B i o g r a p h y
 (by Fred Thomas)

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri and later relocating to Chicago, Illinois, indie folk singer/songwriter Angel Olsen began performing in St. Louis coffee shops in her teenage years, eventually branching out and tapping into a network of like-minded artists. Olsen worked with California musician Emmett Kelly as part of his collective the Cairo Gang, singing harmonies on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 2010 album The Wonder Show of the World, as well as its 2011 follow-up, Wolfroy Goes to Town. In 2010, Olsen released Strange Cacti, a cassette of original Americana songs that was later reissued as a 12", both with Bathetic Records. Half Way Home, a gorgeously spare album with understated arrangements and a homespun approach somewhere between '50s country crooners and her indie contemporaries, was issued with the same label in 2012. In early 2013, Olsen added drummer Josh Jaeger and bassist Stewart Bronaugh to flesh out her stripped-back sound, which added a brooding, garage rock appeal to her intimate music. Soon after forming the trio, Olsen returned to the studio with producer John Congleton to track sessions for her third album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which saw release in early 2014 via Jagjaguwar. The record was critically well-received and marked Olsen's debut on the Billboard 200. She expanded her sound still further for her fourth LP, My Woman, touring as a six-piece to support its release in the second half of 2016.




Half Way Home
- 2012-09-04 -



Acrobat
The Waiting
Safe in the Womb
Lonely Universe
Can'
t Wait Until Tomorrow
Always Half Strange
You Are Song
Miranda
The Sky Opened Up
Free
Tiniest Seed

Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- 2014-02-17 -



Unfucktheworld
Forgiven/Forgotten
Hi-Five
White Fire
High and Wild
Lights Out
Stars
Iota
Dance Slow Decades
Enemy
Windows

My Woman
- 2016-09-02 -



Intern
Never Be Mine
Shut Up Kiss Me
Give It Up
Not Gonna Kill You
Heart Shaped Face
Sister
Those Were The Days
Woman
Pops

Phases
- 2017-11-10 -



Fly On Your Wall
Special
Only With You
All Right Now
Sans
Sweet Dreams
California
Tougher Than The Rest
For You
How Many Disasters
May As Well
Endless Road

ALL MIRRORS
- 2019-10-04 -



Lark
All Mirrors
Too Easy
New Love Cassette
Spring
What It Is
Impasse
Tonight
Summer
Endgame
Chance

WHOLE NEW MESS
- 2020-08-28 -



Whole New Mess
Too Easy (Bigger Than Us)
(New Love) Cassette
(We Are All Mirrors)
(Summer Song)
Waving, Smiling
Tonight (Without You)
Lark Song
Impasse (Workin' For The Name)
Chance (Forever Love)
What It Is (What It Is)

BIG TIME
- 2022-06-03 -



All The Good Times
Big Time
Dream Thing
Ghost On
All The Flowers
Right Now
This Is How It Works
Go Home
Through The Fires
Chasing The Sun

Non Albums Tracks
- Misc -

Are You Alright
Attics of my life
Baby Don'
t go
Beware Of Darkness
California Paranoia
Creator, Destroyer
Drunk and with Dreams
Eyes Without A Face
Femme Fatale
Forever Means
Forever Young
Frisco Depot
Gloria
Greenville
Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)
Holding On
If It'
s Alive, It Will
If You Leave
Il Cielo In Una Stanza
Like I Used to
More Than This
Mr. Lonely
My Reverie
Nothing'
s Free
Safety Dance
Smaller
So That We Can Be Still
Some things Cosmic
Something On Your Mind
Stranger'
s Kiss
That's Alright
The Blacksmith
The Night Comes On
Time Bandits
Tiniest Lights

True Blue
Walls
White Water

Who's Sorry Now
Winter
Withered and Died

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Half Way Home

Acrobat

You are the crazy acrobat
You are the witch
I am your cat
I want to be a bit like you
I hope you don't mind
If I do

I love the way your body's made
I love the way your voice is sex
To be the whisper upon your ear
I want to be the bed you miss
I am alive
I am alive
I thought
I thought that I died
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Who cares, I'm not a moralist
I'm just a lady with some time
I want to be made out of love
I want to be made into life

I love the way you take a walk
And the all the things you see with your eyes
Oh, to be that distant thought
Some growing meaning in your mind

I am alive
I am alive
I thought that I died
I thought that I died

The Waiting

Here you come along
I take a breath and remind myself that I too can be strong
Thought I was cool, turns out I'm a fool
Clearly you've proved me wrong
I didn't know what I was missing when I was alone
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
And now I'm fruitlessly waiting for
Someone not thinking before they start rushing to my door
Someone to run not walk
Oh, someone to sing not talk
Oh, no hesitation at all
Sometimes I need you to be the one to call

Well I'm lost in my thoughts
They tumble ahead
Over and over again
Yes it's true

Just take a look at what's been done to me
I've wasted time to ponder
Here I am now all Alice in Wonder

Partly I do this to myself
But why can't you see
The gesture is small
But know that it means the world to me

Oh, forgive me for wanting, I'm only learning
I've forgiven myself now, there's no returning

I want to be the one who knows the best way
I want to be the one who knows the best way
I want to be the one who knows the best way to love you

But now I'm foolishly waiting for
Someone not thinking before they start rushing to my door
Someone to run not walk
Oh, someone to sing not talk
Oh, no hesitation at all
Sometimes I need you to be the one to call
I need you to be the one
I need you to be the one
I need you to be the one

Safe in the Womb

I was safe when I was in the womb
I was warm when I was wrestling to get out
Out of the flesh

And the sound of the world filled easily
And the eyes above watched eagerly
In the hopes of a name
In the hopes of a change

It was all bright clear
It was all bright clear
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Deep in the nest of an endless dream
When a stranger thought becomes of me
It can slowly turn my blood
Just as the rings around our ever burning sun
Eventually wilt a once freshly blooming bud

It was all bright, clear
Oh, it was all bright, clear

Subtlely shedding back the years
And after all we soon disappear
Yes, into the dark depths we all soon disappear
Out of this labyrinth that makes up our world
How do we ever know the light inside ourselves

To know that the skin that we wear is raw
That we can be anything if we know anything at all
Yes, we can be anything if we know anything at all

Bright, clear
And it was bright, clear

Lonely Universe

Your hands were cold
Your voice was shaking
One morning not too long ago
And at the time I was only a child
About to lose my child like mind

The way you touched my hands
Like you never had before
It wasn't you anymore
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I called for my brothers, I called for my sisters
But there was nothing left for them to do
And so I watched from far away as the ambulances came
And started dressing for school

Goodbye sweet mother-earth
Without you now I'm a lonely universe
You won't always understand
When you've truly loved someone
Until after they've gone

This time of year the nights fall longer
So grow a spine or catch cold
The winter months they do make you feel stronger
But in the end it's all getting old
And you won't always be walking the safest streets
But you can find your way home

If you have imagined your way back
Then my dear you're more than half way there
And you might only possess
What you've carried on your back
But you've always been free
Now it's time to believe

Time to give up that unforgiving act of altogetherness
And start living out your oldest childhood dreams
Well, losing your minds it ain't half as bad as it seems
And if you would take the risk
Well, it might be worth your time
It's only your life
It's only going by

Goodbye sweet mother-earth
Without you now I'm a lonely universe
You won't always understand
When you've truly loved someone
Until after they've gone

Can't Wait Until Tomorrow

I don't mind if I am completely lost when I'm with you
I am always somewhat found in the things that we do
Together I hope I can be somebody who shows you your heart
The way that it weighs upon my own

If only we could understand each other, I'd happily die
Oh, I don't care if I spend my whole life away
I'm gonna try to give to you all of the love that I've been shown before
Can't wait until tomorrow so that I can know you more
So that I can know you more
So that I can know you more
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
With all my life, all my might
Turn all my dark into light
Take all of the hate in my mind and put it aside
Put it aside

Always Half Strange

All the places I've known
And the faces I've seen
Over time are unseen and unknown

When you live in the dark
And you start to believe that everyone is asleep
In the same way that you are

Half life and half dream
And half crazy to believe in
Anything at all
I thought I knew it well
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
In my mind I knew well
What I wanted you to be
In this world I know the love
It never is what it is to me

And it's always half strange
To believe in anything
Halfway insane and halfway home in your arms

Always love
Always, always love
Always, always love
Always love
Always love
Always love
Like no other love
Like no other love
Like no other love I'd known
I'd known before

You Are Song

I thought surely I would not find it again
How I was wrong, it is as faithful as sin
This feeling that I belong to something in some way 'til the end

And I am making an effort to stay
With you here, it has been easy to say
That I would never lose sight
Of what my heart truly is

But the moment you step away
I am forced to look in and face
All the things that I have ever been without you
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
It is true at times one can see I am strong
I am not at home, yet I know where I belong
I am silence now, but I am always song
Can you hear me

I thought this time last year I'd be dead
It's quite strange the thoughts that pop into your head
When you're busy smiling surrounded by your closest of friends

It is impossible to escape the sound
Of the dark that is following around
But I just go for a walk in my mind
And the light can be found

And the moment I step away
You are forced to look in and face
All the things that you have ever been without me

It is true at times one can see you are strong
You are not at home, yet you know where you belong
You are silence now, but you are always song
I can hear you

Miranda

You have the right to remain silent
Anything you say or do
Will be held against you in a court of law
So don't be such a fool
No, don't be such a fool

Don't stand too close to me, darling
Keep your hands where I can see
Don't you know you're wanted in fifty states
I love you, dear, but it's not up to me
And it's never been quite been, you see
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
You are a statue, you are like a mountain
You're alive with many visions in your eyes
I understand your reason for lying
I don't condemn you for being so wise

You've only crossed the line that I'm standing beside
You've never held back before
What lover is waiting up for you tonight
Is she another in and out of your door
Was I another in and out of your door

Don't stand too close to me, darling
Keep your hands where I can see
Don't you know you're wanted in fifty states
I love you, dear, but it's not up to me
And it's never quite been, you see

And some of the things that you've said in my ear
As you open a door and casually smile

How I have wanted to scream out
All of the things out
All of the things that entered my mind

My friend, it's hard to see you
It's easier to leave you alone
There was a time when I needed you more

My friend, it's hard to see you
It's easier to leave you alone
There was a time when I needed you more

The Sky Opened Up

You've been on my mind
Guess it's about time
To see things just as they were
To see things just as they were

Left so much behind
The sky opened up and I climbed
To see things just as they are
To see things just as they are
And on my way back to the ground
I was appalled by what I had found
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
If you dare to be
True to what you believe
There's always somebody to lose
There's always somebody to lose

Even if you try
To pull all your feelings aside
There's always someone who will see
There's always someone who will see

And on my way back to the ground
I was surprised by what I had found

No one will ever be you for yourself
Even if the world is ready to help

If you give it some time
Out of the stranger you may find
Someone that hears what you mean
Someone that hears what you mean

These thoughts are easy to think
Easy to say
But when you're walking alone
Will you be okay

