“Brown Paper Bag“ is from the upcoming DIIV album, “Frog In Boiling Water“
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A message from DIIV behind “Brown Paper Bag“:
“as of today, this song is no longer ours, it is now yours. this is ‘brown paper bag’, track two on our new album, ‘frog in boiling water’. the way we see it, it’s both a pop song and a sludgy song, a country song and a shoegaze song, a dreamy song and a decidedly 90’s ‘rock’ song.
we built it around tape samples that loop just underneath the surface and what is probably the weirdest guitar tuning we’ve ever used. recording it, we talked about mojave 3, built to spill, and the melvins.
while the rest of the record focuses on the larger external world, this one dwells on a specific internal experience of living in it: what does this world feel like sometimes?
ever feel like a brown paper bag?”
Lyrics:
Cost me nothing to say
My mind’s at ease
When I’m in pain
Quietly swept away
I circle the drain
So there I go
Torn
Faded
a brown paper bag
Stuck on the ground
Down
Wasted
Just a brown paper bag
again
Put a smile on my face
My home in flames
The past erased
I’ll embrace my mistakes
On some other day
So there I go
Torn
Faded
A brown paper bag
Stuck on the ground
Down
Wasted
Just a brown paper bag
Again
There I go
Where will I go
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