Sunday, February 16, 2020

“Everybody, I Love You” by Ed The Dog - A Song Feature


     “Everybody, I Love You” attacks with the rhythmic mastery and emphasis of our favorite LCD Soundsystem singles. Sure, a piano is well suited for carrying a song’s melody and for enhancing the sentiment of the song. But the physics of the piano make it a percussion instrument at heart – a series of hammers are positioned to generate specific notes. In the control of Ed The Dog, the piano embraces its brotherhood with drums and other percussion instruments.

     Ed The Dog is the UK band based in High Wycombe. The band’s Facebook page identifies the members as Ed Wetenhall, Charlie Lashmar, Zak Tozer, and Ste Anderson. In talking about “Everybody, I Love You,” frontman Ed Wetenhall explained that the song is “about honesty. Total honesty really, and how accepting yourself as you are can have consequences on your relationships.”

     “Everybody, I Love You” by Ed The Dog


Lyrics of “Everybody, I Love You” by Ed The Dog
Everybody, I love you and I'm so sorry
I'm not the man that you think I am
Everybody I'm worthless
Ashamed to cry

To hold and be held - not part of my life
Everybody I'm angry and scared to touch
I'm an open book yet the text has been blocked out
It's like asthma, but it's in my head
An absence of breath despite so much air

...and it's coming for me
Though I go on and on
It's coming for me
Yah

Where did I go wrong?
Was it even my fault?
What led me here and what can take me forward?
Everybody I'm broken
Scared of the truth
Just tell me what I've done wrong and I'll change for you

...'cause I am trying and I'm probably gonna lose
Everybody, I love you
Do you love me too?

Everybody, I love you
But it's not the same
A beating heart crushed beneath blue veins
I've tried so hard to be loved by you
But it doesn't work
Not even close to the truth
It's always happening in the wings of the stage
'Neath trodden boards, or beyond our gaze

...and it's coming for me
Though I go on and on and on
It's coming for me
It's coming for me

To love and be loved, not synonymous truths
An aging man using children's tissues
Everybody I'm running
Running away
The soles of latex begin to fray

Everybody I'm frightened, by the things I've done
Tried to do good and it's gone so wrong

But I am trying
Even though I'm gonna lose
Everybody, I love you
Do you love me too?

...And it's coming for me
Though I go on and on and on and on
It's coming for me
It's coming for me

Where did I go wrong?
Was it even my fault?
What led me here and what can take me forward?
Everybody I'm broken
Scared of the truth
Just tell me what I've done wrong and I'll change for you

...'Cause I am trying
Even though I'm gonna lose
Everybody, I love you
...'Cause I am trying
Even though I'm gonna lose everybody
I love you
Do you love me too?

Everybody, I love you.
Everybody, I'm scared.
Everybody, I'm broken.
Everybody, I'm human.
Everybody, I'm tasteless.
Everybody, I'm sick.
Everybody, I've done wrong
But everybody, I'm a good kid
Everybody, I love you [Repeating]

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