Like A Riddle

from Manners by Gabrielle Marlena

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

You can call it progressive
But I think it’s depressive
I’ve been smoking exactly one cigarette
Every time that we text
As if I were surprised

You could call me obsessive
So please put me to rest
I thought maybe it was a test

But I won’t be just one of the women on your chest
So please just let it die

Let me down easy
And tell me white lies
Put my head down on the pillow
And then please climb out the window
So I know you didn’t try

I’m feeling self destructive (i was feeling)
I’m letting myself down (letting myself)
It’s 4am I shouldn’t call him
But I have been all over town

I just want what I had before
I can feel it in my chest
I notice when he looks at me
That this is not my best

And let me down easy
Tell me white lies
Put my head down on the pillow
And then please climb out the window
So I know you didn’t try

Don’t make me say please now
Don’t me my fight
You got me stuck right in the middle
I try to read you like a riddle
But it takes too much time

There are some things that just hit me like a train
The way they walk together holding hands down lover’s lane
And I’m feeling like a pair of old shoes left out in the rain

Let me down easy
Tell me white lies
Put my head down on the pillow
And then please climb out the window
So I know, so I know you didn’t try

Don’t make me say please now
Don’t me my fight
You’ve kept me stuck right in the middle
I try to read you like a riddle
But it takes too much time

credits

from Manners, released March 28, 2019

license

about

Gabrielle Marlena New York

Gabrielle Marlena is an American indie folk/pop singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016, she moved from Montreal to NYC to perform and record her first studio album, Good Music For You. Gabrielle shares her experience of love and loss with rich authenticity through her raw, soul-baring lyrics and strong vocals, while maintaining a silly and welcoming stage presence at live shows. ... more

SoundCloud

contact / help

Contact Gabrielle Marlena

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Gabrielle Marlena, you may also like:

Saint Cloud
by Waxahatchee

supported by 6 fans who also own “Like A Riddle”

This album is so soothing. Always puts me in a good mood. Clinton Dale
go to album
Designer
by Aldous Harding

supported by 5 fans who also own “Like A Riddle”

This track caught my ear on Bandcamp Weekly (show=323). Loves it. ♥ David Ross
go to album
Warm Chris
by Aldous Harding

supported by 5 fans who also own “Like A Riddle”

Intimate and unique. This album plays well with a bottle of Syrah crunched up in your finest pair of headphones with candles lit in a steamy bubble bath. sig
go to album
Full of Moon
by Georgia Mooney

The Australian singer's debut solo album is filled with creative indie pop tracks. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 1, 2023
go to album
Molten Rock - album
by VanWyck

Tense, moody, guitar-forward songs from VanWyck that emphasize tension and fragility. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 15, 2020
go to album
Meet Me at the River
by Dawn Landes

On “Meet Me By the River,” Dawn Landes’s self-described “Nashville record,” buoyant country melodies settle deep into lush instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2018
go to album
Little Oblivions
by Julien Baker

supported by 5 fans who also own “Like A Riddle”

incredibly raw and visceral. thank you, julien. findingshaf
go to album