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St. Vincent & DARKSIDE
A lush ballad that turns razor sharp by its end, “Huey Newton” continues to reflect on the 21st century anxieties St. Vincent spins on her eponymous album. It was written during one restless night where under sedatives Annie Clark dreamt about Black Panther Huey Newton. This hazy balance between dre...
[Verse 1]
Feelings, flash cards
Fake knife, real ketchup
Cardboard cutthroats
Cowboys of information
Pleasure dot loathing dot Huey dot Newton
Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter
[Verse 2]
Fuckless pawn sharks
Toothless, but got a big bark
Live children, blind psychics
Turned online assassins
So Hale-Bopp, Hail Mary, hail Hagia Sophia
Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter
[Chorus]
Entombed in a shrine of zeros and ones
You know, you know
Oh, with fatherless features, you motherless creatures
You know
Oh, in perpetual night, oh, it's terribly frightening
You know, you know
Oh, you got the pop and the hiss in the city of misfits
You know
Safe, safe and safest, faith for the faithless
Oh, dim, dim and dimmer, succor for sinners
[Chorus]
I'm entombed in a shrine of zeros and ones
You know, you know
Oh, with fatherless features, you motherless creatures, you know, hey
Oh, in perpetual night, oh, it's terribly frightening
You know, you know
You got the pop and the hiss in the city of misfits
Oh, safe, safe and safest, faith for the faithless
Huey Newton was written by St. Vincent.
Huey Newton was produced by John Congleton.
St. Vincent released Huey Newton on Mon Feb 24 2014.