Tried, Tested and True - Joanne Shaw Taylor

Why do you believe

I didn't give enough to make us work

I stuck around to see us being dragged

Through the same old dirt

No one feels secure

When their being mistreated

A love can't be right

When the same old wrongs are being repeated

That's not the way to play the game

That's not to say you hold all the blame

I won't deny you really tried

But I don't believe there's another upside

There's no escape no retakes

I can't create us a whole new fate

I need to see the follow through

So I'll break away for a love

That's tried tested and true

Why look behind

Instead of moving ahead

Why'd you feel the need to tell me

I won't make it out there

I can't be my best

When you'realways knocking me down

No one found their way

Retreading across the same old ground

That's not the way to play the game

That's not to say you hold all the blame

I won't deny you really tried

But I don't believe there's another upside

There's no escape no retakes

I can't create us a whole new fate

I need to see the follow through

So I'll break away for a love

That's tried tested and true

How can I feel

If I don't believe in it

How can we regain it

We've long cracked with the strain of it

Do you really want to live

On this sinking ship

Or do you want to accept

That there might be something out there

That's better than this

That's not the way to play the game

That's not to say you hold all the blame

I won't deny you really tried

But I don't believe there's another upside

There's no escape no retakes

I can't create us a whole new fate

I need to see the follow through

So I'll break away for a love

That's tried tested and true

Tried tested and true