“Go Easy Kid”

So I was listening to KEXP radio and heard the song “Go Easy Kid.” Monica Martin is a new artist to me, and I’m loving what I’m hearing so far. But this song stopped me in my tracks, I had to look it up, find the lyrics and listen a few more times. Something about it landed in me, resonated, and for a brief moment I felt less alone in the world. I love art! I had to share it.

Go Easy Kid

by Monica Martin

I commit myself to sabotage
See, I can get what I want
Then I'll make it hard to hold on

Convince myself that I'm without a god
A spiritual fraud who got lost in her own sad song
We were talking out back by the garbage cans
About dreams that we had and the five-year plan

Missing the mark, I'm laughing in the dark
'Cause, after all, no one's in control
Go easy, kid, it's only rock and roll

Pledge allegiance to some sanity
It comes into view for a moment or two, then it leaves me

Apologizing to the neighborhood
And all the calls will be saved, look
I wanna be brave if I could

I was talking out back with an empty man, he said
"'Member times that we had before you got in that van
Left me in the dark, alone in the park?"

'Cause, after all, no one's in control
Go easy, kid, it's only rock and roll

Cut through the smoke
There's no secret special code
No deeper hidden wisdom
Just accept we'll never know

We were talking out back by the garbage cans
About dreams that we had and the five-year plan
Missing the mark, we're laughing in the dark

'Cause after all, no one's in control
Go easy, kid
In twenty years, kid, you're gonna look back
And wish you grabbed it all by the throat
And said, "Fuck it, it's only rock and roll"

Ooh-ooh

Peace, dwight