Why Hold On So Tight (When You Could Let Go)

from Mirrors (2017 demos) by The Urbane Decay

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This was written about me and the relationship I was in roughly from 1996 to 2003. The green chair that's mentioned was the chair at the listening station at Blackball Records. For me the listening station wasn't a place to check-out new releases but where Jack and Andrew would listen to me moan about my problems. Kind of like Cheers, but a record store. The dialogue “Hey buddy, break up with your girl?” / “No, we got back together” is a paraphrase of a memorable exchange from one of my visits.
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She listed off all the ways
He let her down since lunch
Men are just rotten grapes
Not a good one in the bunch

All relationships are voluntary nooses
He’s beneath her but has his uses

Why hold on so tight
When you could let go?

He sat down in the chair
Looked as green as the fake leather
“Hey buddy, break up with your girl?”
“No, we got back together”

In his wallet is a list of excuses
Why he puts up with her petty abuses

Why hold on so tight
When you could let go?

Somedays he’d prefer
Death by a thousand cuts
But living without her
Would be a thousand and one
a thousand and two
a thousand and three
a thousand and four

In her pocket is a list of reasons
To put off breaking up til next season

Why hold on so tight
When you could let go?

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from Mirrors (2017 demos), released October 30, 2017

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The Urbane Decay Toronto, Ontario

The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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