1. |
Starring In A Play
03:03
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Lately I, I’ve been starring in a play
Not sure which moment to break
Waiting for the house lights to shine on
My mind sits frozen in the space
Between what I mean and what I say
Until its melted and gone
And I wonder do you see me?
I mean see me for real
And I wonder do you believe me?
Am I convincing in my role?
Do I shine with Hollywood gold?
Do my lines sound like my own?
Every night, I’m rehearsing for the stage
Committed to my trade
Until the sun comes up
And I wonder do you see me?
I mean see me for real
And I wonder do you believe me?
Am I convincing in my role?
Do I shine with Hollywood gold?
Do my lines - sound like my own?
Lately I, I’ve been starring in a play
Not sure which moment to break
Waiting for the house lights to come on
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2. |
Houseplant
02:18
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I bought myself a new houseplant today
I needed something to take care of
A living creature in desperate pain
That isn’t too expensive
Picked the saddest one I could find
At the checkout line
And I knew that it would die if I didn’t bring it home
So you bet I brought it home
Hey, you what’s it like to be free?
Hey, you what’s it like to finally feel the breeze?
I know that you don’t give a shit about me
But I’m the one who saved your life
And I’d do it again
Woke up this morning and
Turned on the news
This channel loves itself a dictator
Choked down some Prozac, gotta take it with food
Or else you might get sick later
Go back to watching democracy
Turn more and more rigor-mortissey
I wanna drink but I can’t
Hey, you know what time it is?
It’s time to water the plant
Hey, you what’s it like to be free?
Hey, you what’s it like to finally feel the breeze?
I know that you don’t give a shit about me
But I’m the one who saved your life
Yes, I’m the one who saved your life
And I’d do it again
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3. |
America
03:31
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America, Apple Pie
Cut-off blue jeans, 4th of July
Songs about freedom
Songs about God
Football season
Senior prom
America
Who could ask for more
You can buy your groceries
And your gun at the same store
You can raise your children
On the bible and chic-fil-a
You can teach them suffering
And how to look away
America, So free
Free as a child
In a cage can be
Our own American Jesus
Redefining sin
God bless America
The country that always wins
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4. |
One of the People
04:06
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If I could do anything
I‘d learn how to forgive
Hold your name in my hand
And surrender it to the wind
If I could be anyone
I would be a child again
And I would not be afraid / this time
Of the sunlight against my skin
Ooooh
Cause I long to be one of the people
I long to be one of the people
I long to be one of the people
If I could be anywhere
I’d be by my lover’s side
When he tells me that I’m worthy
I’d believe him every time
And I would find the strength
To give myself a brand new start
And every stranger that I meet
I could love with my whole heart
Ooooh
Cause I long to be one of the people
I long to be one of the people
I long to be one of the people
If I could do anything
I’d learn how to forget
Hold your name in my hand
Surrender it to the wind
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5. |
Fourteen
03:10
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Today I feel fourteen years old again
Kinda want to hang out with my friends
But I’m too sad and scared of myself
And what might fall out of my mouth
Today the world- is moving so fast
And I’m just trying to pass this class
And grow up to be a half decent person
But my ears are ringing, my skin is burning
I am so afraid
That I just don’t have what it takes
To be somebody
With something to give
Some days it takes so much work
just to live
Today I woke up and I got stoned
Cancelled some plans and I cried alone
And memories flooded through my head
‘Til I couldn’t stand it and went back to bed
And I thought about who I thought I’d be by-now
The kind of person who could say the right thing
at the right time to the right person
Yeah, all I want to do is save the world
I so afraid
I just don’t have what it takes
to be somebody with something to give
Some days it takes so much work just to live
I want to be somebody with something to give
Some days it takes so much work just to live
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6. |
Messed Up You
03:30
