Name: You Don't Lift Me Up
Duration: P00H02M02S
Description: When I wrote this song, I was listening to Washington Phillips playing his dulceola, and singing “Lift Him Up, That’s All” about love elevating all of us. I suppose I was feeling like there were some people in my life who were doing the opposite, dragging on my energy, using me to satisfy something within themselves. This song was about rejecting that kind of friend.

You Don't Lift Me Up

from Slow Burn by Mamie Minch

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When I wrote this song, I was listening to Washington Phillips playing his dulceola, and singing “Lift Him Up, That’s All” about love elevating all of us. I suppose I was feeling like there were some people in my life who were doing the opposite, dragging on my energy, using me to satisfy something within themselves. This song was about rejecting that kind of friend.

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You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all
You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all
Well it must make you feel better
When you see your good friend crawl
You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all

I know standing on my back might make you tall
I know standing on my back might make you tall
But a shotgun never shot no one
Till you take it down off the wall
and you don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all

You thought I’d always be there when you called
Thought I’d always be there when you called
But next time you come knocking leave you standing in the hall
You don’t lift me up
You don’t lift me up
You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all

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from Slow Burn, released August 18, 2020
words and music: Mamie Minch
guitar/vocals: Mamie Minch
drums/backup vocals: Dean Sharenow
upright bass: Logan Coale
electric guitar: Erik Della Penna

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MAMIE MINCH is a longtime staple of New York’s acoustic blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades and filtered through a modern femme sensitivity. ... more

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