Hurray for the Riff Raff - Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive) (Official Lyric Video)

Hurray for the Riff Raff's "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)" from the upcoming album 'The Past Is Still Alive,' due February 23, 2024, on Nonesuch Records: hurrayfortheri...
Director/Editor: Jeff Perlman
Producer: Jeff Perlman / Alynda Segarra
Director of Photography: Sean Kelly
Alynda Segarra - Lead and Harmony Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Shaker
Brad Cook - Bass Guitar
Phil Cook -  Wurlitzer, Marimba, Organ
Yan Westerlund - Drums, Tambourine
Meg Duffy - Electric Guitar, Synth Guitar, Harmony Vocal
Matt Douglas - Baritone and Tenor Sax
SNAKE PLANT (THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE)
(written by Alynda Segarra)
Snake plant, Florida water
I only wanted ever to be a good daughter
Soft hands, gold rings
Try to remember most everything.
Like feeding grapefruits to the cows,
Hold my belly while I'm laughing out loud.
A bathing suit on a two day drive,
Malaria, you can't sleep at night.
Lemon tree and a mango for the baby,
Record player you can call me sister Sadie.
Gonna cut a rope and tie her to the tree
When the hurricane comes, the hurricane comes.
I know your face I know your smell.
I know that you were living in hell.
Pee in the bushes while I wait for a train,
Under the bridge when it starts to rain.
I never got to ride the sunset route,
But I drank enough 100 proof.
Campfire on the superfund site,
Garbage island fucking in the moonlight.
I play my song for the barrel of freaks
And we go shop lifting when it's time to eat.
They don't even really know my name,
I'm so happy that we escaped from where we came.
Tattoo with a needle and thread.
Most of our old friends are dead,
TEST YOUR DRUGS
REMEMBER NARCAN
There's a war on the people,
What don't you understand?
There's fentanyl in everything,
Don't become an angel with a broken wing.
We need you back down here on earth,
Nothing is as painful as birth.
Time flies when you're getting old,
I was born with a baby boy soul.
Maybe someday I'll see you again
In a field, a war, a kingdom of sand.
Maybe we can smile again,
Maybe we can dance again.
I'd kiss your lips and hold your hands.
Maybe we can dance again.
I was young when I left home,
I never stopped running,
Used to think I was alone.
But nothing can stop me now.
Nothing can stop me now.
#hurrayfortheriffraff #thepastisstillalive #snakeplant

[@EdnaClary]

Love the music video. My name is Edna Clary, resident of Tucumcari and I am the painter of the mural in your video...thanks.

[@mouravieff66]

It looks like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, am I right?

[@franksimpkins4471]

Maybe someday I will see you again...hopefully in a field with a thousand friends. Thank you for this, I really needed it today. It is beautiful.

[@coltonp7149]

Again, absolutely brilliant.

[@brandonpeterson4066]

Lyrically it’s unmatched, so deep, truly a beautiful song in so many ways.

[@timberframingbear]

You and yours have been a treasure since your first album. Probably before that, but I was unaware

[@rudygarcia3846]

Omg!!! It's so funny that this popped in my feed today!!! I had an epiphany talking with my mother yesterday and I told her that we have to connect our past to our future!! I feel like once you have this mindset you can understand life a bit better!!! Thank you for making this!!! We made a connection with this definitely ❤❤❤

[@miller-jaz4]

This song is lyrically packed

[@CJ4Africa]

"There's a war on the people, what don't you understand." I am you. You are me. We are more than we know.

[@CJ4Africa]

CJAfrica means if he can help, you have only to ask. So many climate refugees know there is a heart that feels their pain because of you. Where is the rest of the music industry? Powdering its nose?

[@2.zef.758]

I love your music ❤ :)

[@chezza7777]

This hit me right in the feels. Love it.

[@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039]

One of the best. Love this sing❤

[@kittenfuud]

Oh Alynda!! Such beautiful writing. I love this. It's 4AM I can't sleep. I run across This. Thank you, see you in Seattle in March!❤

[@isaiahbasaldua924]

This is poetry for the forgotten slipping into the decaying landscape of the rural, urban and everywhere in between. A true psychogeography in a song capturing the haunting we have all become too comfortable living with

[@brandonpeterson4066]

Amazing

[@lucalocarno439]

❤ love your music, I Will like you Will come to play in Italy, some day.

[@rebeccaberlin7062]

This song hits hard. I used to travel like the way you describe in this song and this whole album. You really got it with this whole album. Hurts my heart to listen to but in a good way. I relate to all of this so much. Theres rarely a musician that has experienced and written about those things... you capture all of the nostalgia, adventure, pain, confusion, and missing dead friends. Thanks for this music

[@raysnyder5236]

Mighty presumptuous of you to introduce yourself to my playlist unannounced and make me cry without even asking. Don't you think?

[@vladopodbreznicki8445]

God bless you Alynda.

[@stevetellurian1280]

SO SO LOVE THIS!!!

[@keagilemokone1156]

Great song on a great day 🎉

[@Hatterhouse]

You totally need to do a show in tucumcari 😊

[@miller-jaz4]

🙌🙌🙌

[@Damien-og6sk]

🖤🖤🖤

[@CJ4Africa]

I'm just going to go on, Riff Raff. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you forever. You are heart of my heart, but you are heart of my BIG heart, not the bag of hallmark sentiments capitalism stapleguns to the hearts of its woefully misled children.

[@marconi451]

Underclass on-the road alt rock? I'm intrigued.

[@jeffandersen7397]

"TEST YOUR DRUGS"