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I Said It Like It Helps

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[Intro - instrumental, 7/8; clean arpeggios, soft rim clicks; low trumpet enters late] [Verse 1 - 7/8; low, conversational singing, close-mic] Somebody's folding up the summer on a Thursday, before I got my shoes on tents in the back of a truck I meant to walk down sooner the air's got something in it it isn't cold, it's just not warm I can't smell it anymore the people who make the months are right [Chorus - 4/4; opens up, long held notes, warm trumpet countermelody] If it's not summer, it's winter maybe that's why it lasts so long that happens to everyone from time to time that happens to everyone [Verse 2 - 7/8; low singing, interlocking guitars, slightly quicker phrasing] You said my name on the second day before anyone had learned it then you told the kind of joke that costs you when it doesn't land I laughed, and that was that we were the loudest thing in Worstah Death Grips every night before we went out it could not be stopped, and neither could we I bet you're bald now, Tom I could always tell who would [Pre-Chorus - almost still; slower, softly sung] Some nights you'd talk a little slower you'd shut my door and ask for help and I was drunk enough to be pleased with how it sounded "that happens to everyone from time to time" I said it like it helps [Chorus - 4/4, half-time drums; same melody, quieter; stripped back] If it's not summer, it's winter maybe that's why it lasts so long that happens to everyone from time to time that happens to everyone [Bridge - one guitar; low, deadpan, narrow-range, sung and held] She was every day and I'm the reason that she isn't [Slow build] I lost my best friend on purpose that's not a thing that happens I did it Felicia didn't get a say I'd do it again it would've hurt too much not to [Full-band swell; the voice stays low and sung] and the longer I think, it turns to regret a little longer, it turns to sad so I stop at "probably yes" and leave the rest of it shut [Final Chorus - 4/4; full band, brightest lift, high trumpet; same melody, lone voice, held notes] If it's not summer, it's winter maybe that's why it lasts so long that happens to everyone from time to time [Hard stop on last word] that happens to everyone [Brief silence] [Outro - one guitar, room sound; sung barely above a whisper] I folded up the summer it isn't cold not yet that happens to everyone [Spoken - whispered, off-mic] I said it like it helps [End]