To Keep Me

"To Keep Me"
Album track by That Dog
from the album Totally Crushed Out!
Released	July 18, 1995
Recorded	October - November 1994
Length	2:21
Label	DGC
Songwriter(s)	Anna Waronker
Producer(s)	Paul DuGre
Status	Released
Totally Crushed Out! track listing
13 tracks "Ms. Wrong" "Silently" "In the Back of My Mind" "He's Kissing Christian" "Anymore" "To Keep Me" "Lip Gloss" "She Doesn't Know How" "Holidays" "Side Part" "One Summer Night" "Michael Jordan" "Rockstar"

"To Keep Me" is the sixth track on That Dog's second album, Totally Crushed Out!.

Overview

Anna: This is about closure. It's about moving forward. Finally -- a song where I say, 'No, I'm not going to dwell. I'm going to move on.' It works really well as a rock song.

Tony: Once we started digging into the song and playing around, we found ourselves pounding it out and distorting it, which gave it a lot more weight. The ending went on for another two minutes or so -- a little too much to ask of the listener.

Anna: It was really annoying.

—1995 interview with Anna Waronker and Tony Maxwell

Lyrics

It's time to shut off
It's time to turn down
It's time to get lost
I must turn me around

To lessen the pain
To broaden the truth
To dispose of no gain
I haven't the proof

To keep me from falling back
To keep me from letting go
To keep me from holding onto myself

The era has ended
The time has come
It will be so splendid
We've only just begun

To keep me from falling back
To keep me of letting go
To teach me from holding onto myself

See also

• List of That Dog songs