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You Always Do That To Me – Sometimes

from 38 Degrees and Raining by Chuck McDermott

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about

This song was born from a marriage between a lick and a line. As a guitarist, I often just bang around on the dang thing until a lick or a chord progression or something emerges that I think could be the germ of a song. I record those into my phone. As a songwriter, certain phrases may pop into my head, or I pick up a thread of a conversation that yields a phrase or a word paring that I find interesting. Those too go on to a list in my phone.

And when it's time for me to get to work, I refer back to both those resources. In the case of this song, I knew I wanted to use the raunchy guitar line as the basis of a tune. And I loved the line "you always do that to me... sometimes" for its Yogi-Berra-esque humor. But I see profundity in it too. To me, few things are absolutely black or white, light or dark. So yeah, there are things that we "always do", at least sometimes.

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LYRICS: You Always Do That To Me – Sometimes

You bend the blues
You count by two’s
I howl at night
You set me right
And you always do
That to me sometimes

Old things seem new
Lies now seem true
Mud fills my shoes
Black turns to blue
And you always do
That to me sometimes

Seafoam green thistles in your hair
A diamond smile in the midnight air
Healing strokes from your fingertips
Tighten into a lover’s grip

I dine on my regrets
You thrive on second bets
I plead the fifth degree
You see the best in me
And you always do
That to me sometimes

And you always do
That to me sometimes

credits

from 38 Degrees and Raining, track released March 5, 2021
Chuck McDermott: Vocals
Marco Giovino: Drums
Richard Gates: Bass
Duke Levine: Electric Guitar
Chris Rival: Electric Guitar
Luther Dickinson: Slide Guitar
The McCrary Sisters: Vocals

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