Left so much behind
The sky opened up and I climbed
To see things just as they are
To see things just as they are

And on my way back to the ground
I was appalled by what I had found

No one will ever be you for yourself
No one will ever be you for yourself

Free

Oh my God, I need you close
Took me enough time to know
And after all the things we've seen

Together, I can't let go
Together, I can't let go

Sometimes, I have to take you in my arms
Press your heart against my heart
Oh, you know each day it means a little more
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
If my love
If your love
If this love
Is pure love

Free
Love, nothing can come between
All I want is to believe
That there's no harm, it's what we need
There's no harm, it's what we need
There's no harm, it's what we need

Fear
Oh, gets the best of me at night
Where is the one who holds me tight
Can only reach him in my mind
Oh, my mind

Tiniest Seed

Where is my harmony
Where is my friend
Her voice I hear loud and clear
Only now in my head

When did the time become
Something that I feel
And now as I disappear
Someone else becomes real

As real as the smallest thought
Born into a child
It's known that the tiniest seed
Is both simple and wild

I wish you were here with me
But you're too far away
Standing beside me now
With nothing to say

I wish that somehow you knew
Just how much you mean
That I could be for you
What you are for me
What you are for me
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Where is my harmony
Where is my friend
Her voice I hear loud and clear
Only now in my head

When did the time become
Something that we feel
And now as we disappear
Something else becomes real

Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Unfucktheworld

I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you
I started dancing just to be around you
Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more
I kept my mouth shut and opened up the door
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I wanted nothing but for this to be the end
For this to never be a tight and empty hand
If all the trouble in my heart would only mend
I lost my dream, I lost my reason all again

It's not just me for you
I have to look out too
I have to save my life
I need some piece of mind

I am the only one now
I am the only one now
I am the only one now

You may not be around
You may not be around
You may not be around

I am the only one now
I am the only one now
I am the only one now
I am the only one now

Forgiven/Forgotten

All is forgiven
Alright, you are forgiven

If there's one thing I fear
If there's one thing I fear
It's knowing you're around
So close but not here

So close
Oh, but not with me here
So close
But not with me here

All is forgotten
All is forgotten
I've made up my mind
I've made up my mind
I've wasted my time
Making up my mind

I don't know anything
I don't know anything
I don't know anything
But I love you
Yes, I do
Yes, I do

Will you ever forgive me
A thousand times through
For loving you
For loving you
For loving you

Hi-Five

I feel so lonesome I could cry
But instead I'll pass the time
Sitting lonely with somebody lonely, too
Well, there's nothing in the world I'd rather do

Now tell me if you don't feel this way
But all I want, all I ever need
Is someone out there who believes

Sometimes
Believes
Not always
Believes
Sometimes
Believes
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Now we don't have to take it too extreme
We'll keep our hands, our legs, even our lips apart
But I'm giving you my heart
My heart
Are you giving me your heart
Your heart

Are you lonely too
Are you lonely too

High five
So am I
All of your life
Stuck inside
I'm stuck, too
I'm stuck with you
Do you believe
I do, I do, I do

White Fire

Everything is tragic
It all just falls apart
But when I look into your eyes
It pieces up my heart

If I only had an answer
To put it all to bed
I wish sometimes I could take back
Every word I've said

I walked back in the night alone, got caught up in my song
Forgot where I was sleeping, none of the lights were on
I heard my mother thinking me right back into my birth
I laughed so loud inside myself it all began to hurt

So I turned on a picture show and disappeared the lines
As memories came flooding in, the tears blew out my eyes

I see an elevator
A moment I am above
I look for you or someone
Who can still remind me of
The tight grip and the sun lick
And the calm weight of all things summer

When it's all here
And it's all new
And you're not hungover

Fierce and light and young
Fierce and light and young
When you don't know that you're wrong
Or just how wrong you are
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
My feet are always heavy as I inch toward the door
I thought we'd leave this for ourselves a hundred times before
But I guess we're always leaving even when we look the same
And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change

If you've still got some light in you then go before it's gone
Burn your fire for no witness it's the only way it's done

Fierce and light and young
Fierce and light and young
Hit the ground and run
Hit the ground and run

High and Wild

You're gone, you're gone
You're with me but you're gone
A feeling once so strong
Is now an old and forgotten song
That you don't sing so high and wild
You don't sing so high and wild

You're here, you're here
But your spirit's disappeared
Off to some place that I don't know
Some demon thing has squashed your soul
And I don't recognize you

I wish that this could turn our pain to bliss
And we could put our fears aside
And learn to laugh and be alive
And let our bodies be revived

But you can't say that you want me
What am I supposed to think that's the truth
Well, has it ever been easy for you
To stand behind the things that I do

I want for this to pass
For us to both say at last
That on this dark and narrow path
The sun is shining
And we remember what it is we're living for

I'm neither innocent or wise
When you look me in the eyes
You might as well be blind
You might as well be blind
'Cause you don't see me anymore
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
And you, you can't tell me that you love me
When I'm standing in your way
Well this would all be so much easier
If I had nothing more to say

Well this would all be so much easier
If I had nothing more to say
If only if only
I had nothing more to say
Oh if only if only
I had nothing more to say

Lights Out

If you don't feel good about it, then turn around
If you really mean it, baby stand your ground
No one's gonna take it for you, darling it's true
No one's gonna make it for you

If you feel like quitting now, then try a little harder
The things we need the most they seem to take a little longer
No one's gonna try it for you, darling no one
No one's gonna wait there with you

Just when you thought you would turn all your lights out, it shines
Some days all you need is one good thought strong in your mind

If you don't believe me, you can go ahead and laugh
If you've got a sense of humor, you're not so bad
No one's gonna hear it the same as it's said
No one's gonna listen to it straight from your head

If you feel like running out, then stay in one place
When you're still and when you run there's something to face
No one's gonna see your life through, there's no way
For anyone to know what you've see every day

If you don't feel good about it, then turn around
If you really mean it baby, stand your ground
No one's gonna take it for you, darling it's true
No one's gonna wait there with you
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Just when you thought you would turn all your lights out, it shines
Some days all you need is one good thought strong in your mind

Stars

I think you like to see me lose my mind
You treat me like a child I'm angry, blind
I feel so much at once that I could scream
I wish I had the voice of everything
I wish I had the voice of everything

To scream the animals, to scream the earth
To scream the stars out of our universe
To scream it all back into nothingness
To scream the feeling 'til there's nothing left
To scream the feeling 'til there's nothing left

I close my eyes
I close my eyes and try to breathe for a while
Well you can change my mind with just a smile
And just before I turn to leave, I think
"I could use the thoughts you've given me"
Oh, I could use the thoughts you've given me

To sing the animals to sing the earth
To sing the stars into our universe
To sing it all back into something new
To sing for life, for myself, and maybe you
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Wish I had the voice of everything, sometimes
Wish I had the voice of everything

I close my eyes
I close my eyes and try to breathe for a while
Oh, for a while
Oh, for a while
Oh

Iota

If only all our memories were one
We only had to blink, and it was done
If all the world could see it with one eye
In perfect color to the perfect sky

If only we could turn ourselves around
And all the things we're looking for were found
If only we grew wiser with each breath
If only we could dance our way to death

If only all our dreams were coming true
Maybe there'd be some time for me and you
If only all the world could sing along
In perfect rhythm to the perfect song
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
If only all our hopes were to be here
We just close our eyes when we want to disappear
If only all the love we needed was gained
If only we could always stay the same
If only we could always stay the same

We'd close our doors and then we'd go to bed
We'd never have to do it all again
There wouldn't be one thing to fight about
And time would turn our bodies inside out
And time would turn our bodies inside out

Dance Slow Decades

Thought I had a clue
It was passing by
Thought I had an answer
It was just a sigh
Thought I had a dream once
Don't remember why

Your voice cut straight through me
Right down to my bones
Like a winter's wind it
Knocked out my soul
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Thought I had some time here
Left my watch at home
Thought I had ideas once
They were all on loan

Thought I conquered something
Then it took me down
What I thought I heard clearly
It wasn't sound
Thought I felt your heart beat
It was just my counting
And to what thoughts will
My life be amounting

I can hear you crying
And I am crying, too
The world might be lying
But so are you

I can see you dancing
If you'd just take the step
You might still have it in you
Give yourself the benefit
And dance slow decades
Toward the sun
Even when you're the only one

Don't look around
It's not right
It's not wrong
Dance because you know the song
I dance because
I know this one

Enemy

I need advice it's true
But I won't hear it from you
I don't remember when
You last cared for the things I did

I wish I could believe
Apply all the sides you've seen
Well you could be the only one
Who knows the truth of me
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Am I the ugly one
It's easy to see past
All of the kindness that you've offered me
It doesn't last

It's just a thought I had
If I could show you how
I came to think this way
Maybe you'd understand me now

Sometimes our enemies
Are closer than we think
Sometimes the ones we trust
May have to give up listening

I wish it were the same
As it is in my mind
I'd like to learn a thing or two
Give me a reason why

Why am I not ashamed
While I am standing still
You want to move in me like you did before
But I've had my fill

You say your time has changed
That you have faced defeat
We may be older now
But is it changing anything

It could be in a way
We've learned to carry well
Oh how I wish I could
Remove this doubt I feel somehow

I want the best for you
So I won't look your way
Maybe the clouds will clear
And I'll be seeing you someday

I wish it were the same
As it is in my mind
I am lighter on my feet
When I've left some things behind

Windows

Won't you open a window sometime
What's so wrong with the light
What's so wrong with the light
The wind in your hair, the sun in your eyes

The light
The light

We throw our shadows down
We must throw our shadows down
We live and throw our shadows down
It's how we get around
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
In the sun
In the sun
Why can't you see
Why can't you see
Why can't you see

Are you blind
Are you blind
Are you blind
Are you dead, already
Are you alive
Are you alive

Won't you open a window sometime
Won't you open a window sometime
What's so wrong with the light
What's so wrong with the light
The wind in your hair, the sun in your eyes

What's so wrong with the light
What's so wrong with the light
What's so wrong with the light...

