1. |
I Would
03:34
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Being in love is called falling
Cuz it’s gravity that pulls you in
If I fall I love
Would you follow me down?
Would you catch me
Before I hit the ground?
I think you would
The chemistry of choosing foiled me, but now I see
You can’t shoot the sheriff or his deputy
And I won’t fight this law
Cuz the law won
But would I still break all the rules
To love someone?
I think I would
I wrote a song for you, this is as far as I got
Singing the truth should be easy, but it’s not
Sometimes I think I know who I am
But the context shifts and there I stand
With my years laid bare and my doubts like a shield
Looking for permission to know how I feel
But it’s only you and me
The space between
Doesn’t matter
I don’t think it should
Being in love is called falling
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2. |
Call Me Betty
03:53
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Middle of your life, cornered in the center
Of mice and men and money and you’ve been around enough to know
First, second, third; it’s a brave new world
Where forever is a gamble and your hand’s clutched to your shirt
Searching faces for instructions, they can’t tell you how to go
That you’ll end up where you started
You already know what you know
You already know what you know
I’d let it go if it were mine to give, if that’s how it’s supposed to be
But you left your shadow when you ran and it’s fallin’ on me
If you say you’re lost, I’ll say I never found
That anchor in deep water but no one here dragged you down
And I know that you know nothing will shadow you if you go
The thing you think you’re running from won’t chase you down
But tread lightly, I’ve got my ear to the ground
And I’m not brave cuz I’m not scared
I’m not waiting. I’m not leaving. I’m only standing guard
In this not-forsaken corner of long lost and found
And I’m up against a rock and a sad place
And around every echo I can still see your face
You’ll never lose me even if you wanted to
Cuz there’s some kind of forever in the sum of me and you
I’ve read the songbook, I know the ending
It’s never too late for a girl to dream
I know you stumble through what should have been
But I’ll wait for you to find home again
And so I’m humming as I stand here, trying not to lose my place
I’m searching faces for instructions but they all look the same
Quiet smiles of sympathy, of lost but not resolved
No one understands I’m the last verse of your song
And they don’t know that you don’t know
The equator circles back any way you go
With a whole sad world between us
I only know what I know
I only know what I know
And I’m not brave cuz I’m not scared
I’m not waiting. I’m not leaving. I’m only standing guard
In this not-forsaken corner of long lost and found
Of long lost and found
Of not lost but……..
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3. |
Mercury
03:58
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Watching for cars like the girl I used to be
Headlights in the fog watching you shine on me
Tripping madness, sanity sighs
Wait for me just like last time
And we’ll drive away
Drive away
Lights are on, somebody’s home
It cuts the blackness and I play your song
You ride beside me every night
Blackness warmer than the light
And we’ll drive away
Drive away
And I rise to your occasion, expand in your heat
My poison to yours, whatever you need
I’m restless and powerless to stay in one place
How far into crazy can I drive on one tank?
I'll let you know how high the mercury rises
Air slips like liquid. Stars flash chrome
It pulls me over before I make home
But I walk and I watch
And I hold out my hands to your quicksilver
I understand that poison you can't put down will drive you mad
But I’ve been here before, I’m used to that
I’m somehow more than I used to be
Filling a space much too large for me
I can only drive away
Drive away
Drive away with me
You drive me mad
I’ll be anything you want from me
Any shape, any time, any place, anywhere
Fill any void I didn’t know was there
And I rise to your occasion, expand in your heat
My poison to yours, whatever you need
I’m restless and powerless to stay in one place
How far into crazy can I drive on one tank?
I'll let you know how high the mercury rises
Watching for cars like the girl I used to be
Headlights in the fog watching you shine on me
Tripping madness, sanity sighs
Wait for me just like last time
And if the sunrise, like headlights
Everyone sees through
I’ll squint my eyes, I will too
And I’ll drive away
Drive away
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4. |
Biting
04:04
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I'm biting my tongue so hard I can taste the blood
You could have had me but I wasn't enough
Your words backpedal but your actions move on
We talk and talk and talk
But we're wrong
She'll never be me and that's the safety you need
She won't fill you up but you won't bleed when she leaves
You played the fool when you played with me
We tried and tried and tried
To believe
Tell me you didn't do it
Tell me I did it to myself
Tell me you want her
Tell me there's nobody else
Tell me and I'll bury our love down deep in the past
Or tell me to carry its bones on my back
Forever
Tell me or don't….
