What I Could Give You

Story Behind The Song

While dating my current spouse, I tried to break up with him because I had intimacy issues. I told him I was crazy, and he said that's why he loved me. He stayed with me, and we got married. After getting married he soon realized that I really was crazy and it became a problem for him. I felt guilty because of this. Cause I knew I had hurt him. I worked to get over my issues, but the guilt still remained. This song is about removing that guilt.

Song Length 4:18 Genre Rock - Alternative
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Frenetic Subject Dysfunctional Relations, Power
Similar Artists Veruca Salt, No Doubt Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

What I Could Give You

This is the rawest thing
I could give you:
a piece of my flesh
thick with the memory
of dirt and tears.
I don't need it anymore,
cause I've replaced it now
with plastic and wires.

See I don't want you to know who I am.
I don't want to know either, but here I stand.

This is the ugliest thing
I could give you:
and why you want it,
I don't know.
cause I couldn't stand it hiding
underneath my clothes.
And I've replaced it now
with ambiguity.

See I don't want you to know who I am;
I don't want to know either, but as long as I stand
here and look around, there's no denying
so I keep trying, to rid myself of me.

This is the worst thing
I could give you:
and I'm not sure
you'd know what it was.
Even if I told you,
it's just awful that way.
I don't need it anymore,
but you seem willing to take it.

So before you go,
I want you to know
that I didn't make you
take this from me.
You wanted to see me;
You wanted me.

Lyrics Jane Mabry-Smith Music Jane Mabry-Smith
Producer Eric Janko Publisher Neatomajick Productions, LTD
Performance The Januariez Label Neatomajick
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