Pretty In Possible

"**Pretty In Possible**" is a song by Caroline Polachek. It appears on her fourth studio album, *Desire, I Want To Turn Into You* as the second track.

## Background

The track's existence was confirmed in an interview with *The Guardian*, along with "**Blood And Butter**". Caroline commented on the song, saying it was like "*twisting through a crowd of people [in a] neutral, headless state."*

On a CRACK Magazine interview, Polachek talked about the track;

> [It] was born from a “cool experiment where Danny and I were like, ‘OK, let’s write a song that has no verses or choruses – where you just enter the song and flow.’”
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On October 1, Caroline shared more on the track’s history through a post on Instagram:

>  Pretty In Possible is my favorite song on Desire, and also the song that made me see the rest of the album clearly for the first time
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> Early 2021, deep in a pocket of writing with @dannyLharle in london, I became suddenly allergic to "verses" and "choruses", and wanted to try writing a vocal melody that just tumbled forward without repeating sections
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> Danny showed me these melancholic chords he'd composed for an unused remix, I loved it- melancholic and playful and the same time, and it stood up to lots of repetition. And repetition was essential for getting lost inside the song without clear signposts. Same agenda as Billions, Bunny, and Smoke: to sail over these hypnotic grooves in a way that feels good but is entirely unpredictable
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> Then we built all the instrumental nuance around the vocal, to make these nonlinear scene changes\*\*
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> The lyrics also had to be anti-narrative, like meandering thoughts as you walk down the street, channel surfing between emotional and physical reality
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> But despite my best efforts, there's still a thru-line lurking down there about Potential, and about it's restless convection current that love stirs up; the kind that makes you late for everything, and makes it not matter
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> \*\* just like the Welcome To My Island music video
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### Trivia

* The song samples *Smoke*, which appears as the 11th track on the album.
	+ *This suggests that the track was most likely one of the later tracks developed for the album.'*

## Lyrics

[Intro]

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

[Verse 1]

Time's running out, innit?

Pity the mayflies in the swimming pool at dawn

But down in the deep end I can't be left alone

Sweet Eliza's on the court

Potential is the drug

They never knew you never tried

But you see it in my eyes

And that is, bae

Threading the needle, pretty in possible

If only to get me out the door

Oracle and Oddysey with the bloody nose

If I'm on your street, you'll be the last to know

That I get dizzy, dizzy

And I cannot afford that kind of free

[Chorus]

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da)

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da)

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da)

(Da-da, mm)

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da) Well, how does it feel?

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da) Being so, you know

(Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da) Rich?

(Da-da, mm)

[Verse 2]

Now you got one eye on the lane

And one eye on the lava

Spinning out, yeah, I respect that

But I was born to get you home

Home, where it's all red and velveteen

Falling back into the leaves

So true

With your lipstick on my thigh

Drink the tears until they dry

Eye, eye, eye, eye, eye

[Bridge]

Ooh, oh

Pretty in possible

Ooh, oh

Pretty in possible

Ooh, oh

Pretty in possible

Ooh, oh

Pretty in possible

[Outro]

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da

Da-da (Mm)

## References

1. ↑ Caroline Polachek is surrendering to chaos: https://crackmagazine.net/article/profiles/caroline-polachek-desire-album-cover-story/
2. ↑ Caroline Polachek on Instgram

The Spiraling Tour · Videography · Photography

"Welcome To My Island"
"**Pretty In Possible**"
"Bunny Is A Rider
"Sunset"
"Crude Drawing Of An Angel"
"I Believe"

"Fly To You (featuring. Grimes & Dido)"
"Blood And Butter"
"Hopedrunk Everasking"
"Butterfly Net"
"Smoke"
"Billions"

Other Tracks
"Long Road Home"
"Dang"

Caroline Polachek