1. |
Salt Water
01:41
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I wish you could drink me up
but I am salt water
I wish I could pour myself out
but all you could do is
let me slip through
your hands
I wish I could pour myself out
but I'm salt water
I am salt
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2. |
Cold
03:45
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I met you a year ago
I told myself I would go slow
but here we are, cold
and torn apart
Rip the truth from my lips
I just cannot hold onto this
when my veins split they'll bleed
full of you
(chorus)
Here we are again in the dark
I tried to hold on but I fell apart
and I know
I don't want you to come home
I gave you miles and miles
and you met me with stones and trials
and I can't break them down
I'm tired now
chorus
Don't come home
it's far too cold
I won't be alone
in my bed
Thoughts of blue skies
and bluer eyes
will carry me
instead
Here we are again in the dark
I tried to hold on but I fell apart
and I know
I'm never coming home
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3. |
Constellation
03:31
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Before you I never knew
that I needed to come with a warning label. . .
But here we are we haven't gone too far
but you're telling me that you're scared of my heart
(chorus)
My body is a constellation
of potential threats
Everywhere you look there's a goddam bomb
from my skin to somewhere deep within
You held me as though lost at sea
and desperately trying not to drown. . .
But you're caged in stone and my hollow bones
can't carry us above the waves
chorus
I wish for you to walk through my door
and remind me how it feels to be warm. . .
But you're miles away and you tried to say
that you didn't want to have me that way
Kiss me one more time
so I know that it's goodbye
I thought we could be forever
I know that it's naive
All you see are troubles that could be
if my heart sinks like stone
chorus
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4. |
I Know Better
03:07
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I've been rehearsing how to say goodbye
still, I know, it's gonna take me by surprise
Cuz there ain't no end to this kind of heartache
to this kind of grief that you just can't shake
But you deserve more good days than bad days
and you deserve more love. . .
Teach me to smile even though it hurts
cuz letting go ain't giving up
I'll take your cues though I'm scared as hell
I don't wanna play this role but I know it all too well
So I'll take the stage as you exit right
I'll hold you in bed when you're up all night
Cuz you deserve more good days than bad days
and you deserve more time. . .
But here we are this final act
so I have to say goodbye
I know better, I know
I know better, I know
I know better, I know
I know better than to ask for
more. . .
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5. |
Underneath
04:40
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I bite my lip when I'm happy and nervous at the same time
I bite my tongue, but not enough to make it alright
I wanna take you between my teeth, but I'm stuck here biting my own cheek
and I know that you know that I'm happy and nervous with you
I take myself out of the game before I try
Yeah I take the pain every time cuz I don't mind
I wanna take the devil I know, but I'm scared of how you might let go
and I know that you know that I'll play the game for you
(chorus)
I don't need my name written in your skin
I don't need a ring or a certificate
I just need ten more minutes
ten more minutes underneath your skin
I tie my hair on top of my head and you just laugh
then I tie my tongue a thousand times tryin' make that last
I wanna take you as you are and I hope you'll take me just as far
cuz I know that you know that my heart is tied to you
chorus
Stay with me in the eternity
of this moment
I don't need my name written in your skin
I don't need a ring or a certificate
I just need to know that this is the minute
this is the minute that we're falling in
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6. |
Watch Me
03:23
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Things have been rough for a long time
cuts me like a needle not a knife
and I'm just skin and bones
like dad when he's jonesin'
God, give me somethin' good now
Imma watch you watch me
Imma watch you watch me
When you come into the room
and you're clearly in a mood
boy, won't you devastate me
Had to ask Lo for some cash
to get by and survive the crash
And I just wanna sing
Young lust
You better give me somethin' good now
Imma watch you watch me
Imma watch you watch me
When you're clearly in a mood
and you come into my room
boy, I'm gonna wreck you
Can't say I've won any war
but I'm sure I can bring you to the floor
on your knees lookin' up into me
"just one touch" you're gonna beg me, "please"
And it tastes
like salt
Imma watch you watch me
Imma watch you watch me
I'm gonna wreck you
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7. |
Glow
03:01
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Your mother prays to a god that doesn't love her
your father sits alone most of the time
I see how this broke your heart forever
I see how you never let me see you cry
Come take a walk with me into our past
we'll plant seeds where there once was strife
(chorus)
Oh I wanna grow with you, glow with you
but we have to talk about what happened
We gotta let love fall, let light crawl
from our lips across the wounds we made.
You chose to tell the green and the bottle
you chose to take yourself out of the light
I see how you grasp for something novel
I see how you crave prose over rhyme
Come take a walk with me into what's next
we'll run through all of this new life
chorus
Don't tell me you can't imagine what it's like for me
Can't you see that that's the whole point of empathy?
Don't tell me you can't imagine what it's like for me
Can't you see that holding space is how we set us free?
chorus
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8. |
Topo Chico
02:33
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Treat me to a treatise on all the things you love
Kiss me in secret so our friends don't know of us
Say it in a whisper, "I've never had so much fun"
Let me sleep in your t-shirt, that indie band one
The blue in my eyes brings out your lines
empty as the Topo Chico you left on the floor
(chorus)
But you had that leather lapel like butter
and that crooked smile that made me shudder
and I had a bad habit of fallin' too fast
and you had a bad habit of makin' me believe it would last
Treat me to a treatise on all the reasons you left
Wrap me in your arms hold me close to your chest
Say it in a whisper, "I'm scared this is the end"
Take a look back at me, last moment to play pretend
The blue in my eyes turns red as I cry
bubbled over like the Topo Chico we drank the night before
chorus
Pour out your heart over ice
play it cruel then play it nice
Pour out your mind make it neat
light me up for your own heat
chorus
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9. |
Moonrise
03:01
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You were the one to make me into your image
I was sure without you I would not know my visage
but I grew my hair and I felt right to the bone
that I am a thousand words, I am my own
I am the king, I am the queen
I am everything in between
You were the rose in my garden and my glass
to cut you down or take you off left me in the black
but I am the bloom and I am the glow
and I am the one coming up roses
I am the stem, I am the seed
I am the sum of my every deed
(chorus)
I am my own moon and I am my own stars
I am my own galaxy and I'm gonna take me far
You were my sunrise every single day
quotidian darkness came when you walked away
but I lit my way with the stars in my own eyes
and I learned to be my own moonrise
I am the compass, I am the map
I am the voyage from sky to trap
chorus (ad infinitum)
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10. |
Hurricane
01:17
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You left marks in my velvet dress
and you tore me up when I made a mess
You can never stay asleep
even when you're drownin' in the big blue deep
but I just wanted to say
that to me
You are a hurricane
an absolute force
You are the sun and the rain
the absolute source
and you deserve it all
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Jenni Stark Chicago, Illinois
Jenni Stark is a singer-songwriter, rock enthusiast, and occasional classical flutist. She's been known to eat lemons like apples, applaud wildly for performers, and cry with happiness. She likes sad little ditties and exceptionally loud drums. She's a person of extremes, y'all. ... more
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