Cover art for Weakness by Margo Price

Weakness

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Weakness Lyrics

[Verse]
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
[Verse]
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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What did Margo Price say about "Weakness"?
Genius Answer

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 TrackNPR Music

Credits
Pedal Steel Guitar
Harmony Vocals
Electric Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Mastering Engineer
Mixing Engineer
Release Date
August 22, 2017
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