BEFORE THE HEALING

Music and Lyrics by May Hwen

Like a wound 
That I don't want to heal
I want you
But I know it's not real

So it hurts
And I know it can't work
But alright
I won't cry tonight

But I'm going blind
Before the healing
I need some time
Before the healing
I'm trying to smile 
Before the healing
It's gonna be a while
Before the healing

I could rest
In the sound of your breath
For the night
If you'd give me the right

But I guess 
I should lay it to rest
Don't you know 
I should let it go
Let him go, let him go

(chorus)

Like a wound that I don't want to heal
I want you


Before the Healing: Acoustic EP
May Hwen © 2013

Before the Healing

IT SHOWS

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen and Jared Cooper

This is me saying thank you
For making everything right
And in my darkest night
You give me hope

Every little thing I do
You appreciate it
And you hate it 
When I go

And that's how I know
You love me
Cause it shows right through you
And I suppose 
You know I love you too

I go through changes, baby
To keep me happy it's different now
And somehow
You still know

Even when I'm rearrangin'
You make me feel so flattered
No matter
How I grow

Chorus

So thank you
I can't do
What I do
Without you

I love you
You get me through
You know how to show
How to make it show

Chorus


Before the Healing: Acoustic EP
May Hwen © 2013

It Shows

IT'S ONLY YOU

Lyrics by May Hwen, Aron Wright, Tim Brennan
Music by May Hwen, Aron Wright, Time Brennan, Toby Penner

Do you think yourself an island
Washing in the waves of all my time?
Tell me did you think that you would help me
Change my mind?

Do you care to know the meaning
What it really means to be my friend?
I'm sorry about the sentimental feeling 
Hangin round

And if you wonder why and how this all came to
It's only you
It's only you

Do you have to paint it ugly
Drawing lines between the things you love?
Now you're by yourself
And baby, have you had enough?

Chorus

What a difficult time you've had
You want me to feel bad

Chorus


Before the Healing: Acoustic EP
May Hwen © 2013

It's Only You

SOUND & MOVEMENT

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

I am the Hummingbird
I am the Shoreline
I am the Firework
I am the Tossing Coin

I am
Sound and Movement 
Sound and Movement 
Sound and Movement 
Sound and Movement 

I am the Hungry Cat
I am the Typhoon
I am the Loaded Gun
I am the Rolling Wheel

I am
Sound and Movement
Sound and Movement 
Sound and Movement 
Sound and Movement 

I am, I am, I am Sound
I am, I am, I am Movement
I am, I am, I am Sound


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012


Sound & Movement

GET ONE

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

You can’t go askin’
For what you ain’t already got
You can’t say action
Til you’re the middle of the plot
These people don’t care
What you want, it’s what you have
These people ain’t fair
Don’t leave it out for them to grab
You have to separate
For them to come around
You gotta detonate
Off the ground

You have to have one to get one
You gotta get one to get some
You have to have one to get one
You gotta get, you gotta get one to get some

You’ll find the exit
If you raise any doubt
Before she checks it
You better have it out
All that she owns
You need to own it too
Don’t let her know
If her guy is not you
You have to actuate
Put your heart on the line
You gotta penetrate
Right on time

(Chorus)

So did you work hard?
Or did you play your cards?
Tell me did you hit and run?
How’d you get one?

You’ll get the numbers
If you know the code
You’ll make some thunder
Off the horse you rode
You have to concentrate
If you wanna stay in
You gotta recreate
The first win

(Chorus 2x)


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Get One

SOME KINDA DANGER

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

You can tell me everything
I can keep a secret
I’ll do it, I will
You can tell me everything
Aw, come on now
Who would I tell?

Talk to me, I wanna know
You keep it low
What am I, some kinda angel or somethin?
Wait for me, I wanna go
What, am I in some kinda danger or somethin?
That ain’t gonna scare me from you
Tell me the truth
I just wanna be with you

(Chorus)

You’re undercover on the scene
You hide it clean
What are you, some kinda hero or somethin?
I said we’re on the same team
What’s wrong, you didn’t hear me or somethin?
That ain’t gonna scare me from you
Tell me the truth
I just wanna be with you

(Chorus)

Who would I tell?
I just want to be with you
Tell me the truth
I just wanna, I just wanna be with you

(Chorus)


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Some Kinda Danger

THROUGH YOU

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

The rope snapped
You got my half
You said, “I’m gonna getchya”
As I realized

The whole act
You kept intact
You read it like a scripture
Black and white lies

You kidnapped
The photograph
The pretty little picture
That was my life

Well that was then and this is right
I’m gonna tuck you under
Fuck you over

I get to stay erect
I get to move through you (2x)

You took count
There’s no one around
You thought that I’d just die, that
I’d go quietly

I got out
And I got you down
You’re underneath the fight-back
Idled nicely

I think you’ve found
I’ve claimed your ground
You’ve fallen off the hi-jack
I can finally

Stand over you the way you stood over me
I’m gonna undo you
Unscrew you 

(Chorus)

