The Beths - I’m Not Getting Excited

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The Beths - "I'm Not Getting Excited" from the 2020 album Jump Rope Gazers on Carpark Records.

New Zealand pop band The Beths return this month with their sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers, out July 10th via Carpark Records. But frontwoman Elizabeth Stokes is keeping her cool about it. In a press release, she states:

“People always ask ‘are you excited!?’ and it’s a fair question, because exciting things do happen to us sometimes. Support slots, overseas tours, music releases. Stuff we’ve dreamed about for years. So the correct answer is always ‘yes.’ But the truth is that deep down there’s a tiny Liz saying, ‘don’t get excited.’ She is certain that anything good that could happen will most likely not happen, because of a freak accident. Or because somebody finally realises that we aren’t worthy, shouts ‘phony!’ and takes everything away. I wrote ‘I’m Not Getting Excited’ last year, well before everything really did get taken away. From everyone. It feels like the song has a new context, but we don’t know what it is yet. And now we all share a blurry, uncertain future.”

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0:00.0	You're getting excited because the through is in mind to invite in
0:15.6	just the true when I learn that it's finally returned I finally am
0:19.6	replacing the end and I take a form but I keep my hands soft
0:26.3	I keep my bottle and I'll move with the and I'll go where it bends and
0:30.5	let go go the expectation.
0:33.0	I'm not getting excited
0:39.0	because the line on the final fires going to be hiding
0:42.0	when it flashes at night except bring up signs I can see through my eye
0:46.2	and so now that it's time and I hold it all
0:50.2	But I keep my hands soft all the answer in asking my thoughts are wrecking.
0:56.0	There's no point I'm taking the thought from the final side from my final signs of
1:09.3	they did way. Wait. Morning. Oh, I'm not getting excited because my fight and a flight and a fight I'm divided because my fight and a flight are divided and so I don't enthues keep my grip on joy loose and I wait for the news
1:55.6	with the feet in my shoes and I lose it all with one foot off the door
2:01.4	and a smile I lie with my eye to the side so I agree with goodbye I agree with goodbye
2:07.3	you goodbye.
2:08.3	What is it like the other side?
2:14.0	That all my final signs are a faded.
2:18.0	Wait,
2:21.0	and finally be facing the air way. And finally face to me away,
2:24.0	I'm facing the airway.
2:25.0	I wear the same face at the morning.
2:29.0	Morning, morning. For me.
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