Although based in Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music, Lambchop cannot easily be classified into a genre and certainly not into that of traditional country music. The collective around frontman Kurt Wagner has a fluid membership, at times including as many 18 musicians, and is frequently associated with alternative country. Lambchop’s music combines wryly ironic lyrics that are complex in form and content with harmonious tunes and soulful background vocals. It is indebted to folk and country as much as to the smooth soul of Barry White, Curtis Mayfield or Marvin Gaye and can be seen as a fine exemplification of Kris Kristofferson’s famous line: “country music is the white man’s soulâ€.
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You crawled away from me.
slipped away from me.
I tried to keep a hold,
but there was nothing I could say.
you slid and crept away
and there was nothing I could say.
so what you're trying to say
is you don't wanna play.
but what you want and what you need
doesn't mean a fuck to me.
because I can see your back is turning.
if I could I'd stick the knife in.
this is love.
this is my love for you.
get up.
now.
say you won't go.