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Trying Not to Hurt You

by Carmel Mikol

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"Trying Not to Hurt You" is the first single from Carmel Mikol's fifth studio album. It's a song stripped to its essentials. The microphones are close and the room is quiet. The lyrics cut to the bone and Mikol's voice is imperfect, wiser, more honest than ever before. Layered guitars and strings come in at the last possible moment, and only when necessary. Stream it now wherever you listen.

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Trying Not to Hurt You
By Carmel Mikol

I said we should be open
and you just laughed
You said I am who I am
and you like it like that

My friends say I’m just going
through something and that
I’ll know when I know
guess I don’t know yet

You made room in the back of your house
for my boxes of books
I moved all your furniture around
you said it looked good

Now when I say I gotta get out
you give me that look
Like you’d never stand in my way
but I wish you would

I rent a house by the ocean
just to show you I know what I want
But as soon as I’m alone there
I call you up

And we talk about the weather and politics
like nothing’s wrong
The window panes rattle the wind
never lets up

I crack the seal on a pack of smokes and go outside
It’s desolation I’ve been craving
but there’s beauty all around me
and I can’t close my eyes
There’s a line of golden light
Where the waves are breaking

And all the seagulls stand at the edge of the surf
I’m trying no to hurt you
I brace against the wind wearing your shirt
I’m trying no to hurt you
I know I always said I’d let you go first
I was trying not to hurt you
Trying not to hurt you
Trying not to hurt…

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released March 1, 2024
Written and produced by Carmel Mikol

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"I Used to Know" is Carmel Mikol's fifth studio album. It's an album stripped to its essentials.

But for a record that's more subtle and less "produced" than any of her previous efforts, it's somehow bigger and more universal.

Find it soon wherever you stream music.

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