1. |
Gotham
03:11
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And I squandered my money
Like I squandered my heart
On this broken-down city
That turns tricks after dark
And I squandered my fortune
Like I squandered my time
I sold my soul to the devil
But the devil was you
So I’m burning my bridges
So I can finally be free
They say no man is an island
But this island’s been
A dead-beat man to me
And you’ve been the world to me
But I’ve been just a grain of sand to you
In an hour glass
And oh the hours go by so fast
Another hundred people got off that train
And one of them will soon replace me
Pavement has no memory
For the footprints of a girl like me
And you let the world
Roll off of you
Like a cantaloupe
Or honeydew
Honey don’t misinterpret my meaning
You may have style but I’ve got the feeling
And I squandered my money
Like I squandered my heart
On this broken-down city
That turns tricks after dark
And I squandered my fortune
Like I squandered my time
I sold my soul to the devil
But the devil was you
So I’m burning my bridges
So I can finally be free
They say no man is an island
But this island’s been
A dead-beat man to me
And I squandered my money
Like I squandered my heart
On this broken-down city
That turns tricks after dark
And I squandered my fortune
Like I squandered my time
I sold my soul to the devil
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2. |
3rd Avenue
02:22
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There's a hole in my heart
Where you used to be
Everyone knows the story
Everyone but you and me
And I know there've been times
When I've been wrong
To leave you in the morning
To leave you on your own
And your shoulders were
Bigger than they first appeared
And your face got older
So you covered it up with a beard
Where's the boy I used to know
Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow
Now there's a hole in my hand
Which you used to hold
Everyone knows the story
But the story's getting old
And I know there've been times
When I've been right
To leave you in the morning
But to stay for the night
And your shoulders were
Bigger than they first appeared
And your face got older
So you covered it up with a beard
Where's the boy I used to know
Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow
And now jeans are blue and eyes are red
From all the wicked things you said
I've been sitting here alone
For days, for weeks, for years
Friends fall out when words fall in
And I can't tell where to begin
Drinks get downed and cards get swapped
But I'm falling on deaf ears
Where's the boy I used to know
Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow
Where's the boy I used to know
Whom I met one night in the Manhattan snow
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3. |
Letters
03:56
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I just found a brand new key
To sing the blues
But it’s deceiving
It won’t change the meaning
I wrapped it up in minor chords
But it’s no use
And words confound me
With the way they’ve bound me
But I’m going to lose you
Just like the rest
I’m going to lose you
It’s what I do best
I’m going to lose you
Like each one before
I keep hoping that this time is different
But I know the score
We talk in riddles
We talk in rhymes
We talk into each others’ mouths
And try to read between the lines
We talk in cyphers
We talk in tongues
We talk staring at the ceiling
Right until the morning comes
And when you leave my bed
That space still smells of you
Like alcohol and cigarettes
And foggy flashes and regrets
But as you pin me down you say
“It never will be you”
Cos hands move quick and hands move fast
But hands are not enough to last
But it took me far too long to realize
I couldn’t fill the hollow of your bones
And I couldn’t find the words to verbalize
The hurt I felt deep hidden in the moans
I’ve seen the future
And it’s looking grim
So hand me a lemon
And a bottle of gin
I’ve got an aching head
I’ve got an empty bed
I’m feeling wasted
Wasted on you
Cupid’s bow missed my chest
So I’ll take second best
If you’ll still have me
I’ll settle on you
But I’m going to lose you
Just like the rest
I’m going to lose you
It’s what I do best
I’m going to lose you
Like each one before
I keep hoping that this time is different
But I know the score
And all that’s left are letters
Written on a page
Ink may bleed and paper tear
But words don’t fade with age
All that’s left are letters
Folded into squares
So weary with the weight of all
The heart could never bear
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4. |
Maple Song
03:09
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You tell me that the maples are dying
That's why they haven't changed colour
You say there's something going around
And it'll kill off all the others
But I'll take that leaf
Whether it's red or it's brown
I'll tattoo it to my shoulder
As I head out of town
So I'll keep driving
Past the borders of home
I'll keep stretching out my boundaries
To see where I belong
I keep your penny in my pocket
Where the copper maple never dies
You say the caterpillar's come
And eaten all of the leaves
And there's no beauty in the butterfly
If it kills all it sees
And it could be years
'Til I come back to you
I don't know when I'll return
But it won't be soon
So I'll keep driving
Past the borders of home
I'll keep stretching out my boundaries
To see where I belong
I keep your penny in my pocket
Where the copper maple never dies
And you can hate me for deserting
To the red white and blue
But when I said it was me
I hope you know it was you
Still as I cross the 49
I leave a part of me behind
I lose me when I leave you
So I'll keep driving
Past the borders of home
I'll keep stretching out my boundaries
To see where I belong
I keep your penny in my pocket
Where the copper maple never dies
So I'll keep driving
Past the borders of home
I'll keep stretching out my boundaries
To see where I belong
I keep your penny in my pocket
Where the copper maple never dies
So I'll keep driving
Past the borders of home
I'll keep stretching out my boundaries
To see where I belong
I keep your penny in my pocket
