“How to Forgive” was written immediately after finishing “Need Your Love.” I wanted a palette cleanser to get out of the headspace NYL occupied, so I titled a blank page “how to forgive” and got to work. My plan was to channel early Madonna. We tried varispeeding the mix to simulate the girlish timb...
[Verse 1]
You take your love so freely
Can't you go easy on me?
Hard to resist, harder to give up like a habit
Why do you go losing control? What are you looking for?
All this noise when I need silence
Love shouldn't feel like violence
Swallow your pride, open up wide, let the whole world in
Empty again, punish a friend, make 'em all suffer
It's so easy (I can't help it)
[Refrain]
How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling?
I've got my reasons, I could give you a million
How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling?
I've got my reasons, I could give you a million
[Verse 2]
My mind has been divided
And I've been questioning myself
Can't keep on hesitating
It's starting to affect my health
Hard to resist, harder to give up my bad habits
Why do I go losing control? What am I looking for?
It's so easy
(I can't help it)
(I can't help it)
(I can't help it)
[Bridge]
Oh, I know that I can't control
But it's so hard to let it go
All the worries, they keep coming back
And the disappointments from our past (I can't help it)
[Refrain]
How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling?
I've got my reasons, I could give you a million (I can't help it)
I'd move on if I could only remember
All that it takes is just an act of surrender (I can't help it)
How could I disguise the way that I'm feeling?
I've got my reasons, I could give you a million (I can't help it)
I'd move on if I could only remember
All that it takes is just an act of surrender (I can't help it)
(I can't help it)
(I can't help it)
How to Forgive was written by Alaina Moore & Patrick Riley.
How to Forgive was produced by Alaina Moore & Patrick Riley.
Tennis released How to Forgive on Fri Jan 24 2020.