up music in these cities, people that are really important and these places that are really important.
It’s not all good times man, it’s a...