Try Again Lyrics
You're my right girl but the time was wrong (Time was wrong)
I know you know it's been way too long (It's been way too long)
[Pre-Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
Ooh, did we ever really close the door, close the door?
Forget everything that I said before, said before
Girl, where you been?
Girl, where you been?
[Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
I know we lost touch, somewhere between
What about us, and what about me?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
The way you gave up, gave up on me
I know that I said, "Go ahead, leave"
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, love
[Post-Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
You're my love
You're my love
You're my love
Oh no, oh
You're my love
You're my love
You're my love
Oh no, oh
I could never fall for someone new, yeah (Someone new)
Without drinkin', thinkin' about you, ooh, ooh, ooh, mm
[Pre-Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
Ooh, did we ever really close the door, close the door?
Forget everything that I said before, said before
Girl, where you been?
Girl, where you been?
[Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
I know we lost touch, somewhere between
What about us, and what about me?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
The way you gave up, gave up on me
I know that I said, "Go ahead, leave"
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, love
[Post-Chorus: DallasK & Lauv]
You're my love
You're my love
You're my love
Oh no, oh
You're my love
You're my love
You're my love
I know we lost touch, somewhere between
What about us, and what about me?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, do you think we can try again, try again?
Oh, love
About
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It’s great, it’s awesome to be here. He’s playing Lollapalooza tonight at 7:30pm. He’s premiering his new production for his upcoming tour he’ll be doing, then having an afterparty where we’ll play the new song at. It’s awesome to be here with him, being able to celebrate the “Try Again” release together. We work together very closely. It’s his first show back since the pandemic hit and it’s also my first release since 2020. It feels really great to have a song out and get back into the swing of it after COVID.
We wrote it when I was doing a writing camp back in Florida, I invited him and his roommate at the time. I said “Oh, you should bring Mike too. He’s really good.” Michael Pollack, who’s now gone on to write Bieber records and Maroon 5, has really grown into being a very amazing successful songwriter on his own. The thing I take away from that is you never know what’ll happen with a song, you never know the trajectory. We wrote “Try Again” in 2016, it was a song we always loved. Ari’s (Lauv’s) career took off in an artist sense after that and we didn’t think it was a record that really fit for him as an artist at the time.
We didn’t rediscover it until 2020 when he and I were sitting in Joshua Tree going through some old music of that time period when we met. We found some old folders, he played “Try Again” and said “Would you ever want to put this out?” I said “Yeah that’d be awesome, I’d love to do that.” But the production didn’t fit my style or what I wanted to do, what I wanted to achieve on a creative level. That’s how we got into reworking it. Also it’s 4 or 5 years old. Music changes, time changes, and we’ve improved vastly in our skill level since then. [laughs] Through quarantine, I tried a couple other versions. I was playing him one on FaceTime and he said, “That’s it! I love that one. This is so chill and awesome. It’s house-y, but keeps the vibe of the original song.” He came over and started working on it right away. We finished it up when we went to Mexico for New Years, which was an awesome trip.
