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Everybody's In Trouble
05:38
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It's coming down, coming down, coming down, you brought the rain
It's coming down, coming down, coming down, you brought the rain
Today I'll go for a walk and get soaked to the skin
Today I'll let the rain replace the pain I'm bathing in
Everybody's in trouble, breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
Everybody's in trouble, breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
I just wanna know that you're alright
I just wanna know that you're alright
At least one of us should survive
It's coming down, coming down, coming down, to a nasty fall
I couldn't stay safe below, I had to climb up and risk it all
Today I'll find a way to mend my splintered bone
Today I'll let the fall rupture my heart of stone
Everybody's in trouble, breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
Everybody's in trouble, breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
I just wanna know that you're alright
I just wanna know that you're alright
At least one of us should make it out alive
I just wanna know that you're alright
I just wanna know that you're alright
Everybody's in trouble, we're all breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
Everybody's in trouble, we're all breaking to pieces
Where are the king's men when you need 'em
I just wanna know that you're alright
I just wanna know that you're alright
At least one of us should make it out alive
It's coming down, everybody's in trouble
Everybody's in trouble
It's coming down
Everybody's in trouble
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When I couldn't take it anymore
I'd go in the bathroom and lock the door
And think of the choices before me
What the cabinet holds
But I always did as I was told
Am I a broken thing
Am I a broken thing
When the fight began I had nowhere to go
So I closed my eyes and turned up the stereo
The way a voice can tell stories
It's not supposed to tell
I keep my secrets, and I keep them well
Am I a broken thing
Am I a broken thing
But I pretend everything's ok
The bruises are under my clothes
And only the mirror knows
Am I a broken thing
Am I a broken thing
Am I a broken thing
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I know what I'm doing
I won't get hurt
Walk off with my heart and I'll
Steal the shirt off your back
Look behind and I'll laugh
I'll beat you in the end
Baby, pretend
It's mayday
It's mayday
It's mayday
It's mayday
Baby, pretend
I'm your friend
The jukebox charlatan
A quarter for my dreams
A dollar for my skin
For all these things
That roll into and out of my head
Like it never happened
Baby, say when
It's mayday
It's mayday
It's mayday
It's mayday
Baby, say when
I can stop
Tiptoeing around what I wanna say
Rehearsing the lines to my own play
It might be okay
To soften in the sun a little
Then you'll understand
Baby, take my hand
It's mayday, tt's mayday
It's mayday, it's mayday
Baby, take my hand
It's mayday
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What a disaster, what a surprise
My pulse pounds faster, the water's in my eyes
My instinct says run without saying goodbye
Construct a safe edifice of denials and lies
Can I lay in the ruins of love that won't survive
Until my will dissolves and I
Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall to pieces
But I take a deep breath and let it out
I bite my lip and beat back doubt
Why can't you leave me alone
Even when you're not here
Even when you're nowhere near
Even when you're not here
Even when you're nowhere near
The clocks protest, time stands still
I refuse to confess to the things I feel
You don't exist except in my heart
Built up of memory and abandoned parts
Can I rest in your arms, lay my head on your chest
Until my will collapses and I
Let you drift, let you drift, let you drift apart
But I take a deep breath and let it out
I bite my lip and beat back doubt
Why can't you leave me alone
Even when you're not here
Even when you're nowhere near
Even when you're not here
Even when you're nowhere near
Even when you're not here
Even when you're nowhere near
You're nowhere near
Dissolution
You're nowhere near
Dissolution
You're nowhere near
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I'm at the dead end street
I'm in the darkened alley
It's like it's calling for me
It's like I know it wants me
There's no escape, no, no
No escape
When you told me not to be afraid
I smiled at your innocence
When you told me not to be afraid
I said the world is on my shoulders
If I let it fall it might crush us all
I buy human misery
For two new shiny quarters
Ink runs in the rain
My hands are black and stained
There's no escape, no
No escape
When you told me not to be afraid
I smiled at your innocence
When you told me not to be afraid
I said the world is on my shoulders
If I let it fall it might crush us all
There's no escape
There's no escape
There's no escape
There's no escape, no
When you told me not to be afraid
I smiled at your innocence
When you told me not to be afraid
I said the world is on my shoulders
If I let it fall it might crush us all
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You seem set on eroding my trust
On battering my mountain down to a pile of dust
I lie pliant as you pound me until nothing's left
Your face grieves for my loss, then laughs at the theft
You wanna be the weather
Driving clouds above my brow
It makes you feel electric to see me
Shiver and bow
But your wind can't whip forever and your thunder is
Silent now
You seem hell-bent on breaking my will
Holding down my fluttering heart until it lies still
I welcome your claws as they slowly sink inside
Your smile keeps your secrets but your eyes reveal the lies
You wanna be the weather
Driving clouds above my brow
It makes you feel electric to see me
Shiver and bow
But your wind can't whip forever and your thunder is
Silent now
I am ageless and tired
I've lived the same life
A thousand cycles now
You wanna be the weather
But your wind can't whip forever and your thunder is
Silent now
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We talk oceans into being between us
With stinging words that taste of salt and rust
Then you climb the winding stair up to the mirror
Watch your breath form a mist and let it clear
Snuff out the little flame and leave me in the dark
Oh, lighthouse keeper
There's nothing to guide me when you're out of reach
But why should you worry when you're safe on the beach
I am a compass without a needle
You are a magnet
You attract and repel
I threw a line
Out to the shore
But you severed the cord
Oh, lighthouse keeper
I am a vessel on the sand, stranded and dry
Said you can't give me what I need, but you didn't try
I will track my sightless path across the fathomless span
I will make my way alone, just to prove that I can
Keep your little flame and leave me in the dark
