Just when you think all hope is lost, and you’ve given up and run away, you’ll still remember where you came from. Track No. 9, “Try,” from The Sweetest Condition’s debut album, “Edge of the World,” reminds us that sometimes all it takes to keep going is the love and support of one human being. No matter how many regrets you carry, or how ashamed you feel of your past, someone out there still loves you. Lift up a friend who has fallen and help them to get up and keep trying. And one day, it should be you who looks in the mirror and says, “You’re beautiful.”
PRESS REVIEW:
“‘Try’ is one of my favourite tracks—everything seems to fall into place, and since I see it as emotionally the strongest, I consider it to be an original signature of this duo. Listen to it more than once to soak up its feel to the fullest.” —Marija Buljeta, ALTvenger Magazine, Nov. 19, 2015, www.altvenger.com/the-sweetest-condition-edge-of-the-world-album-review/
“‘Try’ is another of the poppier songs, with its rhythm befitting a pop-dance number, with its rather Madonna-esque dramatic rhythmic pauses punctuating the otherwise driving beat.” —Geoff Wilbur, Boston, MA, March 17, 2016, geoffwilburmusic.com/2016/03/17/the-sweetest-condition-edge-of-the-world
I’ve let them down again
dropped everything and ran;
a hundred miles from home,
I see a face I know.
From the crowd, he smiles,
but I just turn away.
Why give a broken girl a chance
on her dying day?
You know you’re beautiful,
beautiful to me.
I can’t help myself
from trying.
You know you’re beautiful,
beautiful to me.
I can’t help myself
from trying.
How can I forgive?
On my knees again.
I’m going out alone,
the same way I came in.
Then he takes my hand,
pulls the nails away.
Somehow from beneath the smoke
will rise another day!
You know you’re beautiful,
beautiful to me.
I can’t help myself
from trying.
You know you’re beautiful,
beautiful to me.
I can’t help myself
from trying.
credits
from Edge of the World,
track released August 28, 2015
The Sweetest Condition is:
Lyrics + Vocals: Leslie Irene Benson (ASCAP)
Music + Synths: Jason Reed Milner (ASCAP)
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