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Courting - Tennis

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Courting - "Tennis" a 2022 single on Play It Again Sam.

UK band Courting set the course with their 2020 single "Football" and the title track off last year's EP, Grand National. Now they return with another sporting track, the playful post-punk ode "Tennis," featuring frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill talk-singing over a Krautrock beat.

“‘Tennis’ is a paypig’s personal redemption narrative, set in “the city”, and told in two parts,” the band in a press release. “A twisted tale of two lovers’ back and forth, bound by cricket, bodybuilding, and money. A story as old as time.”

“We named the song 'Tennis' as a logical (but unrelated) sequel to our two previously released sports-related songs. To us, this felt like a natural ending to that idea. Dynamically, the second part of the song is supposed to represent a shift in tone for the character in which they realise their own worth and leave the situation that is set within the first part of the song.”

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0:00.0

I'll be your pay pig, I can count, double blazing the summer house, a wristwatch kickback,

0:28.5

actually finishing. Do we all take it a bit too far? You said you like me cricket

0:36.6

whites but what would you rather think? Would you find me attractive if I had swan musics?

0:44.9

It's just a question, I'm not a guesthouse, there's trade involved, there's trade involved,

0:53.6

I'm paying you to love me, I've become old, since the first serve, just plain tennis, just plain tennis,

1:18.2

just plain tennis, just plain tennis,

1:30.4

I'm not so piggy bank, I'm just piggy bank off me, there's trade involved, I was paying you to love me,

1:42.4

I was paying you to love me, weight-shape, I'm in grass, it's always green up in the country house,

1:49.3

I bought a celebratory blue wig with stripes on the side, growing light, in my holiday inn,

1:54.4

I'm a breakfast bar, little usual, toast and conveyor, this is not your name, you don't own it,

1:59.8

and we can't share it anymore, I'm throwing up so much since Tuesday, and I can count the hairs on my chest now,

2:10.2

all the best to the slave I'll offer you, work it down on the moon, this is a solar project,

2:17.6

and that dance will be stronger for me, I've been playing balls for over a year,

2:26.0

I've been playing balls for over a year, just plain tennis,

2:36.5

just plain tennis, just plain tennis, just plain tennis,

2:54.0

just plain tennis, just plain tennis,

3:09.6

I'm not so piggy bank, I'm just piggy bank off me, there's trade involved,

3:16.0

I was paying you to love me, I was paying you to love me,

3:21.0

I'm in grass, it's always green up in the country house,

3:25.3

I bought a celebratory blue wig with stripes on the side, growing light, in my holiday inn,

3:30.3

I'm a breakfast bar, little usual, toast and conveyor, this is not your name, you don't own it,

3:35.8

and we can't share it anymore, I'm throwing up so much since Tuesday,

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