Walworth says: “‘Whirlpool’ is about communication breakdowns, patterned, cyclical behavior, the kinds of relationships that render us incapable of giving and receiving care, and having nowhere else to turn. It’s about the impossibility of knowing something again once you’ve forgotten it.”
When we talk it’s like a whirlpool
By the time your words get to me
They’re just silt making clouds in the creek
And I just want to hear you speak
Please
The sky’s not blue it is everything else
That it won’t bounce back, that it keeps for itself
And the sky’s not blue it’s the only thing it can’t hold
So it gives it to you
I just want to know you
But that’s hard
Because I used to