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about

So the intro is just sort of about those moments where you get super in your own head and you’re like wHaT Is LiFE iS AnYtHinG ReAl is this a simulation like the Truman Show what happens when you die how big is space dgasdghaidshg💥

The rest of the song is mostly just very normal phrases that people say so often that it’s kinda lost all meaning. And like crazy shit that certain parents say in this tone like we’ll agree with them like about chem trails and The Vaccine and The Gays and The Globalists and The Gay Globalists.

The tone of the song is like… bored and a little out of it. Like you’re falling asleep. On a plane. Hope it doesn’t fall out of the sky! Idk

The second verse is all references to lyrics by musicians who I deem to be very Real and Legit unlike me:
“Something in the way she moves” - Beatles
“Something bout you” - The 1975
“Something just broke” - Sonheim (Assassins)

lyrics

We saw a line, so we got in
Without knowing what was going on
Saturday in Chinatown
The street moves by
But you and I
Are perfectly still

And still
I feel
This little nagging thing
Like theres somewhere I should be
Like there's something wrong with everybody else but me

There's something in the air
I guess it's the pollution
I guess it's the vaccine
I guess there doesn’t have to be a reason
(I guess it’s the new algorithm)
I guess I’ll see you later
It’s up to your discretion, I guess
I guess it was a fluke
They’re working on the system

We'd be so fucked if this was real
But I'm not really planning to stick around here
None of this counts
In a couple years
I’m gonna start my life for real
For real
Mmmmm

There's something in the way
She moves
And now I can't remember
Something I’m supposed to do
Something just broke
It’s like somebody died
That’s just just something people say
Real people

We'd be so fucked if this was real
But I'm not really planning to stick around here
None of this counts
In a couple years
I’m gonna start my life for real
Mmmmm
Then it's all over

credits

from Real poetry is always about plants and birds and trees and the animals and milk and honey breathing in the pink but real life is behind a screen, released October 13, 2023
Written, performed, and produced by Katie McTigue
Mixed and mastered by Dylan Ganz

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Pacing is the songwriting and recording project of Katie McTigue. McTigue’s writing style has been described as “tongue firmly planted in cheek” (Surviving the Golden Age, 2022), an “off-kilter and wonderfully weird world” (CLOUT, 2022), and “I don’t get it” (multiple sources). Despite her safety net of colorful characters, jokes, and metaphors, the real her always manages to slip in somewhere. ... more

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