Glaspy boasts a diverse of musical background from competitive fiddle to marching band trombone and influences ranging from Joni Mitchell to Elliott Smith. She focuses her talents in fiercely raw, guitar-driven pop songs. She cut her debut album at Sear Sound with Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Lucius, Har Mar Superstar) in New York City.
Discography - Solo
Homeschool EP (2012, self-Released)
If & When EP (2013, self-Released)
You and I b/w Somebody to Anybody 7-inch (2016, ATO Records)
Emotions and Math (2016, ATO Records)
Born Yesterday EP (2018, ATO Records)
Devotion (2020, ATO Records)
Echo the Diamond (2023, ATO Records)
With The Fundies
The Fundies EP (2012 self-Released)
Memory Street
Margaret Glaspy Lyrics
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I'm on memory street
With him on my arm
And my feet on the dash of that car
I don't dare
Walk down memory street
Why remember
Call the guards
I'm at the gates
Peeping through the bars
At a chateau called yesterday
I don't dare
Walk down memory street
Oh why remember
All the times I took forever to forget?
When I get hungry
For the mess we made
I start walking down memory lane
The record skips but I let it play
But I hear your voice scream my name
And I tell you to go back
To wherever the fuck you came
I don't go back, but when I go back
I try, I try to remember all the times I
Times I
Times I took forever to forget
In Margaret Glaspy's song Memory Street, the singer finds herself on a road where memories of a past love life haunt her. The song opens with the line, "Ring the alarm, I'm on memory street, with him on my arm, and my feet on the dash of that car." Here the singer is reminiscing the time when she was in a car with her ex-lover with her feet on the dashboard, and they were driving down the memory lane. However, she now regrets that decision and does not want to revisit those memories. She says, "I don't dare walk down memory street, why remember all the times I took forever to forget?"
The central theme of the song revolves around the idea of moving on and forgetting old memories. The singer is now in a better place, and she does not want to revisit the sad scenarios of her past. She comments, "When I get hungry for the mess we made, I start walking down memory lane. The record skips, but I let it play, but I hear your voice scream my name. And I tell you to go back to wherever the fuck you came." The song ends with the singer trying her best to remember the times she took forever to forget. It is an expression of the inner turmoil that one goes through while dealing with a past relationship.
Line by Line Meaning
Ring the alarm
I am alarmed and getting ready to confront something emotional.
I'm on memory street
I am immersed in my memories and the feelings they evoke.
With him on my arm
And my feet on the dash of that car
I am reminiscing about a specific experience with my past love interest.
I don't dare
Walk down memory street
I am afraid of reliving past emotions and don't want to revisit those memories.
Why remember
All the times I took forever to forget?
What good does it do to remember the process of trying to forget something painful?
Call the guards
I'm at the gates
I am trying to prevent myself from falling back into old patterns of thought and behavior about the past.
Peeping through the bars
At a chateau called yesterday
I am looking back at a past time in my life, which feels like a beautiful mansion (chateau), unreachable and distant.
When I get hungry
For the mess we made
Sometimes I crave the chaos and intensity of the past relationship.
I start walking down memory lane
The record skips but I let it play
I revisit those memories, even though parts of them are painful.
But I hear your voice scream my name
And I tell you to go back
To wherever the fuck you came
I hear my ex-partner's voice in my head, but I reject it and refuse to engage. I am trying to create distance and move on from the memories in which they haunt me.
I don't go back, but when I go back
I try, I try to remember all the times I
Times I
Times I took forever to forget
While I don't want to relive those memories, when I do, I try to gain insight into the process of letting go and moving on from those emotions.
Writer(s): margaret glaspy
Contributed by Avery F. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
wakinguptooearly
That ending is just so haunting. The repetition of "times I, times I..." leaves you more uncomfortable with each iteration, and it makes you hold you breath questioning if it will ever end. Every strum is like that old memory resurfacing, and you just want it to stop, just stop, please stop -- and then she stops. For a moment, her beautiful voice cuts through as if it's over " ~ times I, took forever to forget."
You think it's over, but she taunts once more, and for the last time, sinking into a strum of complete discord like the knife that cuts every time you walk down Memory Street -- what a fucking masterpiece.
Mister Pumpkinhead
I love that part. On one show she repeated it 38 times. Brilliant!
Robert Goldstein
I freakin' love this song.
Budi Prasetyo Harsono
love her music
Pete Slavin
That is awesome. Amazing that this song doesn't get more exposure...
Stephen Witthoft
She is just amazing!!
MiniFlea04
That first “I’m on” kills me. I get shivers every time.
ogenmatic
Nothing fancy or complicated but satisfyingly intense!
Andy Iveson
Just can't stop playing this...
Budi Prasetyo Harsono
2:31 killing it! Play better music than the rest