JP Saxe & Maren Morris - Line By Line Lyrics

JP Saxe & Maren Morris Lyrics

"Line By Line"

There are things that I sing that I'd never have the confidence to say
There are things I believe that I only figure out when I sit down to play
The truth don't scare me in a melody, immortalizing my sincerity
There are things that I sing that I'd never have the confidence to say

Like that song about my parents that I'll never show 'em
And the ones about my exes that they don't deserve
When it comes to you, I'm still trying to find the words

Love's too big for a love song
If I tried to sum it up I know I'd get it wrong
Sometimes if it don't sound right
I apologize, I just said it 'cause it rhymed
Four chords, three minutes, you'd never fit in it
So I just take you line by line
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life
Line by line by line by line
Line by line

There are things that I sing that I'll never have the confidence to say
Like I'm still not convinced that I won't be too much for you someday
Yeah, we both know the way it goes
Hear my fears all on the radio
There are things that I sing that I'll never have the confidence to say

Love's too big for a love song
If I tried to sum it up I know I'd get it wrong
Sometimes if it don't sound right
I apologize, I just said it 'cause it rhymed
Four chords, three minutes, you'd never fit in it
So I just take you line by line
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life
Line by line by line by line
Line by line
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life
Line by line by line by line
Line by line
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life

I know it's complicated having all your shit on display
I appreciate the way you make it work
When it comes to you I'm still trying to find the words

Love's too big for a love song
If I tried to sum it up I know I'd get it wrong
Sometimes if it don't sound right
I apologize, I just said it 'cause it rhymed
Four chords, three minutes, you'd never fit in it
So I just take you line by line
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life
Line by line by line by line
Line by line
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life
Line by line by line by line
Line by line
I'll be writing about you for the rest of my life

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Thanks to London Schabes, Amber Carter for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Ryan Marrone, Jimmy Robbins, Maren Larae Morris, Jonathan Percy S. Saxe

JP Saxe said about "Line By Line", "My first thought about this song is that it's surreal I get to be sharing it with one of my favorite artists ever. Regarding what it's about—as songwriters we spend a lot of our lives trying to bottle up a feeling into a song, and often, the biggest feelings, the best ones... the complicated, detailed, messy, incredible ones... just aren't going to fit. 'Line by Line' is our recognition of that... of how one song just isn't enough to capture it all, but how we're just going to keep writing, futilely and lovingly, anyway."

Maren Morris told the following about working on this duet with JP Saxe, "I have always loved being contemplative of the artist vs. muse relationship in songs. 'Line by Line' acts as a promise that I'll never be done writing about my muse in this life because he can't be summed up in one song. Writing that day with JP was the most fluid, inspiring session. He's a lyrical faucet. He threw out the line 'immortalizing my sincerity' and it blew my mind. I think all in all, we wrote the whole song in an hour and immediately recorded it."

album: "Dangerous Levels Of Introspection" (2021)

JP Saxe & Maren Morris - Dangerous Levels Of Introspection album cover

Dangerous Levels Of Introspection

If the World Was Ending

Tension

What Keeps Me From It

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

Love v. Logic

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

Hold On To Me

(Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

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"Line By Line" lyrics

JP Saxe & Maren Morris Lyrics