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n ‘Forgive But Won’t Forget’ Tuk obviously sings ‘I’ll forgive nother tune, ‘Lovesick City’, sees Tuk singing about ‘run-
Ibut I won’t forget’. He has posted about ‘so-called friends that Anin’ blind through a lovesick city, like a wolf starved to the
bite the hand that feeds them’. He explains, “When I mean I won’t bone’. We envisage that to be like a musician being starved of tour-
forget, it’s like the lesson. I won’t forget the lesson that I learned ing, thanks to Covid.
because I don’t have the victim mentality. I want to forgive these “I really missed playing live so much,” says Tuk. “I have played
people, move on, learn my lesson and be more self-aware, and a little bit, but I haven’t really been able to tour, and there’s a big
level up. And yes, it’s a struggle. I fall back all the time, and I’m em- hole in me, so I can’t wait to really start touring again in 2023. I
barrassed of how I act. I call it acting like a fucking baby, is what I wrote that song while I had flu from Covid, and I quarantined my-
say. Sometimes I act like a baby and tell whoever, I say, ‘Sorry, I self to the studio. And I was watching this movie called Streets Of
had a moment of weakness and now I’m back on track’, but that’s Fire. It has William Dafoe in it and Jim Steinman, who wrote all the
being human, but yes, that song’s about learning lessons and let- Meatloaf stuff, wrote the songs. And my fever was like 102. So, I’m
ting go.” quarantined, sweating my ass off while I was watching this movie,
and that was the time there was a lot of rioting going on from the

TUK SMITH & THE RESTLESS HEARTS