best of 2023 • Sarah Mary Chadwick • Some Else's Baby

The new song depicts hysteric desire at its finest – the ever-shifting goal post of wanting what you don’t have, always creating psychic debt. Chadwick shares, “Sometimes someone else’s baby is just better than your own. This feeling tends to correlate with having an absolutely chaotic life, so as an avoidance technique, it’s fantastic!” BW

But I'm just trying to move my life

Away from strife and into love

But I'm messed up, I want the painful stuff

Makes me feel alive, makes my veins hum

And if it's easy, I don't want it, baby

You'll never change me

And nothing's better than someone else's baby

And it drives me crazy

And just a junkyard full of things nobody wants

I give you the most extravagant of all the loves

We call it fine and call it good

And I'll run as fast as I can

But make it wrong and make it out of time

And I'll want it more than I can stand

So come on, please me, imagine how hot, baby

And so hot it burns me

And nothing's better than someone else's baby

And it drives me crazy

Well, I take my sadness everywhere I go

I can't put it out, can't leave it at home

'Cause I'm just a one-time wonder

A fickle lover

On close examination made of glass

Winter or summer

Clear skies or thunder

But I'm not really here, I'm in the past

And I'm just a star that never shined

A mountain no one wants to climb

But I don't know how to live under the light

But I'm thankful that I've had

The chance to touch the souls I have

And I'll take that any day in lieu of life