Smooth and deceptively restrained, “Trying Not To Love You” sparks the hype for Caroline Smith’s sophomore solo album. It premiered as the first promotional single on October 13, 2016, almost three years to the day since the release of her acclaimed Half About Being A Woman.
The song presents Smith...
[Verse 1]
My god
What does it mean when I call
To talk
And I fall apart 'cause you won't pick up your phone
Guess I can't admit
I'm in over my head
That I'm falling down that slippery slope
And climbing back into your bed
[Pre-Chorus]
Please baby
Let me go on living in the eye of the storm
Please baby
Let me go on thinking that I'm in control
When I—
[Chorus]
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
[Refrain]
When he leans, I lean
Hanging on his candor
Just another fan girl
If he goes, I follow, 'cause
Maybe if I'm with him
I won't get to thinking
[Pre-Chorus]
Please baby
Let me go on living in the eye of the storm
Please baby
Let me go on thinking that I'm in control
When I—
[Chorus]
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
[Refrain]
When he leans, I lean
Hanging on his candor
Just another fan girl
If he goes, I follow, 'cause
Maybe if I'm with him
I won't get to thinking
[Bridge]
It gets harder and harder and harder
To ignore the bad things
When you keep on, you keep on, you keep on
Giving me things that ain't good
Its gets harder and harder and harder
'Cause I'm starting to see
What you're keeping from me, and still
I'm begging for more and more baby
[Chorus/Refrain]
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When I'm trying not to love you
When he leans, I lean
When I'm trying not to love you
Hanging on his candor, just another fan girl
When I'm trying not to love you
If he goes, I follow, 'cause
When I'm trying not to love you
Maybe if I'm with him, I won't get to thinkin'
When I'm trying not to love you
[Outro]
Trying not to love you, trying not to love
(When I'm trying not to love you)
Trying not to love you, trying not to love
(When I'm trying not to love you)
Trying not to love you, trying not to love
(When I'm trying not to love you)
Trying not to love
Oh, oh (when I'm trying not to love you)
Trying Not To Love You was written by Caroline Smith & STINT.
Trying Not To Love You was produced by STINT.
Caroline Smith released Trying Not To Love You on Thu Oct 13 2016.
In an interview with Billboard following the single’s premiere, Smith spoke about how the song came to be:
I thought it was remarkable how I kept making excuses for this certain man’s behavior so I didn’t have to face being alone. And I don’t think I’m alone in that struggle – of not wanting to be...