The first line gestures toward William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, where Blake argues that desire is part of us and the cosmic order and not some kind of satanic otherness. As this song is about desire and fellow-travelling anxiety, the allusion is apt and a good way to kick things off...
[Verse 1]
We will coalesce our heaven and hell
My eyes roll around like dice on the felt
My mind turns to something useless and trite
My uneasiness, materialized
[Chorus]
I want you
All the time
Sanity
Nullified
[Verse 2]
When you're missing me, oh, what do you see?
Something wild that you think you'll never be?
Something safe that you could tend to and leave?
Something versatile to fill all your needs?
Maybe
[Refrain]
I give it to you all on a dime
I love you 'til the day I—
Love you 'til the day I—
Love you 'til the day I—
Love you 'til the day I die
I guess it don't matter why
[Verse 3]
In my loneliness, I'm locked in a room
When you see me, I'm honey on a spoon
Do you think that you were reading my mind?
My uneasiness materialized
[Chorus]
I'm waiting
All the time
Sanity
Nullified
[Refrain]
I hold my breath, I don't make a sound
I love you that much any—
Love you that much any—
Love you that much any—
Love you that much anyhow
Can't do much about it now
[Chorus]
I want you
All the time
Sanity
Nullified
I want you
Can’t Do Much was written by Katie Crutchfield.
Can’t Do Much was produced by Brad Cook.
Waxahatchee released Can’t Do Much on Mon Mar 16 2020.
This was the first song I wrote in this batch of songs, and I’ve been performing it live for almost two years. It’s meant to be an extremely unsentimental love song, a love song with a strong dose of reality. It was written early on in a relationship, where the feelings were super intense, but also...