Not The Girl You Think You Are
Neil Finn
You’re not the girl you think you are, no no
They’re not his shoes under your bed, yeah yeah
He’ll take you places in his car
That you won’t forget, no
All the people that you know
Will turn their heads as you go by
But you’ll be hard to recognise
With the top down and the wind blowing, blowing
He won’t deceive you
Or tell you the truth
Woman, he’ll be no trouble
He won’t write you letters
Full of excuses
C’mon, believe you have one in a million
You’re not the girl you think you are
There’s someone standing in your place
The bathroom mirror makes you look tall
But it’s all in your head, in your head
He won’t deceive you
Or tell you the truth
Woman, he’ll be no trouble
He won’t write you letters
Full of excuses
C’mon, believe you have one in a million
He won’t deceive you
Or tell you the truth
C’mon, believe you have one
You’re not the girl you think you are
Believe you have one
You’re not the girl you think you are
Believe you have one
You’re not the girl you think you are
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Recurring Dream (1996 compilation)
Live: Fangradio broadcasts in 2020
“I found this neat little piano loop on the Optigan which features in Not The Girl You Think You Are and the finished song is actually arranged as my little demo at home was.
There’s about thirty Optigan discs available with all sorts of exotic sounds but very low fidelity and I’ve plundered the catalogue now. I’ve got a lot of songs out of it so it was a hundred bucks well spent.”
“We’d gone back to working with Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake for those bonus tracks. There was a working environment that had a lovely feel to it. You know, a feeling of putting on an old coat and finding a tenner in the pocket. It was nice to get the old team back for that one.”
