Following another recent single, Afterlife, a shuddering, powerful, perspective-scanning new indie track by the American artist and her backing band, heralding the forthcoming self-titled album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar. Living in a deeply divided country, Van Etten says the song is about “trying to understand people with very different perspectives and backgrounds, while also trying to be compassionate towards our past, present, and future selves.”
The Attachment Theory is Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals). To explore and enjoy more by Sharon and them, see also the other embedded links below.
All my life I closed my eyes
And stumbled in with wayward mind
A stubborn child, but love did have
With one light shining,
Overlooked
Oh I wish I knew what you had said
I was hardened by what thoughts you meant
My hands are shaking as a mother
Trying to raise her son right
Why can’t you see it from the other side
We must imagine what it must be like
Ooh, the southern life
Ooh, it’s such a fucking lie
Oh what it must be like
Shall his life be like my shooting star forever frozen?
No - he’s too smart.
I can’t believe what I have seen
I wake up to a fucking dream
There is no light
There is no dark
There is no life
Or sense of being.
Oh what it must be like
Oh what it must be like
Such a southern life
Such a southern life
Oh what it must be like
Oh what it must be like
Oh what it must be like
Oh what it must be like
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