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secat - "water dub" (microplastic edit)

by Wren Dove Lark

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A remix of the brilliant track "water dub" from secat's amazing 2020 album "fun at the boardwalk!" which you can buy on their bandcamp along with all of their other amazing albums including this year's MASTERPIECE of theirs, "diamond night": secat.bandcamp.com/album/fun-at-the-boardwalk

The original song is already an AMAZING dance cut, and I just wanted to turn it into a lo-fi pop track about a summer of misery. I wrote these lyrics in 2021 and LITTLE DID I KNOW how they essentially were a premonition to this really sucky end to the summer of 2022. So, I guess you can take this release as my "fuck you summer 2022 and good riddance. I'm moving on to better things."

lyrics

I feel a gentle breeze
A dolphin leaps out from the sea
The children all cry out in glee
None of it does nothing for me no more

Now that I’m without you

Anemones
Inside the tide pool only sting
Like memories
Of you and me just souring
Inside my heart
I fall apart

Whenever I think about you

And the swimsuits all seem dated
Couples in love seem jaded
I just get irritated
Whenever I come around here

I fixate on my tan-line
Can’t get my sorry self to unwind
You’re on my mind
Whenever I come around here

I just think

What else is water but something that separates me from you?
What else is water but something that just reminds me I’m blue?
What else is water but a metaphor for waves of time crashing on me?

And

What else is ocean but the source of all the salt in my wounds?
What is a sunset if I’m never gonna see it with you?
The laughing gulls along the boardwalk only ever seem to taunt me.

These days

I feel like trash left behind
On an eroding coastline
Praying the waves will take the micro plastic fragments of my heart
Where no one else can find them
Maybe to garbage island
Where in an eon I’ll dissolve
All alone

And I see the sun
And how it shines on everyone
It seems like they’re all having fun
But I can’t make myself have fun no more

Now that I’m without you

‘Cause
You left a space
In me that light can’t penetrate
These ultraviolet rays
They only ever cause me pain
On my skin you once touched
It hurts me so much

Whenever I think about you

And the swimsuits all seem dated
Couples in love seem jaded
I just get irritated
Whenever I come around here

I fixate on my tan-line
Can’t get myself to unwind
You’re all that’s on my mind
Whenever I come down here

I just think

What else is water but something that separates me from you?
What else is water but something that just reminds me I’m blue?
What else is water but a metaphor for waves of time crashing on me?

And

What else is ocean but the source of all the salt in my wounds?
What is a sunset if I’m never gonna see it with you?
The laughing gulls along the boardwalk only ever seem to taunt me.

These days

I feel like trash left behind
On an eroding coastline
Praying the waves will take the micro plastic fragments of my heart
Where no one else can find them
Maybe to garbage island
Where in an eon I’ll dissolve
All alone

Wish I could get an ice cream cone
Without it melting while I cry alone
Wish I could wash my hands of you
But you’re like sand stuck in my shoes

Wish I could clear my history
And just erase you from my memory
Wish I could stare out at the sea
And not default to feeling misery

You’re like the lighthouse light
Shining bright in my eyes
Into the dead of night
I try to fight myself to sleep
But I lose and walk down to the beach
Thinking about you

I see the bioluminescence
It’s drained of all it’s essence
Once bright, but now it’s just so damn depressing
Here without you


I’m left to ponder


What else is water but something that separates me from you?
What else is water but something that just reminds me I’m blue?
What else is water but a metaphor for waves of time crashing on me?

And

What else is ocean but the source of all the salt in my wounds?
What is a sunset if I’m never gonna see it with you?
The laughing gulls along the boardwalk only ever seem to taunt me.

These days

I feel like trash left behind
On an eroding coastline
Praying the waves will take the micro plastic fragments of my heart
Where no one else can find them
Maybe to garbage island
Where in an eon I’ll dissolve
All alone

credits

released October 14, 2022
track production mostly uses the original elements from secat themselves. I arranged those elements into a pop song and added a few additional flourishes. lyrics written by me.

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Wren Dove Lark Newark, New Jersey

I'm Wren (she/her). I write weird pop music for trans girls to cathartically cry to. If others get something from my music, that's awesome too. :)

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