[Verse 1]
This is not the song
I wanted to write for you
This is not the way
I wanted to make you feel
The truth is so unkind
I can't stop the way that it sounds in your mind
It's loud and it's distorted
The longer you avoid it
[Chorus]
Too much to settle
So I hide in my golden cage
Silence is starving
Humble pie on a paper plate
Going in circles
And my pride is the piece I hold
I will never settle
Cause to settle would crush our souls
[Post-Chorus]
Too much to settle
Silence is starving
I will never settle
I will never settle
Going in circles
Silence is starving
I will never settle
I will never settle
[Verse 2]
Caught a glimpse of a normal life
Terrified by the sight
We belong to another time
Dropping vanishing names we knew
But if they don't care about it
Do you still care about it?
[Pre-Chorus]
Too much to settle
Silence is starving
I will never settle
I will never settle
[Chorus]
(Too much to settle)
So I hide in my golden cage
(Silence is starving)
Humble pie on a paper plate
(Going in circles)
And my pride is the piece I hold
(I will never settle)
Cause to settle would crush our souls
To settle would crush our souls
[Outro]
We will never settle
It would crush our souls, oh, oh
We will never settle
It would crush our souls, oh, oh
(We will never settle)
(t would crush our souls, oh, oh)
(We will never settle)
(It would crush our souls, oh, oh)
I Will Never Settle was written by Liam O’Neil & James Shaw & Emily Haines.
I Will Never Settle was produced by Gus Van Go & James Shaw & Liam O’Neil.
Metric released I Will Never Settle on Fri Jul 08 2022.
James Shaw:
Liam and I were working, and I pulled up an old, little fragment of music from maybe 2014. We resurrected it and completely changed the vibe, and then we sent it to Emily, and she said, ‘OK, you guys are insane—mind blown. I guess I’m writing a new song to this.’ It ended up being like...