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“grave” sees McRae realizing that trying to change a person to fix a relationship doesn’t always work. It encapsulates the emotional rollercoaster of realizing the end of a… Read More

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grave Lyrics

[Verse 1]
One chance, two chances of three
Think I got too much sympathy, yeah
I hold my grudges like I held you
How does me tryin' to fix it
Turn into "I'll just forgive it"?
One chance, two chances were lost on you (Uh)

[Pre-Chorus]
You can only dig the grave so deep
Before you start to take me down with you
With you, with you, with you

[Chorus]
I could never make you want me like I wanted to be wanted
I could never really change you like I thought that I could
I was tryna make us somethin' out of nothin', we were nothin' at all
You can only dig the grave so deep
You can only try to save somеthin' that's not already gone

[Interlude]
It's so sad, what the fuck?

[Verse 2]
Said you'd bе goin' out with all your boys (Ah-ah)
I'm crazy if I called you, right?
Tables turned, now I'm out
And you just called, like, thirty times (Thirty times)
Always a funny thing
Watchin' the tough guy plead
Oh, baby

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[Pre-Chorus]
You can only dig the grave so deep
Before you start to take me down with you
With you, with you, with you

[Chorus]
I could never make you want me like I wanted to be wanted
I could never really change you like I thought that I could
I was tryna make us somethin' out of nothin', we were nothin' at all
You can only dig the grave so deep
You can only try to save somethin' that's not already gone

[Post-Chorus]
That's not already gone
That's not already gone
Ooh

[Bridge]
You had me, you had me for a minute
The sad thing is you never would admit that you had me
You had me for a minute there (Ooh)
You had me (You), you had me for a minute (Had)
The sad thing (Me) is you never would admit (Baby) that you had me (You)
You had me for a minute there (Had)

[Chorus]
But I could never make you want me like I wanted to be wanted
I could never really change you like I thought that I could
I was tryna make us somethin' out of nothin', we were nothin' at all
You can only dig the grave so deep
You can only try to save somethin' that's not already gone

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“grave” sees McRae realizing that trying to change a person to fix a relationship doesn’t always work. It encapsulates the emotional rollercoaster of realizing the end of a relationship, capturing the complexity of emotions and the struggle endured when having to let go of a connection that has reached its final resting place.

The track was first teased at the end of the “exes” music video and made its live debut on Saturday Night Live the next day on November 18, 2023. Fans first speculated about the song after a sign in the “greedy” music video reading “Take ‘em to the grave!”

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What did Tate McRae say about "grave"?

I went through this whole year of the push and the pull of loving and hating this relationship and being stuck in the whirlwind of it all and being very infatuated with all of it. I couldn’t get myself out of this hole. Everyone was telling me I was literally just batshit crazy for thinking that it was so great. Then when I started writing “grave”, it was the first time I began realising what was actually happening; the rose-coloured glasses came off for the first time. There’s one lyric in here where I say, ‘I hold my grudges like I held you.’ That perfectly describes me as a person. I think one of my not-so-great traits is I can hold a grudge and I can be really stubborn in the ways I cut people off if they do me dirty. You can only dig the grave so deep, you can only take something too far before there’s a point of no return.

– via Apple Music

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