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I'm Alive
03:29
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I spent five years swimming up against the current
Thinking I was going somewhere but I wasn’t
Getting tired and being tired was my life
But they told me it would all be worth the fight
I’ll never know but I let it go
and it feels all right
I floated down the river and I just took it easy
Saw so many things I’d missed when I was busy
Being tired and trying so hard to win something
That after all the swimming doesn’t look like nothing
I’ll never know but I let it go
And it feels all right
I’ll never know but I let it go
And it feels all right
Chorus:
I say why spend my life worried about things I can’t control
Why……………
and why spend my life worried about things I cannot know
Why……………
While I’m alive
I could cry over all the years that I had lost
Cut off from that life of lies at such a cost
But why waste energy on placing blame
I don’t know where I would be anyway
I’ll never know but I let it go
And it feels all right
I hear their voices haunting me as I float by
Warning me “swim or you will surely die”
But I believe I made the best choice I could make
and I refuse to question myself every day
I’ll never know but I let it go
And it feels all right
I’ll never know but I let it go
And it feels all right
Chorus:
I say why spend my life worried about things I can’t control
Why……………
and why spend my life worried about things I cannot know
Why……………
While I’m alive_______________
I’m alive___________________
I’m alive__________________
I forget that I have a life and I’m not dead yet
I’m alive__________________
Make the best of the life I have without regret
Chorus:
I say why spend my life worried about things I can’t control
Why……………
and why spend my life worried about things I cannot know
Why……………
While I’m alive
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2. |
Copper
04:06
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I’ll tell you a story
tell you about copper
His love got on a train and
He didn’t try to stop her
I’ll never be happy
So I will not try
I’ll sit on the tracks and
Wait my turn to die
He has nothing to live for
He’s waiting for the end
He’ll never be happy
He won’t try to pretend
He sent his heart on a train
A long time ago
Dreams of being happy
But doesn’t have a hope
Eat drink and be merry
I don’t think I’ll try
Why bother to live if
We’re all going to die
Maybe I’ll be happy
My time has not come yet
But with just one bullet
I can just forget
And you can all forget me
While I am asleep
Sleep is all I have now
Nothing else to keep
Why bother to live if
It’s all going to end
Read Ecclesiates
And you’ll understand
Depression is a battle
Something you must fight
You may think you’re crazy
But I think you’re right
There is no hope here
But we can still try
It will not be easy
I will not lie
But if it is a comfort
Give it some more time
Even with no bullet
One day you will die
Even with no bullet
One day you will die
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3. |
Beauty
04:43
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Sweet like peaches
Beauty Says to me
Come one over
I am good to eat
taste me slowly
I will tell you why
Too much too quickly and
You will cry
You will cry
Soft like babies
Beauty says to me
Touch me gently
Form a memory
Fragrant like flowers
Breath it in deep
Once you breath out
My beauty you can’t keep
You can’t keep
Like the ocean is
The voice of beauty
Once I heard it I
Let it consume me
But she stopped me saying
It’s a lovely sound
But if you do that
You will surely drown
Drown
You will drown
You will drown
You will drown
Beauty if I could drown in you
you would become like the sand
I would grasp two handfulls
and you’d slip right through my hands
In the garden you’re the only tree
That has forbidden fruit
Like a lilly among thorns
That I cannot quite get to
to….
