UNDERSTAND/TORCH

By bandanabloom

On MOTHER

Released on May 21, 2021

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[Part I: UNDERSTAND]


[Intro: bandanabloom]

Back to square one every other morning

Think I’m brainwashed in a few important ways

I'm only human for the day

Everything is new to me

Thought I was strong and yet

I'm at the mercy of the panning feature of this little machine

For enjoyment of my favorite thing

My body is breaking

I don't know anything at all

But a girl's face that's in my thoughts

And feeling sun and ocean

Breezes on me doesn’t feel like a waste of time

For the first time


[Verse 1: bandanabloom]

Pits in this stomach

These tambourine legs, they shake and they shake

Divine intеrvention

I didn't ask to make me this way

Wanna trеat bad news like a bad dream

Not sneeze at problems like ragweed

Tidal Waves poppin' like acne

Doesn't change the fact that it's no one else home when my dad leaves

My mindset changes five times in a day

Ask me why and I don’t know, I'm like May-May

When I put on an act I fucking break a leg

Not tryna waste away


[Chorus: bandanabloom]

You'd never understand

Never understand

Never understand

Never understand

[Verse 2: klovyn & bandanabloom]

I recollect that we spoke two moons ago (Moons ago)

You were speckled in the dust, fool's gold, I know (Gold, I know)

Batter up, 'cause it sucks that you showed up

Really stoked to see a goddamn strike at home, Mahomes (What?)

And I don't know about sports either

And I wish we could have a little breather

Cabin fever underneath the speakers, sitting on the bleachers

Repping sneakers with the features

But I'm still a seeker, fuck

Breaking down this stone wall (Stone wall)

I know it's my fault that I fucking dropped the ball (Dropped the ball)

I stand too tall on my pride to say my side is a lie

How will I get by to understand why

It's all circumstance (It's all circumstance)

So I guess I'll plan (So I guess I'll plan)

To go on ahead (To go on ahead)

And not understand


[Pre-Chorus: klovyn]

(And not understand)

(And not understand)

(And not understand)


[Chorus: bandanabloom]

You'd never understand

Never understand

Never understand

Never understand


[Part II: TORCH]


[Verse: bandanabloom]

Got a ghost and I got that torch too

Empty house, I'm the one to hold it down

All my life I was waiting for you

See the clouds clearing, it's all over now

Got a ghost and I got that torch too

Empty house, I'm the one to hold it down

All my life I was waiting for you

See the clouds clearing, it's all over now

Got a ghost and I got that torch too

Empty house, I'm the one to hold it down

All my life I was waiting for you

See the clouds clearing, it's all over now


[Chorus: bandanabloom]

Never understand

Never understand

Never understand

Never understand

Never understand