Independent singer-songwriter Dolly Ave Celebrates the iconic Dolly Parton on her classic hit’s anniversary. Dolly Ave’s cover of “Jolene” is set to release on October 15, exactly 48 years after the original recording. Dolly Ave colors this track with a glimmering contemporary alt-pop color; her interpretation - crystal clear vocals layered over a creative beat that swells into a booming chorus - reflects her defined, innovative artistic vision. The seasoned artistry inherent to Dolly Ave’s music has garnered the attention of major publications like Atwood Magazine, Forbes, and New York Times among many others.

Jolene

Counting all the stars that guide us 
Til I’m back in your arms
Crossing through the waves to find a way to get back home 
Send my words across the ocean until they reach your time zone 
Let them keep you warm like a jacket for your bones 

Aaah, ahh

So stay close by (stay close by)
Darling I’m always there with you 
Don’t you cry (don’t you cry)
Cause you know I’ll be there soon…
Soon…

The seasons come and go but always know the sun will rise 
And when you’re feeling low I hope you hold onto the light 
Sail my way across the ocean until I reach your shores
Counting down the hours as I’m swimming to your door

Aah, aah

So stay close by (stay close by)
Darling I’m always there with you 
Don’t you cry (don’t you cry)
Cause you know I’ll be there soon…
Soon…

So stay close by (stay close by)
Darling I’m always there with you 
Don’t you cry (don’t you cry)
Cause you know I’ll be there soon…
Soon…

This Is Our Time

Across The Ocean

Don’t you find it strange
(I think about it at night)
We’re gonna die with age
(What is the meaning of life?)

I’m concerned with change, 
But there’s no use in staying

I took a left turn a way to get heard 
But when will I learn to have some faith with this empty place
All that I plan won’t save me at all, I’m trusting the fall
I’ll make mistakes that won’t go to waste
That won’t go to waste

Once you find your space
(I think about it at night)
All of your cries will fade
(What is the meaning of life?)

I took a left turn a way to get heard 
But when will I learn to have some faith with this empty place
All that I plan won’t save me at all, I’m trusting the fall
I’ll make mistakes that won’t go to waste
That won’t go to waste

Crash

There’s a war growing in my mind 
I’m not the same since you left my side
Forever is a long time

Heaven smiles on me everyday
It’s your guidance that keeps me safe
And I know 

That Kansas City kept you busy
Should’ve brought you right here with me 
Dying flowers are still pretty
Don’t you know
Oh I miss you so 

There are moments I want to share 
The front row should have had you there 
Forever is a long time 

I remember how you made me laugh 
You always found all the good in bad

And I know 
That Kansas City kept you busy
Should’ve brought you right here with me 
Dying flowers are still pretty
Don’t you know
This is letting go

Flowers

I’m feeling uninspired with feelings I don’t have

Interlude

Burnt-out 
Grown up 
We changed

Somehow 
Our world 
Turned gray 

Today,
Today won’t be the same 

We can leave Missouri 
Last call better hurry  
Life’s been kinda shit right up on my shit about to hit a cliff 

Summers gotta come 
Tell me where the summers at 
You take a full I take a half
I feel the color coming back 

Cash out 
Come by 
My place

Small town 
It’s not too late

Today,
Today won’t be the same 

We can leave Missouri 
Last call better hurry 
Life’s been kinda shit right up on my shit about to hit a cliff 
Summers gotta come 
Tell me where the summers at 
You take a full I take a half
I feel the color coming back 

I feel the color coming back 
I’m gone, been waiting way too long

Summers gotta come 
Tell me where the summers at 
You take a full I take a half
I feel the color coming back

Summer

Who cares if the tensions on 
Brush it off pay no attention 
None to the dogs not a second
None not at all none not at all 

One shot at adulthood 
Don’t mess it up you swore you never would 
Oh lighten up it’s in your attitude 
I know your tough but whatcha tryna Prove 
Right now you're still young 

Save up your money
Waste it on a pack of cigarettes
cause ya don’t have long

What are you doing?
Couldn't get what you want so you go to the bars and the night goes on

Last night on the defensive 
You pick a fight I’m not against it 
Free your mind no consequences 
Just take a dive into the trenches 

Another time another person 
Go through it all go through it all

Right now you're still Young 

Save up your money
Waste it on a pack of cigarettes
cause ya don’t have long

What are you doing?
Couldn't get what you want 
so you go to the bars and the night goes on

Save up your money
Waste it on another party 
Cause ya don’t have long

What are you doing ?
Couldn't get what you want 
so you go to the bars and the night goes o

Still Young

Panic in the air
So I hold my breath
Death is like the stairs
When you miss a step 
Trippin over words
Couldn't find em

Never really dared 
Always on the fence
Now I now I know why 
And I’m sick and tired of the waiting 