that I can’t get to
That I can’t get to
to
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4. |
Took Away My Phone
04:45
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I love you more than you’ll ever love me
I know
It’s ok, but there is something
You should know
And if I have become a monster in your eyes
Maybe you should have stopped and asked yourself why
But you don’t know
I tried to tell him no
Said I had to go
But he had me alone
Took away my phone
I need you but you’ve never needed me
And I’m sorry I’ve needed you unequally
But you should know that I still need you every day
It didn’t change, just because you went away
And you don’t know
I tried to tell him no
Said I had to go
But he had me alone
Took away my phone
I live those moments again and again
My life was out of my hands but I tried to pretend
That at any moment that it would be over
and I could just pretend that it had never happened
Now I’m alone when I need you the most
His face is haunting all of my dreams like a ghost
And I am so angry at him and myself
and the world and at you for leaving me alone
All alone, no one knows
You’re the one I would have told
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5. |
Suddenly
03:04
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One morning
A trip to the backyard and my
Mind went with no control
It brought up a picture
Of me in the future
Leaving me no trouble
As I thought to myself
Suddenly
My path can be seen
I’m destined to follow
Although
It may become tragedy
But for me
Destiny seems
To be
The goal
One of those days
Full of problems and I
Let my mind ramble
On its own it decided
To scramble situations
Leaving me no trouble
As I thought to myself
Suddenly
My path can be seen
I’m destined to follow
Although
It may become tragedy
But for me
Destiny seems
To be
The goal
Suddenly
My path can be seen
I’m destined to follow
Although
It may become tragedy
But for me
Destiny seems
To be
The goal
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6. |
Flowers
02:58
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I met this guy
He’s so perfect that it could make you cry
And the other girls
Are doing everything they can to catch his eye
I hear that he
Works with children and he has a great degree
Between you and me
Just the way he moves can speed up my heart beat
He’s cute, he’s smart, he’s nice
And he is into me
He says let’s go out Friday night
And go see a movie
But he didn’t bring me flowers
Put no thought into it, what a disappointment
He didn’t try to woo me
What’s a girl to do
My kind of guy
Would want to try to sweep me off of my feet
Like I’m a prize
Worth winning and not just a piece of meat
Today I feel like I am just another girl on another date
It might be worth giving, him another chance but it’s too late
At the end of the night
He tells me I’m pretty
But I just say goodnight
When he tries to kiss me
He didn’t bring me flowers
Put no thought into it, what a disappointment
He didn’t try to woo me
What’s a girl to do
I really got my hopes up with this one
I thought that he would be a gentleman
But I guess he just wanted some fun
He didn’t bring me flowers
Put no thought into it, what a disappointment
He didn’t try to woo me
What’s a girl to do
What’s a girl to do
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7. |
Girl in the Dark
03:42
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I saw a girl sitting in the dark
On a chair full of hope, on a chair full of trust
She waited alone, though she was not
But she couldn’t have known because of the dark
It was dark like my mind after working all day
With my hair in the wind and the wind in the sails
In the dark, all alone, as she thought she was there
In a chair full of hope, in a world without fear
Chorus:
Sing along, sing aloud I’m
Sailing windward
Now that I am never alone
With her picture over my heart
I envy her hope like I envy her day
As she sits and she sings and is happy some way
As I sail on the sea and I struggle to thrive
She’s simply content just to be alive
All that she wants is to sit in the dark
All the hours a day as a piece of my art
Maybe her hope will be part of my too
Now that I have this tattoo
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8. |
Into the Water
04:20
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My only light source fades away
Cocoa butter kisses leave me nauseated
I’m sickened by the beauty that surrounds
What is pretty is everything that I’ve hated
A morbid thing is what I want right now
You may not agree that bleeding is beauty
But to me, it’s your baby [note: as beautiful as you find your baby]
What may upset you may evoke a smile from me
Paint me a memory
Chorus:
Into the water
Reflects a memory
Full of disorder
It used to be
It used to be
I watch the day as it fades away
The horizon moves over the sun
The clouds pass the moon in a most peculiar way
The weather and the moon are one
Will the moon break the cycle
Bring on noon while it’s still full
It is still so uncomfortable
It could double as pain
Chorus
My only light source fades away
Into the water
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9. |
Copper [long version]
05:26
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I’ll tell you a story
tell you about copper
His love got on a train and
He didn’t try to stop her
I’ll never be happy
So I will not try
I’ll sit on the tracks and
Wait my turn to die
He has nothing to live for
He’s waiting for the end
He’ll never be happy
He won’t try to pretend
He sent his heart on a train
A long time ago
Dreams of being happy
But doesn’t have a hope
Eat drink and be merry
I don’t think I’ll try
Why bother to live if
We’re all going to die
Maybe I’ll be happy
My time has not come yet
But with just one bullet
I can just forget
And you can all forget me
While I am asleep
Sleep is all I have now
Nothing else to keep
Why bother to live if
It’s all going to end
Read Ecclesiates
And you’ll understand
Depression is a battle
Something you must fight
You may think you’re crazy
But I think you’re right
There is no hope here
But we can still try
It will not be easy
I will not lie
But if it is a comfort
Give it some more time
Even with no bullet
One day you will die
Even with no bullet
One day you will die
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