Aww, I smiled when I saw this song was the next entry! I’ve come to discover Noah this year, and appreciate her big sister Miley’s work and voice more this year too.
I absolutely love Noah’s cadence from the get-go on this song. I absolutely love that gravel that has been gifted to the vocal chords of the Cyrus’s…Cryus’. That looks so awkward BOTH ways.
“I’ve been holding my breath, I’ve been counting to ten, over something you said, I’ve been holding back tears, while you’re throwing back beers, I’m alone in bed, you know I, I’m afraid of change, guess that’s why we stay the same, so tell me to leave, I’ll pack my bags, get on the road, find someone that loves you, better than I do, darling, I know, ’cause you remind me every day, I’m not enough, but I still stay”
-Noah Cyrus
I bolded the above part because I was super blown away that Noah managed to make the words I and why be five syllables. I’m not being sarcastic. It’s beautiful.
I definitely added this song to my To Learn on Guitar playlist. The duet version with Bridges is top-shelf. His voice is butter smooth…but not just butter…like, that sugar and cinnamon toast your Mom made you when you were little. That butter. Sweet and spicy.
“Feels like a lifetime, just tryna get by, while we’re dying inside, I’ve done a lot of things wrong, loving you being one, but I can’t move on (oh, I), you know I, I’m afraid of change, guess that’s why we stay the same, so tell me to leave, I’ll pack my bags, get on the road, find someone that gives you, all of the things I could not know, ’cause I keep fighting all the way, I let you down so I could stay, if you want me to leave, then tell me to leave and, baby, I’ll go, and baby I’ll go.”
-Leon Bridges
This song just hit me when I heard it. I initially discovered the duet version first and I prefer to the solo Noah version. It’s just a song that seems meant to be song opposite another. It’s a conversation, a fight, a dance, a lament.
everything, etc. 