“Outlaw Love” by The Districts – A Song Feature

 

     The vocals are supported by kickdrum and deferential instrumentation, until the rich guitar enters 53 seconds into “Outlaw Love.” As a result, the single from The Districts transitions from ear-pleasing to attention-arresting. It certainly helps that the backing vocals include an accomplished female vocalist - Clementine Creevy of Cherry Glazer.
 
      Rob Grote of The Districts explains:
  “’Outlaw Love’ is about reassessing the past and realizing how much of your perception is colored by your particular set of experiences and beliefs. Who was right and who was wrong? Was it love or a web of lies? Life is this weird, fucked up journey, constantly changing and constantly realizing you were wrong or followed a false messiah, but there’s a lot of beauty in our ability to shift and grow through observing ourselves and our patterns. I’ve been hurt by people I love and given more than I should at my own expense, but ultimately wouldn’t trade it for the lessons I’ve taken away from it all.”
 
     The Districts are from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The member are Rob Grote (vocals, guitar), Pat Cassidy (guitar), and Braden Lawrence (drums). “Outlaw Love” is a single from their album “Great American Painting,” which is scheduled for release on March 11, 2022. The press materials state that the album confronts “a constellation of problems eroding the American ideal (gentrification, gun violence, the crushing weight of late capitalism), ornamenting every track with their explosive yet elegant breed of indie-rock/post-punk. Threading that commentary with intense self-reflection, ‘Great American Painting’ ultimately fulfills a mission The Districts first embraced upon forming as teenagers in small-town Pennsylvania: an urge to create undeniably cathartic music that obliterates hopelessness and invites their audience along in dreaming up a far better future.”
 
     “Outlaw Love” by The Districts

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Lyrics of “Outlaw Love” by The Districts
You used to love me
Like I was the only one
Now you find me
Cracking up and falling apart
 
You adored me
You destroyed me
That outlaw love
 
Now we’re broken
Heaven in my sights, heaven in my sights
My gun was always smokin’
Red handed in the night, red handed
Like we’d never even spoken
Heaven in my sights, heaven in my sights
Heaven knows
 
You adored me
You destroyed me
That outlaw love
 
Thought you were in love it was fool’s gold, honey
Thought you were in love it was highway robbery
 
Now you haunt me
Every promise like a curse
Every memory like you never could’ve loved me
So foolish that it hurts
So foolish just to want your arms around me
Heaven in my sights, heaven in my sights
Heaven in my sights, heaven in my sights
Heaven knows
 
You adored me
You destroyed me
That outlaw love
 
[Layering repetitions of:]
You adored me/ Heaven in my sights/ That outlaw love