Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz said about the song in a 2018 Rolling Stone article,
“I love the songwriting. I think of that as a perfect little jewel song. It does so very little. Some songs, when I write them, come out completely formed, and I don’t have to work on them at all, and “Explain It to Me” was like that. It just...
[Verse 1]
Head underwater
Keeps getting harder
Give 'em your medicine
Fame injection
[Chorus]
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Decades longer than you
[Verse 2]
Piece it together
It's like weather
Watch him travel
Kiss the gravel
[Chorus]
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Ten times longer than you ever should
You never could explain them to me
Explain them to me
Explain It to Me was written by Liz Phair.
Liz Phair released Explain It to Me on Tue Jun 22 1993.
“I love the songwriting. I think of that as a perfect little jewel song. It does so very little. Some songs, when I write them, come out completely formed, and I don’t have to work on them at all, and "Explain It to Me” was like that. It just sort of fell out of me. It’s about a ruined rock hero and...