Settling Down Lyrics
Should I give up sunsets for marigold mornings?
Should I look for rainbows or wait for the rain?
Is happiness on the highway? Or is it parked in the driveway?
Should I lean on you, babe? Or should you lean on me?
[Pre-Chorus]
Am I looking for comfort? Am I looking for an escape?
Am I looking for you? Am I looking the other way?
[Chorus]
I'm a wild child and a homing pigeon
Caravan and an empty kitchen
Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
One heart goin' both directions
One love and a couple of questions
Am I settlin' up or settlin' down?
Am I settlin' up or settlin' down?
[Verse 2]
I could plant a pretty garden or just send myself flowers
Be a jet-set Friday or a Sunday hometown girl
I could stay a little lonely or let you get to know me
Yeah, I could love a picket fence if it wrapped around the world
[Chorus]
I'm a wild child and a homing pigeon
Caravan and an empty kitchen
Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
I'm one heart goin' both directions
One love and a couple of questions
Am I settlin' up or settlin' down?
Ooh, ooh, ooh
[Pre-Chorus]
Am I looking for comfort? Am I looking for an escape?
Am I looking for you? Am I looking the other way?
[Chorus]
I'm a wild child and a homing pigeon
A caravan and an empty kitchen
Bare feet on the tile with my head up in the clouds
One heart goin' both directions
One love and a couple of questions
Am I settlin' up or settlin' down? (Ooh, ooh)
Am I settlin' up or settlin' down?
[Outro]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
About
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Co-writer Luke Dick:
This song is full of paradoxes of wanting to do two things that don’t necessarily jive, wanting to do two things that are a little bit at odds with one another. You want to be a troubadour, playing from town to town, but you want to wake up in your own house and make your own breakfast and be with the people that you love every day. The life of the artist is much more of a whirlwind than most people’s. But artists are still people too, and everybody wants those roots. One thing I love about the song is that it doesn’t answer the question. The chorus tag is a question. It’s an unresolved thing, which is how it has to be.
–via Billboard (October 2020)
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- 4.Settling Down
- 5.Holy Water
- 7.Locomotive
- 8.Bluebird
- 10.Fire Escape
- 11.Pretty Bitchin’
- 12.Tequila Does
- 13.Track Record
- 14.Dark Bars
