Blame Game

by Summer Winter

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about

Originally written on the dilapidated classical guitar I write all my songs on, Blame Game is the first single on my third record. I always dreamt it would come alive with piano and after showing the final version to some friends, they’ve mentioned it sounds Beatles-esque. A compliment I never intended to receive, but makes sense considering my mom always quizzed me on their tunes growing up. This song is an ode to owning up to my part as a partner, sister, daughter, and person. “Take the coat off, navigate the speechless place” was a line I wrote to remind myself to get vulnerable and bravely look at the parts of me that contribute to my own unhappiness–to stop putting the blame on others, or my phone, or outside circumstances.

lyrics

It’s the blame game

Every single note stays the same

And you’re on your train

To the same

Feeling that you’ve always had

So just stay in your lane

You weren’t mean to break away

There’s a chance that you could change

Reading on the finer prints of the page

Why shy away

From anything that knows you

In the brightest of day

You can’t explore these things about you

and stay the same

You gotta see it face to face in plain day

And don’t scroll it away

Or leave it up to heightened to states

To open up faith

Take the coat off

Navigate the speechless place

Shhhh ahhhh

Don’t play the blame game

The blame game

The blame game

The blame game

Don’t play the blame game

The blame game

The blame game

The blame game

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

Why shy away

From everything that knows you

In the brightest of day

You won’t explore these things about you

and stay the same

Come to see it face to face in plain day

Feel your way

Into the sunny skies

Up above