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Girl You Can't Hide It
Metadata
- title
- Girl You Can't Hide It
- meaning
- 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.
- year
- 2016
- release
- Little Homes
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- FEiN
- artistId
- #fein
- coWriters
- Brandon Michael Woodward
- credits
- 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.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2xWtW9VwcaoHkS7FnIJfaQ
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/girl-you-cant-hide-it/1111956961?i=1111956967
- themes
- FEiN
- Little Homes
- suburbia
- marriage
- satire
- 2016
- press
- outlet
- Fresh Beats 365 — *Little Little Homes* EP review
- url
- https://freshbeats365.com/2016/03/10/fein-little-little-homes-ep-review/
- date
- 2016-03-10
- desc
- Tom Roden: disco-tinged track on teaser EP; powerhouse sound briefly rears through bubblegum indie-electro.
- outlet
- Facebook — Justin Klunk recording baritone sax (video)
- url
- https://fb.watch/HHr4biroUc/
- desc
- Session video with audio: Justin Klunk tracking baritone sax on Girl You Can't Hide It at Tiny Giant.
- isrc
- QZ2QB1600003
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
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, d on't you ever change, love. D on't you ever change. I trust what I see, And it seems clear to me. Girl you can't hide it, No 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? D o you care for what remains? The kids, Complicate it. You can't just leave. Do we salvage what remains, love? Give them what they need. I trust what I see, And it seems clear to me. Girl you can't hide it, No you can't hide it. Maybe a weaker man, Would w ake up and pretend, But I can't hide it, No.
Content
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) — 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 them 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.