Crazy got us out feeling selfish tonight 
Crazy's what it means to be alive 
So let the circus run wild 
Crazy got us out got us riding the high 
Crazy’s got us blurring all the lines, the lines oh This is the time our time oh

Have you seen the world?
If you haven’t yet 
Some are chasing the feeling of what they cant forget 
For what you never knows a silverlining 

Life is better shared even when you’re scared 
Now I now I know why 
And I’m sick and tired of the waiting 

Crazy got us out feeling selfish tonight 
Crazy's what it means to be alive 
So let the circus run wild 
Crazy got us out got us riding the high 
Crazy’s got us blurring all the lines, the lines oh This is the time our time oh

Where’s your passion?
We haven’t seen you laughing lately
You’ve heard it all before
I’m feeling nothing
They didn’t love me back then old news
I’ve heard it all before

Oh
So I stay around, I stay around and they’ll keep on wondering why I stay sad
Oh why are you sad

I’ve got my old beat up car
The way my mama always told me don’t be going too far and end up farther away
I’ve got my old beat up car
The way my karma always showed me to look for my North Star it’s never farther away
I need a second

Please no more questions - like did it happen? 
Oh why did you leave your small town behind?
Are you feeling fine?
Oh everything’s fine!

Oh
So I stay around, I stay around and they’ll keep on wondering why I stay sad
Oh why are you sad
I’ve got my old beat up car
The way my mama always told me don’t be going too far and end up farther away
I’ve got my old beat up car
The way my karma always showed me to look for my North Star it’s never farther away

Honda

Homesick for a home I don’t have
What a shame I didn’t fit in cause I don’t look like them
I was trying and trying to crawl out of my skin

I was livin with my parents
Sleeping in that car
Trying to plant roots in a concrete floor

Waking up in cities
I’ve never heard of before
And I’ve been thinkin
Old me
Left my heart in Missouri
Never felt this alive and
For the first time in my life
I need a minute to breathe in

Slowly
Left the pine for the palm trees
Never felt this alive and
For the first time in my life
I’ve been dying to sit still

Snuck out for the homecoming crown
Didn’t give a damn if I win knew I’d never see them again
Looking back I wouldn’t do it any different

Built too many glass ceilings
I’m responsible for
Died upon that hill of letting no one close
Changing all the ways I’ve behaved before
Running through the fields and
And I’ve been thinking

Old me
Left my heart in Missouri
Never felt this alive and
For the first time in my life
I need a minute to breathe in
Slowly
Left the pine for the palm trees
Never felt this alive and
For the first time in my life
I’ve been dying to sit still

I took another trip around the Sun
And watch traffic go by
Old me
Left my heart in Missouri
Never felt this alive and
For the first time in my life
I need a minute to breathe in

Sit Still

Well done 
you got through the hardest part 
of learning

You saved up
paid off your worried heart
so rest easy

Stuck in contemplation
You're cursing at the telephone
You question your condition 
when you're all alone

Slow down

Rain clouds
They don't count 
After all, all you know is lightning sounds 
Slow down
We can turn it around
Take your time
find your way to better days 
To better days

Your dark nights
We'll try to change them into
blue skies 

Stuck in contemplation 
Cursing at the telephone 
You question your condition
When you're all alone

Slow down 

Rain clouds
They don't count 
After all, all you know is lightning sounds 
Slow down
We can turn it around
Take your time
find your way to better days 
To better days

Better Days

Remember that you came from the same place 
Same rank I thought you grew up 
Remembering the old days 
Always pains me like a paper cut 

Now you wanna play games complicate things 
cause you think it’s fun 
You can either stay here or get lost cause i don’t give a ****


Don't you cave in to the madness cause it’s so damn easy 
Everybody let you down woah
Red brick chasin coward no sweat on your brow
Makes me wanna shout

Ohh 
You’re
Never getting close to me again 
If I’m so bitter then you’re a so called friend 

Ohh
You’re using my heart my love is spent
Yeah I’m so bitter and you're a so called friend


Hit the ground running funny how you prey on confidence 
Gaslighting villain always reeling 
Ha what's your defense?

