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Hardwood
04:09
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I can still feel
The train pull on in
She falls onto the couch and cries into his gin
The glasses clink, my eyes open
I said if I drink your wine, well I might get lonely too
He spends the night in some hotel outside her room
And he’ll never fall asleep, I’m scared how he looks at me
And I said, oh don’t fall in love with me, I can’t get out of bed this week
I’ll waste you like I waste my wine
Just like I waste my days, my mind’s a maze — my god, your stillness amazes me, mmmm
I know he’s hard in love now
I’m glad I don’t know how hard and that I don’t see it at all
I’m scared how much I could fall
And I said, don’t fall in love with me, I can’t get out of bed this week
My head’s like a battlefield, my soul is two oceans deep, oh
Oh, don’t fall in love with me
And I lay down right on the hardwood
I lay down right on the tile
And I really hate love songs, no I really hate love songs
I hate that you love mine
But don’t fall in love with my rhyme, I can’t get out of bed sometimes
I wake up from two to three, my head’s in a pillow sea
I cry holy gasoline and silence the loudest scream
Imploding from ear to ear, I’ll grab you another beer
What a jumpstart to hell we’d be
Oh don’t fall in love with me
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Lioness
03:33
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Let’s talk about rain here, you and me
Bottom of the half-blue-painted world to a big wide bed on a one-way empty street
And she wrote you months ago and she kissed away the lonely when you left
Let’s talk of Manhattan, New York State
Smoking up a storm in Caledonia, playing in a bar somewhere and anyways
I can see you, just one drink and you’ve drank away the mask to hide your love
And don’t you waste that pretty mind
Like a lioness passes you by, I’m gone — one kiss is all I’m good for
Love me to leave me, shut me like your front door
Cigarettes and cowboy blues, like a Lioness, you
Play me like a drum, wake me when the heat of the morning comes — No.
Let’s talk about — No!
See what you said? We were overdue — didn’t know how to handle you
You paint me with the brush of your words — play me or play for me, which one’s first?
Oh, and now I have the sense to let you go
You really got to me with your lionhearted charm
Just like my lover never used to be, so worried sick to my alarm
And his humble home, oh I should have known
That you would waste that pretty mind
Like a lioness passes you by, I’m gone — one kiss is all I’m good for
Love me to leave me, shut me like your front door
Cigarettes and cowboy blues, like a Lioness, you
Play me like a drum, wake me when the heat of the morning comes — No.
[Guitar solo]
You really got to me with your lionhearted charm
Just like my lover never used to be, so worried sick to my alarm
And like that lonely little lazy lover, I, I try to try to pull myself together, the
The storm’s coming down in rainy weather, just love me to leave me, play for me to play me
Cigarettes and cowboy blues, like a lioness you
Play me like a drum, wake me when the heat of the morning comes — No.
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Daddy Don't Make Me Go
04:58
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Daddy, oh daddy, don’t make me go
I can’t bear another month out on the road
And it feels like free-falling, I don’t have a place to call home
So daddy, oh daddy, don’t make me go
Mama, oh mama, don’t let me down
I’ve been bleeding, I’ve been needing solid ground
I’ve been hugging the toilet seat, on my knees praying aloud
So mama, oh mama, don’t let me down
Every year’s like a raceway, I’ve ended it off on my own
Everything that I love’s always taken from me, I don’t know
Lover, oh lover, don’t make me cry
I’d be happy, well I could be, by your side
And I’m not good for loving, I’ve never been, oh but I try
So lover, oh lover, don’t make me cry
Every year’s like a raceway, I’ve ended it off on my own
Everything that I love’s always taken from me, I don’t know
Fortune, oh fortune, don’t let me die
Every city says I’m pretty, oh but they lie
There’s just so much to give and so much to live — so little time
So oh, my friends, oh my lover — oh my father, oh my mother
And oh, fortune, you’re my saviour every time
Oh lover, love me a home / And daddy, don’t make me go
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Animal
02:55
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Love let me down, love let me down
Love let me down, love let me down
My mind is an animal — its cage, my flesh and my bone
And I prayed for a miracle and watched my dead skin grow
My body is mocking me, it’s my fatal anomaly
And my mind is a Kollowitz, pastel in every scar
And my breath is so useless to every bleeding heart
