Weakness Lyrics
Sometimes I'm Virginia Woolf
Sometimes I'm James Dean
Sometimes I'm my only friend
And my own worst enemy
My right hand never knows
What my left one's gonna do
But I never meant to 'cause the harm
That I have done to you
[Verse]
Sometimes I drink Beaujolais
Sometimes I drink gin
Sometimes the whiskey does me right
Sometimes it does me in
But you've seen all my darkest shades
And everything I've been
Still I can hurt myself much more
Than anyone else can
[Chorus]
I'm worried for no reason
I'm worried and I'm blue
There's no better cure for it
Than being next to you
I can't hide what I am
I guess it's plain to see
Sometimes my weakness is stronger than me
Sometimes my weakness is stronger than me
Sometimes I live in a penthouse
Sometimes I live in a shack
Sometimes I fall off the wagon
Like a train running off the track
But I reckon that I'll jump back on it
Get this monkey off my back
Before I wind up back in prison
Or give myself another heart attack
[Chorus]
I'm worried for no reason
I'm worried and I'm blue
There's no better cure for it
Than being next to you
I can't hide what I am
I guess it's plain to see
Sometimes my weakness is stronger than me
Sometimes my weakness is stronger than me
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It started out as just a poem that I wrote one day, or one night — I think it might have been a late-night scribble in my notebook. And my husband just found the first couple lines. I had written, ‘Sometimes I’m Virginia Woolf / Sometimes I’m James Dean.’ … It’s probably something that nobody would have heard, had it not been for him going back through my notebook and telling me what was salvageable and what was not. … We’re always very critical of each other. So if something’s good, we tell each other that it’s good, and if something’s s***, then we toss it out the window.
I definitely feel the counterplay of feeling like — sometimes things feel really nice, as far as where we’re at now. But there still is pain and temptation and all of these things that kind of make up a human.
Margo Price Explains Her New EP Weakness Track by Track – NPR Music
- 1.Don’t Say It
- 2.Weakness
- 5.Pay Gap
- 6.Nowhere Fast
- 8.Wild Women
- 10.Do Right by Me
- 11.Loner