My Woman

Intern

Maybe you know that it's been too long
Going through the motions as you sing your song
Doesn't matter who you are or what you've done
Still got to wake up and be someone
Still got to wake up and be someone
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I don't care what the papers say
It's just another intern with a resumé
I'm gona fall in love with you someday
I'm gonna fall in love and run away
I'm gonna fall in love and run away

Everyone I know has got their own ideal
I just wanna be alive, make something real
Doesn't matter who you are or what you do
Something in the world will make a fool of you
Something in the world will make a fool of you

Pick up the phone but I swear it's the last time
Pick up the phone but I swear it's the last time
Falling in love and I swear it's the last time
Falling in love and I swear it's the last time

Never Be Mine

Coming from an endless place
Heaven hits me when I see your face
I go blind, every time

Hate to have to watch you go
Thought I'd been through this Lord knows
I've been trying and I'm still trying

You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine

You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine

But I would watch you
I would watch you
Turn and walk away

I would watch you
Look right through me
Right through every word that I say

He wants to know why
He wants to know why
I only want to know you

I want to tell him
I know the feeling
This time I swear that I do
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
But I would watch you
I would watch you
Turn and walk away

Yes, I would watch you
Learn to love you
And her, too, if you'd only stay

But you'll never be mine
You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine

You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine
You'll never be mine

He wants to know why
He wants to know why
I only want to know you

I want to tell him
I know the feeling
This time I swear that I do
This time I swear that I do
This time I swear that I do

But I will turn and walk away
I will watch you turn and walk away

Shut Up Kiss Me

I ain't hanging up this time
I ain't giving up tonight
Even if you walk around
As though you think you're right
At your worst you still believe
It's worth the fight

I can make it all go away
Tell me what you're thinking, don't delay
We could still be having some sweet memories
This heart still beats for you why can't you see

Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Stop your crying, it's alright
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Stop pretending I'm not there
When it's clear I'm not going anywhere
If I'm out of sight then take another look around
I'm still out there hoping to be found

Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Stop your crying, it's alright
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight

I could make it all disappear
You could feed me all of your fears
We could end all this pain right here
We could rewind all of those tears

I could take it down to the floor
You don't have to feel this anymore
Love so real that it can't be ignored
It's all over baby blue I'm still yours
I'm still yours

Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Stop your crying, it's alright
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight
Shut up kiss me, hold me tight

Give It Up

Hurts to be around you
I can't stand here lying
Whenever you're beside me
A part of me is dying

And every time I see you
I tell myself I'll never
Have this feeling with another
Oh, you're in my heart forever

What is it you think I need
Everything, it's not true
I'd give it all up for you
Give it all up for you
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Want to touch you
Show you how it feels
Whenever you're around
Take my time with you, my love

You're the one I'm thinking of
You're the one I'm thinking of
You're the one I really love

In my arms and fast asleep
In my arms and all my dreams
Where you are is where I want you
Where you are is where I want to
Where you are is where
I want to be
I want to be
I want to be

Not Gonna Kill You

My watch is blurry when I look down at my hands
I'm just another, alive with impossible plans
I'd turn the lights low but we both know where we are
And when it's over, what becomes of your pure heart
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
A love that never seems to curse or to confine
Will be forever never lost or too defined
To lose the feeling of an endless searching through-out
To help meet what is never about me or you
That is the kind of love I've always dreamed to be
However painful, let it break down all of me

'Til I am nothing else but the feeling
'Til I am nothing else but the feeling

Becoming true
Becoming true
Can't help feeling the way that I do
Can't help feeling the way that I do
Become a prophet
Become a fool

Or let the light shine in
Oh let the light shine in
Or let the light shine in
May the best of you win
Who is your truest friend
Are they there at your end
Oh let the light be bled
And let some tears be shed
Do it all over again
Oh let the light shine in

It's not gonna kill you, it's not gonna kill you
It's not gonna kill you, it's not gonna kill you
It's not gonna break you, it's just gonna shake you
Shake you alive
Baby
Oh, baby

Oh let the light shine in
Oh let the light shine in
Oh let the light shine in
May the best of you win

Heart Shaped Face

I've seen you changing
I've seen you changing

Was it me you were thinking of
All that time when you thought of me
Was it me you were thinking of
All that time when you thought of me

Or was it your mother
Or was it your shelter
Or was it another
With a heart shaped face
Got a heart shaped face
Was it a feeling you thought I could dig up or erase
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I've seen you changing
I've seen you aging

And I learn how to turn my head
And I learn how to walk away
And the truth never really lives
In a story of words we say

You never needed anyone
To expose you to yourself
And you never needed anyone
To raise you hell out of your mind
I never wanted to be someone
Who had to leave it all behind

Even still there is no escape
For what I face, I have faced before
Have whatever love you wanna have
But I can't be her anymore

There is nothing new
Under the sun
There is nothing new
Under the sun

Heartache ends
Heartache ends
Heartache ends
And begins again
And begins again
And begins again

Heartache ends
Heartache ends
Heartache ends
And begins
And begins
Begins

Sister

Saw it in her eyes
Oh, it wasn't what she said
She came together like a dream
That I didn't know I had

From the sleeping life I lead
All the colors I have seen
I can't help but recognise
A brighter one in front of me

All the truth I thought I learned
And then it finally came along
Turned around and then it's there
All the love I thought was gone
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I want to know you
I want to show you
I want to be there
I want to see how
Piece us together
Know it's forever
Show me the future
Tell me you'll be there
I want to go where
Nobody knows fear
I want to follow
My heart down that wild road

Everywhere I go
I can see your face
Alive and gone at once
That's the way I see this place

And all this blessing was a curse
Before I opened up my heart
You learn to take it as it comes
You fall together, fall apart

I want to know you
I want to show you
I want to be there
I want to see how
Live it through your eyes
Piece us together
Know that this wild road
Will go on forever
I want to live life
I want to die right

Next to you
Next to you
Next to you

All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change

All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change

All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change

All my life I thought had change
All my life I thought had change

Those Were The Days

Do you remember the way that it used to be
I waited for you
You kept on searching with me
Feeling free
Wanting to see each other all of the time
Those were the days
Nothing to lose and nothing to find
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I see how you're laughing with those you don't know as well
I hear you say I'm the one but I wish I could tell
And funny how time can make you realise and make you realise
And then realise

But I'll take all of it
Don't want to leave it behind
I'll take all of it
If it's only real in my mind
Real in my mind
Real in my mind

Will you ever
Will you ever know the same love that I've known
Will you ever
Will you ever know the same love that I've known
Will you ever
Will you ever know the same love that I've known
Love you, love you, love you
Even when it's all on my own
All on my own, all on my own

Do you remember the way that it used to be
I waited for you
And you kept on searching with me
Feeling free
Wanting to see each other all of the time
Those were the days
Nothing to lose and nothing to find

Woman

You can leave now if you want to
I'll still be around
This parade is almost over
And I'm still your clown

I've been thinking
How your smile seems to last forever
Even if it's just a while
We are there together
There together
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
With no promise of the future
Am I not allowed
To think kindly of a stranger
Who reflects the sound
Of my heartache
As it's beating
My life to the ground
To the ground
To the ground
To the ground
To the ground

And I could still breathe for you
Open up and scream for you
Tell me what I wouldn't do
Tell me that love isn't true
Tell me that love isn't true
Tell me that love isn't true

I dare you to understand
What makes me a woman
What makes me a woman
What makes me a woman

I'd do anything
To see it all
The way that you do

But I'd be lying
Baby
But I'd be lying to you

Pops

All those people, they don't see me
Baby, don't leave, please believe me
Couldn't love them if I tried to
No one understands me like you

I'm not playing anymore
I'm not playing anymore
Did all that before
I'm not playing anymore

Love of the chase
Love of love
What is it
My heart's made of

Don't you know you'll never have a part
Please don't start
It hurts to start
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Dreaming, dreaming
Falling again
Again, again

After it all ends
We'll be just like friends
"Hey, what was that passing us by"
"Hey, it was only something in my eyes"

You can go on home, you got what you need
Take my heart and put it up on your sleeve
Tear it up so they can all sing along
Live out your life
I'll never tell you you're wrong

Baby, don't forget, don't forget it's a song
I'll be the thing that lives in the dream when it's gone
I'll be the thing that lives in the dream when it's gone

Phases

Fly On Your Wall

At first it wasn't light
I went along for the ride
I was a fly on your wall
To see the height of it all

I found a feeling inside
Or should I say it found me
I'd send into someone
Never imagined I'd be

Now I just can't take it back
Or i do anything but that
To have the glimpse of the dream
The vivid memory

Our love never made it, it's still mine
Our love never made it, it's still mine
Our love never made it, it's still mine
If only real in my mind
If only real in my mind
If only real in my mind

Special

Want to be special, something like your mother
Want to be someone else, not me, but another
Right here in this moment, I wish I could reach you
I'm just a vessel, far away, I see you
Too many like us, run out of the steeple
Guess you could say I lost some faith in people

Want every thought to be golden or fire
I could be made out of truth, not some liar
Want to be tempered, sick to be tested
To see it all clearly, whenever it's rested
Want every lesson, the lessons they teach me
Someone who knows where I am, whenever they reach me

Give me a season, show me some reason
Love me whenever it's out of season
Want to be special, something like your mother
Want to be someone else, not me, but another
But now in this moment, I wish I could meet you
But I'm just a balloon, far away, I see you
I see you
I see you

I see you, and it's unclear
I need you to show you're here
Tell me, I'm nothing to fear
Tell me, I'm nothing, nothing

Only With You

 (Burn Your Fire For No Witness Bonus Track)

You can love, you can love, you can lose
When it all looks the same
You can love, you can love, you can lose
When you're tired of playing

Here I am, there you are
I don't know where we're going
Or where we have been
I look back when I know
It's not there where I left
Have to find it again
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Or the feeling I had when it had me
It was only with you
Here it is, there it goes
Was a force of its own just passing through

You can love, you can love, you can lose
When it all looks the same
You can love, you can love, you can lose
Even at your own game

You can look, you can look, you can see
What you wanted to see
All your life you've been looking
Whatever it is, you don't find it in me

All your life you've been looking
Whatever it is you don't find it in me
All your life you've been looking
Whatever it is you don't find it in me

You don't find it in me
You don't find it in me
You don't find it in me
You don't find it in me

All Right Now

 (Burn Your Fire For No Witness Bonus Track)

It's all here
Now, it's all here
Now, it's all here
Now, it's always been here

It's all right
Now, it's all right
Now, it's all right
Now, it's always been right

You do not have to leave
Or go out walking too
You do not have to reach out
To somebody new
You do not have to hold her
In your fingertips
It's always been there with you
You are what it is
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
And it's all right
Now, it's all right
Now, it's all right
Now, it's always been right
All right, all right
All right, all right

I hear you in my thoughts
I see you in my dreams
I know you're in my mind
And you are everything
Stay, and stay awhile
And still reminds
All be here
And start it

All right now
All right now
All right now
All right now
All right now
All right now
All right now

Sans

Time moves so strangely
When you're moving all the time
Can't wait to see you, baby
When it's over and you're mine

All we ever wanted
Was a heart that kept on trying
Searching for some magic
Freeze from the thought of dying

Well, I'm feeling kind of tired but I know it's for the best
Even when you're dreaming, you're not getting any rest
Grasping at the meaning of a love to call my own
Wish it were as easy as just picking up the phone

Time moves so strangely
When you're moving all the time
Can't wait to see you, baby
When it's all over and you're mine

All we ever wanted
Was a heart that kept on trying
Find ourself some magic
Freeze from the thought of dying

I'm feeling kind of tired but I know it's for the best
Even when you're dreaming, you're not getting any rest
In the darker hour when you're far away from home
Never sure exactly of the last time you were known

Wish it were as easy as just picking up the phone
Wish it were as easy as just picking up the phone

