1. |
Earlier
03:51
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We were always gonna say goodbye
Let's just say it earlier
Say it earlier
Than we'd like
Lord knows that we didn't try
To say it earlier
Say it earlier
In this life
Oh honey
I would wash you clean
From your spiderweb eyes
To your trembling feet
Oh honey
I wish that you hadn't built
All the vices
Sewn like stiches
In the patchwork of your guilt
We were always gonna say goodbye
Let's just say it earlier
Say it earlier
Than we'd like
Lord knows that we didn't try
To say it earlier
Say it earlier
In this life
And I wish I was a gambler
I wish that I could view
All your cards laid on the table
All of mine exposed to you
And I wish I was a cowboy
I wish you were a steer
And I could toss my rope around you
Bring you over to me near
We were always gonna say goodbye
Let's just say it earlier
Say it earlier
Than we'd like
Lord knows that we didn't try
To say it earlier
Say it earlier
In this life
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2. |
Better in America
03:23
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Maybe it's the snow
Weighing on my shoulders down
Maybe it's the cold
Maybe it's the tedium of this town
But they've got snow in New York
So it's just a state of mind
So tell me why do I
Feel better in America
And I hear the news from Texas and from Tennessee
All these States determined to make a mother out of me
And it seems like each step forward
Means another decade back
So tell me why do I
Feel better in America
And if I have a child who will they be
Will their rights abide from sea across to shining sea
And it seems like every sunrise
Means another freedom fell
So tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
Why do I
Feel better in America
Tell me why do I
Feel better in America
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3. |
Say Goodnight
03:19
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I don't want someone to hold my hand
To keep them walking stable
I don't want someone whose courting plan's
To drink me far under the table
I don't want someone to hold me tight
And leave at sun's first warning
I don't want someone to say goodnight
Unless they say good morning
And I spent too long
Chasing you down
To the end of the bottle
Hoping you would come 'round
And I spent too long
With my head in daze
In the clouds, in a fog
In the smoke of your gaze
And I don't want someone to hold my hand
To keep them walking stable
I don't want someone whose courting plan's
To drink me far under the table
I don't want someone to hold me tight
And leave at sun's first warning
I don't want someone to say goodnight
Unless they say good morning
Oh it started as just an easy game
In the darkness
It was harmless
But I got burned all the same
Cos oh somewhere I got tangled in your ways
Thought you leavin'
Would mean freedom
But it turns out that you stayed
And I don't want someone to hold my hand
To keep them walking stable
I don't want someone whose courting plan's
To drink me far under the table
I don't want someone to hold me tight
And leave at sun's first warning
I don't want someone to say goodnight
Unless they say good morning
Unless they say good morning
Unless they say good morning
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4. |
Butcher Heart
03:17
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All my friends are getting famous
But I'm just getting drunk
And I'm running out of reasons
To be rooming with the sun
All my friends are getting married
But I'm just getting done
So I'll take your hand
And take your time
And take your heart
And make you mine
All my friends are getting accolades
But I'm just getting high
And I've run out of excuses
So I've started just to lie
All my friends are getting out of here
But I'm just getting tired
So I'll spend your cash
And spend your time
Expend your heart
And lend you mine
But beware my butcher heart
Whoa
And I like you in my bed before you're sleeping
I just want another person at the dawn
I just want another's fingers on my body
I just want another's scent to linger on
And I like the way you tell me that you love me
I just wish the words were someone else's song
It's not that you're not good to me, my darlin'
You're just not good enough to ever be the one
I will hold you close
And end it all
And feel your heart
Begin to fall
But I won't let you go 'til you say when
I will say it's sad
And say it's true
I wish you were a different you
I wish I was a different me as well
I apologize if you become
Relegated to another anecdote
On some other second date
I apologize if you fell fast
This thing was never meant to last
It was just a bit of fun, it wasn't fate
But beware my butcher heart
It'll tear your world apart
Whoa
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5. |
Even Miami Is Cold
03:20
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We take turns
Being lower
So the next round is on me
Seems these days
It's the only way
You can bear to be around me
We went too fast
Hell these things never last
That's what you always say
By the time we got to Wynwood
Well I knew we'd lost our way
You taught me that the only way to keep a man
Was to lie as often as I possibly can
I wanted to see the Everglades
We never made it there
I thought that this was forever babe
But the signs were in the air
Oh we lie in separate beds at night
And wait for each new heartbreak to unfold
Baby when I'm with you
Even Miami is cold
We make plans
For the future
But the end is drawing near
True no one knows
What the future holds
But the odds aren't great my dear
We spend our days in silence
It's the one thing we still share
In the middle of
Little Havana
We were too far past repair
You showed me that the only way to stay in love
Was to smile real sweet and let you be and bite my tongue
I wanted to see the Everglades
We never made it there
I thought that this was forever babe
But the signs were in the air
Oh we lie in separate beds at night
And wait for each new heartbreak to unfold
Baby when I'm with you
Even Miami is cold
Baby when I'm with you
Even Miami is cold
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6. |
If This City Were a Man
03:40
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If this city were a man
All my friends would keep on telling me to leave him
It's like this city is my man
And every time he swears he'll change I go believe him
Gives me enough
But oh it's tough
Cos every time I make the threat
That it's over
I'm a rover
On the 401 you bet
But I keep hoping things will change
Cos this city is the best
But sometimes what you love the most
Is what is making you depressed
If this city were a man
My whole family would stage an intervention
It's like this city is my man
I make excuses like he's got the best intentions
Telling everybody
You don't understand
He's something special
