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You Don't Need Me

from Retrospect: '04​-​'10 by Ari Jacobson

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One of my harder excursions, a song about the delicious pain of unrequited obsession. With, I think, one of my better solos, dirty as the production may sound...but hey that's part of the fun.

Recorded in London, Germany, and Amherst, MA.

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Walked a line so straight and narrow, never even seen the arrow,
Pointing the wrong way.
Blindly reaching, never feeling, searching for your mental healing,
Now all that I can think to say is:

You don’t need me like I need you, I deny and you reply,
I can run away but still I die, without you.
Now I’m scared and you don’t know,
You don’t care if I don’t go,
One more hang-up kills me—still the sweetest thing I do…
You don’t need me the way that I need you.

Looked around, and tried expressing all my first and second guessing,
Wearing these concrete shoes.
Sink or swim, and you sit down, do you even look around,
Do you even know you make me sing your blues?
And I complain to myself each morning,
Look away she doesn’t even care.
But it’s surreal, the way without a warning,
Everytime I see you, you’re the only one there.

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from Retrospect: '04​-​'10, released December 12, 2010

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