The Kooks Songs - Forgive & Forget Lyrics

The Kooks - Forgive & Forget

The Kooks - Forgive & Forget Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

Forgive & Forget Lyrics

Don't say that I never moved you
Just because I saw the light before you did
And you say that I never showed you
All the rooms inside of my soul

Yeah
Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Walking up and down the hall
Frankie and his favorite lover
Speaking all the words she wants to hear
But that don't mean forever

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Sitting down by the fire
Frankie plays the guitar
To people playing make believe
They say, "can we get a little higher?"

You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
So easy baby
But I can't stand
An hour break
Another day
So let me make it easy babe

And it goes on and on
On and on and on

Packing her bags
She found somewhere to stay
And in the car to the station
You know the world looks a little brighter
And then there's no need for conversations
Tell me why

You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
So easy baby
But I can't stand
An hour break
Another day
So let me make it easy babe

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Yeah
I forgive and forget you
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me
Yeah
So I forgive and forget you
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Writer/s: LUKE PRITCHARD, ALEXIS NUNEZ, DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Forgive & Forget Song Chart

After bonding with Inflo whilst traveling in America, Kooks fromtman Luke Pritchard headed to Los Angeles with the hip hop producer to pen some tunes. This story of a couple breaking up in a bar was the first song they wrote together. The singer explained to Q magazine that the "magic" first take vocal demo for this song in LA was later sewn into the band's London sessions.

The song's performance-based video was directed by Ivana Bobic, who is known for the movies The Priest and Frankie Teardrop (both 2009) and In the Night (2012). The clip finds The Kooks performing the song 'in the round', surrounded by dancers. Bibic told Promo News : "Forgive & Forget is such a fun, big track that I wanted to have an all-singing-all-dancing approach to it - the whole lot - band, dancers and a giant human zoetrope."

"The title suggested a kind of tongue-in-cheek love amnesia and constant repetition, so I wondered if I could make the whole video circular - constantly spinning around and around," she added. "I wanted the dancers to multiply into the band performance as the track progresses, they're like space-babes with an Alexander Wang twist, appearing from the dark. The dance builds and builds to the big middle eight drums where the whole spinning circus accelerates to a giant zoetrope and the dancers turn into one. It's a bit of a visual pun on the 'forgetting.'"