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Vanessa Carlton
Love is an Art
I Know You Don't Mean It

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Vanessa Carlton

I Know You Don't Mean It

Release date: 27th March 2020

From Love is an ArtTrack 34:28

Indie Pop Music Alternative Rock

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About This Track

"I Know You Don't Mean It" is a track by Vanessa Carlton , from the album Love is an Art, released 27th March 2020. The track is 4:28 long. It's filed under Indie Pop. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Carlton

Lyrics

I Know You Don't Mean It

On the outside, you're alive
On the inside, you are crawling
A lifetime of planning
Can be cancelled in a moment
Now my home is breaking
Ground is crumbling underneath
Can't carry on this way

I release you
And call this love
Cannot fix my quiet one
I know you don't really mean it
I know you don't really mean it

I have a hammer and a nail
For an ocean of despair
I'm useless here
And it feels so unfair
Wondering what I was missing
Was I writing you in?
Were you my invention?

I release you
And call this love
I cannot fix my quiet one
I know you don't really mean it
I know you don't really mean it

Secrets will kill us
We're dying in the dark
My love can let you go
It wasn't made to hold you down
It wasn't made to hold you down

I release you
I call this love
I release you
And call this love

I know you don't really mean it (I know you don't really mean it)
I know you don't
I know you don't really mean it (I know you don't really mean it)
I know you don't (I know you don't)

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Love is an Art

4:282020

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Album

Vanessa Carlton

27th March 2020

Track number

3

Release year

2020

1I Can't Stay the Same
3:43
2Companion Star
2:43
3I Know You Don't Mean It
4:28
4Die, Dinosaur
3:05

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Vanessa Carlton — Little Bit of Rain
Vanessa Carlton — Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Vanessa Carlton — Dreams
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Vanessa Carlton — Nothing Where Something Used to Be (from Liberman) [4:01]
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