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Here is what I need to tell you, darling
Here is what I need for you to know
You broke when it was easiest to break
You left when it was easiest to go
Here is what I need to tell you, darling
Here is what I need for you to hear
You took when it was easiest to take
You fled when it was easiest to fear
And now the times they are a-changin'
Like the locks upon my door
And I don't know if we can go back
To who we were before
I don't know if I want that anymore
I don't know if I want that anymore
So here is what I'm gonna tell you, darling
Here is what I know it's time to say
That somehow I'm gonna hold it together
Some day I'm gonna get to be better
Sometime I'll leave behind these dark days
And I'd bring you but it seems you wanna stay
So now there's something in me that keeps pulling away
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2. |
So Easily Satisfied
02:55
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Don't you miss me just a little bit?
Why aren't you wondering where I've been?
Don't you ask why you're not over it?
Why can't you sink and not swim?
And I'm not asking for you to go off
And drown for me
But why do you have to be so easily satisfied?
Does the thought of me never keep you up at night?
And everything is changing, day by day
So say - don't go away
Why aren't you grasping at strings to hold onto?
Why are you doing just fine?
If that's all in the past for you
Why are you still stuck in my mind?
And I would tell you to leave you know
If I wanted you to
But why do you have to be so easily satisfied?
Does the thought of me never keep you up at night?
And everything is changing, day by day
So say - don't go away
If I were there with you, I'd say don't fall asleep
If I were there for you, I'd say there are secrets that we shouldn't keep
If I were there for you
If you were there for me
But why do you have to be so easily satisfied?
Does the thought of me never keep you up at night?
And everything is changing, day by day
So say - don't go away
No, don't go away
No, don't go away
Won't you ask me to stay?
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3. |
Smoke & Mirrors
02:59
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Let me get this
You'll regret this
In six months or so
Bet this restless heart's
The best one
You'll never know
Cause in this smoke and mirrors
I see clearer than you do
One day you'll look back
Hear my silver laugh
And curse yourself for acting like a fool
Just admit this
You can't quit this
So easily
Toss and turn
And burn up
Dreaming on what could be
Cause in this smoke and mirrors
I see clearer than you do
One day you'll look back
Hear my silver laugh
And curse yourself for acting like a fool
You'll look back, and you'll look back
And wish that you had broken every rule
When the smoke clears
And I'm not here
And you piece the mirror back from broken glass
And you look back
And your heart chokes
On all the smoke
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4. |
Will You Always Be
03:01
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Will you always be that voice calling over my shoulder?
Will you always be that fire that keeps getting colder?
Will you always be the anchor that's holding me tight?
Will you always be the last thing that I think of at night?
Will you always be that ghost that keeps me writing off springtime?
Will you always be that sweet drop of whiskey inside summer wine?
Will you always be a dream from which I never wake?
Will you always be my favorite bad decision to make?
Go ahead and tell me that it's all true
Dream of me so I can say I never dream of you
Go ahead and tell me that it's all true
Dream of me so I can say I never dream of you
What we used to be
We never were
What we used to be
We were never sure
Oh, yeah
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5. |
Easy to Love
02:39
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I go chasing off in too many circles
Down too many side streets
Till I fall down
I make you dizzy, always busy
I'm not scared of the dark
But you are, and we go
Round and round
I try to play by the rules
But I change them every night
I tell you to hold me closer
You already hold too tight
And I know, I know
I'm wrong, you're right
But just for this night from up above
Will you pretend that I'm easy to love?
I ask for everything all at once
And all because I can't stand
Thinking that there might be more
And I'll offer you a road map to find me
But all the pages are ripped out
And all the points on the compass point north
I thought I was a frozen over river
But you're a frozen over lake
You're always counting all the things I give you
That you say you can never take
And I know, I know
This was a mistake
But just for this night from up above
Will you pretend that I'm easy to love?
Why can't I believe you when you say that we're no good?
You say you see through me
The problem is you never could
I know I hit too hard
I know I fall too fast
I know I want too much
I know that we won't last
But just for this night from up above
Will you pretend that I'm easy to love?
Just for this night from up above
Will you pretend that I'm easy to love?