Time moves so strangely
When you're moving all the time
Can't wait to see you, baby
When it's over and you're mine
When it's over and you're mine
When it's over and you're mine

Sweet Dreams

(Sleepwalker EP)

Every time I close my eyes
Something small within me dies
Can't say if its dark or bright
But its all I've ever known
And when I sleep
I sleep alone
Alone
Alone
Every time I take a breath
Something once living inside me has left
Yes its alive but its just past through
Its just left me and its just left you
On your own
On your own
And I love you most
I love you most
When I first found love in my soul
And I'll give to you
Give it up to you
When i first find it in my self
And the time will come for everyone
For everyone to know
Yes the time will come for everyone
For everyone to go
And say goodbye
And say goodbye
And say goodbye
Sweet dreams
Sleep tight
Sleep tight

California

(Sleepwalker EP)

On the way to california
And I don't mean california literally
I was thinking, it's so comforting quiet
You read so softly over my head
It's late but I'm maintaining interest in the things that you say
I could listen to you speak all day
In the silence dripping wet with
Kisses running down my lips
Could be just a good friend
Who knows at this point anyway
There's just something about the way you surrender your eyes
Without this barrier of bodies, we'd already be inside
On the way to California
And I don't mean california literally
I was thinking, I was thinking, I'm not dreaming
Not this time anyway
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
I've got a feeling buried deep down inside of me
I've got a feeling buried deep down
And who knows what it means to have a feeling
Buried so deep down
But I've never felt quite so open for love
I've never felt quite so open before
And maybe my imagination runs away with me
You know I don't mind
You know I don't mind
You know I don't mind at all
Oh no... at all
And if should take me I'd let you break my heart
Oh no...
And if you should take me I'd let you break my heart
Oh... my heart
Oh... my heart

Tougher Than The Rest

(Bruce Springsteen)

Well it's Saturday night
You're all dressed up in blue
I been watching you awhile
Maybe you been watching me too

So somebody ran out
Left somebody's heart in a mess
Well if you're looking for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan
Or some good-lookin' Joe, on their arm
Some girls like a sweet-talkin' Romeo

Well 'round here baby
I learned you get what you can get
So if you're rough enough for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

The road is dark
And it's a thin thin line
But I want you to know I'll walk it for you any time
Maybe your other boyfriends
Couldn't pass the test
Well if you're rough and ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest

Well it ain't no secret
I've been around a time or two
Well I don't know baby maybe you've been around too
Well there's another dance
All you gotta do is say yes
And if you're rough and ready for love
Honey I'm tougher than the rest
If you're rough enough for love
Baby I'm tougher than the rest

For You

For you
I'd do anything for you, for you
There ain't nothing I wouldn't do for you
The stars were placed there for you, for you
Eternity flies on through and through for you
For you
For you

For you I'm cooked to you so rare
You are and someone's there to believe me
Never leave me
With you there's so many new things to be done

For you
With the tears in my eyes, for you
Happiness and love meets my cry, for you
Alone in my room for you
I'm brought out of the gloom
For you
For you

For you I'm cooked to you so rare
You are and someone's there to believe me
Never leave me
With you there's so many new things to be done

For you
With the tears in my eyes, for you
Happiness and love meets my cry, for you
Alone in my room for you
I'm brought out of the gloom
For you
For you
For you

How Many Disasters

Living out my life as though I knew how it was done
I have sat upon many a hillside in the sun
Same old feelings have their way of coming back around
Makes me wonder why I ever bother leaving town

All the time I was trying to be clever
Didn't know that I'd be loving you forever
All the years I spent chasing a meaning
How unfair to have a heart that's still beating
When I can't just love a moment that's fleeting
When I can't just love a moment that's fleeting

How many disasters will it take to make you smile
Haven't seen you laughing at yourself in quite a while
People that you love that never learn how to speak with
Sometimes what you don't gain is another kind of gift

All the time I was trying to be clever
Didn't know that I'd be loving you forever
All the years I spent chasing a meaning
How unfair to have a heart that's still beating
How unfair to have a heart that's still beating
How unfair to have a heart that's still beating

May As Well

 (Burn Your Fire For No Witness Bonus Track)

It may as well have been forgotten
Or did it simply slip your mind
Is that my heart that's splitting open
I guess it just fell to the side

I've tried my best to keep you smiling, love
Maybe it's been all in vain
But I would try a million times, my dear
Tell me would you do the same
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
One could say it's complicated, love
Like nothing they've seen before
Or simply that it is a thought we share
Forever it must be ignored

If you really love me, there's no way to tell
I'm always arriving when you say farewell
In all of my dreams we are husband and wife
I'll never forget you all of my life

I'll never forget you all of my life
I'll never forget you all of my life

Endless Road

 (Burn Your Fire For No Witness Bonus Track)

Well, every road I see
Leads away from me
There's not a single one
That leads me home
The road keeps saying "Friend
Come see what's round the bend"
So is it any wonder that I roam

All the places I have been
Keep calling me back again
Down in the pines
I hear the cold winds blow
My heart keeps telling me
"Footloose and fancy-free"
And the road goes by
And calls me as it goes
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
Well, maybe somewhere there's a someone
Waiting there with a smile
And maybe there'll be a place
To stop and rest awhile
And maybe you weren't meant to be
Just a rolling stone
And there's a road to travel on
That leads you back to home

Oh, but I'll keep travelling on
Keep looking at the dawn
Till I can lay this lonesome body down
And when that day has come
I nevermore will roam
And every road I see will lead me home

All Mirrors

Lark

To forget you is to lie, there is still so much left to recover
If only we could start again, pretending we don't know each other
I could not come back the same, this city's changed
It's not what it was back when you loved me
Walking down that path we made when we thought
What we had was such a good thing

Hiding out inside my head, it's me again
It's no surprise I'm on my own now
Every time I turn to you I see the past
It's all that lasts and all I know how
Learn to look me in the eyes
Yet I still don't feel it's me you're facing
Say your heart is always mine
What about old times, you can't erase them

Wishing we could only find one another
All we've done here is blind one another
Hate can't live in this heart here forever
Have to learn how to make it together

The way you scream like something else as a matter
The way you scream like something else as a matter
The way you scream like something else as a matter

Baby, I was there and I held him
I was there and he put it all on me
Baby, I was there and I held him
Right there where no one else could see
Took me into his arms
Told me that I was the reason
Told me that I was the woman
He'd always be losing, always be dreaming

Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on

They say you love
Every single part
What about my dreams
What about the heart
Trouble from the start
Trouble with the heart
Trouble with the heart

All Mirrors

I've been watching all of my past repeating
There's no ending, and when I stop pretending
See you standin', a million moments landing
On your smile, buried alive, I could have
Died to stay there, never have to leave there

All this trouble trying to catch right up with me
I keep moving, knowing someday that I will be
Standing, facing, all mirrors are erasing
Losing beauty, at least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me

Standing, facing, all mirrors are erasing
Losing beauty, at least at times it knew me
Standing, facing, all mirrors are erasing
Losin' beauty, at least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me
(At least at times it knew me)
(At least at times it knew me)
(At least at times it knew me)
(At least at times it knew me)

Too Easy

Anyway you want to, honey
Take me, show me how you want me
I believe all that you say
I can see it in the way

We are walking through together
It's too easy, almost never
One could make me laugh forever
I'd do anything for you
Oh, I'd do anything for you

Some things happen for a reason
Cancel all these plans I'm dreaming
Living for something that's real
You walked in and now I feel

I'm not alone, I'm not
The real truth of it all
Is that we haven't lost
After the weight, come down
I looked around and found something else
Something that was

I'm not alone, I'm not
The real truth of it all
Is that I haven't lost
After the weight, come down
I looked around and found something else
Something that was
Bigger than us
Bigger than us

New Love Cassette

I'm gonna help you see when you're hard to find
Gonna gather strength, give you all my mind
Wanna show you my love all the time
Wanna hold you close and let you lie

Gonna love you
True you

When you're out of touch and you don't know how
Gonna give you my hands, gonna show you now
I'm gonna show you love all of the time
Gonna be your breath when you're out of life

Love free
Take me

Love free
Take me

Love free
Take me

Spring

Don't take it for granted
Love when you have it
You might be looking over
A lonelier shoulder

Remember when we said
We'd never have children
I'm holding your baby
Now that we're older

How time has revealed how
Little we know us
I've been too busy
I should've noticed

Days that keep slipping
A life that I'm missing
I wish it were true love
I wish we were kissing

Show me a love that
Won't ever leave or
Look for another
One to deceive

I'm beginning to wonder
If anything's real
Guess we're just at the mercy
Of the way that we feel

Alive with a past
No other can share
Alone with a heart
No other can bear

So give me some heaven
Just for a while
Make me eternal
There in your smile

What It Is

It's easy when you're passionate
It's easy when you know your way around
It's easy when you love something
It's easy if you know exactly how

It's easy to openly say
Oh, that you could never change your mind
That feeling coming over you
It would never dare leave you behind

It's easy if you tell the truth
But knowing what it is, it's not enough
Knowing that you love someone
Doesn't mean you ever were in love

It's never easy to admit
That maybe you just wanted it
Just to feel something again
You just wanted to forget
That your heart was full of shit
You just wanted to forget
You just wanted to forget

It's easy when you're passionate
It's easy when you know your way around
It's easy when you love something
It's easy if you know exactly how

It's easy if you tell the truth
But knowing what it is, it's not enough
And knowing that you love someone
Doesn't mean you ever were in love

It's never easy to admit
That maybe you just wanted it
Just to feel something again
You just wanted to forget
That your heart was full of shit
You just wanted to forget
You just wanted to forget

Impasse

Go on, on ahead, tell your friends I was wrong
Take it all out on me, I'm too caught up to see
Everyone will believe, will believe, you will believe
Say what you want, what you need, break it down
Take what's left, and get out, tell them what it's about

You know best, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now

You think this is what I wanted when I said
I'm just living in my head
I'm just living in my
I'm just working for the name

I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone
(I didn't)

I'm just living in my head
I'm just living in my head
I'm just working for the name
I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone

Tonight

I like the air that I breathe
I like the thoughts that I think
I like the life that I lead

Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you

Like how it's all coming clear
All the words that I hear
Like how I’m not in fear

Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you

And it's not because I don't love
Just don’t have time to explain
All the things you think you've come to understand

About me
About me
About me
About me

Summer

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Kept climbing till one day I looked back
I was so high, I couldn't think to land

And in one moment I was blown away
And there was nothing left that I could say or do

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Lost the light, but there the sun was shining
Couldn't hide it and I wasn't trying

And all those people I thought knew me well
After all that time, they couldn't tell
How I lost my soul was just a shell
There was nothing left that I could lose

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Lost the light, but there the sun was shining
Couldn't hide it and I wasn't trying

Without becoming what I had to be
Without the truth I was suppose to see
I may have never found my way to you
And all those summer days were like a dream
Woke me from a restless sleep
Made me quiet, had me weak
And all the weight of all the world came rushing through

