Overdressed

by Symbol Soup

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“It’s a love song from the perspective of someone who’s overly cynical, and judges everyone around them as superficial or ‘Overdressed’”

They have a bit of an ‘us against the world’ mentality and feeling trapped in a maze of surface-level interactions. They don’t learn a whole lot by the end of the song, but they are fully connected to one person, and that’s the connection to something deeper that they’re desperate for.”

lyrics

Bail me out
Bail me out and I’ll return the favour

Talking about
Talking about how all you said for so long was

I want more
I want more I hold on to too much
I want more
I want more and I’ll tell you as such

So let’s kick and scream
Let’s kick and scream along to songs about nothing
I get such a familiar feeling from that nonsense refrain

Everyone’s always overdressed
And you’re the only thing that’s left that doesn’t feel contrived
In my whole life

So how did it start
How did we all start acting so dramatic?

Don’t you get smart
I didn’t mean to make fun of him it just sort of happened

But I was dying to call him out
I was dying to call him out
I was dying to call him out
On his bullshit but I shut my mouth

Everyone’s always overdressed
And you’re the only thing that’s left that doesn’t feel contrived
In my whole life

Someone somewhere always wants some reply
Like let me take a drink out of your mind

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released January 25, 2023

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Symbol Soup London, UK

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Slow Puncture

Jul 2023
Airglow

Apr 2023
Overdressed

Jan 2023
Cattle Grid

Jan 2021
Participation Trophy

Jan 2019

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