God Knows I've Tried (A&E Version)

from Where We've Been EP by Ash & Eric

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lyrics

This guitar is empty-sounding,
Like your words as you stumble for the truth.
The strings are old, and the wood is weary,
And I’ve grown tired of the songs it has for you.

Where’s compassion that you preach,
When you abandon family?
Where’s forgiveness when you find,
Only fault in all you see?

Oh, I can’t love you any better.
God knows I’ve tried.

All the chords are so familiar,
Like the words that you thought I never heard
Oh, my dear, both of these ears
Have been riddled with those messages
for twenty-something years.

Where’s this loyalty you preach
When you can’t love outside your comfort?
And the fighter in your heart
Can only run and duck for cover?

I can’t love you any better
God knows I’ve tried

Fire falls from your lips, when you say
“He loves you, but He can’t stomach what you did.”
Now I don’t remember reading that this love comes with a price
Of trying to be perfect in a broken man's eyes

I can’t appease you any longer
God knows I’m tired

And I don’t remember reading that this love comes with a price
Of trying to be perfect in a broken man's eyes.

I can’t love you any better
God knows I’m tired

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from Where We've Been EP, released May 19, 2023

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Ash & Eric Worcester, Massachusetts

Ash & Eric have never shied away from life’s hard edges. Hailing from the gritty heart of the Industrial Revolution -- Worcester, Massachusetts -- the two find consolation in discovering the beauty of being artists in the most stubbornly independent city in the north east. Their musings reflect the hope and pain we all experience sung in voices as vulnerable and honest as their lyrics. ... more

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