Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney has already written a lot about the absence of romantic love in his life, especially on his debut album titled Aromanticism. On “Me in 20 Years” is once again exploring this theme, but this time looking into the distant future, wondering if he’s just destined to be alone, and if being b...
[Verse 1]
Hey, after all these years
I'm still here, fingers outstretched
With your imprint in my bed
A pit so big I lay on the edge
Will love let me down again?
Oh no, no, it won't get in
I'm left wonderin'
If it's written on my urn
That I'll burn alone
Like a star
[Chorus]
I wonder how I'll sleep at night
With a cavity by my side
And nothing left to hold but pride, will I
Hold out for more time?
[Verse 2]
Hey me in twenty years
Does your milk still turn to rot too soon?
Do you still hoard souvenirs
And make them mirrors
Of sentimental veneer?
[Chorus]
I wonder how I'll sleep at night
With a cavity by my side
And nothing left to hold but pride, will I...
[Bridge]
Hold out a little bit more?
A little bit more, more, just a little bit more
A little bit more, more, just a little bit more
A little bit longer, just a little bit more (Hold out for more time)
A little bit longer, just a little bit more
A little bit longer, just a little bit more
A little bit more, more, just a little bit more
A little bit more, more, just a little bit more
[Chorus]
And I wonder how I'll sleep at night
With a cavity right by my side
And nothing left to hold but pride of mine
[Outro]
Is it laced within my DNA
To be braced in endless January?
Have I become the cavity I feared?
Ask me in twenty years
Me in 20 Years was written by Matt Otto & Moses Sumney.
Me in 20 Years was produced by Oneohtrix Point Never & Matt Otto & Moses Sumney.
Moses Sumney released Me in 20 Years on Mon Jan 06 2020.
“Me in 20 Years” was released on the January 6, 2019 episode of Zane Lowe’s Beats1 radio show New Music Daily. Sumney was the cover star of the episode and released this single with an interview with Lowe, as the host of the show teased right before the episode on Twitter.
Upon playing the demo for ‘Me in 20 Years’ for Dan Lopatin [AKA Oneohtrix Point Never], he told me it sounded like an old lady screaming to herself in the middle of Whole Foods. I knew then and there that he was the right collaborator to take [the song] to a catastrophic level."
Yes! Moses tweeted a transcription of the track on his official Twitter account on January 8, 2020:
“Me In 20 Years” was originally released with a lyric video, using a VHS aesthetic to match the rest of the album’s visuals. The official music video was then teased with two different trailers.