In a track-by-track walkthrough for NPR, Morby said:
This song I wrote with drummer Justin Sullivan shortly after moving to L.A., around 2013, after our old band, The Babies, broke up. This song feels like a Babies song, and I always loved it from afar and was eager to use it on a solo record when...
I never was someone that I liked
I never was someone that you know
Now the tears flow through my eyes
And the trouble fell like a snow
I never walked down an empty street
I never was someone you'd want to meet
Just to be a normal man
Just to go out shaking hands
Now I'm walking hand in hand
With my self and with my sin
All alone on a crowded street
I never was someone you'd want to meet
Just to be a normal man
Just to go out making plans
All alone on a crowded street
I never was someone you'd want to meet
I never was someone that I liked
I never was someone that you know
Now the tears pull through my eyes
And the trouble fell like a snow
And you cried, crybaby
Come on cry, crybaby
And you cried, crybaby
Come on cry, crybaby
I never walked down an empty street
I never was someone you'd want to meet
Just to be a normal man
Just to go out shaking hands
And to cry, crybaby
Come on cry, crybaby
And to cry, crybaby
Come on cry, crybaby
And you cried, cry baby
Come on cry, cry baby
And you cried, cry baby
Crybaby was written by Justin Sullivan & Kevin Morby.
Crybaby was produced by Richard Swift.
Kevin Morby released Crybaby on Fri Jun 16 2017.