Name: Backswing
Duration: P00H03M34S
Description: Backswing is the latest single from Wellington New Zealand-based singer-songwriter-producer Godwit. This intimate guitar ballad tells the story of a relationship's gradual end. Through classic songwriting, Backswing bares a softer side of him than the prickly synthpop of previous single WDF.

Backswing

by Godwit

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Backswing is the latest single from Wellington New Zealand-based singer-songwriter-producer Godwit. This intimate guitar ballad tells the story of a relationship's gradual end. Through classic songwriting, Backswing bares a softer side of him than the prickly synthpop of previous single WDF.

lyrics

The socks you don’t wear
Are the ones that last the longest
Wish I didn’t care, but I do
O the world could burn out and I
Would still be in love with you
How many times
Could’ve ripped off the band-aid
But I laid one more on, made
A paper mâché of you
O my eyes could fall out of my head
And they’d still be looking at you

If absence makes the heart grow fonder
I’ll stay away a little longer
Until the backswing swings me back to my man
The backswing swings me back

So now I’m standing on a corner
And whether I go left or right
I have to get along without you
And I have to sleep alone tonight

If absence makes the heart grow fonder
I’ll stay away a little longer
lf the backswing swings me back to my man
Then the backswing swings me back

Sooner or later I was gonna get my way
I couldn’t idly love you
Though I wish I could’ve stayed

If absence makes the heart grow fonder
I’ll stay away a little longer
Won’t no backswing swings me back to my man
O backswing take me back
If absence makes the heart grow fonder
I’ll stay away from you
Won’t no backswing swings me back to my man
O backswing swing me back

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released July 7, 2023
Written, produced and mixed by Sam Timmings. Mastered by Ike Zwanikken.

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Godwit Wellington, New Zealand

discography

Backswing

Jul 2023
WDF

May 2023
Tombolo

Nov 2020
Wasted

Oct 2020
Damaged Goods

Oct 2020
Anaheim

Aug 2020
Crack-Up EP (Demos)

Nov 2017

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