Sublime sounds, yet also perceptive, anxious lyrics come with new experimental folk-pop by the Toronto-based singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, with beautiful piano, percussion, flute and more, heralding her upcoming album Humanhood, out on Fat Possum, 17 January 2025. Lindeman explains that: “The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?”
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I've gotten used to
Feeling like I'm crazy, or just lazy
Why can't I get off this floor?
Think straight anymore?
Out on the street
I went walking in a punishing heat
Nobody meets my eyes except witty signs and
Luxury designs
Every neon sign, every flashing light
Tries to fool you
Get you on their side
Everybody swears they need you
And only you to make the buy
You feel flattered to be wanted
And you don't know why
It reminds me of that look
That look in your eyes
Never enough in a world without trust
Having to rely upon the lightning flash of lust, uh
Like it's almost the same as love
Every neon sign, every flashing light
Tried to fool me
There I was just stretching out my mind
To take in every wounded story
Nothing needs you so badly as a lie
So lonely, drifting, unmoored from real life
Begging, begging somebody to keep it alive
Living rough in a world without trust
Having to rely upon the honesty of lust, oh
You had to make yourself wanted
To get what you wanted
Now you got me this broken prize
Clinging to you but blank in the eyes
Want is a feeling you can't take alive
'Til I fell out of desire like a slipped knot
I fell out of desire and nothing caught
I fell out of the fire wasn't even hot
I could feel nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing naught
My want was honest
You tried to direct it
But it was connected
To something I can't explain
Immersed in all my pain
Like a root in a ceiling drain
Breaking apart everything
I never knew it
I tried so hard to cut
To cut through it, ooh
Never enough in a world without trust
Determined broken open and refusing to adjust, oh
I swear to god I saw real love once
But nothing needs you so badly as a lie
So lonely, drifting, unmoored from real life
If nobody believes it all it can do is die
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