And one day you'll see
He'll go and live up to his full potential
If I leave and I come back then I'm a failure
I was made here
Put my faith here
Thought that it could be my saviour
But every step I try to take
Seems there's a detour in the way
And suddenly a year's gone by
And everything has stayed the same
If this city were a man
Our relationship would have to become open
Cos this city can't fulfill me
Cannot thrill me
Like it used to
Like I'm hopin'
All the pills and all the alcohol
Aren't working anymore
Just remind
I left behind
All of my best years
That's the score
If this city were a man
I'd leave him, say I need to grow
If this city were a man
Damn
We'd have broke up long ago
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7. |
For Good
03:38
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Well I tried to write with rage
But the words just wouldn't come
So I wrote you a message in a bottle and I tossed it off
Into the great beyond
And I wish I could hate you
And I wish I could scream
But all I do is lie awake and spend my nights imagining
All the things that coulda been
And I know it's not me for you
But I wish it was
And I know it's not you for me
But I can't let go cos
Every time I try to walk away
You pull me back into your arms
Cos like a moth to flame
I can't restrain myself
From wandering back towards the harm
Seems like I forgot
You call the shots
You think by now that I'd have understood
That somehow you've become the only one
Who gets to call it quits for good
Well I tried to see the light
But you found me in the dark
And led me back towards the old familiar feeling
That old familiar spark
Then you tell me that it's over
Yeah you tell me that we're through
And you put the blame entirely on me
But baby it takes two
And I know it's not me for you
But I wish it was
And I know it's not you for me
But I can't let go cos
Every time I try to walk away
You pull me back into your arms
Cos like a moth to flame
I can't restrain myself
From wandering back towards the harm
Seems like I forgot
You call the shots
You think by now that I'd have understood
That somehow you've become the only one
Who gets to call it quits for good
And I wish that I could move on
But I don't really have a choice
Cos when you switched the narrative and flipped all of the facts
You took away my voice
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8. |
Still Waters
03:41
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Don't promise me the moon
Don't promise me the stars
Don't promise me the heavens and the earth
And the things you think I'm worth
It won't go that far
Don't tell me that you're happy
That I'm the best you've ever known
Honey I've known boys like you before
You get sick of what you own
Don't kiss me on the street
Don't kiss me in my bed
With your scent upon my hands
And your dreams up in my head
I will waste away on wishing
That I never let you in
All the secrets that I told you
Didn't change a single thing
Why did you lure me in to only
Go and leave me lonely
I was fine before I met you
I'll be fine again someday
But right now I just regret you
Went and stole my heart away
You should have never even bothered
But you just couldn't help but go and touch still waters
And it's been long enough that I should have recovered
And yes, I'm slowly getting stronger every day
But the thing that I've regrettably discovered
On that uphill climb there are valleys on the way
I was fine before I met you
I'll be fine again someday
But right now I just regret you
Went and stole my heart away
You should have never even bothered
But you just couldn't help but go and touch still waters
You should have never even bothered
But you just couldn't help but go and touch still waters
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9. |
Hatters
03:03
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It's two in the morning
And everyone's mourning
The loss of their Saturday night
The barstools are sticking
To the floor and we're wishing
That we hadn't thrown those drinks out of spite
Ask me where your girlfriend is
I say I don't know
The kids are in the bar
And the bar is full of smoke
In the mirror
My eyes are open wide
There's blood upon my hand
But all that's wounded is my pride
And the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting just yet
Yeah the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting
Until I forget
It's four in the morning
And everyone's mourning
The loss of their Saturday night
The smoke's gotten thinner
My eyes have gotten dimmer
As we step out into the light
Ask me where my friends have gone
I say I don't care
There's mischief in your smile
And fire in your stare
On the pavement
The kids are getting mean
The cops have just shown up
To end this Sunday morning scene
And the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting just yet
Yeah the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting
Until I forget
Yeah the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting just yet
Yeah the room keeps spinning
But I'm not quitting
No I'm not quitting
Until I forget
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10. |
This Old House
04:06
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You were a boy
She was your bride
Brought her down to your house by the riverside
You took her hand
Nervous of course
Opened up the front door
Said what's mine is yours
Now the walls hang with tapestries welcoming home
And the faded-out photographs when you were young
This old house
Where you're gonna stay 'til the day that you're gone
This old house
Down by the water where your father was born
Wallpaper's patched
And the door's never latched
Cos you've never used a key to
This old house
At the edge of the sea
Years have flashed by
Like cars on a train
And after a while they all look the same
Traces of her
Linger on still
Say you'll give up her things but you never will
And the carpet your grandmother made for your wedding
And the faces of people you're close to forgetting
This old house
Where you're gonna stay 'til the day that you're gone
This old house
Down by the water where your father was born
Wallpaper's patched
And the door's never latched
Cos you've never used a key to
This old house
At the edge of the sea
And the shoreline's changed
The cliffs that erode, rearranging themselves
And where does it go
When all of that land leaves the shore
But this old house
Somehow still standing through sun and through storm
This old house
But who will remain there
The day that you're gone
This old house
Where you're gonna stay 'til the day that you're gone
This old house
Down by the water where your father was born
Wallpaper's patched
And the door's never latched
Cos you've never used a key to
This old house
At the edge of the sea
This old house
At the edge of the sea
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