[Verse 1]
Locked inside a moving car
Flopping in the trunk
Going through I think a tunnel
Counting every bump
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear murmurs from the front, broken up
I don't even know what's going on
Isn't that something?
[Chorus]
Take me the long way round
Think of all the poems I'll get out
Choking on my spit, it's a serious thing
Finally some meat, some lines for me
Set them up all nice and in a row
[Verse 2]
Tracing every lonely mark
On the basement wall
Calling out from every corner
Until somebody comes
[Pre-Chorus]
This whole thing is so extra, so bizarre
I don't even know what's going on
I hear them coming
I hear them coming
[Chorus]
Take me the long way round
Think of all the poems I'll get out
Turning on a spit, how sickening
Finally a show with lines for me
Set them up all nice and in a row
In a Row was written by Perfume Genius.
In a Row was produced by Blake Mills.
Perfume Genius released In a Row on Fri Mar 28 2025.
I love this notion in this song, of running into bad situations kind of for the story, or to have more experience to write about. This image of you being in the trunk of a car saying you’re going to get so many poems out of it is so funny.
Mike Hadreas:
[Laughs] I think in a lot of ways I’ve shake...