“I Can't Keep Up With Your Love” by Paris Youth Foundation – A Song Feature

     The lyrical subject matter is shopworn, but Paris Youth Foundation still establish a luster. “I Can't Keep Up With Your Love” is a song about the difficulties of a relationship breakup, when everything is a reminder of the person you are attempting to forget. The lyrics are relatable, even for listeners in a long-term, stable relationship:

Just another night out

Spent checking our phones

Room full of people, but still feel alone

Just one more mistake

And one more Drake song

Just hold on, we're not going home

     The guitar is light – near jangly, until a short break at 2:56. The Soundcloud waveform (below) shows the break as a gap. “I Can't Keep Up With Your Love” exits with greater force and with the instruments no longer deferring to the vocals. By dividing the song, it remains “fresh” throughout its more than four minutes.

     The members of Paris Youth Foundation are Kevin Potter (vocals), Tom Morris Jones (guitar), Jamie Hives (guitar), Paul Bates (bass), and Jonny Alderton (drums). They are based in Liverpool (not Paris), so add this to the list of band names that are geographically misdescriptive.

     “I Can't Keep Up With Your Love” by Paris Youth Foundation

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Lyrics of “I Can't Keep Up With Your Love” by Paris Youth Foundation

I leave my head at home

And try to forget

I try to call but I can't get through

All of my friends are drunk

And talking nonsense

And everything reminds me of you

I can't keep up with your love

Windows I can't see through

I'm not good at pretending

That I am over you

It's late and I'm still waiting

For you to get in touch

You love to drink your feelings

I love to think too much

Just another night out

Spent checking our phones

Room full of people, but still feel alone

Just one more mistake

And one more Drake song

Just hold on, we're not going home

I can't keep up with your love

Windows I can't see through

I'm not good at pretending

That I am over you

It's late and I'm still waiting

For you to get in touch

You love to drink your feelings

I love to think too much

All the pain inside of me

That I could never show to you

All the girls we ever loved

Are busy loving someone new

[Repeat]

I can't keep up with your love

Windows I can't see through

I'm not good at pretending

That I am over you

It's late and I'm still waiting

For you to get in touch

You love to drink your feelings

I love to think too much