Where the copper maple never dies
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5. |
From Sea to Sea
03:41
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I'm gonna leave this town
For the rocky coast of Newfoundland
For the Rockies and the Prairies
And the streets of your hometown
I will travel far and wide
With your ghost pressed to my side
Yes I will travel with your memory in me
From sea to sea
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder
But I hope to lose your spirit yonder
Over the hills and far away
I will forget you too someday
And irony of ironies
I left you for memories of other men
Who haunted me back then
I know I bruised your feelings
I know I let you down
But I had the best intentions
When I dragged your heart through town
So I'm gonna leave this town
For the rocky coast of Newfoundland
For the Rockies and the Prairies
And the streets of your hometown
I will travel far and wide
With your ghost pressed to my side
Yes I will travel with you memory in me
From sea to sea
Leave this town
For the rocky coast of Newfoundland
For the Rockies and the Prairies
And the streets of your hometown
I will travel far and wide
With your ghost pressed to my side
Yes I will travel with you memory in me
From sea to sea
From sea to sea
From sea to sea
From sea to sea
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6. |
Whence We Came
04:43
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My daddy was a writer
He told me 'bout the world
'Bout kings and queens, things he'd never seen
That were perfect for a little girl
But now I am a sailor
And it's all I will ever be
Seen the setting sun, been to hell and beyond
The devil and the deep blue sea
Oh the world keeps crumbling around
Oh but I can't stand to plant my tired sea-legs on the ground
The sea's a lonely place it's true
What good's a captain without a crew
The sea's a lonely place I know
But I can't, I can't, I can't
Live upon the shore
High upon the sea
I want to be, I want to be
High upon the waves
Is where I will spend the rest of my days
High upon the sea
I want to be, I want to be
High upon the waves
Is where I will spend the rest of my days
The sea's a lonely place it's true
The sea's a lonely place it's true
So point me home lighthouse beacon
I've been following the stars but they won't lead the way
Point me home lighthouse beacon
In the darkest night, I can't find my way
But when the morning comes, I'll be on my way
My daddy was a writer
He told me 'bout the world
'Bout kings and queens, things he'd never seen
That were perfect for a little girl
But now I am a sailor
And it's all I will ever be
If I have my way, at the end of days
I'll take the locker over Fiddler's Green
High upon the sea
I want to be, I want to be
High upon the waves
Is where I will spend the rest of my days
High upon the sea
I want to be, I want to be
High upon the waves
Is where I will spend the rest of my days
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7. |
Old October
03:31
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I travelled the country
Witnessed it through other people's fingerprints
Pressed my nose to the glass and found
This land was made on sweat and tears and innocence
A road is just a road is just a road
I have noticed
Blindfold me and spin me 'round
And I won't know the difference
Where I've gone, where I'm going
Where the bearing wind is blowing
I don't know what I am searching for
Or where I'm headed to
There's no man that I am chasing
Got no memories to erase
I'm just making my way through the green
Old glory helped construe
I travelled the country
Let the waters guide me
As the rain came down like Genesis
We were seated two by two
And the South provides no shelter
From the weather's helter skelter
I will ride this storm to morning
I will finally follow through
To where I've gone, where I'm going
Where the bearing wind is blowing
I don't know what I am searching for
Or where I'm headed to
There's no man that I am chasing
Got no memories to erase
I'm just making my way through the green
Old glory helped construe
And when I get there
I will know
The least travelled path leads home
When I get there
I will see
That home resides inside of me
It's where I've gone
Where I'm going
Where the bearing wind is blowing
Doesn't matter what I am searching for
Or where I'm headed to
I will find a man worth chasing
Make some memories to erase
I'm just making my way through the green
Old glory helped construe
Where I've gone, where I'm going
Where the bearing wind is blowing
I don't know what I am searching for
Or where I'm headed to
There's no man that I am chasing
Got no memories to erase
I'm just making my way through the green
Old glory helped construe
I'm just making my way through the green
Old glory helped construe
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8. |
Spiders
03:29
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And the spiders come out in the autumn
And the flies breed between the walls
You may not have the words but I’ve got ‘em
Scrawled on scraps and palmed into a ball
And the wind moans like lovers caught reeling
And the trees bow like people in prayer
And I long to be void of all feeling
I could tell you my truths but I will not dare
And in autumn we wither
But in winter we fall
So I’m counting the days
‘Til the sea takes us all
And I loved you a thousand times over
I loved you when you were a child
But I knew you would live as a rover
So I bade you farewell with a lie and a smile
And the sun projects stored recollections
On the fields as the wheat turns to gold
But the memories that play all too soon fade away
As the sun travels west like a prisoner paroled
And I’m told that she was a beauty
I’m told she stood out in the crowds
I’m told that you flew off together
To discover the world from the heights of the clouds
And the birds call me home in the autumn
As they take to the sky in a V
As they practice their intuned formation
I would fly through the night, up and over the sea
I would fly with my brothers and sisters
I would fly with my kin, southward bound
