Just Yet

Make A Sound, the third single from For Esmé’s Sugar—out later this month—is a dark yet playfully seductive critique of the social comparison and image crafting so prevalent in our generation. Cloaked in danceable Spice Girl era sing-song hooks and a smooth 80s groove, Martha Meredith’s lyrics detail the pressure to share all your highest highs with the world at large.  ‘The endless need in this industry, in this generation, to show everyone how great your life is, is exhausting. I catch myself feeling regret for not thinking to capture a special moment on camera, then catch myself, ‘why isn’t the moment itself enough?’’ ...


Make A Sound

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Lyrics by Martha Meredith
Music by Martha Meredith, Dave Thiel, James Bunton and Nathan Crook
Produced with James Bunton
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon 


Lyrics:
I almost choked on all the doubt
As the words were trying to leave my mouth
I was taught to be polite
Lately it seems that’s just another word for keeping quiet
Feels a little one sided
Though I’m always trying to deny it

And I can’t subsist on swallowed pride
Living half out loud, feeling half alive
Can’t exist alone in my mind
With my head nodding 
And my mouth just smiling 

Too tired to tiptoe between
Too much this and too much that tonight
Too bright a light 
To be dimming myself down for you

Well I couldn’t keep my anger down
And I watched as I lost all my ground
I thought passion was a virtue
But it seems like that’s only true if its coming from you
 And I can’t subsist on swallowed pride
Living half out loud feeling half alive
Can’t exist alone in my mind
With my head nodding 
And my mouth just smiling

Too tired to tiptoe between
Too much this and too much that tonight
Too bright a light 
To be dimming myself down for you
Too tired to tiptoe between
Being nice and being right tonight
To bright a bitch to be dumbing myself down for you

He said it sounds like you’ve got something to prove And I said maybe
Maybe baby I do
Maybe baby I do
Maybe baby I can’t subsist on swallowed pride
Living half out loud feeling half alive
Can’t exist alone in my mind
With my head nodding  And my mouth just smiling

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