I've been getting anxious lately from you always ending things 
How ya gonna treat me leave me broken playing on repeat 

Don't you cave in to the madness cause it’s so damn easy 
Everybody let you down woah
Red brick chasin coward no sweat on your brow
Makes me wanna shout

Ohh 
You’re
Never getting close to me again 
If I’m so bitter then you’re a so called friend 

Ohh
You’re using my heart my love is spent
Yeah I’m so bitter and you're a so called friend

So Called Friend

BIRDS

No freedom caged bird
None of your cries are heard
At some point you will learn
Freedom isn’t earned

I heard you’re scared of the downside
I know the darkness can keep you in
Sometimes the thought of the blurred lines
Can keep the sunlight from creeping in

No moment to roam
The timing never comes
At some point you will learn
To find the legs to run

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Produced by MXLES AUGVST 
Engineering: LANRE
Master: Bryan Scwaller

Birds

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Intro:
Oh my
I need flowers on my backside
Staring up under a blue sky
Sitting in solemn silence all excited
And feeling too big for my Levi’s
Guess I’m out of element
Definite need some more of that
Anti depressant
I’m running and running like it is my medicine
Everyone is so competitive

Chorus:
Early morning alone I
Take a bit of my own time
Sunlight, quiet, flowers
When I’m out of my zone I
Need to see, with my own eyes
Sunlight, quiet, flowers

Verse 2
Naturally popping
I’m a POC
I’m beautiful with my hair down
Sunlight soaking
That warmth I need
I see it it’s making my skin brown
Don’t get confused and lazy
Mention my name
And you got to pay me
Soft side like I’m like I’m a baby
Running in circles like
Merry go merry go
Need a drink that could probably save me
Made a dream and I wanna go crazy
Nobody’s checking on me lately
All on my own I’m 0/80
Now I’m losing all my motivation now
Insecurities up and my ego down
I been tryna be careful of who’s around
But nobody’s with me it’s foreign ground
If I could have a view
I would chose the one alone in my room
Surrounded by silence, not much to do
Out of my body and into the mood
I need some sunlight
I need some quiet
Maybe some flowers
Dandelion
Pardon my mind
I’m out of it
Finding my way back
Out of this noise it’s loud loud loud loud

Chorus:
Early morning alone I
Take a bit of my own time
Sunlight, quiet, flowers
When I’m out of my zone I
Need to see, with my own eyes
Sunlight, quiet, flowers

Chorus:
Early morning alone I
Take a bit of my own time
Sunlight, quiet, flowers
When I’m out of my zone I
Need to see, with my own eyes
Sunlight, quiet, flowers

Bridge:
I've been chasing all my life
Giving into compromise I
Don't want to play the same game
Where I lose my mind
I'm missing my home, I want to feel whole
Where do I go? Where do I go?

Sunlight, Quiet, Flowers

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Sunlight, Quiet, Flowers (Charlie Curtis-Beard)

I don’t know what I saw
I’d fallen over you
Showed me all your cards
 
 
I don’t know why you call 
You’ve stolen like you do
But I got nothing left to say
 
 
Hold on,
I’m breaking out
Slow down,
I’m taking now
 
 
Going through the parts
I’d play in, I’d play the fool for you
I knew it from the start
 
 
Know that it’s your loss
You’ve chosen, you know there’s 
no excuse
But you’ve got nothing left to take 
 
Don’t you come back for me now

Sleep

Noise

Noise (PROD. Daniel Laner)

I don’t know what I saw
I’d fallen over you
Showed me all your cards
 
I don’t know why you call 
You’ve stolen like you do
But I got nothing left to say
 
Hold on,
I’m breaking out
Slow down,
I’m taking  now
 
Going through the parts
I’d play in, I’d play the fool for you
I knew it from the start
 
Know that it’s your loss
You’ve chosen, you know there’s no excuse
But you’ve got nothing left to take 
 
Don’t you come back for me now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD2J4vA3HRc

Merch

If it’s meant for me
I will let it free
I am stuck on second try

Florida has the key
Help him open up to me
I know we all get stuck sometimes

It might take some weeks
Just take the time you need
Don’t get stuck on knowing why

Learn to let it be
Nothing great comes easily
In the end you know you tried

Pick up the pieces
You’re all that you needed

History’s repeated but know when to leave it
Pick up the pieces you’re all that you needed
Pick up the pieces one day you’ll believe it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFoiF9TBrM

Florida

Twinkling with gentle synth patterns and hazy guitar melodies, “Occupied” is a beautiful portrayal of romantic relationships - detailing those first glimmers of affection and desire. Dolly and Tim’s vocals melt effortlessly together into a dreamy harmony - soft and sweet. "’Occupied’ is that fleeting moment when you fall head over heels for a person. You can't seem to get them off your mind for a second, trapped in a feverish state of butterflies”, Dolly explains.

