St. Cloud
Waxahatchee * Track #11 On Saint Cloud
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St. Cloud by Waxahatchee
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WaxahatcheeProduced by
Brad CookWrited by
Katie CrutchfieldAbout
St. Cloud, the final track of Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud (2020), sees Katie going through locations that have been meaningful to her, first New York and second her father’s hometown in Florida. She calls back to earlier tracks on the album, including “Hell” and “Fire”.
St. Cloud Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When you get back on the M train
Watch the city mutate
Where do you go when your mind starts
To lose its perfected shape?
Virtuosic, idealistic
Musing a fall from grace
I guess the dead just go on living
At the darkest edge of space
[Verse 2]
When you get back home to St. Cloud
Watch the new world project
A rousing image, scorched earth swinging
Supernatural and complex
And I might show up in a white dress
Turn reluctance on its ear
If the dead just go on living
Well, there's nothing left to fear
[Verse 3]
If you burn slow, burning slow
On your own roof, yell what you know
Burning slow, burning slow
Burning slow, burning slow
[Verse 4]
And when I go, when I go
Look back at me, embers aglow
When I go, when I go
When I go, when I go
St. Cloud Q&A
Who wrote St. Cloud's ?
St. Cloud was written by Katie Crutchfield.
Who produced St. Cloud's ?
St. Cloud was produced by Brad Cook.
When did Waxahatchee release St. Cloud?
Waxahatchee released St. Cloud on Fri Mar 27 2020.
What did Waxahatchee say about "St. Cloud"?
On a Pitchfork article on which Katie Crutchfield broke down each song of the album, she said about St. Cloud:
Pitchfork: How did you know the title track belonged at the end?
Just like “Oxbow” was always first, “St. Cloud” was always last. It was a gut instinct. My songwriting jumps around on a s...
What else have the artists said about this song?
The first part of [‘St. Cloud’] is about New York. So I needed a city that was sort of the opposite of New York, in my head. I wasn’t going to do like middle-of-nowhere somewhere; I really did want it to be a place that felt like a city. But it just wasn’t cosmopolitan. Just anywhere America, and no...