Now it’s my turn
Get up
Come on
I get to respond

(Chorus)


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Through You

PAY THEM

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

Get him on the phone, you got your own
If they don’t buy it, well you know how to fake it
You got a twisted way of throwin a bone
Ah-ah-ah-ah you got the bread and you know how to shake it
You drink it down, you’re chargin it up
Use all your money like it’s hardly enough
Stack-stack-stack-stack-stack-stack- they’re on to you
Hands off the stack that don’t belong to you

You take it
And taste it
You better pay them what you owe them
Don’t ask them why
When you pass on by
Just give them what you show them

Get him on the gun, he’s a lucky one
You’re ejaculating dollar signs
He needs it now, he got a wife and son
Ah-ah-ah-ah you’re calculating smaller fines
He takes the pressure, he knows what you need
He thinks you’re gonna pay him what you agreed
Back-back-back-back-back-back- you’re on the run
You’re backin out now that the work is done

(Chorus)

Ooh, I know you did it, did it, did it better than I could
You’d like me to thank you
Why dontchya, dontchya, dontchya hand it to me now
I’ll try, try hard to bank you
BUT HEY! Bring it, bring it, bring it all underground
I might, might need to play you
I already-ready-ready got what I want
So why, why should I pay you?

Get him off the road, take off a load
You’re fuckin contracts, yeah you do, it pleasures you up
All they got in their hands is something you wrote
Ah-ah-ah-ah you got their blood in a measuring cup
You know they see you do it publicly
It’s crawlin on you like a bad shade of greed
Jack-jack-jack-jack-jack-jack- they’re doin it for free
You jack it right out of the mouths that you feed

Before you take it
And taste it
You better pay them what you owe them
Don’t ask them why
When you pass on by
Just give them what you show



Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Pay Them

THE FORMULA

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

I’m trying to remember the formula
It was equal on both sides
I’m trying to remember the formula
Always a positive result
I’m trying to remember the formula
We were in love

With all the elements combined
It was perfection
It was perfection

I’m trying to remember the formula
If I was in love before
I’m trying to remember the formula
Theoretically I should love again

(Chorus)

Most of the language I can still recall
But the solution must be totally accurate
Totally accurate

(Chorus)
I’m trying to remember the formula
I’m trying to remember the formula


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

The Formula

EVERYBODY'S INTO IT

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

I got the message in a magazine
I heard somebody tell me what it means
You can’t believe how much I feel the same
You spoke to me and that is why I came

It goes on, on, it’s trackin itself
I only pulled it out the back of the shelf
We get the picture when it’s on TV
And we don’t give a damn about reality

Everybody’s into it (3x)

It’s on, it’s on, it’s on, it’s on, it’s on, it’s on, it’s on
Did you hear me?
It’s on, it’s on, it’s on
Did you hear me?
It’s on.


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Everybody's Into It

HERE TO PLAY

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

I’m keepin cold hands
I’m keepin no man
She left you open my dear
She’s gone and I’m here
Don’t say you miss her
Don’t stop me mister

Well it’s better this way
Just forget her, okay?
Baby I’m wetter this way
I came over to play
I’m here today
I’m here to play

I want you right now
Want you to bite down
Let me hold you tightly
She can’t do it like me
I’m the best kind of friend
I start and I end
I’m the best kind of friend
I start and I end

(Chorus)

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah 

(Chorus 2x)


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Here to Play

DO SOMETHING

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

My mother's eyes
And yours, I can’t look at them
And other lies
I tried to but I can’t win
And now it’s out there like an anthem

You don’t have to explain
I know there’s nothing you can do
You know I can’t complain
It’s all my fault, it’s not you
I have to stop, I’ve got to

I promise I’m doing something about it
I promise I’m doing something about it
As soon as I get out of here
When I get out of here

It wasn’t clear
What had happened that day
I disappeared
When they took me away
Tell her I’ll be okay

(Chorus)

Little sister, little sister
When you gonna go and give up on me?
Little sister, little sister
Will you be flyin until I’m free?

(Chorus 2x)
I promise I will, promise I will do something
I promise I will, promise I will do something
When I get out, get out, get out, get out of here
When I get out of here


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

Do Something

COME UNDONE

Lyrics by May Hwen
Music by May Hwen, Johnny Bennett, and Blackcat Sylvester

They say that
If I can be modified
Then I can belong

I feel like one of them
I’m changing from the inside
But could they be wrong?

She’s fascinated with real people
They come undone, they come undone
She’s fascinated with real people
She wants to be one, she wants to be one (2x)

They don’t know I speak
They talk of me
And I can hear
You’re the only one
That doesn’t look at me
With eyes of fear

And what if I go back
To find you?
I wouldn’t let them stop me
And somehow
They don’t live like I do
Every time I get up
They come down

(Chorus)

Sometimes
I find
I’d rather be back in captivity
Is it out here
Or in there
Where they will finish me?

(Chorus)
She’s fascinated
She’s fascinated


Strait Push album
May Hwen © 2012

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