Uptight

from Ringo by Late-Night Delivery

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When I sing “And in better health / I’d be penitent myself”, that’s not me talking. That’s someone braver than me. I’m just over here.

I have no idea how I wrote this song. In some ways it’s like second-wave emo music with colorful chords, but the way they progress is really odd for me. I think it was all happy accidents, like me moving my fingers along the keyboard and getting lucky that it worked. I just steered into the jazz of it by letting the verses have some unctuous lounge energy, underlining the lyrics.

lyrics

Take me down to the bus shelter
I've got hills to climb
It's a seven hour drive and with traffic it might even be nine

Afternoons spent hiding in chamber rooms
Who have we forsaken
Talking and just taking our time

You could lay me down in holy water
In front of a lame sunset
I think we may just have one more hour
Of impossible sunshine left
Well you could drag me down

Oh the rest of me
Lying on the floor
Waiting here for you to restore

I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind, I really don't mind
I can languish on the carpet and finish what I started in time

You could lay me down in holy water
In front of a lame sunset
I think we may just have one more hour
Of impossible sunshine left
Well you could drag me down

Bout a minute from now
You'll be foaming at the mouth
You're a little uptight
You're a little uptight

And in better health
I'd be penitent myself
I'm a little uptight
You're a little uptight
Everyone's a little uptight

And I need for you to know
It's alright

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from Ringo, released November 4, 2022

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Beast Light

Jun 2023
BIDEN PILLS

Jan 2023
Country Matters

Jan 2023
Hypomania

Jan 2023
Ringo

Nov 2022
Asperitas

Jul 2022

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