But too scared of changed things I cut off my wings
For without any choice I will never leave ground
And the spiders come out in the autumn
And the flies breed between the walls
You may not have the words, but I’ve got ‘em
Scrawled on scraps and palmed into a ball
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9. |
Odysseus
02:18
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You will be Odysseus
And I will be the rock
Which you evade, I'm not a Siren
I can't sing and I can't talk to you
My words impact like paper
When it lands upon the sea
And watch the ink run out and turn to mud
Where my hopes used to be
You will be Ulysses
Nobly tied up to the mast
And no one else but you can hear me
With their ears stuffed up with wax
I watch as women made of feathers
Try to direly lure you in
As they sit perched upon my back
Digging their claws into my skin
My imagination's greater than mythology
So fantastical a plotline it'll never come to be
It'll never come to be
Forget about Penelope
You'll never have as good as me
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10. |
Anything but Age
03:38
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You offered a finger
When I reached for your hand
You lived like a boy
But you dressed like a man
And as your beard grew longer
And wrinkles waged war on your face
You said, “I can’t give you anything but age”
And I picked off the polish
That covered my nails
As I harkened your rues
And conquistory tales
But your mumbled contrition’s
Become just a song you replay
Like saying “I can’t give you anything but age”
And you proved you were different
By hanging around
With the girls with the faces
And the hair and the frowns
And as you lay there beside her
And try to remember her name
You whisper, “I can’t give you anything but age”
And you fed me clichés
Which I swallowed intact
But I still can’t decide
If you thought they were fact
And as I walk from the room
Where I thought I had turned a new page
You don’t say anything at all
But what you told me all along
“You know that I can’t give you anything but age”
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Timothy and Isabelle
They met one night when darkness fell
Along the rocky shoreline of the coast
Said Isabelle to Timothy
I'd die you know if you left me
When you are gone, I'm giving up my ghost
Oh my love if you should leave
I'll feed myself unto the sea
Poseidon take me under
As the brother of the thunder
I'd offer myself to the sky
But what goes up comes down they cry
And I've long lost the stairwell
To lead me down to Hades hell
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
But like the water he grew cold
It happens to some men I'm told
She woke up in December all alone
They found him laying on the rocks
His heartbeat ticked like broken clocks
As she called out to him upon the stones
They tell me you've been losing blood
But Timothy, I know they lied
Cos your veins are filled with salt water
And like the changing of the tide
An hour or two before dawn
Like the fleeing waves, you too were gone
My vampire of the shore
You drained me, left me wanting more
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
When Timothy left Isabelle
It left its mark, the stories tell
She cried out to the ocean on her knees
I promised all those moons ago
I'd inundate if he should go
And now he's gone, so let me rest in peace
Oh my love's deserted me
And left me staring at the sea
I'm going to join Poseidon
A man I can rely on
I've added my salt to the blue
In drops of tears I made for you
Instead of staying on my own
I'm off to swallow my way home
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
Oh water
Push me over, pull me under, I've
Been waiting I've been waiting here for you
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12. |
Streets of my Town
03:12
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Well they say home is where the heart is
But I lost my heart so long ago
Got buried 'neath the vast expanse
Of hundred wattage snow
And winter turned to spring
But then how mud encompassed everything
So I resigned to bide my time
And left my heart below
So I bought myself a compass
Placed it where my own heart ought to be
And since all compasses point north
I guess the Great White North is home to me
Levees may break
The earth may quake
And buildings will fall down
And craters may appear in every street of my town
Brittle as bones
They stand exposed
These trees on hollow ground
If they can plant their roots
I guess that I can too
On these streets of my town
Well no man is a nomad
For his whole life it seems to me
Feet get tired and soles wear thin
When wandering for eternity
And fate can be a fickle thing
When you don't believe in anything
But somehow I wound up
Back where the streets are paved with memories
So I bought myself a pocket watch
Just to hear that ticking sound
And I felt the wind pick up outside
As I watched the hours count down
Levees may break
The earth may quake
And buildings will fall down
And craters may appear in every street of my town
Brittle as bones
They stand exposed
These trees on hollow ground
If they can plant their roots
I guess that I can too
On these streets of my town
And I don't know if I'll stay this time
If it's different than before
But these streets will keep my heart safe
'Til I find the home I'm looking for
Levees may break
The earth may quake
And buildings will fall down
And craters may appear in every street of my town
Brittle as bones
They stand exposed
These trees on hollow ground
If they can plant their roots
I guess that I can too
On these streets of my town
Levees may break
The earth may quake
And buildings will fall down
And craters may appear in every street of my town
Brittle as bones
They stand exposed
These trees on hollow ground
If they can plant their roots
I guess that I can too
On these streets of my town
If they can plant their roots
I guess that I can too
On these streets of my town
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Sarah Segal-Lazar Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
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