Saw it in your eyes when you woke up the other day,
You were sitting in your same place, same time.
You called it as you saw it, there was something wrong with you,
But a lifetime hadn’t started so long ago.
Swing, baby swing,
‘Cause you couldn’t get back down from him.
There was something different in the way
it was just so much simpler then.
Swing, baby swing,
‘Cause you couldn’t get back down from him.
It was just too long for one stay,
It was just too late for today.
You called out just to hear you get turned back down again,
You were searching for your own place this time.
You’re younger when you noticed that you couldn’t be like them,
But you washed it all away when you were raising them, so
Swing, baby swing,
‘Cause you couldn’t get back down from him.
There was something different in the way
it was just so much simpler then.
Swing, baby swing,
‘Cause you couldn’t get back down from him.
It was just too long for one stay,
It was just too late for today.
credits
from Back Seat Driver LP,
released April 10, 2018
Written, produced, recorded and arranged by Erica von Trapp
Mixed by Jules de Gasperis
Mastered by Howie Weinberg
From Portugal comes this wild and contemporary take on fado, centering the style’s longing qualities against surging electronics. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 27, 2023