Some temptations don't announce themselves as trouble. They arrive softly, offering comfort, pleasure and the promise that just a little more won't hurt.
“Sweet Lies” by Gloria Travers & The North Street Band begins like a song about a seductive relationship. But beneath the romance is another lover entirely: sugar, cravings and the complicated relationship we can develop with the foods that promise comfort while always asking us to come back for more.
“You say just one more bite” reveals the deception at the heart of the song.
Sweetness becomes temptation. Comfort becomes craving. What initially feels like a choice can begin to feel more like control.
With its darker country-folk mood, “Sweet Lies” approaches our relationship with sugar from a very different direction than “They Keep Feedin' Me.” One laughs at the world constantly trying to sell us another bite. This song looks inward at what happens after that temptation gets inside our heads.
It's a love song to something that doesn't love us back.
What is your “sweet lie,” the temptation you know you should resist but somehow keeps calling your name?
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Songs created by Robert Jennings
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