“Like It Tends To Do” is the third track from Lizzy McAlpine’s third studio album Older, released on April 5, 2024. The song describes the wonder of how you’d interact with an ex-partner when seeing them after a long time of separation. McAlpine was first performed on TikTok in early 2021.
[Verse]
I don't know where we stand anymore
We have cordial conversations
Don't know why I feel I'm faking something
I don't know what to do with my hands anymore
Feels exactly like it was
But at the same time it feels so different
[Chorus]
If we were standing in the same room
Would we be in separate corners?
Would I actively avoid you?
If we were standing in the same room
Would you find a little window
And finally make your move?
Would it feel like it felt when we had nothing to lose?
Or would everything havе changed
Like it tends to do?
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
I'vе been standing in the same room
People enter one by one
And I've stopped hoping they'll be you
I've been standing in the same room
You don't visit anymore
But you showed up before the move
I can't tell if it felt like we had nothing to lose
Or if everything had changed
Like it tends to do?
Like It Tends To Do was written by Lizzy McAlpine.
Like It Tends To Do was produced by Lizzy McAlpine & Mason Stoops & Ryan Lerman.
Lizzy McAlpine released Like It Tends To Do on Fri Apr 05 2024.
This was the first song I wrote for this project, back when I was finishing up five seconds flat. Immediately it was my favorite song I’d ever written. It felt like some of my best songwriting. I knew it deserved its own place on a different project.
— via Apple Music