Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Slaughter Beach, Dog
I think this song takes three different scenes from different perspectives on different winter days. The unifying thread is the person trying to make sense of an otherwise confusing situation by identifying “shapes I know.” In these moments where nothing makes a ton of sense (feeling alienated on...
[Verse 1]
Every day, the bus comes, and I start to lose it
All the other kids stop making out when I sit down
Staring at the TV in his socks, she leans in
Tying up her bathrobe in the dark of the early morning
[Chorus]
Blow my breath out on the window
Use a finger to fill in
The frame with shapes I know
The road is slick with snow
And the grocery store is closed
[Verse 2]
Yuppies in the prefabs holding hands at midnight
Fuckers in their fast cars trading head by moonlight
Finger in the buck, knife in my bag from granddad
Jacking up the rent all down my block, so I don't feel that bad
[Chorus]
Blow my breath out on the window
In the cruiser with the lights off
The station looks the same
The night clerk calls my name
And the phone accepts my change
[Verse 3]
Emily decides she's staying home this evening
Mama doesn't like that kind of lip, she's steaming
Caught cutting up the dress Aunt Julie bought from Boscov's
Back of Daddy's hand on Christmas Eve in the moonlit garage
[Chorus]
Blows her breath out on the window
Use her finger to fill in
The frame with shapes she knows
The road is slick with snow
And the grocery store is closed
Shapes I Know was written by Jake Ewald.
Shapes I Know was produced by Ian Farmer.
Slaughter Beach, Dog released Shapes I Know on Fri Oct 27 2017.