You're Cheating and You Don't Even Bother to Hide it, Allen

You're cheating + you don't even bother to hide it, Allen!

Lyrics

I heard it all before.
I listened through an open door.
And I'm not going to pretend that I don't know about her anymore.

I can't go on like this.
'Cause I know everytime we kiss,
that you've been kissing her and you've been telling all of your friends.

It's a bad state of affairs when you know your lover don't care,
when you know your lover don't care for you like before.

And I know it might sound greedy, but I want all the love that you're giving,
or I won't stay, oh no I won't stay with you anymore.

You don't try to hide,
And you act like there is nothing wrong
With stealing my pride and parading it all over town.

So now I say goodbye.
And babe don't try to ask me why.
With you when I held still I was never still at all.

Chords

verse:

b f#
c#m+dom7 e b
walks up to:
c# g#
d#m+dom7 f# c#

chorus:

g#
f#
g# f# c#
d# g# a# 
g# d#

a#
g#
a# g# d#
f a# c
a# c f

Author's Notes

Incomplete, ridiculous breakup song. I guess I just felt like lately I had heard a few songs with the message "You're cheating and you don't even bother to hide it (,Allen)," which seems like such a silly concept to me. If that happened to me I would not ever write a song about it, I would just leave. So, I wrote a song about it. I don't know any Allens.

comments

first of all, awesome title. also, it's good to hear your voice again!

i can see what's starting to take shape here. sounds like you don't quite get the melody right on that last stanza, though you end it properly.

i think crazy key changes every stanza could be cool, but i would explore different changes from the ones you're using here. maybe try going by half steps like "everybody's fancy"?

lastly, i feel like maybe you could distribute the syllables of "lover" a bit more evenly, straighter? you're kind of stressing the first one. that might give it more force. it's a strong sentiment in that B section.

yay! can't wait to hear future versions!

Gabemcelwain 16:46, 10 September 2007 (PDT)

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the title makes me laugh out loud every time i think of it. :)

i like the first key change very much. i feel like the song really opens up there, and the key changes in general makes it sound like a classic, like it could be sung by one of the crooners.

i love the "bad state of affairs"--very nice line.

Sara 19:03, 10 September 2007 (PDT)

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I just hope the plan is to be in a harmonica-able key at some point! For what it's worth, I'm more into the second key change. It's a soul-music-y lyrical theme, so I think "..., Allen" follows in the fine tradition of such classics as "Marry Me, Bill".

--Seanmahan 00:11, 11 September 2007 (PDT)