The eighth track off Soccer Mommy’s Clean (2018), “Scorpio Rising” serves as a climactic realization that the singer will lose her love to another, and it will be her fault. Stereo Gum described it as a song that begins “deceptively basic… [until] it starts to unfurl into this story about relinquish...
[Verse 1]
Kissed you in the park
We'll meet up after dark
In your car with the backseat, southern summer
Ignored all the missed calls from your mother
And kiss me in the park
We'll meet up after dark
And we'll talk until morning hits the windshield
And paints yellow lines on the field
[Verse 2]
Now you want to start
With someone not so far
Oh she's bubbly and sweet like a Coca-Cola
I watch from my drink as you look her over
The tab don't pop too hard
You're sick of playing cards
With your love, you want warmth and I'm somethin' colder
I'm putting your hands to her heart
[Chorus]
I don't think of my life
Anywhere but in your arms tonight
Won't say it this time
Can't even look back in your eyes
[Verse 3]
Kissed you in the park
We'll meet up after dark
It's a bite of the apple, the touch of your lips
I'm stuck in the bathroom and sick over it
'Cause you're made from the stars
That we watched from your car
And I'm just a victim of changing planets
My Scorpio rising and my parents
[Chorus]
I don't think of my life
Anywhere but in your arms tonight
Won't say it this time
Can't even look back in your eyes
Scorpio Rising was written by Soccer Mommy.
Scorpio Rising was produced by Gabe Wax.
Soccer Mommy released Scorpio Rising on Fri Mar 02 2018.
This song is the climax of the record. It’s this huge moment where I realize that while I’ve been trying to be cool and detached, I’ve become attached — and now I’m about to lose everything because I’m pretending to be something I’m not.