all lyrics written by rose mccann, except andora, written by erin tyler.
song list:
andora
erin's blue danelectro
rainbox
letters
rage deep inside
september
secret
falling
lights twirling
sarah
burning bridges
love is a shady merchant
broken halo
ghost
to the orchid crusher
realize yourself
andora
i was walking through the mountains in spain
wondering if i'd ever see you again
my mind in turmoil
my back so sore
the mountains never gave me an open door
andora
keep me in your mind
andora
i loved you with a passion
andora
i kissed your mapless space
andora
fill me up with grace
erin's blue
dan-electro
short hair
and a grey dress
the smell of autumn all around
it seems to be drawn
to your charisma
and that beautiful sound
and you could play
and we could sing
about Andora
and everything
there were worlds
within those six strings
erin tyler
elven face
always smiling
the only thing
you'll ever need
is your blue
dan-electro
and you showed me
how to be myself
i'll always wonder
where it is you go
the phone calls come sometimes
when we remember
from time to time
the sound of your blue
dan-electro
i never learned
to play a guitar
but you could make
them speak
with a softness
that made the insides shout
in a jolly, happy,
drunk on life
sort of way
erin tyler
elven face
always smiling
the only thing
you'll ever need
is your blue
dan-electro
and you showed me
how to be myself
i'll always wonder
where it is you go
the phone calls come sometimes
when we remember
from time to time
the sound of your blue
dan-electro
the rain
box
in hazy shades
of blue and grey
her rain box opens up the day
with remnants of memories
hanging from her heart
if only with each morning
she could start again
and go back to the moment
where she left her love
and pick it up with tender hands
and give it to the one
it's too late now
you can't start again
in hazy shades
of blue and grey
her rain box opens up the day
you have one chance
with each love you hold
one chance to hold on
one chance to let go
and no one ever wants
to let go
letters
ripping letters and word to shreds
oh all the wonderful things you said
of and remember me
remember me beautiful
oh and i remember the year
when words would pass from mouth the ear
those never ending phrases sang
but did not ease my fear
i only wanted you
without your voice
there was nothing i could do
don't blame the distance
you said
it's not the distance
but why does your heart
sound so far away
but why does your heart
sound so far away
i can't handle these situations
without your patient voice
i know i should let go
but i feel without choice
i pine for the moment
i though it felt real
as i wait for my pride
and my heart to heal
as i wait for my pride
and my heart to heal
rage deep inside
a clouded mind does me no good
can't hear the songs of life
not with this rage deep inside
a clouded mind does me no good
can't see what's beautiful
not with this rain in my eyes
i'm not good
i'm no bad
i just am
breaking the glass i tap for attention
everyone turns to see
the broken shards around me
sheepishly i grin
what else can i say
i'm just trying to sing a song
i'm not right
i'm not wrong
i just am
pick your battles my mom says
everything's not so important
as you may believe
and i lose patience again
i lose my patience again
i'm not good
i'm not bad
i just am
a clouded mind does me no good
but clouds don't hang
where there is no sky
and the stormheads loom silently
above my every thought
i'm just trying to prove a point
september
today i feel september kissing the air
caressing my bare shoulders
and wanton brown hair
spetember used to mean new notebooks and pencils
and the anxiety of seeing him again
passing me blindly through the hallways
of the school
spetember means fallen yellow leaves
and new places to go
september means the promise of snow
it means the summer
is ready to go
and for once i have memories worth keeping
i'm not trying to forget stolen things
which used to be mine
i want this summer to be suspended
forever in time
i want heaven to be
the scent of nag champa
and ancient mandolins
a shaby green tablecloth
and pizza burning in the oven
you on the orange couch my name on your tounge
and a kiss that is never far
from where you are standing
spetmeber means you this time
caressing my bare shoulders
and wanton brown hair
and not the emptiness of the air
secret
there is a secret
that you haven't shown
is it somewhere hiding?
in those eyes that you own
something you're not showing me
something i can't see
but i need to
you are so frightening
but i need to
you are so frightening
why do we have dreams unseen?
there is a secret
that you haven't shown
is it somewhere hiding?
in those eyes that you own
too afraid to open those doors
and so we lock them tight
but we need to
we are so frightening
but we need to
we are so frightening
why do we have dreams unseen?
but i need to
you are so frightening
but i need to
you are so frightening
why do we have dreams unseen?
falling
i am here listening to your voice
so maybe you speak in numbers
i listen as if i have no choice
and sometimes you make little sense
most to the time you make no sense
oh baby those colours that we made
are spinning round and round and round
in my brain
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like we're falling
all i want is your arms around me
all i want is to fall into you
and be surrounded by the love
i wish i saw in your eyes
oh baby those colours that we made
are spinning round and round and round
in my brain
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like we're falling
oh baby those colours that we made
are spinning round and round and round
in my brain
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like i'm falling
it feels like we're falling
i am here listening to your voice
so maybe i speak in colours
i see you have made your choice
and sometimes we make little sense
most of the time
we make no sense
lights twirling
can i have the rain?
give me the rain
to bathe me
i can never leave my dreams
in the dreams
i am always dreaming
and i am hurting myself
so give me the rain
that washes away
so clean
so clean
he looks at me
but i don't know the colour of his eyes
but when he looks at me
i think that flowers bloom all over my skin
brilliant, so brilliant
and then i die
oh, he's got me
he's got me in that gaze
he throws every which way
like lights twirling off the stage
i love him as if he were a tree
trees do so many brilliant things
like breathe
in synchronicity
with everything
he will never give
directly to me
but i love him all the same
oh, he's got me
he's got me in that gaze
he throws every which way
like lights twirling off the stage
oh, can i have the rain?