Oh, lighthouse keeper
There's nothing to guide me when you're out of reach
But why should you worry when you're safe on the beach
I am a compass without a needle
You are a magnet
You attract and repel
I threw a line
Out to the shore
But you severed the cord
Oh, lighthouse keeper
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Remember when we couldn't sleep
'Cause the nightmares were real and their shadows stretch deep
I'd say think of a beautiful dream
We'd get together when we got older
You said I was your savior but you were my shoulder
And we shared the myths of the past
We don't need our faces in the papers and magazines
We don't need our names in the annals of history
'Cause we know who we are and what we have done
The monsters we fought and the battles we won
We don't need anything from anyone
Remember when I met you at the train
We drank beer on my stoop without saying a thing
Then we both laughed and took a breath
We were naive and broken and sad
I still thought I could save the world when it went bad
We don't need our faces in the papers and magazines
We don't need our names in the annals of history
'Cause we know who we are and what we have done
The monsters we fought and the battles we won
We don't need anything from anyone
But if you need to breathe, I will help you to breathe
If you need to believe, I will help you believe
If you need to break free, I will help you break free
'Cause you always did the same for me, you always did the same for me
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Happiness Hurts
05:04
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I don't want anything to change
Hang the year in a picture frame
Scratch my name on the window pane
To say I was here
Wandering room after room
Shadows of unknown disasters loom
Soon I'll be singing a broke tune
To ward off fear
Happiness hurts
Happiness hurts
'Cause I can't make it last
It's moving too fast
Another year passed
Happiness hurts
'Cause I can't make it last
Flecks of dust floating in gold
I stop to watch the dance unfold
Some of us young are untellably old
We can't forget
How many loves did I lose
Offered up as a gift to my muse
She's always hungry and I can't refuse
But no regrets
Happiness hurts
Happiness hurts
'Cause I can't make it last
It's moving too fast
Another year passed
Happiness hurts
'Cause I can't make it last
It's moving too fast
Another year passed
Happiness hurts
'Cause I can't make it last
I can't make it last
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I can fit the puzzle pieces together
Without a picture
I can solve equations with letters
Representing the numbers
I can draw us as two points
Measure out the line
Plot our position through space and time
But I can't find a way to chart
The geometry of a heavy heart
I can sketch the pattern of stars in the heavens
A perfect replication
I can still remember your depth and dimension
Without hesitation
I can map the site where our paths meet
And guess at the angle of our defeat
But even Euclid and Descartes
Can't solve the geometry of a heavy heart
I can rewrite the rules till our problems are solved
I can fake the proofs till you don't trust me at all
And it all just falls apart
With the geometry of a heavy heart
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I keep running up against the wall
Like this time it will change
Like this time it won't be there at all
And it leaves red grit and blue bruises
But it never gives
Then I begin to give up
And I begin
To let you go
I hate the way hope makes me lift up my head
When I know it will betray me
It will slay me and leave me for dead
It leaves grey doubts and yellow scars
But it never gives
Till I begin to give up
And I begin
To let you go
The wind tells me to smile, this is for the best
Don't fret for what you can't have
Put aside your unrest
And it leaves pink cheeks and pale skin
And it begins to give me
The strength I need to give in
And begin
To let you go
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I can't explain why I do what I do
I wake up from dreaming with music in my head
I remember singing the blues every time I felt bad
Somehow it got me through
Maybe you want to make loads of money
Your face on glossy pages, your voice on the radio
I just want to survive the only way I know how
You can keep the fortune, honey
We always argue and I never see it your way
You always start but I always have the final say
The thing I do, I know it doesn't make sense
I could take the easy road to a charmed life
But I'll never belong with the successful and strong
I just want to pay my rent
We always argue and I never see it your way
You always start but I always have the final say
I remember singing the blues
Every time I felt bad
Somehow it got me through
Foolish dream
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Losing Someone
02:33
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Five o'clock, I am locked in a train
Tempted to pull the emergency brake
To stop myself from rolling out of control
Off the tracks, a runaway
But my wicked smile says I don't mind, it's ok
I dream when I am wide awake
Craving for the taste of
Another heartbreak on my tongue
'Cause nothing is a sweet as losing someone
Nothing is a sweet as losing someone
Same thoughts hide behind each face
No differences beneath flannel or lace
I'll take you all on the ride of your lives
Just give me your hands and close your eyes
My weary smile says never mind, it's alright
I dream when I am wide awake
Craving for the taste of
Another heartbreak on my tongue
'Cause nothing is a sweet as losing someone
Nothing is a sweet as losing someone
Losing someone
Nothing is a sweet as losing someone
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The sky is turning grey as I walk down 4th Avenue
But it's blue above the highway, looming above the roofs
And the statue with her green arms and gold flame is standing guard
How can it be so beautiful and so hard?
I thought of moving to the country when I missed the hills
And the sky spangled with stars, the creeks ripples and rills
To walk along the old rail trail under a green canopy
To disappear slowly and quietly
But I took a G train north on Sunday to see a show
And I sat at the bar in the candlelight glow
Heard the voices and the guitars bleeding out their tones
This place is so foreign but it feels like home
The rain fell on my face this morning in Manhattan
I'd forgotten my umbrella but I didn't care
And I straightened my shoulders and waited for the light to change
Thought I'm really happy to be here
I'm really happy to be here
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Jessi Robertson Nashville, Tennessee
Jessi Robertson is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter whose work navigates the boundaries between reality and imagination, and lays bare her own emotional truths.
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