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You Can't Have It Both Ways

from Divorce by Maslow's Basement

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You Can’t Have It Both Ways

Verse:
You can’t have it both ways.
Gave you seventy-two months of my sunny days.
Been treading water so long I forgot how it feels,
to have my feet firmly on the ground.

Verse:
It’s always pushin’ & pullin’, deferring, and judging,
‘Til I’m on my knees begging you please.
Because I loved you too much,
And I lost touch,
With the loving man inside of me.

Chorus:
& I don’t know what happened in your past,
to make you so afraid of things that might last,
It was a blood red flag that I ran past,

Verse:
You can’t have it both ways.
Traded all my Sunday church days for your evil ways.
My connection to all that matters
now rusty and corroded

Verse:
And I can’t have it both ways!
Been spending time on my knees in prayer
For what’s best for you and for me
We both need forgiveness but not from me.

BRIDGE:
Gaslighting me
and fighting me
with no concern for what we really need.
Those three little words turned out to be
The poison we used.

VERSE:
If there’s a God in Heaven above or below
She’ll probably look us in the eyes and tell us no.
We both need a little forgiveness, but not from me or you.
And we can’t have it both ways.
Six years of our sunniest days, goin’ up in a blaze.

“You Can’t Have It Both Ways” © 2023 Maslow’s Basement, track 01 on the album “Divorce”

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from Divorce, track released January 1, 2023

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Maslow's Basement Kansas City, Missouri

Maslow's Basement is a musical project originally formed in Los Angeles California, now seeking collaborators in Kansas City. Project music is most often lyrically inspired by several notions related to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - and describe the personal journeys and processes involved in escaping from the lower levels and climbing out of the basement. ... more

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