give me the rain
to bathe me
oh, he's got me
he's got me in that gaze
he throws every which way
like lights twirling off the stage
sarah
sarah wears a red shirt on monday
on tuesday it's blue
but she wears the same denim skirt
all the week through
dancing and singing all around the shop
if she's in the mood
and if you tip her fifty cents
she might be nice to you
oh how i love it when she's at work
eric and patrick just don't know the deal
but sarah man, she's real
but sarah man, she's real
staring down at my cup of joe
if they don't like her
they just don't know
oh how i love her curly brown hair
she is so pretty it just is not fair
you could tell her so but she would laugh at you
and that's how you would know
she did not care
that girl's meshuggah
the way she bops
to the Ramones
make me wish i had a sarah
of my own at home
oh how i love it when she's at work
eric and patrick just don't know the deal
but sarah man, she's real
but sarah man, she's real
staring down at my cup of joe
if they don't like her
they just don't know
sarah sarah don't go!
but sarah man, she's real
but sarah man, she's real
staring down at my cup of joe
if they don't like her
they just don't know
i love sarah!
burning bridges
what have you got to say?
what have you got to say?
or do you even know?
which treasures you want to keep
and which treasures you want to throw
into the closet
to sing
with the skeletons
until you think
you need them again
oh cause i can walk
yes i can walk away
and my bridges i burn
i burn away into the night
and i never look back
no i never look back
at dead broken dreams
and wish and want
wistfully
no i walk away
over the burning bridge
i haven't go the time
life begs me to live
the sun is sitting on my tounge
i only want to taste the joy
i haven't go the time to die
no i've to run
over the burning bridge
over the burning bridge
over the burning bridge
over the burning bridge
love is a shady
merchant
abandon me
on the edge of the sea
of the love that was founded
between us
on that merchant ship
that sells those kinds of dreams
so this is how you left me
a cheap imitation
of something beautiful
is what you sold me
a cheap imitation
of something beautiful
and so we learn those lessons
lets pray we've learned them well
then the wilting lilacs
and the orchids and the roses
you left before you left
and then on that day
my dreams my expectations
also went away
i don't want to be
on that lonely greay beach
left like that again
away and away
over every wave
you leave
and i can only watch
a cheap imitation
of something beautiful
no never again
a cheap imitation
of something beautiful
and so we learn those lessons
lets pray we've learned them well
broken halo
i am walking along the line of dreams
where love lingers
hoping and waiting
there in the quiet recesses
of my mind
and i can see her
tapping into your pulse
feeding you what you want
into the reflection
of your saphire eyes
you stand staring
at yourself
until something breaks inside
and the music it makes
is as diamonds
falling onto ice
deep in the neverwhere
of your soul
i'll be picking up pieces
of your broken halo
and i'll hold them for you
until you get back
they will open doors for you
and which ones you will choose
it doesn't matter anyway
there is one we all will find
and never walk back through
and never walk back through
and there you will stay
and there you will stay
and there you will stay
and there you will stay
forever forever forever
and that is a long time
and that is a long time
walking along the line of dreams
where love lingers
with your broken wings
in that dark reverie
i will remain
where there is only the saphire
of your eyes
and where i stand and whisper
the sounds of your name
and it was always you
and it was always you
deep in the neverwhere
of your soul
i'll be picking up the pieces
of your broken halo
deep in the neverwhere
of your soul
i'll be picking up the pieces
of your broken halo
and i'll hold them for you until
ghost
you who sits in the air that i breathe
you who wishes to devour me
can just take your everything
and leave
those eyes
and those lips
that hair
and those fingertips
they touched my body
the way one touches things
one does not care about
leave because i
don't want to care either
don't be a ghost in my mind
don't be a ghost
who sits in the air i breathe
you who wishes to devour me
can just take your everything
and leave
he is nothing
he isn't there
unless you notice
his eyes wandering
unless you care
he is nothing
he isn't there
unless you notice
his eyes wandering
unless you care
unless you care
you are not a ghost here
you are not a ghost here
to the orchid crusher
i am the one
the wind speaks of
naked along the jagged stones
the dancing wild rose
rose of whimsey
broken rose
never stopping
my bleeding heart
from painting all of the jagged stones
and dawn and caroline
wait where the river spills
over heaven
it never kisses
my thirsty lips
i say
tell the orchid crusher this
the lilies waiting
know his name
and they keep waiting
just the same
but i am not and orchid
and we know this to be true
but oh how i would give my roses and lilies
to you
the dark spell you are
who kisses dawn
when she arrives
oh this passion
chokes my every breath
crushing my pretty flowers
until they cry no more
and i am the one
the wind speaks of
the dancing wild rose
my blood always painting
the jagged stones
realize yourself
inside of my mind there is a secret place
where sacred dreams reside
beneathe a glowing neon sign
these things are never mine
oh to be
oh to be
forbidden to me
i'll be running circles round those names
for the rest of my life
i'll be running circles round those name
till i run out of time
these are the things i can never touch
these are the things i can never see
these the sad things inside of me
inside of me
these are things which can only weep
some things can only weep
i'd run into those arms if i thought i could
i'd run into those arms if i though the would
open up
open up and be warm
this pain is yours don't be a child
don't be a girl so self absorbed
that she can't see she wove the veil
the lie
the tragic torn up fantasy
you're living in a fantasy
i'll be running circles round those names
for the rest of my life
i'll be running circles round those name
till i run out of time
i'd run into those arms if i thought i could
i'd run into those arms if i though the would
open up
open up and be warm
