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Salt Water

by Jenni Stark

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1.
Salt Water 01:41
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
2.
Cold 03:45
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
3.
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
4.
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. . .
5.
Underneath 04:40
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
6.
Watch Me 03:23
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
7.
Glow 03:01
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
8.
Topo Chico 02:33
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
9.
Moonrise 03:01
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)
10.
Hurricane 01:17
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

about

"She nails the things she attempts although the atmospheric, dark and intimate songs were my personal favorites. . . There's a ton of emotion pouring through these songs. The emotion she was trying to convey through the creative process certainly was felt on this end and that’s what art is all about." - Matt Jensen, Pitch Perfect, www.pitchperfectsite.com/indie-music-album-reviews/jenni-stark-salt-water

"Thousands of silent, pale orange butterflies flying out of a tree trunk lying in the rainy forest." - SMALLALBUMS ALBM RVW

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From the first, a wave of salinity invites you to sink into something still unfolding. There is still time here – and melody – yet suspense creeps at the corners. These ten songs are the stones I could not leave unturned: from the guitar and vocal lines of Cold, which were burned into my mind and fingers nearly a decade ago, to the entirety of Underneath which came to me in one fell swoop just days before my first recording session and refused my request to stay buried. These are stories big, but mostly small - flickers of feelings I couldn't (or didn't want to) shake. I will pull you into the big blue deep, but I will not let you drown. I promise.

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I can’t count the number of times Eric asked me, “Hey, you wanna record something?” I can’t thank you enough, Eric, for asking over and over and over. I think you knew long before I did that one day I’d say, “Actually, yeah!” Absolutely none of this could have happened without your patient enthusiasm over these last 7 years. And this little record would not exist without your tireless work over this last year. Thank you for being the captain of this Friend Ship.

To Danny, Justin, and Melanie, I have a lot more to say in person, in the liner notes, and to whoever will listen, but I’ll start with this: you three are champions. Musicians of torrential talent and people of the highest caliber. I’m still pinching myself that you are a part of this project. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

To Anna, for being the best photographer and artistic collaborator and for going along with my crazy ideas (and encouraging crazier ones) – thank you.

And to you, dear, for listening. I hope you smirk, or laugh, or cringe, or weep when you hear this. Feel your feelings, dear one, they are the greatest gold we’ve got.

xoxo,
Jenni

credits

released August 6, 2021

Performer: Jenni Stark
Lyrics: Jenni Stark
Music: Jenni Stark & Eric Heidbreder
Producer: Eric Heidbreder
Engineer: Eric Heidbreder
Photographer: Anna Longworth

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Jenni Stark: lead vox, background vox, flute, guitars
Eric Heidbreder: guitars, keyboards, background vox
Justin Peters: drums, percussion
Danny Cohen: guitars, electric bass, keyboards
Melanie Lunardi: background vox

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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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