I can't keep meeting boys pretending they are men
I can't keep loving strangers just pretending you are them
I'm still picking up the pieces from the last time that we met
Don't you dare think for one more minute that I have regrets

My college was average, my figure is slim
Drinks come in pairs and I play to win
So take your ticket, get in line, and sign on the dotted line
I'll be back around tomorrow, don't you dare forget the time

Stand your ground
Cover your heart and hold your breath
Don't waste my time, I have nothing left
Stand your ground
Pick your poison, set your sails
I've never been known to fail

Your love is like an echo that I can't seem to shake
It's like I'm driving off the road and I can't find the brake
But I'd rather drive into the sea than live beside your ghost
So let's end this dance and fall in love and no one has to know

Stand your ground
Cover your heart and hold your breath
Don't waste my time, I have nothing left
Stand your ground
Pick your poison, set your sails
I've never been known to fail
Stand your ground
I've been looking for you all my life
So close the door, turn out the light
Stand your ground
Or take my hand and come with me
I'll show you how it's meant to be

I can't keep meeting boys and pretend they are men
I can't keep loving strangers just pretending you are them

Stand Your Ground

Siren Song

Finally Free

Weathered

Western Seas

Pull

Stars

This love is not a word I'd choose
The only reason for it is you
People talk, they tell me, "what's the use?"
They say I'm crazy falling for you

I'm windbound, baby, my sails are tattered and torn
The only road to love is worn
I sent my notes across the sea
In hopes that your love would find me

I've spent my life wandering these shores
Dreaming for a day to be yours
But life can bend you, break you, and turn
But you live and you love and you lose and you learn

Spread your wings
Set your sails
Feel the wind on your face
And let this love conquer your soul

I'm a drifter, a dreamer, a sailor by trade
And you, my love, could never make the grade
Years are passing, our time is getting short
But this love is what I know and I am sure

This love is just the word I'd choose
The only reason for it is you
People will talk, I'll tell them, "what's the use?"
I know I'm crazy falling for you

This Love

Take me down to your oceanside
Lift me, let me see
Show me channels that run so deep
Seamless infinity

Take my love and make it yours
Feel the rolling tides
Wash my heart along your shores
And see the water rise

Watch the skies and hold me in
Your heart I'll always be
Keep your faith in the seas of change
If you love me, set me free

Many storms my world has seen
But none compare to you
Toss and turn my vessel, dear
And tear my heart in two

Tell the seas when you fall in love
Let them swallow you
But let me know when you're done with love
And I will follow you

Watch the skies and hold me in
Your heart I'll always be
Keep your faith in the seas of change
If you love me, set me free

All I'll ever need
Has gone away with me

Watch the skies, I'll hold you in
My heart you'll always be
Keep your faith in the seas of change
If you love me, make me your memory

Memory

Dance

I wrack my brain
It's you on my mind again
I sit and think
What life would be like if I never said goodbye

I wish my dreams
Of you would wash clean
I loved a man
With such force that you'd never understand my lies

I want to be free of you
Sleep well without seeing you
Spend days without hearing you calling my name like a ghost in the night
I'm hearing your haunted goodbye

I live with your
Shadows across my floor
Is there a way
To forget you day after day after day?

I want to be free of you
Sleep well without seeing you
Spend days without hearing you calling my name like a ghost in the night
I'm hearing your haunted goodbye

You're fathoms, you're oceans away
And I'm still here lying in wait
For the skies to clear and for you to appear to come
Take me, take me away
No more of these haunting goodbyes

I want to be free of you
Sleep well without seeing you
Spend years without hearing you calling my name like a ghost in the night
No more of these haunted goodbyes

I wrack my brain
It's you on my mind again

Haunted

Maybe you were in my view, a ghost of you,
yeah maybe you were there
but i was blinded by lovers gained and lovers past
and never saw you there

when we met, i heard you speak to her your words
like no one else could hear
and in my dreams, we can leave the end and speak again
and start another year

bring me your lullabies
and leave the rest behind

you can marry the sea and always be
traveling on to find her
there will be sleepless nights and endless days
that, in your dreams, entwine her

bring me your lullabies
and leave the rest behind

open up your soul, my love
your ship is not lost on me
open up your soul, my love
i'll guide you back to me

bring me your lullabies
and leave the rest behind

sing me your lullabies
i'm sure your heart won't mind

Lullabies

Drive all night, let your heart break the silence
You stare at the stars, not for the vibrance
There's me in all the things you've ever loved
Forgetting's not an option here, my love

