Can't Not from Spirals (album) by Kate Ellis
Sometimes not loving someone can feel as impossible as the most impossible things, like traveling back in time, altering the seasons or turning water into wine. The only way to deal with things in life we have no control over, like death, time, or the pain of relationships, is finding some acceptance. “I can’t not love you” is the loop this person is trapped in even though the relationship has gone. When you’ve gone through all of the crap and come through to the other side, what’s still there? Love. And you're stuck with it.
Tracklist
| 1. | Can't Not | 3:40 |
Lyrics
Can’t Not
The dark skies, the crow flies
Never too far away
The light’s gone and the wrong song
Playing over again
I can’t make the wild winds blow
I can’t make the seasons slow
All the ties I just can’t undo
And I can’t not love you
I try to forget you
Let live and lie low
But I hear you and I taste you
Everywhere that I go
I can’t travel back in time
Can’t turn water into wine
I can lie, but I can’t make it true
And I can’t not love you
Say you never see my eyes
Tell me that you never break down and cry
Show me when you’ve found a way
To put all this away
I’ll call it a day
You tell me you’re happy
And I could be happy too
But I read signs in between lines
And I don’t know if that’s true
I can’t make the wild winds blow
I can’t make the seasons slow
Tell me why, no matter what I do
I can’t not love you
No, I can’t not love you
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Kate Ellis is a Louisiana-born singer-songwriter who uses melancholy Americana and
Folk to conduct fearless soul-searching.
An Observer newspaper journalist described ”hauntingly beautiful songs", while Americana UK gave her second album ‘Spirals’ 9/10 calling it “An irrefutable, unquestionable joy” and Folk Radio UK called it, “Beguilingly sung, melodic, warm, tender, open and insightful.”