Endgame

I needed more, needed more than love from you
I needed more, needed you to, to be with me
I wrote it out, wrote it out so you might stay
I wrote it out, wrote it down, so we could play

There in your eyes, how many times, can a heart go back
It's in the life that we made, we put it all on track
For everyone else to see, bigger than ourselves
Made it all, did the dance, came out through this hell

I needed more, needed more than love from you
I needed more, needed you to be with me
We made a deal, made a dream, made it real, you see
Made a life, made a scene, made up everything

Life carries on just like a song I sing, but I don't know
I walk away from all the noise and I'm on my own
I don't know how to speak with you, I'd rather be alone
But somehow whenever I do, I wonder why so long

I needed more needed more than love from you
I needed more, needed you to be with me

Chance

What is it you think I need
Maybe it's too hard to see
I don't want it all
I've had enough
I don't want it all
I've had a love
Worst feeling I've ever had is gone
It's gone
I know how it all comes back, I know too well
Now I'm done

I'm leaving once again
Making my own plans
I'm not looking for the answer
Or anything that lasts

I just want to see some beauty
Try and understand
If we got to know each other
How rare is that

All that space in between where we stand
Could be our chance
Could be our chance

I'm walking through the scenes
I'm saying all the lines
I wish I could unsee some things that gave me life
I wish I could un-know some things that told me so
I wish I could believe all that's been promised me

It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far
It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far

It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far
Why don't you say you're with me now
With all of your heart
With all of your heart
With all of your heart

Whole New Mess

Whole New Mess

Won't be long now before it's really showing
It's every season where it is I'm going
I stretch my bones out on the floor
I think I'll really do the change
Oh I'll really do the change, really do the change
Back home

Getting back on track
Getting back on track
When it all fades to black
I'll be getting back on track
Back to my own head
Cleared out 'til the time comes

Make a whole new mess again
Make a whole new mess again
Make a whole new mess
Make a whole new mess
Make a whole new mess again
Make a whole new mess
Celebrate the best
Take a photo for the press again

It won't be long before it's really showing
It's every season where it is I'm going
I stretch my bones out on the floor
I think I'll really do the change
Oh I'll really do the change, really do the change
Back home

Too Easy (Bigger Than Us)

Anyway you want to, honey
Take me, show me how you want me
I believe all that you say
I can see it in the way

We are walking through together
It's too easy, almost never
One could make me laugh forever
I'd do anything for you
Oh, I'd do anything for you

Some things happen for a reason
Cancel all these plans I'm dreaming
Living for something that's real
You walked in and now I feel

I'm not alone, I'm not
The real truth of it all
Is that we haven't lost
After the weight, come down
I looked around and found something else
Something that was

I'm not alone, I'm not
The real truth of it all
Is that I haven't lost
After the weight, come down
I looked around and found something else
Something that was
Bigger than us
Bigger than us

(New Love) Cassette

I'm gonna help you see when you're hard to find
Gonna gather strength, give you all my mind
Wanna show you my love all the time
Wanna hold you close and let you lie

Gonna love you
True you

When you're out of touch and you don't know how
Gonna give you my hands, gonna show you now
I'm gonna show you love all of the time
Gonna be your breath when you're out of life

Love free
Take me

Love free
Take me

(We Are All Mirrors)

I've been watching all of my past repeating
There's no ending, and when I stop pretending
See you standin', a million moments landing
On your smile, buried alive, I could have
Died to stay there, never have to leave there

All this trouble trying to catch right up with me
I keep moving, knowing someday that I will be
Standing, facing, all mirrors are erasing
Losing beauty, at least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me
At least at times it knew me

(Summer Song)

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Kept climbing till one day I looked back
I was so high, I couldn't think to land

And in one moment I was blown away
And there was nothing left that I could say or do

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Lost the light, but there the sun was shining
Couldn't hide it and I wasn't trying

And all those people I thought knew me well
After all that time, they couldn't tell
How I lost my soul was just a shell
Just a friend of mine and myself
There was nothing left that I could lose

Took a while, but I made it through
If I could show you the hell I'd been to
Without becoming what I had to be
Without the truth I was suppose to see
I may have never found my way to you

And all those things that I was meant to feel
It doesn't matter if they're right or real
My heart was still split in two

And all those summer days were like a dream
Woke me from a restless sleep
Made me quiet, had me weak
And all the weight of all the world came rushing through

Waving, Smiling

Found me down
Then, honey, you left me down
Turned right around
Now, baby, I'm rising

How could you know
Wherever a heart should go
You're on your own
When you are arriving

I've made my bed
I've laid out all those tears
I've made my bed
Made up of all my fears
All my fears
Cried out all of those years
Cried out all of those years
Now, baby, I'm lying

Laid out and smiling
Look out my window
The sun is shining
The sun is shining

I'm waving, smiling
At love forever
Alive and dying
I'm waving, smiling
I'm waving, smiling
At love forever
Alive and dying
The sun is shining
The sun is shining

Tonight (Without You)

I like the air that I breathe
I like the thoughts that I think
I like the life that I lead

Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you

Like how it's all coming clear
All the words that I hear
Like how I'm not in fear

Without you
Without you
Without you
Without you

And it's not because I don't love
Just don't have time to explain
All the things you think you've come to understand

About me
About me
About me
About me

Lark Song

To forget you is to lie, there is still so much left to recover
If only we could start again, pretending we don't know each other
I could not come back the same, this city's changed
It's not what it was back when you loved me
Walking down the path we made when we thought
What we had was such a good thing

Hiding out inside my head, it's me again
It's no surprise I'm on my own now
Every time I turn to you I see the past
It's all that lasts and all I know how

Wishing we could only find one another
All we've done here is blind one another
Hate can't live in this heart here forever
Have to learn how to make it together

Have to learn how to make it together
The way you scream like something else as a matter
The way you scream like something else as a matter
The way you scream like something else as a matter

Baby, I was there and I held him
I was there and he put it all on me
Baby, I was there and I held him
Right there where no one else could see
Took me into his arms
Told me that I was the reason
Told me that I was the woman
He'd always be losing, always be dreaming

Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on, dream on

They say you love
Every single part
What about my dreams
What about the heart
Trouble from the start
Trouble with the heart
Trouble with the heart

And they're pretty when they're singing
And they're pretty when they're singing
When they're singing
Crying in the dark
Crying in the dark
But I don't know why
But I don't know why
But I don't know why

But I don't know why
But I don't know why
But I don't know why
But I don't know why

Impasse (Workin' For The Name)

Go on, on ahead, tell your friends I was wrong
Take it all out on me, I'm too caught up to see
Everyone will believe, will believe, will believe
Say what you want, what you need, break it down
Take what's left, and get out, tell them what it's about

You know best, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now
Don't you now, don't you now

You think this is what I wanted when I said
I'm just living in my head
I'm just living in my head
I'm just working for the name

I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone

I'm just living in my head
I'm just living in my head
I'm just working for the name
I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone
I never lost anyone

Chance (Forever Love)

What is it you think I need
Maybe it's too hard to see
I don't want it all
I've had enough
I don't want it all
I've had a love
Worst feeling I've ever had is gone
It's gone
I know how it all comes back, I know too well
Now I'm done

I'm leaving once again
Making my own plan
I'm not looking for the answer
Or anything that lasts

I just want to see some beauty
Try and understand
If we got to know each other
How rare is that

All that space in between where we stand
Could be our chance
Could be our chance

I'm walking through the scenes
I'm saying all the lines
I wish I could unsee some things that gave me life
I wish I could un-know some things that told me so
I wish I could believe all that's been promised me

It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far
It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far

It's hard to say forever love
Forever is just so far
Why don't you say you're with me now
With all of your heart
With all of your heart
With all of your heart
With all of your heart
With all of your heart

What It Is (What It Is)

It's easy when you're passionate
It's easy when you know your way around
It's easy when you love something
It's easy when you know exactly how

It's easy to openly say
Oh, that you could never change your mind
That feeling coming over you
It would never dare leave you behind

It's easy if you tell the truth
Knowing what it is, it's not enough
And knowing that you love someone
Doesn't mean you ever were in love

It's never easy to admit
Maybe you just wanted it
Just to feel something again
You just wanted to forget
That your heart was full of shit
You just wanted to forget
You just wanted to forget

It's easy when you're passionate
It's easy when you know your way around
It's easy when you love something
It's easy if you know exactly how

It's easy if you tell the truth
Knowing what it is, it's not enough
And knowing that you love someone
Doesn't mean you ever were in love

Big Time

All The Good Times

I can't say that I'm sorry
When I don't feel so wrong anymore
I can't tell you I'm trying
When there's nothing left here to try for
And I don't know how it happened
We've both abandoned
The reason we used to believe

Was it love that we shared
When we easily cared
Now it's impossible to conceive
I don't know who can see you
If you've ever learned how to let someone in

Well, I've tried to come find you
But I just don't know where to begin
If you've ever been open
There's no way of knowing
With the way that knowing you has been
Was it always so broken
If these thoughts were spoken
Would it bring us together again

I can't say that I'm sorry
When I don't feel so wrong anymore
I can't tell you I'm trying
When there's nothing left here to try for

Well, I won't be the one to keep holding you back
If there's something you're missing then go right ahead
I'll be long gone, thanks for the songs
Guess it's time to wake up from the trip we've been on
So long, farewell, this is the end
And I'll always remember you just like a friend
And the way that you said
As heavy as lead
Oh you've always known how to get straight to my head
"Thanks for the free ride and all of the good times"
"Thanks for the free ride and all of the good times"

Big Time

Good-morning kisses giving you all mine
Pull back the curtains, show me the sunshine
Needing this coffee, needing some nature
Need it right now, it can't wait until later
We're always busy, baby, not this time
Lay in the tall grass, talking with your eyes
Talking with your eyes before we knew we were
Thinking the same things, I'm a believer

And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big time, I'm loving you more

Take to the lake playing "Lady in red"
Hanging onto every word that you said
Staying up all night out by the fire
Singing your songs now, you know I'm a crier

And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big time, I'm loving you more

And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big time, I'm loving you more
And I'm loving you big time
And I'm loving you big time

And I'm loving you big time
I'm loving you big time

Dream Thing

I had a dream last night
We were having a fight
It lasted twenty-five years
It was a waste of fears

Then I ran into you
And you just smiled at me
Said, "I love the new suit you're wearing"
Whatever that means

I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become
I was hoping to talk some
Music had already begun

I never thought that you
Wouldn't be able to
Put it all behind
I guess I was blind

Are you all the same
Bitter 'til the end
Did all you asked of me
And I was just a kid

I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become
I was hoping to talk some
Music had already begun

I was searching my mind for
The words to that Black Captain song
I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become

I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become
I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become
I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become
I was looking at old you
Looking at who you've become

Ghost On

Tell me how I should feel
How can this heart learn how to heal
When should I believe the things you say
You change your mind from day to day

And I don't know if you can take such a good thing coming to you
And I don't know if you can love someone stronger than you're used to

I know I have my own remorse
I often overthink, of course
The past is with us, it plays a part
How can we change it, how do we start