And my body is mocking me, it’s my fatal anomaly
Yeah, my body is taunting me, for the woman I’m supposed to be
Love let me down, love let me down
Love let me down, love let me down
And our lips are so violent, they speak with little head
And my hatred’s a narcissist, beguiles me into bed
And my body is mocking me, it’s my ugly autonomy
Yeah, my body is mocking me, it’s my fatal anomaly
Love let me down, love let me down
Love let me down, love let me down
Yeah, my body is taunting me, for the woman I’m supposed to be
Oh, my body is killing me, every piece is inflammable,
Ooh, and my mind is an animal
My mind is an animal
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Darkness strips me down to the skin, rip my heart and crawl right on in
Go and do — I bet he could, too
He’s out drinking miles and miles away, if he wants me he doesn’t say
I miss you — well that’s all he could do
And that’s why I don’t fall in love, no no, that’s why I don’t fall in love
And that’s why I don’t fall in love, no no, that’s why I don’t fall in love
I’ve had dreams of living alone, told myself I’d be best on my own
Every night, and I turned out just fine
Winter seeping in through my shoes, every day I’m calling the blues
Out by name, and they’re all just the same
And that’s why I don’t fall in love, no no, that’s why I don’t fall in love
‘Cause all love comes with danger, to me it’s a stranger, oh, that’s why I don’t fall in love
In lyrics I’ll use you, I can’t bare to lose you so that’s why I don’t fall in love
And I’m sorry but I can’t risk another goodbye so that’s why I don’t fall in love
And I know when you kissed me I fell far too quickly so that’s why I don’t fall in love
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6. |
Teeth (Acoustic)
04:06
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I heard the thunder and cried, and you weren’t in your usual space
The sun was out today and last night when you came to my place — and I saw
All my friends and their sharp teeth, I don’t want you to leave me
I don’t wanna be alone anymore, I can’t go home anymore, so stay with me
Hotel beds and their white sheets, just like prisons where I sleep
I don’t wanna be alone anymore, I can’t go home anymore, so forgive me
Well I went out and bought matching mittens in two different languages with somebody new
And you’re swept by your girl but I’m seeing the world but I keep coming back to you
Ooh, me and my sharp teeth, oh I dream of you nightly
February in Buffalo, ooh you’ll never know, where you’ll come to me
Say goodbye and I’m lonely in this dark empty room — see?
I don’t wanna be alone anymore, I can’t go home anymore, so forgive me
Ooh, let me in deep, and come back just to touch me
I don’t wanna be alone, not at all — I’m heading home until fall
And I’m sorry for all that I’ve said
Just forgive me — and the teeth in my head
I’m just in my head
It’s all in my head
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7. |
I Am A Mountain
02:50
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She said I am a mountain and a mountain I will be
My feet are pools of magma, my head’s the tallest peak
And if my heart gets broken, lots of snow will cover me
But she said I am a mountain, and a mountain I will be
She said I am a mountain and my arms are strong as hell, but my
Mind is chasing tail, trying hard to find itself
And if there is an avalanche, I’ll take down every tree
But she said I am a mountain, and a mountain I will be
Out in the cold, oh wind come blow
He let me go, I should have known
But she said I am a river, flowing stronger than before
I told her that I missed him, but I missed myself more
And God, I will be damned if love and loss are all I see
But I know I am a river, let the water swallow me
Gone with the snow, oh let me go
Out in the cold, oh here I go
She said I am a mountain, and I said I am the sea
I’ll sing in every windstorm, I’ll rock myself to sleep
I knew he was my curse and I tried hard to set it free
But she said I am a mountain and I said I am the sea, no
She said I am a mountain, so a mountain I will be
My cliffs are wild and rocky but my mind is toxin-free! No —
Time can really hurt, but it’ll never ruin me
But she said I am a mountain and I said I am the sea, no, no
Yes I said I am a mountain, standing tall and standing free, whoa
Yes I said I am a mountain, you can never conquer me
No, you can never conquer me
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Camie Toronto, Ontario
an alt folk troubadour hailing from the outskirts of toronto, canadian singer/songwriter camie has enchanted audiences for
years with her intimate queer feminist croonings and delicate vocal tones.
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@camilleintson
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