Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus & Stephen Malkmus
[Verse 1]
You got potential, I've heard you sing like an angel
Float like a tree-house, colonize you
I long for the feeling when promises fade in the reel
Nobody wants to decolonize you
[Verse 2]
Imagine partner, potential friend of my daughter
Learn how they bend truth, all of us do
Into the brazen, the social proof you're amazing
Nobody wants to decolonize you
[Verse 3]
I painted my ladder fuchsia, do nanoseconds matter?
Who will you pick to colonize you?
Falling in love with you on my mind, you're an angel
What will it take to decolonize you?
Signal Western was written by Stephen Malkmus.
Signal Western was produced by Chris Funk.
Stephen Malkmus released Signal Western on Fri Mar 06 2020.
I was thinking, What is love vaguely like? How much of it is colonizing someone and how much is decolonizing them? I know ‘decolonization’ is a catchword in academia these days, so I guess it was using a hip word to talk about this stuff… I can’t deny it’s kind of signalling an awareness of that iss...