'Cause I don't know if you can take such a good thing coming to you
And I don't know if you can love someone stronger than what suits you
And I can't fit into the past that you're used to, I refuse to
I don't know if you can take such a good thing coming to you

All The Flowers

Never thought the day would come
When I would find someone
To love me only
To love me only

Thought I'd try to settle down
I'd stay close to the ground
I'd spend the hours counting all the flowers

I'll be gone so fast, I'll fly
Across the midnight sky
Arrived or leaving
You can bet I'm dreaming
You can bet I'm dreaming

I've been spending too much time
Searching in vain, to find
The only reason
The only reason

To be alive
To be alive, to try
To be somebody
To be somebody

To be alive
And with another
And with another
To be alive
To be alive

Right Now

It's time to let it go
You say you understand
Some truth is never known
Until you've lost your hand
Until you've had to fight
And waited through the night
You won't know if it's real
Until you have to deal

Why'd you have to go and make it weird
Saying things you think I need to hear
I don't need to know what makes it last
You can slow down, I ain't going fast
All those days are done

We all know that it's hard
Hard to stay forever
But I'm telling you right now
If we're apart or here together
I need to be myself
I won't live another lie
About the feelings that I have
I won't be with you and hide

Why'd you have to go and make it weird
Saying things you think I need to hear
I don't need to know what makes it last
You can slow down, I ain't going fast
All those days are done
All those times are gone
I'm telling you
All those times are gone
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I need you to look at me and listen
I ain't the past coming back to haunt you

I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now
I'm telling you right now, right now

This Is How It Works

I've never been too sad
So sad that I couldn't share
When you can't find the words
Guess it's time to listen
Took a lot to get me here

Staring out at the walls
Is there somebody that I can call
Someone who knows where I am
Someone who knows how it's been

I know you can't talk long
But I'm barely hanging on
I'm so tired of telling you
It's a hard time again
It's a hard time again
Tell me something good
Pull me out from what I'm in

Take it one day at a time
I'm moving everything around
I won't get attached to the way that it was
This is how it works for me now
This is how it works for me now

I know you can't talk long
But I'm barely hanging on
And I'm so tired of saying I'm tired
It's a hard time again
It's a hard time again
Tell me a story that'll make me forget
It's a hard time again

Tell me something good

Go Home

The world is changing
You can't reverse it
The truth is with you
You can't rehearse it

Pretend to know it
It's time to live it
That's how you show it
Baby, we're in it

I want to go home
Go back to small things
I don't belong here
Nobody knows me

How can I go on
With all those old dreams
I am the ghost now
Living those old scenes

We watched it all burn down and did nothing, nothing
Why does it come to this to mean something, to mean something
We watched it all burn down and did nothing, nothing
Why does it come to this to mean something, to mean something

I feel like someone else
But I'm still trying
Trying, trying
I'm dancing, baby
But I feel like dying

Dying to find out
If we can't make it
I hope you show up
In time to face it

I want to go home
Go back to small things
I don't belong here
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me
Nobody knows me

I am the ghost now
Walking those old scenes
How can I go on

Forget the old dream
I got a new thing
I got a new thing

Through The Fires

I lost sight
Then I made up my mind
To learn to release
The dreams that had died

In spite of the sound
Of what I had heard
To recognize truth
Without any word

I felt the change
And it came back around
Then I moved in
To the feeling I found

And the feeling I found
Showed me how I could lose
To love without boundary
And put it to use

To remember the ghost
Who exists in the past
But be freed from the longing
For one moment to last

And walk through the fires
Walk through the fires
Walk through the fires
Walk through the fires

And walk through the fires
Of all earthly desires
And let go of the pain
That obstructs you from higher

Higher, higher, higher, higher
Lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter

Chasing The Sun

Chasing the sun
Chasing the sun for you
Spending the day
Driving away the blues
And there's nothing like
Losing track of the time
Who's counting, winding around
Are we up, are we down the mountain

Write a postcard to you
When you're in the other room
Just writing to say that I can't find my clothes
If you're looking for something to do

Drop everything I'm doing
Nobody needs me here
I'll go wherever you are going
I'll be somewhere near

I can't seem to get anything done
With someone like you around
Everyone's wondered where I've gone
Having too much fun, having too much fun
Doing nothing, doing nothing
Busy doing, doing nothing
Busy doing, busy doing
Doing nothing

Chasing the sun
Chasing the sun for you
Spending the day
Driving away the blues
Driving away, driving away
Driving away the blues
Driving away, driving away
Driving away the blues
Driving away, driving away
Driving away the blues

Non Albums Tracks

Are You Alright

(Lucinda Williams cover / Live at home)

Are you all right
All of a sudden you went away
Are you all right
I hope you come back around someday
Are you all right
I haven't seen you in a real long time
Are you all right
Could you give me some kind of sign
Are you all right

Are you all right
Are you all right
I looked around me and you were gone
Are you all right
I feel like there must be something wrong
Are you all right
'Cause it seems like you disappeared
Are you all right
I've been feeling a little scared
Are you all right

Are you all right
Are you sleeping through the night
Do you have someone to hold you tight
Do you have someone to hang out with
Do you have someone to hug and kiss you
Hug and kiss you
Hug and kiss you

Are you all right
Is there something been bothering you
Are you all right
I wish you'd give me a little clue
Are you all right
Is there something you want to say
Are you all right
Just tell me that you're okay
Are you all right

Are you all right
Are you all right
You flew away like a little bird
Are you all right
'Cause you took off without a word
Are you all right
Is there anything I can do
Are you all right
'Cause I need to hear from you
Are you all right

Are you all right
Are you all right
Are you all right
Are you all right
Are you all right
Are you all right
Are you all right

Attics Of My Life

(Day Of The Dead LP)

In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see
When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me

I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune and closed my eyes to see
When there was no strings to play, you played to me

In the secret space of dreams, where I dream and lay amazed
When the secrets all are told and the petals all unfold
When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me

Baby Don't Go

(Sonny & Cher cover / Jim James & Angel Olsen / Live at Brooklyn Steel, 2018-05-20)

Baby, don't go
Pretty baby, please, don't go

I never had a mother
I hardly knew my dad
I've been in town for eighteen years
You're the only boy I've had
I can't stay
Maybe I'll be back some day

Baby, don't go
Pretty baby, please, don't go
I love you so
Pretty baby, please, don't go

I never had no money
I bought at the second hand store
The way this old town looks at me
I just can't take it no more
And I can't stay
I'm gonna be a lady some day

Baby, don't go
Pretty baby, please, don't go
I love you so
Pretty baby, please, don't go

When I get to the city
My tears will all be dry
My eyes will look so pretty
No one's gonna know I cried
I'm going away
Maybe I'll be back some day

Baby, don't go
Pretty baby, please, don't go
I love you so
Pretty baby, please, don't go

Beware Of Darkness

(George Harrison cover / Live at home)

Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers

Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness

Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night

Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for

Watch out now, take care
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness

California Paranoia

(Lawrence Rothman feat. Angel Olsen / The Book Of Law LP)

You painted it on my wall
Didn't want me to see it all
Covered it with your parasol
But it never rains in L.A.

What are you hiding from me
In this house of lucks
Punched a hole right through our wall
And saw the picture that was there before

Stuck in California paranoia
California paranoia
what would you do
what would you do
How could you blame me for my California paranoia

This gift of pain is worrisome
Liked it more when I was done
Now I can see the end of the girl
And the beginning of the world

Stuck in California paranoia
California paranoia
What would you do
What would you do
What would you do
How could you blame me for my California paranoia
California paranoia

She'll never grow
Until ?

Stuck in California paranoia
Stuck in California paranoia
What would you do
What would you do
What would you do
What would you do

Creator, Destroyer

(Strange Cacti EP)

I watch from a tower in the back of my mind
I watch from a window as the living walk by
Down below
Walking with quiet dreams
Walking out quiet day
And in my head
I might be sorry it makes no difference now
I might be wishing I had some place to go
Hit the streets
Out in search for the self that has left me lying
And I never seem to notice
It's too late before I know that all
The love inside has been empty
The world we made has been ending
And like a ghost that hangs around and won't forgive its earthly sins
I've carried on this love for you
It's how my body lives
My darling
How are you
How have you been lately
I only seem to speak to you of superficial things
Creator, you destroy me
You know my hunger well
And yet you starve me
Until I'm begging on my knees
And these are a few of very many things
I can't begin to say out loud
If only this song could carry us on
But I know I'm only entertaining myself
I felt that even after I've been stripped of all my pride
There still remains a place for you to crawl up inside
To crawl up inside
To crawl up inside
And I'm out of my mind
Out of my mind
Murderous bitch I'm out of my mind
I'm out of my mind
To be in love with you
The way that I'm in love with you
The way that I'm in love with you
Fuck this and everything we've done
Fuck you
Fuck you and your lies

Drunk and with Dreams

(Strange Cacti EP)

Someone has got to go on believing
Someone has got to speak of a feeling
Someone has got to Let down their guard
For someone
And I'll be the one, be the one
I do not mind
And if you should touch me know that I made
That I'm made of fire
Drunk and with dreams I'm lost out at sea
With my only map I have memories
How else do you suggest I get back to that place
With only one memory I've ever seen
It's face
Though I keep it alive
Like a bell underwater
Rings in my head and as long as it's ringing
It was once said, It was once said
I'll be the one be the one I do not mind
And if you should touch me know that I made
That I made up that I made up my mind
Oh lift me up oh lift me up lift me up just to bury me under
Lift me up oh lift me up lift me up just to bury me under

Eyes Without A Face

(Billy Idol cover / Aisles EP)

I'm all out of hope
One more bad dream
Could bring a fall
When I'm far from home
Don't call me on the phone
To tell me you're alone
It's easy to deceive
It's easy to tease
But hard to get release

(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
You're eyes without a face

I spend so much time
Believing all the lies
To keep the dream alive
Oh now it makes me sad
It makes me mad at truth
For loving what was you

(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
You're eyes without a face

Don't tell me you're alone
Don't call me on the phone
Don't tell me you're alone
Don't tell me you're alone
Don't tell me you're alone
Don't tell me you're alone
Don't call me on the phone
Phone

Now I close my eyes
And I wonder why
I don't despise
Now all I can do
Is love what was once
So alive and new
But it's gone from your eyes
I'd better realise

(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
(Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
You're eyes without a face
Such a human waste
You're eyes without a face

Femme Fatale

(Velvet Underground cover / Sharon Van Etten feat. Angel Olsen / I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico LP)

Here she comes
You'd better watch your step
She's going to break your heart in two
It's true

It's not hard to realize
Just look into her false-colored eyes
She'll build you up to just put you down
What a clown

'Cause everybody knows
She's a femme fatale
The things she does to please
She's a femme fatale
She's just a little tease
She's a femme fatale
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks

You're even in her book
You're number thirty-seven, have a look
She's going to smile to make you frown
What a clown

Little boy, she's from the street
Before you try, you're already beat
She's going to play you for a fool
Yeah it's true

