Girl You Can't Hide It
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Lyrics
Hand-painted smiles, a carefree scene Don't it ever change, love? Don't it ever change? The kids say you're different, acting strange Oh, don't you ever change, love? Don't you ever change? I trust what I see And it seems clear to me Girl, you can't hide it, no, girl, you can't hide it Maybe a weaker man Would wake up and pretend But I can't hide it, no White, paper fences Crumpled and stained Do we salvage what remains, love? Do you care for what remains? The kids complicate it, you can't just leave Do we salvage what remains, love? Give 'em what they need I trust what I see And it seems clear to me Girl, you can't hide it, no, girl, you can't hide it Maybe a weaker man Would wake up and pretend But I can't hide it, no I trust what I see And it seems clear to me Girl, you can't hide it, no, no, you can't hide it Maybe a weaker man Would wake up and pretend But I can't hide it, no
FEiN Little Homes suburban fracture: hand-painted smiles, kids say you're different: girl you can't hide it, white paper fences crumpled and stained.
ISRC QZ2QB1600003 (soundexchange)
Track three on Little Homes (May 31, 2016), after Sculptor. BMI hears pulsing electronica in an early Depeche Mode register. SoundCloud; Walton/Woodward co-write. Justin Klunk, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone (Discogs session credit); a public Facebook session video (audio) documents the baritone sax tracking pass at Tiny Giant. Fresh Beats 365 (Mar 2016) called it disco-tinged on the Little Little Homes teaser. A suburban marriage cracking from the inside, with the kids as witnesses and a narrator who refuses to look away.
The verses plead for stasis, don’t you ever change, love, while the children report the opposite. What sounds like devotion is really an indictment: I trust what I see / girl you can’t hide it / maybe a weaker man would wake up and pretend, but I can’t. He flatters himself for seeing clearly even as the picket fence rots into white, paper fences, crumpled and stained. The exit is sealed by the children too: you can’t just leave / give ‘em what they need.
It leads into Outro before #Grownupz. The later Scoobert track Debby reruns the same “girl you can’t hide from me” idea in an algorithmic, parasocial register; here it is purely marital.
Selected coverage
- Fresh Beats 365: *Little Little Homes* EP review 2016-03-10 Tom Roden: disco-tinged track on teaser EP; powerhouse sound briefly rears through bubblegum indie-electro.
- Facebook: Justin Klunk recording baritone sax (video) Session video with audio: Justin Klunk tracking baritone sax on Girl You Can't Hide It at Tiny Giant.
Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Produced and recorded by FEiN at Tiny Giant; engineered at LMU; mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato at Woodcliff (Discogs). Brian Robert Jones, bass (album). Justin Klunk, alto, tenor, baritone saxophone.