Originally written, recorded and released in one day as a bedroom demo in 2014, Puma Blue re-released a newly recorded “Only Trying 2 Tell U,” self-produced again but this time featuring friends on keys, bass and MPC, and mixed by producer Ben Baptie.
“Only Trying 2 Tell U” is a meditation on unsai...
Hands are shaking; don't know why you won't let me
Come a little closer to you
I'm terrified of the lies I've let swim into my head
Sometimes at night I talk to you even though you're not there
So I whisper to the ground
I'm only trying to tell you something babe
Eyes are tearing up, I don't know why I'm so scared
Something about your beauty terrifies me
Now I'm trembling in this empty bed
Trying to realise that all of you is gone now
So I whisper to the dark, I'm only trying to tell you something baby
So I whisper to the dark, I'm only trying to tell you something
[x7]
I'm only trying to tell you something
[x2]
Only trying to tell you
Only trying to tell you
Only trying to tell you, something babe
Baby something
Only Trying 2 Tell U was written by Puma Blue.
Only Trying 2 Tell U was produced by Puma Blue.
Puma Blue released Only Trying 2 Tell U on Wed Jan 24 2018.
[It’s a song about] all those unsaid things between you [in a relationship], all the space between what you’re saying.
– Puma Blue, DIY
The whole song was an accident. I recorded it and put it out on Soundcloud that day. Back in 2014 I think I felt a lot easier about just doing that and putting it...
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