'Cause everybody knows
She's a femme fatale
The things she does to please
She's a femme fatale
She's just a little tease
She's a femme fatale
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks

'Cause everybody knows
She's a femme fatale
The things she does to please
She's a femme fatale
She's just a little tease
She's a femme fatale
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Forever Means

(Forever Means EP)

Come to find out I said those things
Knowing they may not be true
Spent all this time telling myself
How to believe in you
Forget all I said, just look at the way
We are when we're there together
Each moment arrives and then disappears
But the searching goes on
Forever

Forever means always looking
Forever means trying to see
Forever means saying what's on your mind
Forevеr means always trying to find
Forever mеans make sure, take your time
Forever in your eyes
Forever in your eyes
I see you when you shine
I see you when you shine
Forever in your eyes
Forever in my mind

Forever Young

(Alphaville cover / Aisles EP)

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power, but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad man

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad man

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young

It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever

Frisco Depot

(Mickey Newbury cover / Angel Olsen & Marissa Nadler)

Frisco's a full day from home
When you can afford to fly
But it might as well be the moon
When you're as broke as I

Here I sit with my head in my hands
And watch the trains roll by
Lord, the helping hand mission man warned me
That the nights here got cold

When you're cold
There's nothing as welcome as sunshine
When you're dry
There's nothing as welcome as rain

When you're alone
There's nothing no slower than passing time
When you're afoot
There's nothing as fast as a train

Guess Frisco's a mighty rich town
Now that ain't no lie
What they've got some buildings
That reach a mile into the sky

Yet no one can even afford
The time just to tell me why
There's this world full of people
And so many people alone

'Cause when you're alone
You ain't got much reason for living
But while you're alive
You just gotta live with your pain

Unless you've been wrong for so long
There's no one left forgiving
Then you find yourself searching your past
For the links to the chain

Gloria

(Umberto Tozzi cover / Aisles EP)

Gloria
Gloria

Gloria
You're always on the run now
Running after somebody
You gotta get them somehow
I think you've got to slow down
Before you start to blow it
I think you're headed for a breakdown
So be careful not to show it

You really don't remember
Was it something that they said
Are the voices in your head
Calling Gloria

Gloria
Don't you think you're falling
If everybody wants you
Why isn't anybody calling
You don't have to answer
Leave 'em hanging on the line
Calling Gloria

Gloria
I think they got your number
I think they got the alias
That you've been living under
But you really don't remember
Was it something that they said
Are the voices in your head
Calling Gloria

Gloria
How's it gonna go down
Will you meet them on the main line
Will you catch 'em on the rebound
Will you marry for the money
Take a lover in the afternoon
Feel your innocence slipping away
Don't believe it's coming back soon

You don't have to answer
Leave 'em hanging on the line
Calling Gloria
Calling Gloria
Gloria

Greenville

(Lucinda Williams cover)

Don't wanna see you again or hold your hand
'Cause you don't really love me, you're not my man
You're not my man, oh you're not my man
Go back to Greenville, just go on back to Greenville

You scream and shout and you make a scene
When you open your mouth you never say what you mean
Say what you mean, oh say what you mean
Go back to Greenville, just go on back to Greenville

Empty bottles, broken glass
Busted down doors, borrowed cash
Borrowed cash, oh borrowed cash
Go back to Greenville, just go on back to Greenville

Looking for someone to save you
Looking for someone to rave about you
To rave about you, oh to rave about you
Go back to Greenville, just go on back to Greenville
Go back to Greenville, just go on back to Greenville

Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)

(Hamilton Leithauser feat. Angel Olsen)

Unwind your watch
Shut your eyes a minute
'Cause your heart killed mine
But now I close the distance

Wild hunger
Strikes into me
Rise up with a crash

Last night, our kiss
Kept haunting me, kept me hoping
Still with a thousand miles
My heart was always open

Wild hunger
Strikes hold of me
Rise up with a crash
Wild hunger
Wild hunger

No more, you to hide behind
No love was gonna kept your knife
Onwards from all your songs, don't
Reach me now 'cause I'm sworn 'em off
But they're coming out and they keep me out

Wild hunger
Strikes into me
Rise up with a crash

Wild hunger
Wild hunger
Rise up with a crash

Wild hunger
Wild hunger
Rise up with a crash

Wild hunger

Holding On

(Forever Means EP)

How long
Have you been standing there
Tell me
How much did you see
You held me in your arms
Were you holding me

Holding on
Holding on
To all your dreams
Holding on
Holding on
To all your dreams

Well, we've both said
Some rotten things
And I hope you
Know what it means

Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to me
Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to me

How long
Have you been standing there
Tell me
How much did you see
You held me in your arms
Were you holding me

Holding on
Holding on
To all your dreams
Holding on
Holding on
To all your dreams

Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to me
Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to mе
Now you're gone
Now you're gonе and I can see

Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to me
Couldn't see the light
Couldn't see the light you brought to me

Now it's gone
Now it's gone
It's all I see
It's all I see

If It's Alive, It Will

(Strange Cacti EP)

My friend, you are unique but not always
Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain
Some stranger out there might even own your name
And say all the things that you said
Your thoughts existing in someone else's head

It's true you are one of my favorite books to read
I have to thank you now
You've changed the way I think
And with each page I turn, there you are
And with each word I read
Rings true in my heart
While I was waiting
I found something I was missing
Might not have been a man, but well
We still could live on wishing
Please don't confuse me
With your devastating stare-downs
I'll hold your mirror
All you have to do is turn around
So you can see the face you make
When are giving out your soul
Are you the only one who doesn't already know

I used to think I was the only one
I used to think I was the only one
I used to think I was the only one
But I've learned quite a few things since then
I've learned that no one really is the only one
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
My friend, if it's alive, it will do anything
And if it's strong as well, believe it will go there
And if it's full of love, know it is capable of
Emptying itself out at any point at all
Just know the height you reach is the distance you could fall
Know your own heart well
It's the one that's worth most of your time
Know your own heart well
You could be surprised at what you find

My friend, you are unique but not always
Some stranger out there has surely felt your pain
Some stranger you don't know might even own your name
Has said all the things that you said
Thoughts existing in someone else's head

I used to think I was the only one
I used to think I was the only one
I used to think I was the only one
But I've learned quite a few things since then
I've learned that no one ever really is the only one

If You Leave

(Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark cover / Aisles EP)

If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways
We've always had time on our side
Now it's fading fast
Every second, every moment
We've gotta make it last

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday

If you leave, I won't cry
I won't waste one single day
But if you leave, don't look back
I'll be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've gotta say you will

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd still be friends

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again someday

Il Cielo In Una Stanza

(Gino Paoli cover / Live at home)

Quando sei qui con me
Questa stanza non ha più pareti
Ma alberi
Alberi infiniti

Quando tu sei qui vicino a me
Questo soffitto viola
No, non esiste più
Io vedo il cielo sopra noi

Che restiamo qui
Abbandonati
Come se non ci fosse più
Niente, più niente al mondo

Suona un'armonica
Mi sembra un organo
Che vibra per te e per me
Su nell'immensità del cielo
Per te e per me del cielo

Like I Used To

(Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen)

Will the marker stain the skin
Stole the dress I saw you in
Now nothing comes to mind

Saw a life as override
One more session overdrive
The ceiling is the roof

Change address and draw a line
Show my friends the silver line
Call my family just to know they're there

Sleeping in late like I used to
Crossing my fingers like I used to
Waiting inside like I used to
Avoiding big crowds like I used to

Crawl the field and let you in
Brand my heart I found you in
To say nothing's more apart

Will my lover be there, stay
Follow them to less the pain
The ceiling must be wrong

Well, my head's gone today
Sell my past for a way
To sing and have something left to say

Pray my hands, pray my voice
Give the reason, take away
Make believe an order for to stay

Lighting one up like I used to
Dancing all alone like I used to
Giving it up like I used to
Falling in love like I used to

Open my heart like I used to
Making out long like I used to
Holding hands openly, rights to
Taking what's mine like I used to

Like I used to
Like I used to
Like I used to
Like I used to

More Than This

(Roxy cover / Live at home)

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
Nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
Nothing
More than this
Nothing
Nothing

Mr. Lonely

(Bobby Vinton cover / With Emile Mosseri)

Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I have nobody for my own
Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
Wish I had someone to call on the phone

I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

Letters, never a letter
I get no letters in the mail
I've been forgotten, yes, forgotten
Oh how I wonder how is it I failed

I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

My Reverie

(Larry Clinton cover / A Small Light OST)

Our love is a dream, but in my reverie
I can see that this love was meant for me
Only a poor fool never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance could be so cruel as you are to me

My dreams are as worthless as tin to me
Without you, life will never begin to be
So love me as I love you in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let's dispense with formality
Come to me in my reverie

Nothing's Free

(Forever Means EP)

Here it comes
Feel it break that old cell
The one you thought had kept you safe
But nothing's free
Like breaking free
Out of the past these chains I know
I'll never be more sure of anything

Here it comes
No way to stop it now
I'm broken
Down for you like no one else
Like no one else

I'm broken

Safety Dance

(Men Without Hats / Aisles EP)

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
They're no friends of mine

We can go where we want to
To a place they will never find
We can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind

We can dance, we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance
Doing it pole to wall

We can go when we want to
Night is young and so am I
We can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry

We can act if we want to
If we don't, nobody will
You can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile

And we can dance, we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance
Doing it wall to wall

We can dance, we can dance
Everybody, look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody's taking the cha-cha-cha-chance

Safety dance
Safety dance
Safety dance

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
They're no friends of mine

We can dance, we can dance
Everybody, look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody's taking the cha-cha-cha-chance

It's the safety dance...

