the debut single from mekel "Not Good Enough for the Truth" was written by Mekel Green & Eli Garlick and was produced by Eli Garlick

LYRICS

V1
I found a voice note of the love song that you wrote me
Three years back you were thanking me for trusting
Said, “Commitments not my thing, but for you I swear I would do anything”
I’ve tried to listen to it without breaking
But your voice sounds so earnest and sincere
I guess I’m just longing for that lost feeling and the ignorance that our end was near
PRE CHORUS 1
How was I to know
Two months later you’d let me go
For a moment that you say you now regret
The time cost everything
And now I’m listening
To a love song I can’t seem to forget
CHORUS
Oooos (4x)
V2
Now I wonder if you’ll ever write another
Only this time, asking yourself “Why?”
You let me get away when all I wanted was to stay
And run away to a parish just for us
Cos we had dreams of a wedding near the water
Maybe it’s time for our families to meet
My grandma texts me now and then asking if I’m better
But the truth is I can’t get off my feet
PRE CHORUS 2
Cos I’m listening to a voice note that you wrote me
From way back in June ’18
The irony is crippling when you know what happened after
And the sad part is that I never did
CHORUS
Oooos (4x)
BRIDGE
No I’m not good enough for the truth for you yeah
I’m not good enough for the truth
Why’d you promise me and say that we’d never lose
If I wasn’t good enough for the truth
(2X)
OUTRO
I feel foolish whenever I press play
With my phone beneath my pillow, you don’t feel far away
But the distance just keeps growing, and I force myself to knowing
That what once was can’t ever be

Not Good Enough for the Truth

SICKWISHES the second single from mekel was written by Mekel Green & Eli Garlick and was produced by Eli Garlick

LYRICS

V1
I used to fall asleep and pray you’d be disloyal to me
So I could cut the ties and you would lose your hold on me
But when it happened it did so unexpectedly 
And from your ties I find myself still unravelling

I used to wonder why you loved me so conditionally
What did I have to do to prove that I could lose me
To your wants and all your needs and be your everything 
What did I have to do to make it mean something? 

CHORUS 1
Sick wishes
Don’t get it twisted
All my headaches faded now you’re gone

Sick wishes 
Don’t get it twisted
I still wish that they’d proved me wrong

V2
I used to second guess the love you’d sold me on receiving 
So I could hide behind the lies I’d told myself I wasn’t deserving
Of more because I’d grown to be so unappealing
And from your lies I find myself still unravelling 

I used to cry and deny that I should do the leaving
Didn’t want to claim your hurt as my responsibility 
But your way of hurting never made it easy for me
There was too much blame for me to do the shouldering

CHORUS 2
Sick wishes
Don’t get it twisted
Breathing’s easy when it’s for no no one

Sick wishes
Don’t get it twisted 
I still wish that you’d prove me wrong 

OUTRO
Was it because I wasn’t down for the bleeding?
Had me convinced I had earned your seething
By my inaction to your reactions
Tell me when did this become a transaction?
Too many ways you could tie me down
And too many white cars in this small town
Stuck in a loop headed for the casket
I don’t bet but I think you planned it

SICKWISHES

mekel is a singer-songwriter whose heavy-hearted lyric pairings with hard-hitting bass-driven bops will have you blowing your speakers (and your nose).