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Hookline

from Prelude EP by Bad Pollyanna

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This song is about that moment when you realise that the person who's fallen in love with you has fallen for a lie. They're in love with who you've pretended to be, nothing more. You'd successfully managed to keep the darker parts of who you are under wraps and have put on the performance of your life, showing them how great you are.

This song is about realising that, if you continue to pretend to be someone else, someone more 'loveable' you'll never know true intimacy.

This song is about coming clean to that person, saying: 'I'm not perfect. I'm terribly flawed...could you love me anyway? x

lyrics

My tired mind has had enough
It's too exhausted to keep this up
You wrecked the game, say you're in love
But of course you are

Cos I played my part to perfection
I'm such a catch, oh don't I make you wanna die?
So cool, so calm, so collected
I almost fooled myself

Chorus
You call my name, I run to meet you
I know you're caught on my hookline
I say a prayer, I want to keep you
I know you've thrown me a lifeline
But shame on me, you've fallen for
An impression, someone I was before
Don't count on me to let you go
Now that you're caught on my hookline

Aren't you impressed? I gave you cause
Why aren't you bursting into applause?
I fooled you good, I hid my flaws
But see me now.

I'm weak, I'm pure imperfection
I know I deceived, god I didn't mean to lie
I was just scared of rejection
I almost fooled myself

Chorus

credits

from Prelude EP, released November 22, 2019
Credits:
Released August 18, 2019
Written by Olivia Hyde and Nikki Kontinen
Produced and recorded by Nikki Kontinen at Glitch Audio Productions

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“The new goddess of the alternative” Inside Shock Magazine

Celebrating both the beauty and the darkness that lies within us all, twisted storytelling is at the heart of Bad Pollyanna’s music.

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