Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Cautious - The Tide Is My Witness (Live). An exclusive performance for Vevo.
Cautious Clay describes his upcoming 'KARPEH' album an an attempt to equate his personal journey with his own family’s “past life experiences." That’s an ambitious undertaking, yet the dude born Joshua Karpeh is well-equipped for the job. His duo of EPs - 2018’s ‘Blood Type’ and 2019’s ‘Table of Context’ - established the multi-instrumentalist as an equally dexterous lyricist. On “Cold War,” the Brooklyn indie staple's highest streaming song to date, he details stalled relationship communication as a result of Tinder’s inherent shallowness, yet his ruminations are anything but shallow. “Welcome to the days of the broke and shallow” is one of many Cautious Clay lines that would make an English Lit major sweat. T-Swift even sampled the track for “London Boy.” Popular alt-pop producer Dan Nigro joined the mix for Clay’s 2021 debut album ‘Deadpan Love.’ It spanned indie guitar, brooding R&B, and experimental electronic music all while keeping his sharp tongue at the forefront with track titles like “Why Is Your Clay So Cautious” and “Artificial Irrelevence.” In gearing up for the new album, Clay is clearly pushing forward. He’s still rippin’ saxophone, a skill that soars on “The Tide Is My Witness,” but it’s on top of more intricate polyrhythms, more unexpected chord progressions. He even showed off some sweet flute skills in this funky bounce through “Ohio,” one for the Midwest kids with big dreams.
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Executive Producer: Chris Pereira
Director: Skyler Brown
Producer: Stacey Branson
Director of Photography: Jake Vriezelaar
Editor: Austin Prahl
Music & Talent: Cynthia Todd + David McTiernan
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Music video by Cautious Clay performing The Tide Is My Witness (Live Performance) | Vevo. © 2023 Cautious Clay Music, LLC, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Cautious - The Tide Is My Witness (Live). An exclusive performance for Vevo.
Cautious Clay describes his upcoming 'KARPEH' album an an attempt to equate his personal journey with his own family’s “past life experiences." That’s an ambitious undertaking, yet the dude born Joshua Karpeh is well-equipped for the job. His duo of EPs - 2018’s ‘Blood Type’ and 2019’s ‘Table of Context’ - established the multi-instrumentalist as an equally dexterous lyricist. On “Cold War,” the Brooklyn indie staple's highest streaming song to date, he details stalled relationship communication as a result of Tinder’s inherent shallowness, yet his ruminations are anything but shallow. “Welcome to the days of the broke and shallow” is one of many Cautious Clay lines that would make an English Lit major sweat. T-Swift even sampled the track for “London Boy.” Popular alt-pop producer Dan Nigro joined the mix for Clay’s 2021 debut album ‘Deadpan Love.’ It spanned indie guitar, brooding R&B, and experimental electronic music all while keeping his sharp tongue at the forefront with track titles like “Why Is Your Clay So Cautious” and “Artificial Irrelevence.” In gearing up for the new album, Clay is clearly pushing forward. He’s still rippin’ saxophone, a skill that soars on “The Tide Is My Witness,” but it’s on top of more intricate polyrhythms, more unexpected chord progressions. He even showed off some sweet flute skills in this funky bounce through “Ohio,” one for the Midwest kids with big dreams.
Cautious Clay
instagram.com/cautiousxclay
facebook.com/cautiousclayofficial
Follow Vevo
facebook.com/vevo
twitter.com/vevo
instagram.com/vevo
tiktok.com/@vevo
Executive Producer: Chris Pereira
Director: Skyler Brown
Producer: Stacey Branson
Director of Photography: Jake Vriezelaar
Editor: Austin Prahl
Music & Talent: Cynthia Todd + David McTiernan
#CautiousClay #TheTideIsMyWitness #Vevo
Music video by Cautious Clay performing The Tide Is My Witness (Live Performance) | Vevo. © 2023 Cautious Clay Music, LLC, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.
vevo.ly/xP9Tfk
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The Hours: Complete out now: https://i.cautiousclay.com/thehourscomplete
Lyrics:
Heartbreaks ain’t the same when you got hate
You left my heart to the wolves but it was all birds
Had something on my chest but it’s they/she/hers
So I trade away our future, she my Luka to the Lakers
I might be losing some weight
On my shoulders
Ain’t a single bar to raise
When the bars been broken
It’s a Thursday night
You been airing out my laundry on the group Slack
How you keeping cute when there’s a laughing track?
The club been missing you now more than ever
You been praying for this weather
So if you bout it bout it bout
Now
Imma need more than a shrug
If you treating me like a drug
The way I needed you now or never
Ain’t no love without some luck
Who you really been putting above me?
I needed you now or never
It’s hard to keep a garden
When you got snakes
But you just want a simple time
For simplicitys sake
We all make mistakes
But only living for the good was the risk you take
So now you losing the weight
Off your shoulders
But it’s only in the wake
Of the life you chosen
So when your back is on the wall,
Do the bricks still burn you
Like the rubbing alcohol
From the CVS?
You looking at me like
What went wrong
But I know you bout it bout it bout
Now
So Imma need more than a shrug
If you treating me like a drug
The way I needed you now or never
Ain’t no love without some luck
Who you really been putting above me?
I needed you now or never
I’m using the weight
I’m losing the weight off my shoulders
Don’t know what it takes
But I needed you now or never
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