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    Written before, during, and after a family severance, this collection grapples with boundaries, heartbreak, and what it means to Say So. All songs written by The Rough & Tumble, and recorded with Dave Coleman in East Nashville, TN.

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lyrics

I Must Be the Sun
Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler

You know, I wish she were dead.
I thought maybe it would make you love me instead.
I can see it would never work now,
You’ve gotta love someone first to really make the hurt count.
You’ve gotta love to make the hurt count.

You know I wish it was right
That love doesn’t work like the pieces of a pie--
You’re either Esau or Jacob, one gets blessed.
Don’t tell me one don’t get more and one don’t get less--
One gets more and one gets less.

How do you split the sun?
Some lady I don’t know says it can’t be done.
I hope she was right.
I must be the sun,
Just the one they roll their backs to in the night.

Better the sun than a nameless star.
Still can’t be seen, but I’m not that far--
In case you come around.

What can be said of the dead?
Forgiveness can be fabricated, sewn up with a thread.
I handstitched curtains to keep the light hid--
‘Cause it’s easier than loving what lives.
It’s inconvenient to love you.
It’s inconvenient to love you.
It’s inconvenient to love you.

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from We're Only Family If You Say So, released February 19, 2021
Written and performed by The Rough & Tumble
Mallory Graham: vocals, glockenspiel, melodica, chimes
Scott Tyler: vocals, acoustic guitar
Taylor Donskey: vocals, bass guitars
Chris Benelli: drums, percussion
Dave Coleman: kalimba,

Engineered and mixed by Dave Coleman
at Howard's Apartment Studio
Produced by Dave Coleman and The Rough & Tumble
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville

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The Rough & Tumble are a dumpster-folk/thriftstore Americana band consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. Only This Far, their latest full length record is out May 12, 2023. "The bottom line is these are just quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end."- AmericanaUK ... more

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