First run through of a new song with the band.

STICKS & STONES

Lyrics:

If you're looking for something

To have and to hold 

Something to play with 

A future untold

If you’re searching for something 

That shines only for you

You better keep looking baby

Cause I’m no good for you

I give anything that’s asked of me

I give my all

I give my everything

But I won’t be a puppet on a string

I won’t be tied down to any one thing

When I give my all

I give it to all

If you’re looking for someone

To love and grow old 

Build up a family

let the children run the home

I’ve been there and I’ve done that

That life’s not for me

I’ve got dreams that need chasing 

And a heart filled with grief 

I gave anything that was asked of me

I gave my all

I won’t be a puppet on a string

I won’t be tied down to any one thing

When I gave my all

I won’t be a puppet on a string

I won’t be tied down to any one thing

When I gave my all 

I gave my all

Puppet on a String

Traveling

How much longer must I try to keep up this strength inside?
Cause I don’t know how long this dam is gonna hold
There’s water seeping from my eyes and I’ve told so many lies
Like “Yes, I’m fine.” and “Sure, everything will be alright..”
 

Lately I’ve been taking stock of
Everyone who’s ever come in my life
And I can count on one hand who stayed
 
It seems like everyone I meet is traveling 

How much longer will I cry over losing an important fight?
When I know that I did all that I could do
When did it become okay to treat the one you love like you can throw them away
Instead of putting in the hard work it takes?

There are moments when I wanna run 
And not a day goes by that I don’t miss my son
But I know that he’s living a sweet life in Michigan

Lately I’ve been taking stock of
Everyone who’s ever come in my life
And I can count on one hand who stayed
 
It seems like everyone I meet is traveling

Traveling

Good at Goodbyes

Broken Man

Undone

Bird on a Wire

To: All My Bad Tinder Dates

Stumbling

Exposed

There’s a bust on my shelf, strong and still
A quiet reminder of strength that can kill
She never breaks, never speaks, never bends
But I wonder if she ever needed a friend
Everyone leans on me—I’m the pillar they seek
Never resting, never asking who’s holding me
And when I start cracking beneath what I feel
I don’t know how to show what’s real

[Chorus]
Even stone breaks when it’s pushed to bend
I’m not used to needing, I just pretend
Like I’m fine, like I’m carved from something that stands
I only wish I had a soft place to land

[Verse 2]
They come to me when their world starts to shake
I steady the ground, I absorb the quake
Built like a shelter, calm and composed
The one who holds when everyone else folds
But some nights I wonder what it’s like to fall
To stand empty-handed, instead of holding it all
To lay down the weight, to break without shame
To breathe without fear, to break all the same

[Chorus]
Even stone breaks when it’s pushed to bend
I’m not used to needing, I just pretend
Like I’m fine, like I’m carved from something that stands
I only wish I had a soft place to land


A Soft Place to Land

Fed Up (scratch)

Overindulge

Fed Up

Kelly Jean is a Sacramento based acoustic indie/folk songwriter.  She started crafting songs about love, heartbreak, grief, and longing after her first high school heartbreak.  A natural born storyteller, she paints images on the walls of your mind with flowing melodies and candidly vulnerable lyrics. She’s known to give moody and heart-felt performances, drawing in listeners with an authentically emotive voice that has been compared to a painting with eyes that follow you around a room.

Kelly Jean

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