Old Habits Die Hard

* Album Version
* Single Version

*"**Old Habits Die Hard***" is a song by Allie X released on February 3, 2016. A new version of the song was recorded for *CollXtion II* and was teased during a YouTube livestream on April 20, 2017. The lyric video of this song was uploaded to Allie's YouTube channel on September 27th, 2017.

Promotional photography for the single was done by Paley Fairman.

## Background

*Old Habits Die Hard* was first teased on February 1, 2016 through Allie's twitter with lyrics .

A day later Allie then tweeted '*Have you guys been waiting for something? #OHDH'* .

The song was released on February 3 through Allie's soundcloud and made available for free download .

On April 20, 2017, during a YouTube livestream titled #CLXIILISTENINGPARTY, Allie X played a new version of Old Habits Die Hard that would later be included on her debut album, CollXtion II as the seventh track.

## Themes

The day of the release, Allie explained what Old Habits Die Hard means to her:

> "Old Habits Die Hard’ is an Xpression of this action: laughing at your own weakness as it seduces you one more time. It’s a cruel reality when you believe you’ve overcome an addiction, just to find that it still has you by the throat. I tried to keep the language of the lyric conversational, because ‘old habits die hard’, the saying itself, has a jest in it’s undertone (like so many idioms do) that seems to justify/celebrate that self destructive moment when you just…give up"
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When asked about the cover art, Allie explained: "The imagery represents the shame and self disgust that I feel with myself when I give into weakness."

## Lyrics

* Album & Single versions
* Demo

**[Verse 1]**

Shame on me, slap on my wrist

At your door and I'm not proud of it

Yesterday I said "I'm done"

I swung back just like a pendulum

**[Pre-Chorus]**

(Ha ha)

Ooh, and the sugar turned bitter

Ooh, and the summer turned to winter

But I still want your love (want your love)

(Ha ha)

Ooh, they can tell me I'm a sinner

Ooh, but they can't call me a quitter

I won't give you up

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die hard

**[Verse 2]**

Made a promise, made a pact

With my fingers crossed behind my back

Like a creature you set free

I'll crawl back to you eventually

**[Pre-Chorus]**

(Ha ha)

Ooh, and the sugar turned bitter

Ooh, and the summer turned to winter

But I still want your love (want your love)

(Ha ha)

Ooh, they can tell me I'm a sinner

Ooh, but they can't call me a quitter

I won't give you up

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die...

**[Refrain]**

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

Old habits die hard

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

**[Bridge]**

Even though they tell me I'd be better alone

You're in my muscle, memory and you're in my bones

A world without you is a world I don't wanna know

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die hard

**[Outro]**

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

Old habits die hard

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

**[Verse 1]**

Shame on me, slap on my wrist

At your door and I'm not proud of it

Yesterday I said "I'm done"

I swung back just like a pendulum

**[Pre-Chorus]**

(Ha ha)

Ooh, and you took him (?)

Ooh, and the sugar turned bitter

But I still want your love (want your love)

(Ha ha)

Ooh, they can tell me I'm a sinner

Ooh, but they can't call me a quitter

I won't give you up

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die hard

**[Verse 2]**

Made a promise, made a pact

With my fingers crossed behind my back

Like a creature you set free

I'll crawl back to you eventually

**[Pre-Chorus]**

(Ha ha)

Ooh, and the sugar turned bitter

Ooh, and the summer turned to winter

But I still want your love (want your love)

(Ha ha)

Ooh, they can tell me I'm a sinner

Ooh, but they can't call me a quitter

I won't give you up

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die...

**[Refrain]**

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

Old habits die hard

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

**[Bridge]**

Even though they tell me I'd be better alone

You're in my muscle, memory and you're in my bones

A world without you is a world I don't wanna know

**[Chorus]**

Old habits die hard

Every time I say goodbye

I find a way to justify

Running to your arms

Old habits die hard

You know that I wanna change

I wanna correct my brain

You can't help who you are

Old habits die hard

**[Outro]**

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

Old habits die hard

One more time, wanna fade away

Too far gone to come back today

## Trivia

* The song is one of only three songs from the Unsolved project to be released in a final version.
	+ While the song was released during the Unsolved era, it was not included on the Spotify playlist or the EP digital release.
	+ The original version can be heard here.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/alliex/status/694214137249951744
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/alliex/status/694635009479700484
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/alliex/status/694883524457926656
4. ↑ http://popcrush.com/allie-x-old-habits-die-hard-listen/