I bitter-coat my words but it's shining underneath
A love that could blind you knock you off your feet
If you don't pay attention your eyes won't see
Now you're sorry sorry sorry
For me
Tell me you didn't do it
Tell me I did it to myself
Tell me you want her
Tell me there's nobody else
Tell me and I'll bury our love down deep in the past
Or tell me to carry its bones on my back
Forever
Tell me or don't….
I'm biting my tongue so hard I can taste the blood
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5. |
So Damn Good
03:44
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Damn you’re good….
You’re so damn good at what you do
And it’s better….
Standing next to you
When I found myself walking the path I finally should
I said don’t let go of something so damn good
I been lost, I been on my own
My plan: Just drift my way home
But you stepped up next to me
Made me stop and look around
And thru your eyes I saw
What I already found
Damn you’re good….
You’re so damn good at what you do
And it’s better….
Standing next to you
When I found myself walking the path I finally should
I said don’t let go of something so damn good
Lovin’. An indifference.
I’d play along if there were two of us
But I guess I never really
Knew a man
Til you took matters
Into your own hands
Damn you’re good….
You’re so damn good at what you do
And it’s better….
Layin’ to you
When I found myself walking the path I finally should
I said don’t let go of something so damn good
Cuz when I don’t wanna face the day
Won’t talk about it, there’s nothing to say
You won’t let me run away
You pull me back to stay…….
Damn you’re good….
You’re so damn good at what you do
And it’s better….
Standing next to you
When I found myself walking the path I finally should
I said don’t let go of something so damn good
This world is not what I thought it was
And now I know it’s only because
You introduced me
To someone with something to say
I met my own self
Halfway
Damn you’re good….
And I’m good at what I do
But I’m better….
Standing next to you
When I found myself walking the path I finally should
I said don’t, don’t, don’t……..
Let go of something so damn good.
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6. |
Bend
04:09
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You could give me what I need
You could fill up what’s gone in me
Never got what I needed
And you got so much
So I’ll take what you’re givin’
And I’ll take a little bit more
I never was the type
To let a hostage go
There’s promises and rules
But everything bends
I don’t want to break you
But I need to know if I still can
Gonna push all your buttons
Gonna push you to the edge
Gonna push your back against the wall
Til I feel you pushing back
I need you to need me
And I need it to show
I just gotta push it
Until you know
I’ll say that I’m sorry
Cuz I know that you are
Sorry it’s complicated
That I have to push so hard
Tell me
You need
And tell me
You’ll be
The one that I want to deserve, that I’m worthy
Of everything you offer to me
And the words that you speak don’t depend on my needs
That you offer yourself
Freely
I know this scares you
Out loud is too much
A promise to be careful
Is that enough?
I know I love you
I know that’s the truth
But everything I ever want
I lose
There’s promises and rules
And everything bends
I don’t want to break you
But I need to know if I still can
I need to know if I still can
I need to know if I still can
I need to know that I still can
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7. |
Please
03:58
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I don’t wanna know why you slow down
Every time I come around
And I don’t wanna see the way you’re looking at me
When the music stops and it’s just us
Cuz there’s no words
You haven’t already heard
And every time I try to speak
All I can say is please
Please, please
I don’t like to think I need anything
I can’t get myself, rather go without
But I didn’t bring even half of these things
We got here, that we share
Cuz there’s no words
I haven’t already heard
And every time I try to speak
All I can say is please
Please, please
I don’t think it’s a very smart thing
For me to keep you, but what do I know?
I don’t have to fight, I don’t have to be right
I don’t have to know, maybe I don’t even run this show
Cuz there’s no words
We haven’t already heard
And every time I try to speak
All I can say is please
Please, please
I love you, I see you (everywhere)
Please, please
I need you (right where you are)
Please
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8. |
Pretty Falling
03:48
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I feel the wheels turning
And I know that you’re following
Eyes on the road
Just drive through the tears
The wheels on the pavement
Still grippin
But we’re slippin
Away, in that name
A place I wanted
Only for me
That I didn’t deserve
Couldn’t let anyone see
Now there’s so many words
That there’s nothing to say
You get what you give
I just gave you away
It was pretty falling
But it churned up the dirt
Ugly spring thaw
Unburied the hurt
Now the things you’re not saying
Only answer my questions
And the lies run away
And I don’t want to know
Looking for words
To make this right
Something to scream
When I wake up at night
I thought the truth
Would make me let it go
But I don’t know
Anything, Anymore
My own medicine
Not good for what ails you
Bitter and false
Neither one of us true
Now there’s no going back
Nothing to fix time
We just wallow through
Surprised at the other side
I loosened my grip
Thought that you’d hold me
Hold me
While I fall
Maybe it’s over
Maybe it’s better
Maybe it’s nothing
At all
Maybe it’s over
Maybe it’s better
Maybe we were nothing
Nothing at all
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9. |
Reckoning
02:25
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I’m a force to be reckoned with
Maybe you didn’t know
I’m not afraid of what you think of me anymore
You twist my words
You guide my hand
I still accidentally
Found out where i stand
I know what i want
I know what’s good for me
I know they’re not necessarily
The same thing
But i will choose which way i go
A big girl at least knows how to say no
I won’t be a victim
Of anybody but myself
I never needed
Any of your help
So take your sympathies
And move ‘em on down the line
I’m not innocent enough
To feel guilty this time
You want me to feel things
That don’t need to be felt
So i’m keeping my hands and my heart
To myself
I think i’m strong
I think i can take you
I think i’ll just go home
Cuz i don’t want to
I can fuck it up
With the best of ‘em
But that ain’t you
And that’s the problem
If you get down on tearful knee to make me stay
Well, you can just suck it
While you’re down there.