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The other day I was at the end of my rope
So I laid down in the rain and I started to hope
For something wild to pull me away
Drag me into the woods and erase my name
And I laid frozen and I cried-alone
For a couple of hours before I picked up the phone
My voice was a stranger
It was shaking
It was nothing to depend on
I wept like a baby
Paul’s voice came in so sweet
He’s got a few decades on me
So he calls me kiddo
And he sounds like the truth
And sometimes he chuckles
At what’s left of my youth
And he said you oughta look up at the stars sometime
Imagine beyond our visible moon
In all this light drenched endlessness
There’s a circle here carved out for messed up you
So I choked on memories and he caught each one
And he gave me the space to come completely undone
Before he asked me gently
If I’ve had time to play
If I’ve had time to sing
Time to notice the rain
You oughta look up at the stars sometime
Imagine beyond our visible moon
In all this light drenched endlessness
There’s a circle here carved out for messed up you
Messed up you
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7. |
3 Choices In Hell
04:25
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I used to be an archeologist
In places like these
I used to dig my shovel down deep
Towards the land of the unredeemed
I used to be curious
About what could be unearthed
What shadows were hiding from me
Down here in the underworld
But you’ve only got three choices once you find yourself in hell
You can call it a work of art
Say you painted it yourself
You can call upon a mystic, whatever good book’s on your shelf
Or you can lie with the flames
Let the smoke surround your brain
Til you can’t ignore the pain anymore and melt
I have been graffiti
Just waiting for myself to dry
Yeah and I’ve met jesus right there in the light of a junky’s eye
And I’ve been forgiven
Tried meditation and ketamine
Yeah, I’ll try anything once
To feel something dissolve in me
But you’ve only got three choices once you find yourself in hell
You can call it a work of art
Say you painted it yourself
You can call upon a mystic, whatever good book’s on your shelf
Or you can lie with the flames
Let the smoke surround your brain
Til you can’t ignore the pain anymore and melt
This world’s been holding on to an airplane oxygen mask
Lately it feels like every breath she takes could be her last
Does it hurt you to bear witness?
It sure as hell hurts me
Watching the shame inside ourselves
Play back to us on TV
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8. |
Who
02:49
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Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
They-say-this-country’s never been more divided.
We all know that’s not true
Reminiscing ‘bout days united
Don’t we all know who they’re talking ‘bout
We don’t see color anymore
White Jesus loves you if you’re green or blue
But when the president screams about thugs don’t we
Don’t we all know who he’s talking about
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Babies boarded up along the border
Better change the channel, better call it fake news
When we preach “save the children”
Don’t we all know who we’re not talking ‘bout
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
This country’s never been more shattered
We all know that’s not true
When we scream “all lives matter”
Don’t we all know who we’re talking ‘bout
Well this country’s been bloated with the sickness
Brought up on Twinkies by the great white race
Could it be a broken system
Or did we design it this way?
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
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9. |
Where Are You Now?
02:56
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You wake up early in the morning
A heaviness under your eyes
The TV says it’s a new decade
And you are older now
Then you were last night
But you still feel like a baby
Velvet feet on a hardwood floor
Leaning into what can’t hold you
The way you thought it could
Before
Where, Where, Where are you now?
Can you touch the breeze?
Do you see the sunlight
Shining through the leaves?
Can you feel the earth breathing
Slow beneath your feet?
Memories wrap you like a blanket
Take a hit and feel them fade
Watch them lighting into sepia
Sucked in by
Dissipitate
Where, Where, Where are you now?
Can you touch the breeze?
Do you see the sunlight
Shining through the leaves?
Can you feel the earth breathing
Slow beneath your feet?
Do you know your voice?
Can you hear your grief?
Can you smell the flowers
Bloom on your childhood street?
Can you taste the tears
Rolling down your cheek?