Don't get too attached, babe, you fill the spaces
Try out lines and run from familiar faces
Running in circles trying to put me through my paces
Writing all the maps to all the wrong places

Drive all night, let your heart break the silence
You stare at the stars, not for the vibrance
There's me in all the things you've ever loved
Forgetting's not an option here, my love

Stare out to the sea and think of me
You can scale the highest mountains, climb the tallest trees
You can scream her name in hope for some relief
But I'm in every grain of sand on every single beach

Drive all night, let your heart break the silence
You stare at the stars, not for the vibrance
There's me in all the things you've ever loved
Forgetting's not an option here, my love

The last time you were on my mind
Was when I chose to move on with my life

Now you drive all night, let your heart break the silence
You stare at the stars, not for the vibrance
There's me in all the things you've ever loved
Forgetting's not an option here, my love

My love, my love, 
Forgetting's not an option here, my love

Amnesia

Is this what you're looking for?
Haven't we been here before?
With my heart in your front pocket
and one foot outside the door
I feel like we've been here before

Is it too much to ask you to stay?
You're always an ocean away
But my ship, it carries on,
one more loop around the sun
It takes too much to ask you to stay

Lead me through the things my heart tries not to see
Is it me you love, or just the company i keep?
Don't look back, just put your faith in perigee -
That someday you will come back to me

Is this what you're waiting for?
Is it me, in the rain, knocking at your door
or is it fate, miles away, 
or the devil wanting more?
This is what you're waiting for

Lead me through the things my heart tries not to see
Is it me you love, or just the company i keep?
Don't look back, just put your faith in perigee -
That someday you will come back to me

Am I what you're looking for?
A thousand girls have walked across this floor
But you say that I'm the one
As i hold your smoking gun
I am what you're looking for
I am what you've waited for
And I have walked this road

Lead me through the things my heart tries not to see
Is it me you love, or just the company i keep?
Don't look back now, just put your faith in perigee -
That someday you will come back to me
Someday you will come back for me

The Company I Keep (Perigee)

You say you're going back to where it all began to fall apart. 
But you say, "i'll always hold a piece of you, a beat in my heart"
And i'll wear on my sleeve
the nights you told me
to never let you go
and, like a fool, i'll wait once more

You say you're done with falling so i helped you get to your feet
But you say that "she's the only one who ever made me complete"
So i'll take a deep breath
i'll learn to forget
to watch you leave
and when you fall again to your knees, look for me

You say that i'm the one you want to roam the world by sea
But you say that "she's the only one who could ever really loved me"
So i'll use all my strength
hold you at arm's length
and set you free
because waiting at the edge of the night was always me

You Say

you say you want a girl who can go around the world
but you can't ever get them to stay
then you hit the rocks in front of me
a siren i will always be
i'll take you to the bottom of the sea

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

a foggy night in boston
just like stars, i think we crossed then
when you said you could use a drink or two
well you looked me up 'cause she took you down
and i'm just the type to come around
just as things are burning to the ground

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

tuesday night she called your name
you never thought you'd be the same
when she said she don't love you anymore
well you called me in 'cause she broke your heart
and your soul began to fall apart
and i rose up like demons in the dark

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

i never was your last resort,
your final thought, your last cohort
but i'll play along as long as you need
'cause what i am is what you want
when all you need's to love someone
and i can hold your demons on their knees

run, run, run, i think we lost them
run, run, run, i can hear them call
run, run, run, i think we lost them
but don't you hear them call?

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

you say you want a girl who can go around the world
but you can't ever get them to stay
then you hit the rocks in front of me
a siren i will always be
i'll take you to the bottom of the sea
i'll take you to the bottom of the sea
i'll drag you down with me

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

a-ooo, a-ooo
can't you hear them call?

