CITY AND COLOUR - LOVER COME BACK

LOVER COME BACK

CITY AND COLOUR

SONGWRITER: DALLAS GREEN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE YOU

LABEL: DINE ALONE RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 2015

 

          Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the internet for fans to download. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of these songs to make his first album, Sometimes. The full-length debut was released on November 1, 2005, to a good reception, described by one reviewer as "dynamically gentle and vulnerable". The cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style; Green "still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time".

        Green indicated that his view that the "best music for [him] is sad music", influenced the type of songs he created. He also said that he "love[s] music to sort of escape to" and the idea of sad music that people could identify with. Green said of the album that, "a lot of those songs are written on some of the experiences I've been through and stuff and that's just how I deal with it. I just write songs when I'm bummed out and I feel happier." Sometimes won the 2007 Juno award for Alternative Album of the Year.

        If I Should Go Before You is the fifth studio album by City and Colour. It was released on October 9, 2015, through Dine Alone Records. The release was City and Colour's third consecutive studio album to reach Nº 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Bound for trouble from the start

I've been walking through this old world in the dark

All along right by my side

There you were shining, my ray of light

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

Lover come back, lover come back to me

 

I'll never be as good as I'd like to be

Eternally restless refusing to believe

But I think that we missed our connection

I wanted to feel your affection

Until my final days

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

Lover come back, lover come back to me

 

I am warm enough yet I still shiver

I am fed but still I starve

You know me I am the great misgiver

Always waiting on the clouds to part

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

So lover come back, lover come back to me

 

Lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

So lover come back, lover come back to me.