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I Know It's True but I'm Sorry to Say Lyrics
know it's true, but I'm sorry to say
yesterdays a day away.
Nothing I can do to make it stay like that.
Ain't that a fact.
I know it's true, but I'm sorry to say
I just can't handle things this way.
I know it's late, but I'd like to stay a while, see you smile.
Will you meet me in the morning, with sun fresh on the dew?
Will you meet me in the afternoon, made just for me and you?
Will you meet me in the evening, when the nighttime starts to crawl?
Will you meet me in the hall?
Will you meet me on the wall?
Will you meet me at all?
One more time, one more time.
Shaking up and down my spine.
Jump a rope or skip a line or two.
What can I do?
One more time, one more time.
Color flashing neon signs.
Advertising a friend of my distraction, latest attraction.
Oh my body has been punished.
Lord, I think I've had enough.
Oh my body has been punished
with too much and not enough.
Oh my body has been punished
and my mind can no longer bluff.
My mind is so unkind, my mind is so unkind.
It keeps me crying all the time.
I know it's true, but I'm sorry to say
yesterdays a day away.
yesterdays a day away.
Nothing I can do to make it stay like that.
Ain't that a fact.
I just can't handle things this way.
I know it's late, but I'd like to stay a while, see you smile.
Will you meet me in the afternoon, made just for me and you?
Will you meet me in the evening, when the nighttime starts to crawl?
Will you meet me in the hall?
Will you meet me on the wall?
Will you meet me at all?
Shaking up and down my spine.
Jump a rope or skip a line or two.
What can I do?
Color flashing neon signs.
Advertising a friend of my distraction, latest attraction.
Lord, I think I've had enough.
Oh my body has been punished
with too much and not enough.
Oh my body has been punished
and my mind can no longer bluff.
My mind is so unkind, my mind is so unkind.
It keeps me crying all the time.
yesterdays a day away.
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Great writing indeed. Another Gano coming-down-from-cocaine song. Kınd of the sequel to 'Good feeling' on the first album, which sounds similar. He's crashing, remembering the beautiful high, feeling lonely. He's also feeling the drug-ınduced urge to get the high back 'one more time'. The lines about spines shaking and 'skıppıng a lıne' (contrasting with the rope, which can be a toy or the ınstrument of death) show which drug.
The last verse is the singer considering the state of his body and mind, suffering from post-stımulant depressıon, excess (too much), and addiction (not enough). the Femmes have enough songs (esp. 'See My Ships') about drugs in general and coke specifically to support this being a post-drug song.
this is exactly how i feel right now.
This song is perfection... great writing...