Rip Current

Lyrics

Intro (Spoken)
Rip current.

Verse 1 (Flowing spoken)
Philosophically velocity impossibly on top of me,
I drop a beat, I hop the street, I stop and pee,
I flop the greet of the lady with her baby—
Like maybe I could stay, see?
Ever face me, erasing after chasing, not tasty.

Verse 2 (Spoken, accelerating)
Había una chica, un día me gustaría llamar la policía,
Porque me hice fría—and it didn't stop there.
Icy cold stare, frigid air hit the underwear,
Wear under my blunder, thundered, put asunder.
Boy wonder wondered, stun gun stunned her,
Turned and mumbled, "bummer."

Verse 3 (Spoken, slightly darker)
Lonely summer, dumber than the one-armed drummer,
Gave her everything I had
'Cause I wanted something from her.
Fun hurt, sunburnt, you learnt, they turned—
Out to be the first degree of a rip current.

Break (Silence)

Outro (Spoken, clear and steady)
A relatively strong, narrow current
Flowing outward from the beach,
Through the surf zone,
Presenting a hazard to swimmers.

Interpretation

Momentum without control. The poem moves like water that looks playful until it isn't. Language accelerates, slips, multilingual fragments appear, social misreads stack, desire overreaches, generosity masks extraction, and suddenly the force turns outward. "Rip current" becomes the governing metaphor: attraction plus ego plus confusion pulling someone away from safety while feeling like movement. The final definition reframes the whole piece—what felt like agency was a hazard. Emotional vector: kinetic play → social misfire → self-exposure → conceptual clarity.