This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
I just read your letter
It says that you'll be gone for a while
Everything was getting better
I guess I'm just a fool strung out
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
I wonder
Just how sympathetic you'll be
You've come to take me under
And I've forgotten all about me
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
So tell me why?
You say goodbye
And tell me why
You're fucking up my whole life?
Yeah
Fucking up my whole life?
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
I'm looking out a window
Into a world that's taken you from me
And I'm feeling so disgusted
How pathetic can I possibly be?
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
So tell me why?
You say goodbye
And tell me why
You're fucking up my whole life? Yeah
Fucking up my whole life?
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
If there's a better place you can take me
A better life you can give me
Whatever place I can start all over
And I will never need what you gave me
And never need you to save me
And never feel like this life is over
If there's a better place you can take me
A better life you give me
Whatever place I can start all over
Then I would never need what you gave me
And never need you to save me
And never feel like this life is over
Feel like this life is over
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
It says that you'll be gone for a while
Everything was getting better
I guess I'm just a fool strung out
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
I wonder
Just how sympathetic you'll be
You've come to take me under
And I've forgotten all about me
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
So tell me why?
You say goodbye
And tell me why
You're fucking up my whole life?
Yeah
Fucking up my whole life?
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
I'm looking out a window
Into a world that's taken you from me
And I'm feeling so disgusted
How pathetic can I possibly be?
What to do?
Life is through
Just want to kill
Myself for you
So tell me why?
You say goodbye
And tell me why
You're fucking up my whole life? Yeah
Fucking up my whole life?
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
If there's a better place you can take me
A better life you can give me
Whatever place I can start all over
And I will never need what you gave me
And never need you to save me
And never feel like this life is over
If there's a better place you can take me
A better life you give me
Whatever place I can start all over
Then I would never need what you gave me
And never need you to save me
And never feel like this life is over
Feel like this life is over
So I'm on my way
I leave today
If I get away
It'll be ok
It'll be ok
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
It'll Be OK Lyrics as written by Leor Dimant John Everett Otto
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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