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10. |
Whatever It Takes
02:30
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Protection’s not protection when it’s from the truth
You don’t owe redemption when we’re talking about abuse
You get to fucking cry as long as you need to
You get to get fucking high on whatever gets you through
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
To survive
You who took the beatings
You who took the blame
You who changed the story just to take control of shame
You get to fucking hide as long as you feel like it
You get to fucking wish you could die
And when you’re ready you get to heal from it
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
To survive
He is not your heartbeat
He is not your skin
You are not imprisoned by this body you live in
Feel the fucking rain coming down like a shower
Feel your fucking pain fell your fucking power
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
To survive
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
To survive
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11. |
Maybe Me
02:50
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Maybe here, maybe me
I can learn again to breathe
(Oh how to breathe)
In the space in between
Maybe here, maybe now
Maybe me
Maybe here, maybe me
I can stand like a September tree
(September tree)
Surrender all, the choking leaves
Maybe here, maybe now
Maybe me
Maybe here, maybe me
I can plant my tired feet
(My tired feet)
And learn to sway, through winter’s breeze
Maybe here, maybe now
Maybe me
Maybe here, maybe me
I will hear a song so sweet
(A song so sweet)
That I’ll find faith, in our shared humanity
Maybe here, maybe now
Maybe me
Maybe here, maybe now
Maybe
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12. |
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Springtime in the suburbs means
New coffee drinks
Pink Walmart shelves
And all the other Caucasians
Taking pictures of their babies wearing
Different shades of pastel
The sun’s coming out
I’m still cold
All things are new
I feel so old
Wish I could fall like a spring rain
Into the earth
Rise up again
Driving down the highway
Mountains along the skyway
Are a bright shade of green
Dogwoods exploding
Tulips unfolding
A billboard telling me to get clean
The sun’s coming out
I’m still cold
All things are new
I feel so old
Wish I could fall like a spring rain
Into the earth
Rise up again
Into the earth
Rise up again
In sweet abandoned places
Wildflowers learn what faith is
Breaking through a sidewalk crack
They trust in the earth
And believe in their worth
And remind me of all that I lack
The sun’s coming out
I’m still cold
All things are new
I feel so old
Wish I could fall like a spring rain
Into the earth
Rise up again
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13. |
Statue of Jesus
02:42
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Somebody called the cops again
On the man sleeping on the bench
The guy who hides his tired head
Under a blanket on main street
A woman screamed into her phone
And she wept for all the children
Who would soon be walking home
And see this filthy man sleeping
But it was just
A statue of jesus
Worn down
From a long, hard day
Of fighting injustice
And human judgement
Thank heavens y’all
Have a blessed day
Somebody called the cops again
On the man sleeping on the bench
He looked suspicious just lying there
And they could tell he was from somewhere else
He got here illegally
He’s on the run from something
I’m not racist but he’s up to no good
He’ll hook our kids on heroin
But it was just
A statue of jesus
Worn down
From a long, hard day
Of fighting injustice
And human judgement
Thank heavens y’all
Have a blessed day
Somebody called the cops again
And before they could return
An American hero jumped out from the crowd
Swinging a 9mm
He said you better go back to wherever you came from
To some shit-hole far away land
Popped off his pistol and it ricocheted
Into a Chic-fil-A trash can
Cause it was just
A statue of jesus
Worn down
From a long, hard day
Of fighting injustice
And human judgement
Thank heavens y’all
Have a blessed day, blessed day, blessed day, blessed day
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14. |
Power You Possess
03:30
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You with the healing scar
It feels like the line
Between you and the world
Is merely an ocean shore
Shifting through the sand
Uncovering what you are
You deserve
The power you possess
The power you possess
You deserve
The power you possess
You with the arctic words
What sat frozen in your throat now is melting away
Can you feel the waves
Taking form
Tearing down the docks
Tattooed by the stars?
You deserve
The power you possess
The power you possess
You deserve
The power you possess
You who walked for miles
All you have surrendered now Is blooming
Into sunflowers with halos of fire
Exploding in the valleys
Of each footstep left behind
You deserve
The power you possess
The power you possess
You deserve
The power you possess
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Georgia English Nashville, Tennessee
Georgia English is a songwriter and performer residing in Nashville, TN. Her unique songwriting voice blends the tangled
roots of Americana music with a contemporary female perspective, flourishing in the space between humor and melancholy.
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