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Cheating My Way Back to You

from Grown​-​Up Things by Maynard and the Musties

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lyrics

Tonight we’re closer on our barstools

Our eyes in the mirror almost meet

But it’s been such a while, since we even shared a smile

It’ll be with separate strangers that we leave



We couldn’t keep ourselves from roaming

We took our turns at which of us would cry

‘Till suddenly we found, with all that sleeping around

Separate homes in the blinking of an eye



Now my arms are reaching, for someone new

Each night to someone else I’ll be untrue

And I know you’ll do the same, it’s our lonely barroom game

And I’m cheating my way back to you



I hardly remember how it started

I can’t say which of us was the first to stray

I just remember the pain of watching you kiss in the rain

Now after you I’m loving purely out of shame



Still my arms keep reaching, for someone new

Each night to someone else I’ll be untrue

And I know you’ll do the same, it’s our lonely barroom game

And I’m cheating my way back to you



The odds are getting better every evening

As we move down the bar from different ends

It’s just a matter of time, ‘till each of us will find

Next in line it’s going to be you and me again



And then my arms’ll be reaching

Like you’re someone new

Each night to you my darlin’, I’ll be untrue

And I know you’ll do the same, it’s our mixed-up barroom game

And I’m cheating my way back to you

Yes I’m cheating my way back to you

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from Grown​-​Up Things, track released February 4, 2021
Joe Maynard vocal & acoustic guitar
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins fiddle & vocal
David Conrad electric bass
Pete Pulbrabek drums
Kenny Vaughan electric guitar
Eddie Lange steel guitar

Written by Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Produced by Mark Robinson

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