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"I wrote Tears shortly after I moved back to North Idaho. The composition came as a desire to create a straightforward honky-tonk song, which I’ve slightly failed in but to no remorse at all. I loved the way it turned out. It is very reminiscent of “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs” by Marty Robbins, which was a major inspiration during the writing of this album. The lyrics are reflective of a fight I got in with my girlfriend around that time. Most likely moving woes or family bullshit or whatever, I can’t remember. The chorus is built around that anticipation that comes before a fight. That feeling when you come home from work and you just know that you’ll be screaming at each other and crying in the next few hours. Which Shad (Mishap owner, producer on this EP, best friend) and the other session musicians (Tanner Tuck, Frankie Tillo) really helped flesh out with the instrumentation. The first verse is about entanglement, a feeling that I’m sure most people who have been in a long-term relationship know quite well. Especially when kids are involved. It also hits on desperation, the pleading of just getting back to square one, keeping your toes off the cliff. It also reflects well on the familiarity of these fights we get in as couples, it’s like shadowboxing. We know what we’re going to say and more than anyone else, we know how to cheer each other up. The second verse is complete fantasy, my girlfriend and I don’t throw plates and we certainly don’t carry purple spots of fights we’ve lost. Again it’s hitting on the anticipation of something more: the leaves shaking, the stem of things, warning she will leave. All of it to sell that each relationship spat is a crossroads that you can see coming if you pay attention."
-Bailey Allen Baker
lyrics
How can I make her smile
When I’m the cause of her tears?
And why would she forgive me now
After all those rotten years?
It’s time like these I say god please
Put out the fire between us
We can’t start again, or be just friends
There’s no way to delete “us”
It’s coming soon I feel it now
And she’s so tired
it’s not the end, it’s just beginning
Remember way out west,
when things were still good
Where’d did that go,
Did we leave in the city?
The wind picks up leaves
Shaking boughs, lifting up, green
Stems of things we can’t hold back
The purple spots of fights we’ve lost
And all the times you said you go back home
And leave me here
And all the shit, the plates you’ve thrown, how you feel
You’ve made it clear
It’s coming soon I feel it now
And she’s so tired
it’s not the end, it’s just beginning
Remember way out west,
when things were still good
Where’d did that go
Did we leave in the city?
credits
released October 21, 2021
All songs/lyrics written by Bailey Allen Baker
Bailey Allen Baker - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Lap steel
Shadrach Tuck - Producer, Double Bass, Background Vocals
Frankie Tillo - Lead Guitar
Tanner Tuck - Drums
Joshua Lewis - Mixing/Mastering Engineer, Background Vocals
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