Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
Tell me what's wrong with you now , tell me why I
Never seem to make you happy, though heaven knows I try.
What does it take to please you? Tell me just how
I can satisfy you woman? You're drivin' me wild.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
When I come home from workin', you're on the phone,
Talkin' 'bout how bad I treat ya, now tell me I'm wrong.
You say it's me who argues, I'll say it's you,
We have got to get together or, baby, we're through.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
Yeah, first you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
Yeah, first you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game
Never seem to make you happy, though heaven knows I try.
What does it take to please you? Tell me just how
I can satisfy you woman? You're drivin' me wild.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
When I come home from workin', you're on the phone,
Talkin' 'bout how bad I treat ya, now tell me I'm wrong.
You say it's me who argues, I'll say it's you,
We have got to get together or, baby, we're through.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
Yeah, first you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
Yeah, first you love me then you hate me,
That's a game for fools.
Break up to make up, that's all we do.
First you love me then you hate me,
That's a game
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Break Up to Make Up Lyrics as written by Michael Abram Schultz Jeremy P. Felton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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