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Time forgot me here
Waiting for my head to clear
Laughing backwards felt like enough
Learned some new bad words
You caught a bad cough
Cut me off to tell me I was right
Set me on fire so I could be your guiding light
Thirst for power, hunger for fame
Always was a junkie for pain
Time to swallow bitter pills
Rectify the countless ills
I’ve committed in the name of healing
Cut me off to tell me I was right
Set me on fire so I could be your guiding light
If everyone was a color
You’d be red and I’d be orange
Even though I don’t like orange
Just so I could sit next to you in the rainbow
Time forgot me here to think
About what I’ve done
Pull me back from the brink
Look ambition in the face
Face the facts and throw the race
I was right
Set me on fire so I could be your guiding light
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2. |
Piscean Lover
02:54
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Say the words and make it so
Scratch the scab you’ll make it grow
Black it out or let it show
Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know
Swallow down a Piscean
Taste of your own medicine
Change the locks when you open
The heart- shaped box she had you trapped in
Anyway better not get too existential
I cannot guarantee that I’ll live up to my potential
But I guess better safe than sorry I’ll never take the last bow
I don’t know but there’s only one way to find out
Live to die another day
I know you, you had more to say
It’s alright, we’re not ok
We burn out not to fade away
Anyway better not get too existential
I cannot guarantee that I’ll live up to my potential
But I guess better safe than sorry I was never here right now
I don’t know but there’s only one way to find out
Strike a match and watch it glow
If you love it let it go
Grow a tail, learn how to swim
This is how the world begins
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3. |
Oaths
03:14
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You oughtta get some rest
So I’ll stop talking, I’ll go
And I’ll wish you the very best
But how far down does it go?
Beneath the wounds are deeper wounds
I told you so
We danced close to the blade
We cut it off and I stopped and I stood
And I bowed my head and I prayed
To the unseen forces
To wash us clean and please divorce us
From our pain
O wise, mighty waves
What wicked winds have whipped us into shapes
So monstrous and depraved?
And what oaths must we take
To be absolved and rendered
Ready and awake?
Old friend, I forgot
Your true name—I got confused
And mixed it up with one I was taught
But that sound rang hollow, I never was convinced
You are much more than that
We were born for more than this
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4. |
County Fair
04:35
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Here is a path to a clearing
Fearing the wrath of God I stepped aside
Ready for some new kind of feeling
I ran to the field with my arms open wide
Tired of the circles we talk in
I walked to the road and right into my own trap again
When sweet opportunity comes knockin’
How many times must I learn the same lesson?
I learned my lesson
Your peeling paint was appealing
Realistically I know I don't need to know
Ready for some new kind of healing
I cuff up the legs to trudge into the virgin snow
The sound of your voice is like petals
Better than Saturdays battering oysters for the fry
When papa brought home a gold medal
You ran to your room and locked the door, I heard you cry
I’ll learn my lesson
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5. |
Tooth for a Tooth
03:09
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Loose ends tying me up in knots
Caught recirculating the same old thoughts
Can’t catch a break for a goddamn minute
Wonder who’s at the gates?
Felt him coming miles away
I feel everything
But I guess that’s how you know you’re in it
Sometimes I can remember the good times
Sometimes it’s easier to forget
So I don’t have to miss you too much
Sometimes I can relate to myself
I disassociate more than I’d like to
But what can you do?
Freedom comes at a price
I can tell you from years of taking my own advice
Not many people can handle the truth
But I’d rather be lonely and empowered
Than on a cross or devoured
By those who would take a tooth for a tooth
Sometimes I can remember the good times
Sometimes it’s easier to forget
So I don’t have to miss you too much
Sometimes I can relate to myself
I disassociate more than I’d like to
But what can you do?
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6. |
:/
01:47
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you’ve been talking in your sleep
we could end it all right now, well couldn’t we?
just like the other thing
but who’s to say there’s not something worth saving?
you better be
right about how better off I’m gonna be
fugue, fantasy
the truth deceives
couldn’t be the laugh’s on me
or could it be?
you’ve been talking yourself in circles again
I would almost rather that you didn’t
tell me anything
I will listen when my ears stop ringing
you better be
right about how better off I’m gonna be
fugue, fantasy
the truth deceives
couldn’t be the laugh’s on me
or could it be?
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7. |
Lessons for Mutants
04:46
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Wanna hear what’s
in my head?
Holy spirits
hovering over my bed
colors blurring
into pure white
Warm hands return me
to the light
Made the journey safe and sound
Bury my yearning
in the ground
I am learning
He just called to say
he still don’t know
Try the new way:
Love him and let him go
The sweetness of
Surrender
Is real love
I must remember
Saw behind the rage
to your pain
at a tender age
burgundy as a bloodstain
and I forgive you your circumstance
Lord knows it’s not my life to live anymore and I cannot afford
to take the chance
I’d go overboard
Now free
of yesterday
all my stories
flicker and fade away
into dust
revealing
not who I thought I was
layers peeling,
ancient feeling
born from our mothers’ bloodlust
rebuilding trust, ask me anything
or tell me if you must
You who thought you knew
me back when
watch the fire burn through
me, I’m born again
and should you ever be
fully realized
come find me
join in the revelries of butterflies
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8. |
Hi Res
02:51
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I get that it meant something to you
I know how tempting it can be
to make meaning where there is none
But I want to be honest with you
I’ve probably already done
some damage that cannot be undone
To me you were a crutch
that I used to help myself feel semi-stable in the moment
and I’m grateful to you for that, baby
but it was never personal, see
I did my best to make sure you didn’t get some big ideas
about me
The seafoam smells like sewage
The rainbows in the bubbles
can be attributed to the pollution
and I know that we’ve talked through it
but I believe we could find a more mutually agreeable solution
I summoned you with magic
That’s a testament to the power we can both tap into
So let’s do something great with it
I’ve seen the brilliance of the love we can all step into
I ran home to tell you
I realized I don’t wanna suffer
I want us both to be free
I’m sorry for my failures
I did my best to make sure you know
it’s not about you, babe, it’s
about me
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9. |
Good is Gone
02:27
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Let’s not even ask
how all this trouble came to pass
or how it came to be
that you see me as an enemy
Well there you go
telling me what I already know
Did you forget?
I know things that haven’t happened yet
Do what you need to do
to kill whatever’s eating you
and I’ll try to be alright
but I’ll dream about it every night
So leave me be
I just don’t have the energy
to lead you on
I can see when something good is gone
Well I don’t wanna fight
I just wanna hear you say I’m right
So tired of keeping score
Fuck it I can’t do this anymore
Well there you go
telling me what I already know
like you forgot
I can hear you thinking every thought
So leave me be
this is literally killing me
Alright I was wrong
I can see when something good is gone
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10. |
Involvulus
01:54
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Transitory times
All our stars aligned
Mapmaker must have been blind
Sure made Heaven hard to find
Temporary states
Better late than never
You have taught me how to wait
But I can’t wait forever
I can see you’re scared
I love you just the same
No one’s perfect or prepared
For this mortal game
So meet me where I stand
And I will do the same
Higher Self to Higher Self
You know who I am
You know why I came
Drop the story, take my hand
I have done the best I can
Orpheus looked back
Hades knew he would
Just a quick glance over his shoulder
Now she’s gone for good
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