When I hear swalla it takes me a back to a summer where I took risks. How I sat on a dock at night with a boy whose arms were wrapped around me knowing it was wrong because he was my best friend.... and my cousin but we sat there staring into the night sky which we aren't able to do back home, trying to find the Big Dipper . It reminds me of staying up until 3 or 4 am with my cousins in my grandparents cabin up in a resort where I see my favorite people for 7 days out of the whole year. It reminds me how at age 14 my cousins and I would sneak alcohol and walk around the resort listening to the adults play cards laughing until tears streamed down their cheeks just like my dad was doing 30 years ago at the same resort. It reminds me that my cousin and I thought we may have got drunk and saw a UFO which was really a boat. The first time I ever smoked. How vodka was mixed with about anything we could find. How I wanted to feel a buzz and forget everything going on back home. It reminds me of my best friend who lives 8 hours from me walked around a small Minnesota town we've grown up our whole lives going to once a year with expensive little stores, to our favorite coffee shops, and we love everything and everyone who's part of it. It makes me think of when we did a photo shoot in front of a wall filled with art of Minnesota culture and the cement paved with an ivory blue and engraved metal turtles dedicated to small businesses. How I ,yes have raced a turtle and once won and how I get a shirt every year I do race one. It reminds of a tradition I started with family and friends at that resort where we play a volleyball game that last for hours. It reminds me of how a couch in the most luxurious furniture store I've ever seen is sitting upstairs right now probably still stained with a blue raspberry slushy my cousin spit out from laughing. It makes me think of how I had McDonald's everyday because we'd walk there. It makes me shiver remembering trying to find an entrance to an abandoned house. It takes me back because I listened to everyday and I didn't even like it that much but it has memories I will never be able to forget and things I should regret but won't because i risked it and stopped caring about certain things for just a moment and it's hard to find a song with that many memories.
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The Story Behind the Song
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Swalla
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