RELEASED
Tethers (Kanine/Dirty Bingo, 2021)
PLAYED LIVE
2018
FACTS
A new The Natvral song played on the short 2018 introductory tour, and teased before that through a home-recording video on social media. According to the posts accompanying that video, the song was freshly written at the time, making it firmly later than the first EP material, which was recorded at the end of the Echo Of Pleasure tour earlier in the year.
The song was released on Feb. 2, 2021 as the lead single from the album Tethers. As such, it is the first of the full-band Natvral recordings to see the light of day.
QUOTES
"The song is inspired by a reunion with an old friend and reflects on the ways our lives change shape and move away from one another, weddings and aging and families replacing the late nights closing down bars." - via Stereogum
"Opener and lead single, 'Why Don’t You Come Out Anymore?' tells of reconnecting with an old friend and noticing they now wear a wedding band and their hair is graying – a reminder of all the reasons people lost touch long before Covid." - Dirty Bingo press release
OFFICIAL LYRICS
why don’t you come out anymore?
why don’t you come out anymore?
the snows have gone and the world is new
is that why you don’t come out anymore?
I see the silver in your hair
and the gold on your hand
and there’s some things you’ve done
that can’t be undone again
I know it’s not him, your promise never met so much
it’s more the way the dishes patiently
await your course touch,
as I wait for you, I do
Where’s the fire gone from your tongue?
yeah, where’s that fire you spit at the sun?
the leaves are down and your curtains drawn
so where’s the fire gone from your tongue?
You’ve felt the kick of a child,
and the weakness of a man,
you only take a little powder now
to steady your command
You say you can’t be seen,
but then you prop open your door
your father raised a soldier,
but whose side I can’t be sure
and still I side with you, I do
The bars we used to close down
have all closed down now,
you’d put a 20 in the jukebox
if it played a silent song,
I never meant to make you something
that you'd no wish to be
I just liked your morning greyhounds
and a glimpse of your disease
I tell you I’m no better,
and you’ve always known that true,
so I never sent these letters,
i just pleased myself to you
So why do I still find you
in the attic of my head
think I smell the ashes still
that I spilled in your death bed
is that why you don't come out anymore?
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