Moving in Place

You were like fifteen, discovered nitrous

Spending every night on empty beaches

With the same four kids you'd never sleep with

Now you're without it, you can't party anymore

So, you go and make a record about it

The hometown drug scene every

Fourteen year old restless brat's wet dream

Sportin' the same shades

Same tank top, same blue jeans

Hit the same beach and drink the same

Vodka sweet tea

Unfairly pass the blame and claim it was generational

Predisposition tourney, prestigious invitational

Like, don't look at me i wasn't even conceived

When the scheme, the game became operational

I'm a poser, you said it yourself

Don't expect me not to pose when the cameras come out!

You missed the lesson

On looking out for yourself

May not be on the up and up

But I'm on the up and out

So, take me to the far side of the beach

Before it falls into the ocean

Before you notice I'm eroding

I know you don't wanna be lonely

Oh oh oh oh, mmm

Oh oh oh oh, mmm

I know you don't wanna be lonely

The sun and the substances you choke down

Combine in your mind

For wild lies about how

Your favorite celebrity's car just broke down

They're stranded and they gotta crash at your house

All the kids that were mean to you in school

Are broke down on the side of the road

Asking big shots for handouts

Big shots like you, 'cause look at you

You're awesome!

But you're laying on the beach like an amputee dolphin

The world just ain't ready for us yet, that's it

Says the guy to your left

You would die for that kid

Watch his eyes as they get

Sorta distant and different

And we're moving in place again

We're moving in place again

It sure is fun

To hate something you'll love when it's gone

This time, it's everywhere

And everyone at once

From moving in place to moving on

To moving on

To moving on

To moving on

Take me to the far side of the beach

Before it falls into the ocean

Before you notice I'm eroding

I know you don't wanna be lonely

I know you don't wanna be lonely

I know 'cause I would feel the same thing

Tomorrow, I'm gonna be eighteen

Right now, it takes everything in me

To kick and claw and fight

Against that instinct

To lay down and just sink

Into the same beach

And get so high that I feel my brain shrink

Justify it's not a massive time waste

Close my eyes, deny I see you sinking

Lay down right beside you in the imprint

I left there that night in 2019

Lean into the tide and let it take me

Your eyes get wide and all excited

You were like fifteen, discovered nitrous

Spending every night on empty beaches

With the same four kids

Predisposition tourney, prestigious, invitational"

Meaning: SDC and the friends she was writing about all had family histories of addiction. They didn't literally see it as prestigious, but there was an element of defiance that "was like why are you telling us to stay out of trouble when grown adults around here are doing the same shit?"

"The sun and the substances you'd choke down, combine in your mind for wild lies about how your favorite celebrities car just broke down, they're stranded and they gotta crash at your house"

Meaning: SDC wanted to illustrate exactly what finding that outlet of just getting fried at the beach at fifteen felt like for her. "I was just kinda reaching for that wildest dream scenario."

"All the kids that were mean to you in school are broke now, on the side of the road, asking big shots for handouts"

Meaning: This is another wildest dreams scenario, and "it's like the kids that bullied you, they're like literally on the side of the road with like a sign."

"Big shots like you, 'cause look at you, you're awesome, but you're layin' on the beach like an amputee dolphin"

Meaning: A dolphin with no flippers is just gonna lay there. SDC and her friends did a lot of laying around.

"Watch his eyes as they get sort of distant and different, and we're moving in place again"

Meaning: It's a line about how tough it was watching my closest friend struggle.

"It sure is fun, to hate something you'll lovw when it's gone."

Meaning: SDC and her friends hated her hometown so much it was like an olympic sport.

"Tomorrow I'm gonna be 18, right now it takes everything in me to kick and claw and fight against that instinct to lay down and just sink into the same beach and get so high that I feel my brain shrink"

Meaning: "I've been in situations where I was valued for being under eighteen years old. At the end of the song, I just had to let out all of this, like, I am so scared my work is going to keep deteriorating as I'm older, and it makes me just wanna go get high as shit as the beach with my friends again. Even though that beach scene and that friend group doesn't exist like that anymore. And it was, like, taking everything in me when I wrote that song. To be writing that, instead of going to some other outlet."

**MOVING IN PLACE MEANING:** " Moving in place is the feeling of getting so fucked-up that you feel like you're on your way, you're making the right choices. It's a song about loving your friends while trying to wake yourself up."