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“Two Slow Dancers” is the closing track from Mitski’s fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy (2018). The song was released as the third single of the album a week before its release.
The song is about two old lovers who have reunited and reflecting in the adolescent setting of a school gymnasium. Mitski...
[Verse 1]
Does it smell like a school gymnasium in here?
It's funny how they're all the same
It's funny how you always remember
And we've both done it all a hundred times before
It's funny how I still forgot
[Pre-Chorus]
It would be a hundred times easier
If we were young again, but as it is and it is
[Chorus]
We're just two slow dancers, last ones out
We're two slow dancers, last ones out
[Verse 2]
And the ground has been slowly pulling us back down
You see it on both our skin
We get a few years and then it wants us back
[Pre-Chorus]
It would be a hundred times easier
If we were young again, but as it is and it is
[Bridge]
To think that we could stay the same
To think that we could stay the same
To think that we could stay the same
But we're two slow dancers, last ones out
[Outro]
We're two slow dancers, last ones out
Two slow dancers, last ones out
Two Slow Dancers was written by Mitski.
Two Slow Dancers was produced by Patrick Hyland.
Mitski released Two Slow Dancers on Thu Aug 09 2018.
The thing is it’s not about a romantic relationship, it’s about two real lives lived. And there’s something very visceral and real about that. These two people have lived their whole lives, and they’re older and they have problems, and their lives are complicated and they’re just experiencing this o...