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You try too hard. You just try too hard. You try too hard. And it's people like us that make me sick. I'm surrounded by it everywhere I look. Is there somewhere we can go to get away? Where there's truth and people mean just what they say? You try too hard. You just try too hard.

Try Too Hard by P!nk

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"Paul, 20 months younger than John, was treated like the cute kid brother for whom ambition would be unseemly. Certainly, he had ambitions, and certainly he acceded them. He composed the group’s top-selling single (“Hey Jude”), its most widely covered tune (“Yesterday”) and much of its most enduring music. He was the Beatles’ most versatile singer, and not just as a balladeer; attend his scorched-throat renditions of “I’m Down” and “Helter Skelter.” Yet Paul always shivered in John’s shadow. Partly it was his looks. He was cute, coquettish — almost the girl of the group — so how could he be smart? He was the favorite of the screaming females at the early Beatles concerts, but he was not a guy’s guy. No way could he satisfy the male coterie of rock critics. He just tried too hard."

- Richard Corliss, Like Yesterday: America Meets the Beatles. Link: https://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/07/like-yesterday-america-meets-the-beatles/

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Clark Twain - Try Too Hard

“I think of songs as little spaces. they are created to be visited: like a room in your house, a nook in your hometown, a store on your favorite street. you know where it is, have an experience with it, and can go back to it to wander around as often as you’d like. I hope these little spaces I’m creating provide some refuge, a place to dance, and maybe even a place to bring a friend and eat tacos,” says Clark Twain. "I wrote 'Try Too Hard' for the people I accidentally hurt in life. I can be stubborn and unintentionally cause harm to those I love and/or work with.”

 Clark Twain is the solo moniker of Clark Nowlin, who began playing guitar at 10, cutting his teeth on Metallica and Nirvana covers with friends in the attic and starting his first band a few years later. He eventually quit his day job to fully immerse himself in the world of music “because the gig money put enough gas in my tank”. After touring and recording with Tim Halperin and Marshall Young for a few years and supporting various artists, he amassed recording gear, learned the ropes, and began producing various musical projects.

“If music is to serve any purpose, it’s to remind us that we’re alive and that we’re not alone. For me, making it is a sign that I’m alive. Connecting with it is a sign that this big mysterious journey called life isn’t new territory and that whatever situation we’re in – someone’s already been there and has made it through,” says Clark Twain.   “I’m an eternal optimist and truly believe the best is yet to come in our experiences here on Earth. If there’s a shred of this hope embodied in this music, I've achieved my goal. I hope that these sounds put a little wind-in-your-sails when needed on a still day.”