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Mar 9, 2017 · [Verse 1] Baby really hurt me, crying in the taxi. He don't wanna know me. Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm. Says it was poison. So I guess I'll go home. Into the arms of the...
"Liability" is a song recorded by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, from her second studio album Melodrama (2017). Lorde co-wrote and co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff. It was released on 10 March 2017, by Lava and Republic Records as the album's first promotional single.
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- The six seconds of silence. As if there hasn’t been enough suspense in the four years since Pure Heroine, with fans and critics wondering what kind of reintroduction she’d make after her extended absence, “Liability” begins with six seconds of near-complete silence, as a barely audible male voice (Jack Antonoff?
- The opening piano. The big piano ballad, as far as we knew, was not in Lorde’s arsenal. The most dramatic, introspective lyrics on Pure Heroine were still mostly conveyed in lively mid-tempo, blanketed with synths that sighed and sparkled — there was nothing that could possibly be interpreted as a torch song.
- The lyrical fake-out. Halfway through the first verse, Lorde drops something of a bombshell of a lyric, lamenting, “So I guess I’ll go home, into the arms of the girl that I love/ The only love I haven’t screwed up/ She’s so hard to please, but she’s a forest fire.”
- The chorus. “They say, ‘You’re a little much for me / You’re a liability.'” The piano goes soft for the song’s refrain — as if this is hard enough on her already — and the singer just barely ekes out the impossibly cruel chorus, which she then doubles down on by internalizing and echoing back: “I understand — I’m a liability / Get too wild, make you leave / I’m a little much for everyone.”
Songfacts®: With only Lorde's vocals and a piano forming the entire track, this mournful ballad finds the singer musing over why her relationships don't last: So they pull back, make other plans. I understand, I'm a liability. Get you wild, make you leave. I'm a little much for ev. Everyone.
