Name: Snakes
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Most of this was done on my MacBook on GarageBand by myself. Matt made it lively and vivid in the places it was lacking. It’s a song about how as a child I used to roam the woods and was scared of snakes and playing basketball with all the other kids in my cul-de-sac. That transferred into adult life as being afraid of taking chances and risks. Learning or at least hoping to overcome that

Snakes

from Failed State by ayo river

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Most of this was done on my MacBook on GarageBand by myself. Matt made it lively and vivid in the places it was lacking. It’s a song about how as a child I used to roam the woods and was scared of snakes and playing basketball with all the other kids in my cul-de-sac. That transferred into adult life as being afraid of taking chances and risks. Learning or at least hoping to overcome that

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[Verse 1]
In the future
When we’re looking back
Will we wonder
Will we think to ask
Was it worth it
Did it matter once
Is it nothing
Is it just because?

[Verse 2]
I’m the king of
Playing hide and seek
When I’m hiding
No one looks for me
There were forests
Where I made my rounds
There were snakes
Blending with the ground

[Chorus x2]
I would take to the trees
How I wish they’d bitten me
I would take to the trees
How I wish, how I wish...

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from Failed State, released August 22, 2017

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