Weyes Blood - Grapevine

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Weyes Blood - "Grapevine" from the 2022 album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow on Sub Pop.

Los Angeles-based artist Weyes Blood (real name: Natalie Mering) explores the ways we're tangled together on the wistful acoustic ballad "Grapevine."

“Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other,” she said, via a press release. “We all have a ‘Grapevine’ entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection?”

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0:00.0	The man can't see his shadow, oh, he can walk his son all the way.
0:28.9	He can make you small, he has the power to take his love away.
0:40.4	Six hours on the grapevine.
0:48.4	I feel pretty much this time, because my baby thinks he always believes that he's always right.
1:06.4	But I still think of him at night.
1:18.3	I go back to the camp with the kerosene lamps on the wall, oh, I knew I'd buy, but I was yours for a time.
1:34.3	On the grapevine.
1:44.3	On the grapevine.
2:04.9	California's for body, and if I was only you, my car broke down in an old ghost town right around.
2:25.2	They got James Dean, a motionless cow, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
2:37.2	There's no higher than no ghosts, he stayed up all night, trying to meet up the moon, oh, oh, you know I would go back to the camp with kerosene lamps on the wall.
3:05.2	There's no higher than no ghosts, he stayed up all night, trying to meet up the moon, oh, oh, oh.
3:25.2	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
3:35.2	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
3:47.2	Don't know when I'm gonna see you boy, oh, I've been waiting for the time.
3:59.2	When I see the light shining across the freeway made at night, start to drift over the line, and it hits me for the first time.
4:23.2	Now we're just two cars passing by on the grapevine.
4:43.2	A grapevine.
4:57.2	A grapevine.
5:13.2	A grapevine.

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