[Verse 1]
Take my hand, let me show you 'round
It's the same old place to the streets we're bound
Where colours play in the sky again
Through the windowpane, night time dissipates
[Pre-Chorus]
The heavy beating on the room
The silent time consumed
And now it never starts anew
[Chorus]
Slippin' my hold
It comes and it goes
The feeling we're told
Isn't so
[Verse 2]
People pass, we exchange a glance
As the dogs do laugh in a background chant
Cold air breathes down the cotton sleeves
Oh, go back to sleep where the moonlight gleams
[Pre-Chorus]
The heavy beating on the room
The silent time consumed
And now it never starts anew
[Chorus]
Slippin' my hold
It comes and it goes
The feeling we're told
Cannot be so
Slippin' my hold
It comes and it goes
The feeling we're told
Isn't so
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
(Now what?)
Sad Cowboy was written by Rosy Bones & Clottie Cream & Holly Hole & L.E.D..
Sad Cowboy was produced by Dan Carey.
Goat Girl released Sad Cowboy on Tue Sep 29 2020.
A September 2020 Stereogum article quotes Clottie Cream saying:
Sad Cowboy centres around the idea of losing a grip on reality and how often this can happen. When you’re within a world that constantly makes you feel as though your living out a really bad dream, disillusionment is inevitable.
Lottie Pendlebury:
I was going through different recordings and voice notes on my phone and came across this jam from maybe a year before and there was this really nice guitar line in it. That was what became the main melody of the song, and then it just developed. I wanted it to sound slightly dis...