Name: One Hand Wheel
Duration: P00H03M58S
Description: This is a song I wrote with a few synths and a microphone in the Mojave Desert about my conflict with perfectionism.

One Hand Wheel

by Erica von Trapp

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This is a song I wrote with a few synths and a microphone in the Mojave Desert about my conflict with perfectionism.

lyrics

Does my silence
make you feel numb now?
Is it scaling down the pain
you love to take?
Hey, we’re driving
for some time, love.
But your hand stays on the wheel,
I’m drifting away.

You think we’re scratching
on the surface
Of something good enough for you
but you couldn’t taste.
Then your idols
will make you feel nauseous.
You’d need diamonds on your shoes
to walk today.

-ref-
Nothing’s wrong with me,
What’s the matter with you?
Is life not according to plan?
And I’m flicking distant thoughts,
running along with you,
What’s the matter with you today?

There are trifles on the water,
And your voice sounds like reverb upon the sand.
I’m getting exhausted
from soaking fine lines, now.
Trying to love myself
when you are in your head.

-ref-
Nothing’s wrong with me,
What’s the matter with you?
Is life not according to plan?
And I’m flicking distant thoughts,
running along with you,
What’s the matter with you today?
x2

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released November 1, 2016
Written, produced, and recorded by Erica von Trapp
Mixed and mastered by Jules de Gasperis

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Erica von Trapp Los Angeles, California

Erica von Trapp is just a cat trying to learn how to be a human.
She plays synth and sings about that and other things.

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