Tug O' War

from You Have Reached Your Destination by Caitlin Smith & Her Imaginary Band

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He’d start the song in the wrong key, deliberately to destabilise
Tries to make everyone love him, by acting the fool, and playing for laughs The more you pull him to you
The stronger he’ll try to pull away
How will you know what he’d freely give
If you keep pulling this way?
He would have to weave between the mines, remove the mirrors, hide the knives
To get some peace
She paid all of his bills and took her little pills to get happy
The more she pulls him to her
The stronger he tries to pull away
How will she know what he’d freely give
If she keeps pulling this way?
I can just picture a big tug of war
With each side pointlessly pulling more and more
Both vying for a knot in the middle
Recruiting everyone into their struggle
You can imagine just what would happen
If suddenly one side let go
Of the one thing that holds them together
I guess that’s why they don’t
When you kiss me you cling so painfully tight
If you release me, I promise that I won’t bite
But the more you pull me to you
The stronger I’ll try to pull away
How will you know what I’d freely give
If you keep pulling this way?

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from You Have Reached Your Destination, released November 4, 2020
Caitlin Smith – Vocals, Piano
Kevin Field – Wurlitzer
Dixon Nacey – Guitar
Aaron Coddel – Bass
Nick Gaffaney – Drums
Oliver Emmitt – Trombone
Finn Scholes – Trumpet
Matu Ngaropo, Rebecca Le Harle, Callie Blood & Caitlin Smith – Co-Vocals

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