Song Description

Rinse & Repeat is an immersive and introspective journey through the heavy rhythm of routine and the frustration of acute self-awareness. Moving between glaring comparisons to everyday objects and raw confessions, it explores the sharp dissonance between knowing you are caught in a damaging cycle and finding yourself unable to break the loop. Headphones recommended.

Lyrics

INTRO

Washing machine's been shaking the house again / like it's angry at the pipes
Sanity dripping through the ceiling / into buckets we tried to hide
You said, "Everybody I know's tired"
like that was supposed to make it easier

VERSE

Met the ground floor / with the urgency of an emergency room door
Felt like floating
'til it didn't anymore

You were young and drinking / like the winter might forgive you
Like every bad decision
The river would carry to sea, too

Gone beneath you, couldn't teach you / what a parachute was for
Some people only learn the hard way
some just keep asking for more

PRE-CHORUS

Only ruminate in past tense
Like there's glory in regret
Thinking if you replay every bad night
You would somehow pay the debt

oh my god
not again

CHORUS

Rinse and repeat
but the water won't run clean
Rinse and repeat
only say what you don't mean
Scrubbing 'til your bone's clean of skin
Trying to outrun where you've been
Rinse and repeat
rinse and repeat again

again, and again
again, and again

VERSE

Always wind up / part of the downpour
Terminal velocity / doesn't keep you
from wanting
Begging for more

You keep making resolutions / on receipts and bathroom walls
Like if you write it down enough
God might finally return your calls

Lessons learning, then deserting / Turning into background chores
Good intentions piling up
like boots outside behind the door

Well-meant phases, good intended changes / still the first to run for the door
Like leaving is the personality trait
instead of what you're running for

PRE-CHORUS

And you only carry what you're handed
Hate the weight, refuse to choose
But you're coming down with a fever
That you're terrified to lose

Oh my god
Not again

CHORUS

Rinse and repeat
but the water won't run clean
Rinse and repeat
only say what you don't mean
Scrubbing 'til your bone's clean of skin
'Til your reflection's wearing thin
Rinse and repeat
rinse and repeat again

again, and again
again, and again

BRIDGE

Drive down all your childhood roads
Try to feel something holy
See your old school caving in the flood
And understand the way it's feeling

Being human's not being unbroken
it's the pieces that decide to stay
It's calling your friends at midnight
then laughing when / they don't know what to say

Wash, rinse, repeat
admit your own defeat
Some stains settle into the fabric
some never really leave
Wash, rinse, repeat
the cycle humming underneath
You can't scrub the wandering out of you /
before you sleep

CHORUS

Rinse and repeat
but the water won't run clean
Rinse and repeat
keep waking from the same dream
Scrubbing 'til your hands go numb
Trying to become someone
Rinse and repeat
rinse and repeat again

again, and again
again, and again
again, and again

OUTRO

The dryer buzzed in the other room / what a cheap alarm clock
Outside, the rain kept falling / washing out your thoughts
And for a minute
everything looks clean
Even if it's not