I Just Can’t Figure
Liner Notes
@mikeb - Geoff's a prolific lyric writer, who I know from the Muse as well as FAWM, and I've done at least one collab with him, I'm sure, but this is my first 50-90 collab. Just nylon string guitar, piano and strings seemed the right choice.
Lyrics
I Just Can’t Figure © 2022 Geoff Matthews and Michael J Birch
It's sort of intuition
Like I knew it would go wrong
Sentinel to delusion
Is that a little too strong?
I love a golden summer
When the winter's far away
Raindrops on a petal
Never last, they never stay
I just can't figure
Why you left
I just can't figure
Well more or less
I put my all in
So why'd you go
I just can't figure
Don't you know
How careless that I lost you
Like I've misplaced all my sin
I read the game so badly
Thought I had the chips to win
But roulette has a habit
When it's spinning black and red
Of emptying my feelings
And draining all my head
I just can't figure
Why you left
I just can't figure
Well more or less
I put my all in
So why'd you go
I just can't figure
Don't you know
I'm sorry
Sounds so hollow
I'm sorry
Sounds so weak
I'm sorry
That you gave up
Turning to the other cheek
I'm sorry
I was stupid
I’m sorry
And this is all on me
I'm sorry
For the upset
I know you need your sanctuary
I still can't figure
Why you left
No, just can't figure
Well more or less
I put my all in
So why'd you go
I just can't figure
Don't you know
I just can't figure
What went wrong
Did you see through me
All along.
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