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What Do You Know

from It's a Trap by Kritters

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What do you know was written for and about our seventeen-year-old selves. Seventeen was an age at once painful and full of promise; we desperately wanted to escape, and we were tantalizingly close to really being able to. Rob and I both remember getting in cars or on bikes and just-- WHOOSH, off and away. Certainly for us at seventeen music was key to figuring out who we would be in the world when we were finally free; now, looking back, we understand so much more keenly not just what we were escaping, but also the complicated reality of the world we were escaping to, and how little we knew of it.

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you get in the car and you drive and you drive it fast
windows open wide to the scent of the smoke that drifts past
you tear down the wide open road with your foot on the gas
you start feeling fine don’t know why but you hope it will last

you drive to the park down the hill and you sit on the grass
you lie in the lee of the willows and shadows they cast
you think of the ghosts and remind yourself past things are passed
and just like the ghosts the green of the trees will not last

you’re alive and you’re fine and you’re in control

oh what do you know
oh what do you know

you get in the car and you drive and you drive it fast
it’s the height of the hottest of months but you know it won’t last
and the salt in the air stings your skin as the wind it whips past
and the heat of the sun on the road makes it shimmer like glass

you’re alive and you’re fine and you’re in control

oh what do you know
oh what do you know
oh what do you know
oh what do you know

you’re alive and you’re fine
you’re alive and you’re fine
you’re alive and you’re fine and you’re in control

you get in the car in the night and you drive it fast
thinning leaves in the trees reflect flashes of headlights that pass
in the dark of the night what is time when the road is this vast
you’re just seventeen but already you live in the past

you’re alive and you’re fine
you’re alive and you’re fine
you’re alive and you’re fine and you’re in control

oh what do you know
oh what do you know
oh what do you know
oh what do you know

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from It's a Trap, released September 15, 2021
Written, arranged, and recorded by Kritters.

Kritters are Kirini O. K. & Rob Steadman

Lyrics and songwriting - Kirini O. K.
Songwriting, engineering, and production - Rob Steadman

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Kritters The Bronx, New York

Kritters are Kirini O. K. and Rob Steadman.

They make electro-rich indie with a subversive streak.

Kirini is a multidisciplinary artist and writer; Rob is previously of critically-acclaimed indie-folk band Stornoway (4AD/Cooking Vinyl). ... more

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