Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison (Official Video)

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The official music video for “Serpentine Prison”, the title track from Matt Berninger’s debut solo record. Produced by Booker T. Jones, the album will be released via Book Records in conjunction with Concord Records on October 2.

The song Serpentine Prison was written in December 2018 about a week after recording The National’s I Am Easy to Find. For a long time I had been writing songs for movies and musicals and other projects where I needed to get inside someone else’s head and convey another person’s feelings. I liked doing that but I was ready to dig back into my own garbage and this was the first thing that came out.

The title is from a twisting sewer pipe that drains into the ocean near LAX. There’s a cage on the pipe to keep people from climbing out to sea. I worked on the song with Sean O’Brien and Harrison Whitford and recorded it about six months later with Booker T. Jones producing. It feels like an epilogue so I named the record after it and put it last.

Directed, shot and edited by Tom Berninger and Chris Sgroi
Filmed at Earthstar Creation Center, Venice, CA
Written by Matt Berninger, Sean O'Brien and Harrison Whitford

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Lyrics:

I see the starlight through the clouds
Why won’t anybody listen to me?
Don’t make me say it again out loud
Big Star are doing “Don’t Worry Baby”

Bipolar pride, swim in the tide
Keep your dead head above and your chin up
You’re gonna have a pretty hard time
Without drugs, without love

Total submission, I’ve seen a vision
Everyone’s screaming, I’ve been daydreaming
Sorry, I’m fishin’ without permission
Tell her I’m missing in a serpentine prison

Don’t try to connect the dots anymore
Let ‘em go, they’re gonna do it on their own
Tell me that I’m not in this alone, am I?
I’m so sorry, I don’t know, I’m slow

I feel like an impersonation of you
Or am I doing another version of you doing me?
Nobody’s ever really thinking about us
Half as much as we want ‘em to be

Total frustration, deterioration
Nationalism, another moon mission
Total submission, I’ve seen a vision
Call an electrician, serpentine prison

Whatever it is, I try not to listen
Cold cynicism and blind nihilism
I need a vacation from intoxication
Tell her I’m missing in a serpentine prison

I’ve been picking my kid up from school
Smelling like girl scout cookies and drool
I still crawl up to you every night
Do not forgive me, I’m a reptile

You say I’m a lot, I’m hard to take
I think you’re just drinking the water
I walk into walls and I lay awake
I don’t wanna give it to my daughter

Total submission, I’ve seen a vision
Everyone’s screaming, I’ve been daydreaming
Sorry, I’m fishin’ without permission
Tell her I’m missing in a serpentine prison

Total frustration, deterioration
Nationalism, another moon mission
Total submission, I’ve seen a vision
Call an electrician, serpentine prison

Whatever it is, I try not to listen
Cold cynicism and blind nihilism
I need a vacation from intoxication
Tell her I’m missing in a serpentine prison

Total submission, I’ve seen a vision
Everyone’s screaming, I’ve been daydreaming
Sorry, I’m fishin’ without permission
Tell her I’m missing in a serpentine prison

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Music video by Matt Berninger performing Serpentine Prison. © 2020 Matt Berninger., Under exclusive license to Concord Records. Distributed by Concord.

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