Turn Your Face

Turn Your Face is a song by Little Mix which appears as the seventh track on their debut album, DNA.

Background

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Critical Reception

Popdust writer Andrew Unterberger stated: "Nothing mid-tempo about this ballad, that’s for sure. “Turn Your Face,” co-written and produced by the UK pop impersario Steve Mac, features the girls taking turns singing the lead with just a piano and light strings for accompaniment, as they sing about an emotionally damaging on-off relationship (“Each time I take you back / You bring one thousand cracks / And I accept them, like a fool”) and making the decision to finally cut the cord, demanding to their lover “Turn your face / So I can’t see you anymore.”

The song’s stark production makes for an obvious contract with the turbo-pop found elsewhere on DNA, and though the song isn’t exactly “Jar of Hearts” in its emotional rawness, there are some legitimately spine-tingling moments in “Turn Your Face,” especially the girls’ voices strain to hit the high notes on the “So I can’t see you anymore” chorus lyric. Not quite a stunner, but impressive nonetheless." ^[1]

Live Performances

Little Mix performed "Turn Your Face" as a part of their DNA Tour in 2013.

Lyrics

Jesy:
In my memory, all the small things, like daggers in my mind
In my memory, while my head bleeds, the words I'll never find
That I always meant to say to you I can't

Jade:
Cause you turned your face, and now I can't feel you anymore
Turn your face, so now I can't see you anymore
Walk away, until you're not standing at my door
Turn your face, walk away and stay
Turn your face,
hmm oh

Perrie:
In my memory, I was hurting, long before we met, oh
In my memory, there's still burning, fingerprints you left
And I'll always meant to say to you I can't

So just turn your face, until I can't see you anymore
Turn your face, until I can't see you anymore
Walk away, until you're not standing at my door
Turn your face, walk away and stay
Turn your face

Leigh-Anne:
Each time I take you back
You bring one thousand cracks
And I accept them, like a fool oh

Perrie:
So now what's your excuse
What do we have to lose
Since I'm already losing you

Leigh-Anne:
So hard to face, that I can't feel you anymore
Hard to face, that I can't see you anymore

Perrie:
So walk away, until you're not standing at my door
Turn your face, walk away, and stay

Turn your face
Turn your face, and stay
Turn your face