Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Listen to the full album: antircrds.io/46bXEXd
"Destination" by @nekocaseofficial from the album 'Neon Grey Midnight Green', out now
Order, stream & download at nekocase.ffm.to/neongreymidnightgreen
Produced by Neko Case
Written by Neko Case & Paul Rigby
Additional production by Tucker Martine
Mixed by Tucker Martine & Neko Case
Engineered by Jeff Galegher
Additional engineering by Tucker Martine, Darryl Neudorf & John Hagler
Vocal arrangements and field recordings by Neko Case
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Neko Case: vocal and backing vocals
Rachel Flotard: backing vocals
Paul Rigby: guitars
Sebastian Steinberg: bass
Steve Moore: keys
John Convertino: drums
Richard Reed Perry: ebow, bowed upright bass
The PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra
LYRICS
Hello, Stranger
You remind me of someone
A jangling lust
Pouncing on a sliver
Of a dusty pool of light
Your fire’s hue
A maraschino cherry
A room-temperature eye
Backlit by the bar
Your tongue a chewed straw
You’re all period blood and soundcheck blues
Both armpits ripped and a lucky horseshoe pinball bruise
You’re not quite in proportion
So you’ve stayed in motion
Ever since your longing outgrew you
Stepping and re-stepping until it’s a run
Over and over, on the same platform from where you begun
Like someday this one-horse town
Will pull itself out of the station
Just to follow you around
You’re the real destination
On a boomerang counter
You crash the keys
“Coffee, please.”
A word of advice, from here in the daylight
Stay off the highroad
It’s a sneering code...
A lazy border boundary to “I don’t wanna know”
And we never will
Trash like us
We can’t even spell...
But we’re impossible to kill
We just self-destruct
Closing time never comes
You love boys and guitars and girls and trucks
The way you move fills me with envy and wonder
You somehow live free of men’s eyes?
Even with a bell on your collar
They don’t find or define you
You slip that noose in an arc so whip-sleek and steady
You fill me with envy and wonder already!
Somewhere between saying and screaming, you chime!
“Oh I, I’m going to live a real life
With blood and dirt and the subway for dessert
Cause there’s a feeling I’ve never met
And if it’s gonna eat me alive
Or use me for its fuse
I might as well walk it home in time
For tomorrow”
Most of all I love you
Because you don’t pretend it doesn’t hurt
aiting for the world to catch up
And see you for your worth
As more than just a neutral tarp to compliment the gleam
Of some glossy martyr’s meat?
As a contrast high?
A graphic feast?
Your compact in the gutter
Mingling with the slurry
Of cigarettes and needles...
As more than a housewife, a hasbeen, or just somebody’s lover
Closing time never comes
Oh I...
Wanna live a real life
With blood and dirt
And the subway for dessert and more!
So let’s tattoo the morning paper to their driveways in our gore
Cause there’s a feeling that I have never met
And if it eats us alive
We can still be on time
For tomorrow
FOLLOW NEKO CASE
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▶ Website: nekocase.com
▶ Facebook: facebook.com/nekocase
▶ Instagram: instagram.com/NekoCaseOfficial
▶ Twitter: twitter.com/NekoCase
▶ Spotify: spoti.fi/354qSu4
▶ Apple: apple.co/3uUIh3a
▶ Amazon: amzn.to/3517E94
________________________
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#nekocase #destination #neongreymidnightgreen #antirecords
Listen to the full album: antircrds.io/46bXEXd
"Destination" by @nekocaseofficial from the album 'Neon Grey Midnight Green', out now
Order, stream & download at nekocase.ffm.to/neongreymidnightgreen
Produced by Neko Case
Written by Neko Case & Paul Rigby
Additional production by Tucker Martine
Mixed by Tucker Martine & Neko Case
Engineered by Jeff Galegher
Additional engineering by Tucker Martine, Darryl Neudorf & John Hagler
Vocal arrangements and field recordings by Neko Case
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Neko Case: vocal and backing vocals
Rachel Flotard: backing vocals
Paul Rigby: guitars
Sebastian Steinberg: bass
Steve Moore: keys
John Convertino: drums
Richard Reed Perry: ebow, bowed upright bass
The PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra
LYRICS
Hello, Stranger
You remind me of someone
A jangling lust
Pouncing on a sliver
Of a dusty pool of light
Your fire’s hue
A maraschino cherry
A room-temperature eye
Backlit by the bar
Your tongue a chewed straw
You’re all period blood and soundcheck blues
Both armpits ripped and a lucky horseshoe pinball bruise
You’re not quite in proportion
So you’ve stayed in motion
Ever since your longing outgrew you
Stepping and re-stepping until it’s a run
Over and over, on the same platform from where you begun
Like someday this one-horse town
Will pull itself out of the station
Just to follow you around
You’re the real destination
On a boomerang counter
You crash the keys
“Coffee, please.”
A word of advice, from here in the daylight
Stay off the highroad
It’s a sneering code...
A lazy border boundary to “I don’t wanna know”
And we never will
Trash like us
We can’t even spell...
But we’re impossible to kill
We just self-destruct
Closing time never comes
You love boys and guitars and girls and trucks
The way you move fills me with envy and wonder
You somehow live free of men’s eyes?
Even with a bell on your collar
They don’t find or define you
You slip that noose in an arc so whip-sleek and steady
You fill me with envy and wonder already!
Somewhere between saying and screaming, you chime!
“Oh I, I’m going to live a real life
With blood and dirt and the subway for dessert
Cause there’s a feeling I’ve never met
And if it’s gonna eat me alive
Or use me for its fuse
I might as well walk it home in time
For tomorrow”
Most of all I love you
Because you don’t pretend it doesn’t hurt
aiting for the world to catch up
And see you for your worth
As more than just a neutral tarp to compliment the gleam
Of some glossy martyr’s meat?
As a contrast high?
A graphic feast?
Your compact in the gutter
Mingling with the slurry
Of cigarettes and needles...
As more than a housewife, a hasbeen, or just somebody’s lover
Closing time never comes
Oh I...
Wanna live a real life
With blood and dirt
And the subway for dessert and more!
So let’s tattoo the morning paper to their driveways in our gore
Cause there’s a feeling that I have never met
And if it eats us alive
We can still be on time
For tomorrow
FOLLOW NEKO CASE
▶ Store: nekocase.ffm.to/store
▶ Website: nekocase.com
▶ Facebook: facebook.com/nekocase
▶ Instagram: instagram.com/NekoCaseOfficial
▶ Twitter: twitter.com/NekoCase
▶ Spotify: spoti.fi/354qSu4
▶ Apple: apple.co/3uUIh3a
▶ Amazon: amzn.to/3517E94
________________________
FOLLOW ANTI RECORDS
▶ Website: anti.com
▶ Instagram: instagram.com/antirecords
▶ Facebook: facebook.com/antirecords
▶ Twitter: twitter.com/antirecords
▶ TikTok: tiktok.com/@antirecords
▶ Spotify: spoti.fi/3F8wIHU
▶ Apple: apple.co/3mh6Wdc
▶ Store: anti.ffm.to/store
#nekocase #destination #neongreymidnightgreen #antirecords