Demons

1017

The sight of land has given me fever
And the cure is so far away
But the warmth of your skin
And the touch of your hand
Brings me 'round again

We stayed up late through the nights and did some talking
About our point of view
And all the things I am
Are every inch of you
And it finally feels right

But it's hard to see the stars
They don't light the night as bright in the city
But it's not hard to see the stars
Through your eyes

Back then waves and sirens sang so sweetly
And now I live above the street
But the sound of your voice
Across the static sea
Makes it feel like home

But it's hard to see the stars
They don't light the night as bright in the city
But it's not hard to see the stars
Through your eyes

Everything you say
You promise to be real
And everything you are
Is everything I'm looking for
So find a place for love
Because baby, I'm coming in
I'm coming in

But it's hard to see the stars
They don't light the night as bright in the city
But it's not hard to see the stars
In your eyes

Our love is not there
It waits in the shadows
It speaks in the silence
It looks through the windows

Our love is not there
I've searched through the darkness
I've looked past the silhouettes
Staring across the sea

Our love is sun in summer
It falls like leaves in autumn
It seeps through cold in winter
And in spring it falls like rain

It's endless in the the evening
And gone by morning's light
I've searched the seven seas but we
Are two ships passing in the night

Our love is not there
No matter how we fight
I've searched the seas to find you
But we're two ships passing in the night

We're two ships passing in the night

Two Ships

You came into my life like a hurricane
And sailed off just as fast for brighter days
But the love you left was too, too strong
And you’ll hear my heartbeat all along the way

I never thought I’d fall so fast
Slow down the days and let me go on back
To the nights when you would sing along
And stay with me, not sleep alone

But the love you left was too, too strong
And you’ll hear my heartbeat all along the way

It’s usually the other way around
Where i’m the one who’s always leaving town
But the open seas were in your way
So we’ll have to find another way

And the love you left was too, too strong
And you’ll hear my heartbeat all along the way

And I can hear you call my name in the night
And i can see your face in every ray of light
You can feel me in the winds upon your back
And i’ll meet you on the next tack

I’m counting down the days til summer ends
Where i’ll be with you, in your arms again
Bring your hurricane, my siren song
Don’t worry babe, it won’t be long

And the love you left was too, too strong
And you’ll hear my heartbeat all along the way

All along the way, all along the way

All Along The Way

Good Will

Mommy wants a son-in-law - a doctor, a lawyer
Mommy wants a rich man - a rocket-science-brain-surgeon
And Daddy wants a fast car - a Ferrari or a Bentley
Daddy wants a fast one - a blood-red Lamborghini

But daughter wants the sunshine and the oceans roaring tides
Daughter wants the one true love to hold her hand and kiss goodnight

Mommy wants a brand new life with freedom and flashing lights
Mommy wants to win it all in a mega-millions mass-cash flow
Daddy wants his family, a son and a daughter
Daddy wants to change his mind after the fact that it's just too late

Mommy wants a rich man to pay the Devil for her sins
Daddy wants a fast car to race away from all his problems
But Daughter wants the summer and the warm ocean waves
Daughter wants the sunshine - to love and be loved again

Mommy wants a rich man to pay the Devil for her sins
But Mommy, don't you see that I just want to be happy
And I just want to feel free from the drunken grasp you hold on me
And Daddy wants a fast car to race away from his problems
But Daddy, don't you see that going fast will get you nowhere unless you've got a place to be
But even then you wont find me

Mommy wants a rich man to the Devil for her sins
And Daddy wants a fast car to race away from all her problems

Simplicity

You're the ghost in my lifeboat in the middle of the sea
Like a tiger in a book that nobody reads
You're the one in my dreams when I can't fall asleep
Got a match, soaking wet, with the flares by my feet

I remember your face when you said you loved me
But the fire in your eyes was for her, not me
We traveled the oceans and counted the stars
But the whole time I knew they were hers, not ours

And i'm tired of waiting for you to admit
That we never will, we never will, we never had it
And all those nights that we spent
All the days lost that we just sent
Adrift

I've been on the fence since you jumped the gate
Thought sailing away would help seal the fate
Of a love that was destined to drown in the deep
Call it off, call it true, call it you, call it me

And i'm tired of waiting for you to admit
That we never will, we never will, we never had it
And all those nights that we spent
All the days lost that we just sent
Adrift

Just how did it all end before we could start
Well i have to say, i have to say that you broke my heart
And all those nights that we spent
All those days lost that we just sent

And i'm tired of waiting for you to admit
That we never will, we never will, we never had it
And all those nights that we spent
All the days lost that we just sent
Adrift

Adrift

Scituate shoreline soul writer

These are the first recordings of songs that I write

Madde

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