Catch feelings and I’ll show
what’s hidden in my soul
Don’t worry we’ll go slow

I’m smitten and you know
That I'll follow where you go
Don’t hurry we’ll go slow

I wanna memorize
the cold sweat I felt when I’m lost in your eyes
Even when I’m occupied
My mind’s vacant with you
and I can’t seem to operate

Memorize
the cold sweat I felt when I’m lost in your eyes
Even when I’m occupied
My mind’s vacant with you
and I can’t seem to operate

Can we hold onto
to what feels right
Cause I never said I would escape
Through another line of sight

I know that you can’t see
What this all means and I know you’re searching for a reason to try
I’d rather turn a cheek and find 
the other side 

I wanna memorize
the cold sweat I felt when I’m lost in your eyes
Even when I’m occupied
My mind’s vacant with you
and I can’t seem to operate

Occupied

Occupied ft. Tim Atlas

Tell me why you don’t go?
Cause there is darkness growing everywhere you sleep
Tell me why you don’t go?
Cause you keep taking from me every time you need
 
Play fair now
I’m burning the bridges
Play fair now
I’m burning the bridges 
I’m burning the bridges

Let it go
Let it go

Tell me what’s your weakness?
Cause there is sadness showing
every time you speak
Tell me what you keep in?
Cause I see brightness and it’s breaking underneath

Let it go
Let it go

Play fair now
I’m burning the bridges
Play fair now
I’m burning the bridges 
I’m burning the bridges

I know we’ll fight
and play into these roles again
but not this time 
but not this time

We’ll say goodbye
You’re not my lover or my friend

Play Fair

Don’t bother me I'm feeling incomplete
I try

This part of me it kills me while I sleep
I try
 
Can you tell me how will I fight this fight?
I know I’ll be fine one more night

One more night away from you and I
One more try to give myself some time
Once more I’m sitting across my sanity it’s right in my view
My world is doing nothing but blocking my view
I’m on the brink of finding something new
All I can ask of you is please

Don’t bother me I’m feeling incomplete

I don’t want this though
I don’t need this no

Try ft. CHAI

They ask if I know what I deserve
With hands tied
I still knew that I’d get burned
  
Move on it is none of their concern
Breaking apart 
Is the only way I learn

Why do we do this 
Why do we do this (people are fucked up)
Why do we do this

People

Play me a song
I’ll play along
I’m waiting for you
Stay if you want
No matter how long
I’m waiting for you

Every time the moon stops by 
Every time I go on a late night ride
Laying on a Sunday
Lazy on Monday
Anytime I can’t get you off my mind
 
Play me a song
I’ll play along
I’m waiting for you
Stay if you want
No matter how long
I’m waiting for you
 
Just like sun in the sky
Just like the wind saying hi
You are my right place
This love is both ways
Anytime I can’t get you off mind 
 
Play me a song
I’ll play along
I’m waiting for you
Stay if you want
No matter how long
I’m waiting for you

Waiting For You

https://smarturl.it/playwithit

PLAY WITH IT

(Play with it)

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it
We don’t have to say it we’re not saving it
Make it like a Kit Kat and just break with it
Just play with it (Play with it)

Sugar so sweet I’m on a waiting list
You can try to leave but you’ll be craving it

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it,
just play with it (play with it)

You know the mood that’s on my mind
This kind of snack is hard to find

No chit chat make that ass clap
Where you’re booty at? 
You know the mood that’s on my mind

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it
We don’t have to say it we’re not saving it
Make it like a Kit Kat and just break with it
Just play with it (play with it)

Sugar so sweet I’m on a waiting list
You can try to leave but you’ll be craving it

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it, 
just play with it
(play with it)

Oh my!

Close your book and open your legs and let's leave some people on read
Got a appetite for your body type I’m the type to hype you in bed
Got a big booty with mood swings. Can we act like it’s date two please?
Wear that dress that’s navy blue please (cause it makes me want to do things)

You’re playing with fire cause I’m a nice guy but when you tease me I’m toeing the line of wearing your thighs on my neck like ice

Please babe lemme please play til your legs bend like a plie 
It’s a piece of cake, I preheat your body 
You’re a hottie but I need a freeze frame
When you twerk let me play it, you ain’t really basic 
Let me see you shake it like the fault on San Andreas

You know the mood that’s on my mind

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it
We don’t have to say it we’re not saving it
Make it like a Kit Kat and just break with it
Just play with it (Play with it)

Sugar so sweet I’m on a waiting list
You can try to leave but you’ll be craving it

I know what you’re thinking let’s just play with it,
 just play with it
(play with it)

We can just play with it
We can just play with it
Play with it

Play with It

For more

Play with It ft. Charlie Curtis-Beard

Dolly Ave has received radio airplay on powerhouse 103.5 KISS FM Chicago, influential KEXP and tastemaker station 88Rising Radio on SIRIUS XM. She has appeared at two major music festivals, and received press in Forbes, The NY Times, Paper and was named Live Nation One’s To Watch “Artist of the Week”. Dolly Ave has been placed on multiple editorial playlists on Spotify, YouTube, Vevo and Amazon Music. The artist’s 11-song full length debut is arriving this Spring via Sony Music’s The Orchard distribution. The album chronicles Dolly Ave’s journey growing up in Missouri and finding her voice after the death of her mother. The record is a coming of age story touching on personal growth topics including finding hope in even the darkest of times.

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