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Gingerbread House

by Tig

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I wrote this song as a form of letting go, it was never meant to exist permanently. But when I performed it live, people started sharing their own stories with me after the show. I realised the song was healing not just for me, and that was really special.

lyrics

lyrics:

I never questioned that I didn’t understand
The games we played in private
But I saw them on the TV
I saw them in a movie once
So I guess there’s no need, to worry
I’m older now than I have ever been
They tried to warn me to tread carefully
But I’m the oldest that I’ve ever been

Insecurity meets influentiality
Age is just a number that comes with responsibility

But you should have known better than to build
The perfect house to make a wife
The perfect house to make a life
Out of gingerbread
What if it rains and this gets wet
What if it all comes crashing down
What then?
And what if I stop believing
All the things you said, what then?

I tell my friends all of my stories
And we’d laugh about them like they were funny
It’s not like they knew much more than I did
It’s not like they knew I needed someone to say stop this
Now I wish I spent my weekends making sandwiches
Not having dinner in big houses talking politics
Somehow I seem to be acquiring a new family
When all I want’s to see the one I have already

And I don’t blame you for trying
It’s not like I said anything
I don’t blame you for trying
I thought this was how it’s supposed to be
Thought this was how it’s supposed to be
‘Cos I read it in a magazine
I read it in a magazine
I read it in a magazine

But you should have known better than to build
The perfect house to make a wife
The perfect house to make a life
Out of gingerbread
What if it rains and this gets wet
What if it all comes crashing down
What then?
And what if I stop believing
All the things you said, what then?

Aah Aah
Aah Aah

credits

released November 8, 2023
Written by Tig Lieschke
Recorded by Tig Lieschke at home in Melbourne, VIC
Mixing, Additional Engineering and Instrumentation by Jono Steer at Dare Studios in Melbourne (A Little Bridge Production)
Drums arranged and performed by Holly Thomas
Strings Arrangement by Ainslie Wills
Strings performed by Madeleine Jevons (violin), Gemma Kneale (cello) and Molly Cob (viola)
Mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound

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“Tig sings songs from an organically raw and emotional place that makes your heart feel like it’s crying in sweet release” - Ainslie Wills

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