St. Vincent
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This slide guitar finger-picking folk tune presents St. Vincent in her most vulnerable inquisitive self, pondering on the weight of required sacrifices for the sake of love. The song creates this cinematic allusion of an Icarus-like character on the precipice of a building, hoping their wings will o...
[Verse 1]
Paint yourself white
Clip on the wings
Climb high to the top of a building
Does it make you an angel
Or some kind of freak
To believe enough
In somebody like me?
Baby
[Refrain]
Oh, I (Oh, I), guess we'll see
Who was the freak
[Verse 2]
Dress up in white
Slip on the ring
Walk straight down the aisle
To the violin strings
Does it make you a genius or
The fool of the week
To believe enough
In somebody like me?
Baby
[Outro]
Oh, I (Oh, I), guess we'll see (I guess we'll see)
Who was thе freak
Time (Oh, I), tells us things (I guеss we'll see)
That you and I can't see
[Instrumental Outro]
Somebody Like Me was written by St. Vincent.
Somebody Like Me was produced by St. Vincent & Jack Antonoff.
St. Vincent released Somebody Like Me on Fri May 14 2021.
Love is a mutually agreed-upon delusion. That, to me, is very poetic and very romantic. Because there’s action and agency involved – we’re going to build this idea of who we are and what we are together. But I think, as a person who peddles delusion, this is romance to me.