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Champagne

from Last Looks by Bathe Alone

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While the track "Calm Down" was about panic attacks in the moment, "Champagne" is about panic attacks in the retrospective. Poor mental health can plague everyday life, and after a while it becomes fatiguing. When you avoid doing things in life for fear it will cause another attack, it becomes a disorder. Your whole life evolves around it, you're always on guard, and you're always taking into consideration how what you're about to do will affect you.

The first verse in "Champagne" talks about seeing random strangers out in the world and wondering what it would be like to trade lives with them. Freaky Friday style. The second verse touches on the same image. "I'm looking over shoulders and seeing everybody fine and how they don't mind" means exactly that. Everybody seems fine. But are they? Are they also dealing with internal demons and seeing me as a random stranger and thinking that I look fine? Is grass always greener on the other side?

In the chorus, "waking up with champagne" is a metaphor for all the blessing I have in my life. Even though I struggle with my own issues, I have to many things to be grateful for. Yet, this line is followed with "are you gonna be afraid every day?" If I have so much to be grateful for, why do I have to worry about struggling with my issues? Can't I just let it go, and enjoy my life? The rest of the chorus says "it comes in numbers. Would you have a life to trade for always?" This asks if it is so bad that I'd really want to permanently trade lives with someone? Again, is grass always greener on the other side?

"Champagne" asks a lot of questions. It's a reflective piece on a very after-the-fact perspective of mental health. Thanks for listening.

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I wonder what it feels like
To be a car passing by
And what the view's like
But I just gotta sit tight
I think I'm going home tonight
I just don't feel right

You wake up with champagne
Are you gonna be afraid every day

In summer I get up twice
I'm so far from piece of mind
I gotta get ice
I'm looking over shoulders
And seeing everybody fine
And how they don't mind

You wake up with champagne
Are you gonna be afraid every day
And it comes in numbers
Would you have a life to trade for always

You wake up with champagne
Are you gonna be afraid every day
And it comes in numbers
Would you have a life to trade for always

You wake up with champagne
Are you gonna be afraid every day
And it comes in numbers
Would you have a life to trade for always

credits

from Last Looks, track released March 25, 2020
Bailey Crone - Songwriter, Vocals, Lyrics, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Synth
Damon Moon - Synth
Produced and Mixed by Damon Moon at Standard Electric Recorders Co.
Mastered by Joe Lambert

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Bathe Alone Atlanta, Georgia

Bathe Alone is the dreampop solo project of multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Bailey plays everything from drums, guitar, bass to vocals on the project and aims to create songs you can "lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling to." ... more

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