I won’t be a victim
Of anybody but myself
I never needed
Any of your help
So take your sympathies
And move ‘em on down the line
I’m not innocent enough
To feel guilty this time
I won’t be a victim
Of anybody but myself
I never needed
Any of your help
So take your sympathies
And move ‘em on down the line
I’m not innocent
This time
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10. |
Gemini
03:07
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I don’t wanna tell you
My truths every time
Cuz there’s stories and sadness and inside jokes
That are only mine
But every game I play tonight
Pushes me closer to the line
You tear down this wall
That I built so strong
And I bare it all to you
Right and wrong
I wonder what was protecting me
From you, all along
The woman you want to see
Is not who I wanted to show
But I guess she was waiting here
Ready to go
And all those things that mama taught me
You were what they’re for
I got a heart I keep to myself
And one that I parade
A face I show to the world
And one I save
And if you think you figured me out
I could go either way
I’m not sure where you came from
And I’m not sure where this goes
Guess there’s a lot of things here
That I don’t know
Cuz all the constants I used to hold
Disappeared like “no”
I don’t wanna tell you
My truths every time
There’s gotta be something here
That’s only mine
But every game I play tonight
Pushes me closer to the line
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11. |
Numbness
03:27
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She had a feeling he would come by
And she hates it when she’s right
But who’s not flattered by attention
Who isn’t lonely in the middle of the night?
There’s a time and a place to say no
Without breaking his heart
But when the late-night ship has sailed
You bite your tongue and you ride it out
And for now when she says jump
He only says “how high”
But neither one can scale
The mountain that’s inside
She knows there’s more to passion
Once she had a taste
And when she overcomes the numbness
She’ll come face to face with herself
And let go of his heart
She went by to say she’s sorry
For the words that wouldn’t come
She knows she needs to ask forgiveness
She doesn’t know from which one
And she tries to pour her heart out
But the words choke on her tongue
And she’s looking for the answers
That aren’t gonna come
From inside her battered heart
Til she turns her fears inside
And sees sometimes a free ride
Is not a free ride
She knows there’s more to passion
Once she had a taste
And when she overcomes the numbness
She’ll come face to face with herself
And let go of his heart
And the irony escapes her now
Cuz it’s just too much to bear
When she finally looks in the mirror now
There’s always someone else standing there
And they both deserve better now
But she’s got just so much to give
And only when she speaks her truth
Can they both let go and live
She knows there’s more to passion
Once she had a taste
And when she overcomes the numbness
She’ll come face to face with herself
And let go of his heart
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12. |
Dominic
04:05
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Dominic can fly. It’s all he talks about
Give him time. He’ll work it out
He knows you can go higher without falling
Cuz we all look up to something
Some of us get to look down
If you learn to fall slowly
You’ll land dancing on the ground
Dominic has plans everywhere you look
If you haven’t see them, you should
There’s a lot to know that doesn’t show you anything
Cuz we all look up to something
Don’t forget to look down
If we learn to fall slowly
We’ll land dancing on the ground
Dominic knows all your rules
And he’d never break anything he can’t improve
He sees your road and he’ll raise you it’s over-rated
All those damn wheels turn the same
He’s moving on and you can stay if you want to
But you should remember his name
Cuz we all look up to something
Don’t be afraid to look down
If you learn to fall slowly
You’ll land dancing on the ground
You’ll land dancing (…….…..…dance if you want to)
You’ll land dancing (…..see farther than you know)
You’ll land dancing (……………...learn to fall slowly)
You’ll land dancing on the ground.
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