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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
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.

draft: false

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Track three on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (**May 31, 2016**), after [*Sculptor*](/songs/sculptor/). [BMI](https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/indie_spotlight_fein) hears pulsing electronica in an early Depeche Mode register. [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/feinmusic/girlyoucanthideit); Walton/Woodward co-write. **[Justin Klunk](/with/justin-klunk/)**, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone (Discogs session credit) — public [Facebook session video (audio)](https://fb.watch/HHr4biroUc/) documents the **baritone sax** tracking pass at Tiny Giant. [Fresh Beats 365](https://freshbeats365.com/2016/03/10/fein-little-little-homes-ep-review/) (**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*](/songs/outro/) before *#Grownupz*. The later Scoobert track [*Debby*](/songs/debby/) reruns the same "girl you can't hide from me" idea in an algorithmic, parasocial register; here it is purely marital.

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