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I Wanna Be Okay

from Racoon by Straight White Teeth

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Holding it down until the good comes back
It’s a flood of love that everyone needs to survive in this empire
It’s quite a stretch to think of me as young
But I used to think that I would know much more by now, now things are hardly clear

Referees that never play the game can’t tell us how to win or where the boundaries lay
it doesn't make sense

I’m holding it down until the love comes back
It’s a universe away but I’m gonna get there some day
I wanna be okay

Let me know what you want out of life
You can manifest it till you get it right
We’re just moments anyway
Memories before they’re made

I soothe myself with a little drink
And I pour my thoughts out as I sing and sway around
I can keep on running the machinery surrounding you
My life is a question without an answer

There’s a solitude I’m always beating back with the things I tend to and the ones I never look at
I never wanna be still

I’ve got no idea where we’re gonna end up when AI gets wise enough to pose as our lost loves
I think we’re gonna be fucked

I’m holding it down until the ghost comes back
The past was bad but I know i’ve got it memorized
The future can’t be steered

It’s a stretch to think of what we had as love
I knew my heart but never learned what loving yours does
I wasted seven years

But hey, that’s life
And it happens all the time
At least you didn’t stay another day

Let me know what you want out of life
You can manifest it till you get it right
We’re just moments anyway
Memories before they’re made

I soothe myself with a little drink
And I pour my thoughts out as I sing and sway around
I can keep on running the machinery surrounding you
My life is a question without an answer

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from Racoon, released May 5, 2023

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Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. ... more

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