10/12/25: "Slow Down," by Cape Disappointment

Cape Disappointment is the moniker for Seattle-based songwriter, Jeffrey P. Martin. He writes “raw, honest, stripped-down” songs about places, loss, love, and life. He’s been playing all over the country for more than a decade. Everywhere from New York to Seattle. He is releasing a new song on the 12th of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Slow Down”

Slow down

You should go slow now

even though you want

to take it all in

phone down

please put your phone down

please a take moment

to look around

(Chorus)

life’s going swell now

how can I climb out?

out of this hole now

I’m stuck in

You don’t

need to fill your time

with every input

all of the time

(Chorus)

please take

a couple more seconds

so you can think through

what you’re going to do