Feel Something from Call Out by Martha Groves Perry

The indie rock flavor of Feel Something, reminiscent of Neko Case and The Smiths, features an intense, sexy, urban melody and groove. This song is a good example of how my lyrics and the way I express them sometimes contrast, often with an amused side eye at myself. The dazed, anxious numbness of the last few years is the subject, and the song’s stark, stripped down quality gestures towards the monotonous isolation of that time. The song explores the contradiction between careening through lots of big, scary feelings while seeming to feel nothing at all.

Tracklist

6.	Feel Something	3:07

Lyrics

Questioning my life choices
Feeling my wrist for pulses
Take some more medication
Numbing my desperation

I want to feel something
I want to heal something yeah
And then reveal something
To find the real something yeah

I don’t even feel like breathing
The gall in my chest is seething
I’m splitting in all directions
Soaked in my disaffection

I want to feel something
I want to heal something yeah
And then reveal something
To find the real something yeah

I don’t want to look for fear of seeing
I don’t want to listen ‘cause I might hear
I don’t want to meet for fear of touching
I don’t want to breathe ‘cause I might catch your fear

Chewing through anxious dreaming
Stifle the urge for screaming
Breathing through crushing terror
Thinking there’s something better

I want to feel something
I want to heal something yeah
And then reveal something
To find the real something yeah

I want to feel something
I want to heal something yeah
And then reveal something
To find the real something yeah

Credits

from Call Out, released April 21, 2023
In addition to songwriting, lead vocals, and writing the harmony vocals, I performed backing vocals on this song. Kenny Schick, my producer, also sang backing vocals and played or programmed all of the instruments. Kenny recorded his parts at Basement3Productions in Nashville, Tennessee, and I recorded my parts in March 2022 with Steven Glaze at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, California.

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