Lyrics - Same Ground

Lyrics - Same Ground

A song about standing on ground that keeps moving - the house, the street, the same words, the same door. The Fontaines D.C. register: the verse withholds melody (restrained, breathy, half-sung, syncopated against the grind), the chorus unleashes it (full-voiced, stepwise, sitting in the pocket). The chromatic descent is the ground sinking; the whole-step grind is the standing. The voice stays clear and opening - the intensity is in the arrangement and the syncopation, not the volume.

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Verse 1

The ground keeps moving under the house The same street, the same rain I count the cracks in the ceiling Like I'm counting the days

Chorus

I'm still standing on the same ground Same ground, same ground I'm still standing on the same ground And it's moving under me

Verse 2

The same door, the same key The same words in the same room I walk the same line to the same place And the ground keeps moving

Chorus

I'm still standing on the same ground Same ground, same ground I'm still standing on the same ground And it's moving under me

Bridge

Let the ground fall Let the house go I'll stand on nothing And call it home

Chorus

I'm still standing on the same ground Same ground, same ground I'm still standing on the same ground And it's moving under me

Outro

Same ground Same ground The ground keeps moving