Everybody's taking the chance

Smaller

(Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories LP)

Well, I've been sitting here a long time
Goodbye, goodbye
I'm sorry that you suffered
So sad, so sad
And everything's about you
Too bad, too bad
I wasted all your time with my small mind
I'll be smaller for you next time
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye

So That We Can Be Still

(Strange Cacti EP)

Must all of my memories
Drown into infinity
Try to grasp them, but I always miss
Time goes by so fast as if
It hardly wants to exist
Let's make a mask of our face
Of our hands
So that we can be still
For a while
For a while
For a while

All the many ways that
You can choose to be alive
All the countless steps you take
Before you have arrived
All the passing faces
Going quickly on their way
Where are they going so quickly
And when you're going and do the same
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
One moment, you're awake
And making a sound
A number asleep in your ground
In your ground
In your ground

Well, shall we wrap it all up in a bow
Thank you, I have all my thoughts to go
Wrapped up in a box with the rest of my soul
To hide away
To hide it away
To hide it away
Yeah, hoping somebody might find it
Yeah, hoping somebody might find it
Yeah, hoping somebody might find it
Yeah, hoping somebody might find it

Some things Cosmic

(Strange Cacti EP)

Before we draw
My dear dear friend
I promise you my
Word
If we should part
My dear dear love, you
Know you're in my
Heart
And though I may be getting older
Know that I am going with you
Know that I am hanging on
To the things that you said
The things that you said
I've felt my soul
Rise up from my body, when I
Look into your blue eyes
If cosmic force
Is real at all
It's come between you and
I, I want to be naked
I don't need my body
I don't need my body
I'm floating away
I'm floating away
I'm floating away

Something On Your Mind

(Dino Valenti / Karen Dalton cover)

Yesterday
Any way you made it was just fine
Saw you turn your days into night-times
Didn't you know
You can't make it without ever even trying
And something's on your mind, isn't it

Let these times
Show you that you're breaking up your mind
Leaving all your dreams too far behind
Didn't you see
You can't make it without ever even trying
And something's on your mind

Maybe another day
You'll want to feel another way
You can't stop crying
You haven't got a thing to say
You're feeling you want to run
There's no use trying

I've seen the writing on the wall
Who cannot maintain will always fall
Well, you know
You can't make it without ever even trying
Now something's on your mind, isn't it
Something's on your mind, isn't it
Something's on your mind

You can't make it without
You can't make it without
Ever even trying
Now something's on your mind
Now something's on your mind, isn't it
Something's on your mind
Something's on your mind
Something's on your mind
Something"s on your mind, isn't it
Something's on your mind

Stranger's Kiss

(Alex Cameron feat. Angel Olsen / Forced Witness LP)

Don't even bother climbing out of the well
That ain't no way to get out of the hell that you're in
If you wanna see the back of it, girl
You better start digging down with your pail of tin
I got shat on by an eagle, baby
Now I'm king of the neighborhood
And it feels like I could
Just peel the gym pants off a single mother
But this run of good luck don't got me feeling all that good

And it hurts and it hurts
But I don't wanna talk about it
'Cause in my dreams, I miss you
Then I wake up to reality's bliss
Now all I ever wanted and all I ever needed is right here
In the stranger's kiss

Don't bother flying when we jump off the cliff
Make sure it's head first if you don't want to deal with what ifs
I know you're wondering if you'll feel it again
Just keep on digging it down with your pail of tin
No shame in sleeping with the seagulls, baby
This town's a tourist trap, it's no place to be living
They made a meme out of my legacy, darling
My hands are caught in the net and they're pale and thin

And it hurts and it hurts
Well, I don't wanna talk about it
'Cause in my dreams, I miss you
And I wake up to reality's bliss
All I ever wanted and all I ever needed was right here
In the stranger's kiss

Me and Roy, we got a pretty mean posse
With a Down syndrome Jew from the real estate crew
He keeps me busy with a shift now and then
But it don't ever really stop me from thinking of you
I know you're wondering why you wish you were dead
And there's no solace in the fact that it's all in your head
Try not to focus on the pain that you're in
Just keep on digging down with your pail of tin

If it hurts, well it hurts
But I don't wanna talk about it
'Cause in my dreams, I miss you
And I wake up to reality's bliss
All I ever wanted and all I ever needed is right here
In the stranger's kiss

'Cause in my dreams, I miss you
Then I'll just stick 'em right there in the bin
Thought I needed buckets of gold
But all I needed was a dirty little pail of tin

That's Alright

(Fleetwood Mac cover / Live at home)

Meet me down by the railway station
I've been waiting
And I'm through waiting for you
Train sings the same kind of blues

I don't know why I always trusted
Sometimes I think that I must have
I must have been crazy
Crazy to wait on you, baby

Turned around and got pushed down, baby
Now I decided yesterday that I would leave you
And I'm alright, I'm alright

Please, I've been taking my time
You know, it's been on my mind
I hope you find a love
Your own designs of love
'Cause that's alright

I believe, I believe that I know you
Now I've got to show you
That I've got to show you
That I never did believe in time
You know, changing anybody's mind

Now I can't define love like it should be
But that's alright

Please, I've been taking my time
You know, it's been on my mind
I hope you find a love
Your own designs of love
'Cause that's alright

The Blacksmith

(Shirley Collins / Shirley Inspired LP)

A blacksmith courted me nine months or better
He fairly won my heart, wrote me a letter
With his hammer in his hand he looked so clever
And if I were with my love I'd live forever

Oh where has my love gone with his cheeks like roses
He's gone across the sea gathering primroses
Will it burn and scorch I fear the shining sun his beauty
And if I were with my love I would do my duty

Strange news has come to town, strange news is carried
Sad news ? up and down that my love is married
Oh I wish them both much joy though they can't hear me
And if I were with my love I'd still do my duty

Oh what did you promise me when you lay beside me
You said you'd marry me and not deny me
If I said I'd marry you it was only to try you
So bring your witness love and I'll not deny you

Oh witness I have none save God Almighty
And may He reward you well for the slighting of me
Her lips grew pale and wan, her heart tremble
For to think she had one loved and he'd proved deceitful

The Night Comes On

(Leonard Cohen cover / Live at home)

I went down to the place
Where I knew she lay waiting
Under the marble and the snow
I said, "Mother, I'm frightened
The thunder and the lightning
I'll never come through this alone"
She said, "I'll be with you
My shawl wrapped around you
My hand on your head when you go"
And the night comes on
It was very calm
I wanted the night to go on and on
But she said, "Go back, go back to the world"

Time Bandits

(Forever Means EP)

The feeling takes over
At first it's surprising
But then I surrender
No longer in hiding
I'm having a hard time
Not falling in love with
The heart of a moment
The heart of a moment

Be here if you're being
The people are seeing
Listen if you're hearing
The truth needs no saying
It's in us, it's with us
You know it, it's framing

The love that you hold
The dreams that you carry
That thing that you tell yourself to be merry
And laugh at it all whеn you've just had enough
And dance if you'rе crying, get that spirit up

I want you, I want you, I need you right now
To be here and lay down and get on the ground
And hear it, feel it, know that you're bound
To the earth to each other and that's where it's found
And that's where it's found
And that's where it's found

I want you, I want you, I need you right now
To be here and lay down and get on the ground
And hear it, feel it, know that you're bound
To the earth to each other and that's where it's found

I want you
You're the one
I need you
You're the one
I need you
I need you
I need you
Gonna need you
I need you
I need you

Tiniest Lights

(Strange Cacti EP)

Another winter, another spring
Another old and restless thing
Another tremble, another shake
Another sleeps while the other waits
Bear your burden, the winded balm
Bury it down and down
Who had to put his trust in one so lonesome and so proud
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
And don't forget to say a word of fire-headed prayer
And if it's not within you, well, ask someone who is there
To turn you out toward the sun
Now that the season's begun
To lift these shadows from your heart
To shine a lightness in your dark
I'm looking out for the tiniest life
I'll be looking out for the tiniest sign
I'll be looking out for the tiniest light
To shine, shine on down
Won't you shine, shine on down

True Blue

(Mark Ronson feat. Angel Olsen / Late Night Feelings LP)

Fucking around, I'm falling in love
Saying goodbye 'cause you're giving it up
All that you were, all that you lost
Who ever thought it came with a cost

We were alone, we were to blame
Alive with the same blood in our veins
I never thought to find a way here
Well, you can't plan for this one, it's nothing compared
To the fate of the thing, searching forward to me
All the world to be seen as it's all passing by

Fucking around, I'm falling in love
Saying goodbye 'cause you're giving it up
All that you were, all that you lost
Who ever thought it came with a cost

I ran to you, I ran to you
I ran to you and you know why
I ran to you, I ran to you
I ran to you and you know why

Love the way you read my eyes
I love the way you read my eyes

To the fate of the thing, searching forward to me
When it's finally seen all the love in your eyes
Well, I should've known it how the world disappeared
When you came around, when you came around
When you came around
When you came around, when you came around

Fucking around, I'm falling in love
Saying goodbye 'cause you're giving it up
All that you were, all that you lost
Who ever thought it came with a cost

I ran to you, I ran to you
I ran to you and you know why
I ran to you, I ran to you
I ran to you and you know why

Love the way you read my eyes
I love the way you read my eyes

Walls

(Tom Petty cover / Angel Olsen and Hand Habits)

Some days are diamonds
Some days are rocks
Some doors are open
Some roads are blocked

Sundowns are golden
Then fade away
But if I never do nothing
I'll get you back some day 'cause

You got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

All around your island
There's a barricade
Keeps out the danger
Keeps in the pain

Sometimes you're happy
Sometimes you cry
Half of me is ocean
Half of me is sky

'Cause you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

Some things are over
Some things go on
Part of me you carry
Part of me is gone

'Cause you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

'Cause you got a heart so big
It could crush this town
And I can't hold out forever
Even walls fall down

White Water

 (Burn Your Fire For No Witness Bonus Track)

I'm white water
White water
Oh, down upon her

She wants to be pure unsprouted
She wants to be unsprouted pure
She wants to hold unborn child
She wants to be child unborn

White
White water
White water

I'm white water
White water

She wants to be clean desire
She wants to be naked and never again
She wants to be never again nobody
She wants to be clean desire
In the real world did you copy and paste too?
She wants to be clean desire
She wants to be naked and never again
She wants to be never again nobody
She wants to be clean desire

I'm white water
White water
Oh, down upon her
Down upon her

White
White water
White water
I'm white water

Who's Sorry Now

(Connie Francis / Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle)

Who's sorry now
Who's sorry now
Who's heart is aching for breaking each vow
Who's sad and blue
Who's crying too
Just like I cried over you

Right to the end
Just like a friend
I tried to warn you somehow
You had your way
Now you must pay
I'm glad that you're sorry now

Right to the end
Just like a friend
I tried to warn you somehow
You had your way
Now you must pay
I'm glad that you're sorry now

Winter

(Tori Amos cover / Live at home)

Snow can wait
I forgot my mittens
Wipe my nose
Get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart
When I think of winter
I put my hand in my father's glove

I run off where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice
"You must learn to stand up for yourself
'Cause I can't always be around"

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
'Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change, my dear

Boys get discovered as winter melts
Flowers competing for the sun
Years go by and I'm here still waiting
Withering where some snowman was
Mirror, mirror, where's the crystal palace
But I only can see myself
Skating around the truth who I am
But I know dad the ice is getting thin

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
'Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change, my dear

Hair is grey and the fires are burning
So many dreams are on the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud
I always wanted that myself

He says
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
'Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change, my dear

Withered And Died

(Richard & Linda Thompson cover / Angel Olsen & Marissa Nadler)

This cruel country has driven me down
Teased me and lied, teased me and lied
I've only sad stories to tell to this town
My dreams have withered and died

Once I was bending the tops of the trees
Kind words in my ear, kind faces to see
Then I struck up with a boy from the West
Played run and hide, played run and hide
Count one to ten and he's gone with the rest
My dreams have withered and died

Silver moon sail up and silver moon shine
On the waters so wide, waters so wide
Steal from the bed of some good friend of mine
My dreams have withered and died
If I was a butterfly live for a day
Then I could be free just blowing away

This cruel country has driven me down
Teased me and lied, teased me and lied
And I've only sad stories to tell to this town
My dreams have withered and died

*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***

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