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Swim

by At Face Value

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We now live in a society where your face is glued to a screen. Specifically people in their teens and twenties are blasted with all this media associated with partying to the max. Not all this is inherently bad, but depending on one’s mentality, there can be added pressure to drink and succumb to your vices to be able to fit in. “Binge and call it my biggest send”, “call it lit cuz im burning down everything”, we are using new-age nomenclature almost as a sort of excuse for drinking and messing your life up. The verses and interlude are a little more honest and straightforward about thinking you are indulging to much. Maybe not the extent of having a severe addiction issue, but seeing how slippery the slope becomes, and how quickly.



I think the song is really an introspective look at myself. One of those ones im writing for myself as an outlet. In that regard, I hope others can listen and say “I feel that way too.” Maybe they have felt that very same pressure that I have to fit in. Maybe they feel like they are indulging more than they’d like and it's getting harder to slow down. I don’t think the message is to stop trying to fit in, or stop drinking. Its, hey, many of us try to fit in, many of us have our vices. You are not weak if these things apply to you, and someone else has felt the same way

lyrics

I feel like the light peaking through the shades
A man on a rope with such little grace
A friends fleeting thought about last Saturday
A flash in the pan thinking on the heydays

Swim through another weekend
Binge and call it my biggest send
(Call it lit) cuz I’m burning down everything
(Cannot quit) either wasted or I'm wasting it
(Holy shit) I think I just forgot my latest sin
(Total hit )when I’m drunk and I decide to sing

I need more I need more then ever before
Sleeping on hardwood floor never been so sure
Slurring words can not seem to talk
anymore
Rotting myself down to my very core

Chorus

I'm not sure if this is a cry for help
Or just a proclamation of myself
From upside down cant tell if this is heaven or hell
Can I escape this cell only time will tell

type casted myself into something that never lasts
Self proclaimed comedian but no one ever laughs

Chorus

credits

released February 12, 2021
Video directed by Adis Pleh
Song engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered by Eric Taft at Buzzlounge studio
Song written and recorded by At Face Value
Grayson Ross
Jeremiah Douglas
Parker Ross
Alec Myers
Michael Santoro

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At Face Value Baltimore, Maryland

Five piece band from Baltimore, MD
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"Ivy and Echo" EP available March 16, 2016

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