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I Went Down

from Potholes by Call Me Spinster

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about

I Went Down is one of several songs on the record co-written with my husband. We have developed a cathartic camaraderie working on songs that explore the dark parts of a relationship, a safe box for exploring sadness, loneliness, loss. He had been singing parts of I Went Down in fragments for a while, trying to convince me that they somehow fit together. I had a guitar in the front seat on a road trip and tried stringing the bits together in the same key to prove to him that they were different songs, but it worked. I brought it to Rachel and Rosie, we added the churchy harmony, and it started coalescing into what felt like an oddly sensical anthem - like other songs on the record, a sort of celebratory battle cry. A toast to keeping afloat. Swimming in potholes. Treading water even when there is none. - Amelia

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I Went Down

I went down to the river
Thinking that you were beside me
And I went out on the bayou
You stayed home by the sea
And eighteen years of rain
Don’t make a waterfall
Ayi I wanna go down…

I saw you bathing by the pool
The house behind you was on fire
Everyone around you is a fool
Fanning at the flames with their own torches
And you asked me to get it in
But you’re still treading water where there is none

Ayi I wanna go down…

You ate and drank and went to bed
I stayed behind to grab the paper
Every tired story is the same
A boy, a girl, a house, a dog, a child
And as I walk up the stairs
You’ll still be up drinking with the light on

Ayi I wanna go down…

To the center of the earth where the water spins ‘round forever
I am just as close to you as I could ever be
Buried sixteen thousand feet alive in core and magma
Still feel the cold clear streams of Tennessee

Ayi I wanna go down…

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from Potholes, released April 12, 2024

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