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about
Given our enthusiasm for writing songs about Bay Area subcultures, it was only a matter of time before we got around to the Swinger set. Swingers Don’t Fall in Love is a sexy ballad about a gal who breaks the primary rule of swinging—she falls in love. A true pandemic recording, the drum tracks were recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the guitars in Milan, Italy; and the rest of it the Bay Area hamlet of Richmond.
lyrics
Swingers Don’t Fall in Love
C 2018 Davis/Greenwald
It started gradually as these things do, dippin’ in a toe and then a thigh or two
plunging in the stream, reveling in the steam, we never knew we’d be living such a dream.
And all the rules were clear right from the start, you dive in with your body, but you never give your heart
The lifestyle is dandy, the turnstile so handy, hello everybody we’re Jeremy and Mandy!
We always kept our feelings in check, then Billy caused a real train wreck
and now there’s no more puppy piles, no more swinger cruise
no more soft swap, no more cherry lube
we had a pact, to keep us intact, but Billy showed it all was a bluff
swingers don’t fall, swingers don’t fall in love
We’d have a drink or two and then we go downstairs
In all configurations, trios, quads and pairs
We filled our calendars with names like, Pam and Kevin, Laura and James
Always playing by the rules of the game
We’d always kept our feelings in check, then Billy caused a real train wreck
and now there’s no more puppy piles, no more swinger cruise,
no more soft swap, no more cherry lube
we had a pact, to keep us intact, but Billy showed it all was a bluff
swingers don’t fall, swingers don’t fall in love
I won’t regret the choice I made cause love demands a price
I got swept up in the world of him and started a new life
but then Billy changed, and said the life we lead was now a sin
So I burned all my bridges just to prove my love to him
My mind is wandering as we sit in the pew, lost in a daydream of the life that I once knew.
As the organ starts to play, Billy he smiles my way, takes my hand as he bows his head to pray.
They say that love will set you free, but love has made a prisoner of me
and now there’s no more lifestyle, no more swinger cruise,
no more hall pass, no more cherry lube,
we’d made a pact, thought it was a fact, but Billy showed it all was a bluff
swingers don’t fall, swingers don’t fall in love
swingers don’t fall, swingers don’t fall in love
credits
released August 13, 2021
Produced by Susie Davis
Mixed and mastered by Karl Derfler
Tight Pajamas, is a Bay Area creative team whose sly and unpredictable songs peck and gnaw at the default mindset,
challenging social and sexual mores.
Their music results from an eclectic collaboration between polymath musician Susie Davis, free-range writer Jeff Greenwald, and their odd menagerie of family and friends....more