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6. |
A Star I Wouldn't Share
03:56
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I turned over in my sleep last night
So cold I could barely breathe
I thought I felt a rush like a star burning by
But it was too dark outside to see
I know it wasn't mine
I know it wasn't mine
Mine's here with me
I felt a rumble like a cold black wind
And for months now it's kept me awake
I drove up and down the coast four times
And I dove into oceans and lakes
And I dreamed of nights that ran with sand
Like rivers through my hair
And I thought on times
I danced and shivered in the blue night air
Oh, with a star I wouldn't share
Oh, with a star I wouldn't share
I drank rum red like roses
And gold like city lights
I sat on park benches
And I watched strangers pass by in a blur
I heard the rustle and the bustle
Of the coats on the throats of him and her
Oh, I let go of the feeling of feeling sure
Oh
So now I'll go down by the docks
And listen to the clocks
Tick by in my ears
I'll watch the water lap up on the rocks
And sit counting all my thoughts
While I stay rooted here
With all the things that I'm afraid of
That one day I might forget to fear
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7. |
Watered Down Love
04:11
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Yours is a watered down love
I mix with wine
I keep drinking from your cup
Thinking I'll feel fine
I don't know if I'll run out of words
For you, anytime soon
I don't know if I want to
Yours is a battered coat
That doesn't keep me from the cold
Still I button up
Despite what I've been told
I don't know if I'll last till June
I don't know if I want to
Don't keep me warm
Don't keep me sober
Don't let me in
It will be over
Yours is a papier-mâché mask
I use to cover up my eyes
It was never made to last
But still it keeps me blind
So all I see through working eyes
Is black and blue
And I don't know
If I want to
Don't keep me warm
Don't keep me sober
Don't let me in
It will be over
Yours is a night filled with stars
I never could count
And while I was looking up
I got knocked to the ground
I don't know if I'll climb back up soon
I don't know if I want to
I don't know if I'll run out of words
For you, anytime soon
I don't know
If I want to
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8. |
Wolf & I
03:09
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I'm so tired I can't sleep straight
I go in circles when I try
I get all lost and crossed
And dizzy in my mind
And my heart's not broken but it's bruised
I'm confused at how it's being used
I keep choosing all the same mistakes
Until I've taken all that I can take
And I lost my hood somewhere in the woods
I stained the sheets all red
I bled the rivers dry
The wolf and I
We're all heavy teeth and swollen tongues
Battered hearts and bellowed lungs
And we see red and we go numb
Oh my god, look what we've become
And all this pain keeps showing sharpened teeth
It howls cause it can't bear to speak
I can't keep getting this weak on a weekday night
Not when it's just the wolf and I
You know it hunts me out of house and home
I hide from help, I'm all alone
I don't know half of what I think I've known
I keep growing, when will I be grown
I'm gonna let this hurt and hope consume me
I don't know how to be some new me
This anxiety inside of me is trying to eat me up alive
Hate that I'm this burden soaked in bourbon
I'm uncertain half the time
I'm alright, until I'm aching and I'm breaking
And it's taking up the hours
I wanna fill my restless days with wildflowers
I wanna eat up the world and pull down the moon
I want everything to come too soon
I keep turning empty pages
Spilled my soul on darkened stages
I keep burning through the ages
Nothing changes
I keep turning empty pages
Spilled my soul on darkened stages
I keep burning through the ages
Nothing changes
I keep turning empty pages
Spilled my soul on darkened stages
I keep burning through the ages
Nothing changes
The wolf and I
The wolf and I
The wolf and I
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9. |
Ireland
03:35
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Take it down
Let the pages fly
Empty clouds
Fill up ageless skies
But I'm leaving now
I'm counting down the miles
I'm gonna find out who I am
I'm going off to Ireland
Sullen bones
Heavy heart and mind
Spent a year
Only killing time
But I'm leaving now
I'm getting outta town
Cause that's just not who I am
I'm going off to Ireland
Ah
Ah
Ah
The whole world
Says wait your turn
Count your breaths, baby steps
There's much more to learn
But I'm leaving now
It's gonna be awhile
I'm gonna come back when I understand
I'm going off to Ireland
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10. |
Art of Years
02:27
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Back to the start
I learn the art of years
How to quiet my doubts
And banish my fears
And the tears that once fell
They don't fall anymore
Just the rain that knocks nice at the door
Just the rain that knocks nice at the door
I took all my time
And I saved it all up
I bottled the pain
And I drank from its cup
It was bitter enough
I won't drink any more
Wash my lips with the kiss of the rain at my door
Ah, let me in
Ah, let me win
I learned how to balance
And how to stand still
And now I know how
I don't know if I will
Had my fill of the rain that knocks nice at the door . . .
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