Ferrick's pop-punk riot grrrl take on the classic Sleater-Kinney song. They produce, record, and play it all on this one.

You're No Rock N' Roll Fun

It's Hard to Dance When It's Cold and There's No Music: The Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album Volume 2

Winter

Careful           ©2015 melissa ferrick						

None of this really makes sense								
So just come in and close the door				
Let’s leave it all for something else				
To show us what it is we’re in for				
Sitting all the way across this room				
I just gave myself to you 					
Every love I’ve ever had					
I want to thank for						
Getting me to you						
Every love I’ve ever had					
Getting me to you						

I’m going to careful careful careful 
I will be careful careful careful 
I’m going to careful careful careful
I will be careful with you


This out of no-where’s got me hooked 				
I am overwhelmed and falling					
So every time I start to listen to the fear 			
I close my eyes and picture you				
I’m going to let myself sink right down in			
To the safety of your voice					
When we’re laying in the half dark 				
You’re holding my face						
Saying we are more than alright 				
When we’re laying in the half dark 				
You’re holding my face						
Saying we are more than alright 				



We’ve both been broken by big things
Been planes up there circling
We have watched our friends collapse
Under their own gravity

Throwback your head 
Open up your hands
Come on baby laugh
Let’s not let our future down
By wandering around in our past
You’re so beautiful
You’re So right here 
It kind of hurts to look
So I’m going to turn the light on
Look in your eyes
And feel the weight of this love
Yea I’m going to turn the light on
Look in your eyes
And feel the weight of our love

I’m going to careful careful careful 
I will be careful careful careful 
I’m going to careful careful careful
I promise 
I will be careful with you

Melissa Ferrick

Careful

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Melissa Ferrick's 12th original album is a coming home.  She has arrived in a place musically that is both familiar and new.  Melissa is a better writer, engineer, producer, and overall artist.  The self-titled album is, in many ways, a new beginning for Ferrick.  Written in just over a year, recorded at home, and released on her own relaunched label, Right On Records, Ferrick has given us a simple, eloquent, and honest acoustic album with an undeniable level of maturity. For long-time fans, this will be a welcome new arrival.  For those who are just discovering Ferrick, this is a superb way to be introduced. A completely solo effort in its process, creation, and release, Melissa Ferrick is marking the middle of her career with a perfect return to songwriting, and to herself.  

Say Yes

The Truth Is

Overboard

Still Right Here

I Will Back You Up

Pity Song						m.ferrick
This is not a pity song
this is how i feel
I've been carrying around a time bomb
filled with your lies and my fears

you've got me al tied up
on the inside
You were my three year drink
now you've got nothing on me baby
Just an "i'm sorry and i didn't think"

Yea I've been carrying your secret
Everywhere I go
I'm carrying your secret
you made sure to drill it into my bones

So i'm 
trying to see the light in it
trying to see the light here
trying to figure out 
what I'm supposed to learn form this
trying to see the light
trying to see the light
trying to figure out what I'm supposed to learn form this

Stuck in my head
your betrayal
on repeat your body those texts
You were out there living two lives baby
who knew you were a Jekyll and Hyde

And now i can't turn on the radio
for fear of all those lyrics just driving me mad
so I'm sticking it to classical
pulling deep breaths 
and praying to the sky
show me the light
show me the light
show me that there's light behind this
	"cause I'm a mountain unmovable
	this is what i've come to know
	Wind in my face
	And clouds that won't let go
	Hey i've been stuck in this landscape
	For far too long
	So bring me a new love
	Bring me a new love
	To carry me on
show me the light
show me the light
show me that there's light behind all this
Yea come on  show me the light
show me the light show me that there's light behind this
Show me the Light

Pity Song

Massive Blur

Ten Friends

Wonder Why

Freedom

Drive

Some Kinda Nerve

The Stranger

Everything I Need

Willing To Wait

Til You're Dead

Stars Outnumber Our Hearts  ©2015 melissa ferrick

It was diner time 
In this tiny seaside town
Dogs were barking kids laughing
I was counting the days left ‘till fall
The sun was setting heavy
The moon trace paper thin
And i was getting ready
To go out and get my fill
Of oysters so small sweet and cold
A dozen oysters to help me
Taste beauty in getting old

Because the smaller the thing the bigger it feels 
The less these days I’ve got to worry about
You’ve got the kind of smile that holds me down
The simpler the words the more they mean
The less i try to fix you the more i can fix me
You’ve got the kind of smile that holds me down

Oh it seemed the whole town was out that night
with their sun tanned hands and their sandy jeans
And while the local band started digging in 
the volume of happiness completely shut down
every cell phone and every TV 
Everybody’s pretense of “it’s all about me”
and so we grabbed our drinks grabbed our chairs 
headed towards the exit and walked outside 
and we went into the streets people poured out of cars 
and all at once it seemed
we were all looking up to witness
this display being put on by the mystic 

oh the whole dome of stars that night 
never had the darkness looked so bright
never had the silence sounded so right 

and then this lady next to me just off the cuff said “the stars outnumber our hearts”
and everything inside of me just took a breath and stopped
stars outnumber our hearts

because the smaller the thing the bigger it feels 
the less these days I’ve got to worry about
you’ve got the kind of smile that holds me down
the simpler the words the more they mean
the less i try to fix you the more i can fix me
you’ve got the kind of smile that holds me down
you’ve got the kind of smile that holds me down


when the lights came back on I closed out my check 
and started back home
with the knowingness that my capacity to have a  little bit of fun had grown
with this moment this memory that i would always hold
this perfect night in August 
when I got good with getting old
I got good with getting old
getting good with getting old

because the smaller the thing the bigger it feels 
the less these days i’ve got to worry about

Stars Outnumber Our Hearts

in the Eyes of Strangers

It's Been a Long Time

Come On Life

Easy

Stuck						

V1
Waiting for the rain to start
Looking at the sky
Trying to find some sympathy I can't seem to find inside
And I’m trying not to think of you
And ways we used to be
But I keep flashing in on your jaw line
To tell you the truth, I'd like to kick you out of me

CH
But I'm stuck here
Waiting for the shoe to drop
Yeah, waiting for a phone to ring
Somebody might need me again
Yeah, I'm stuck here
Waiting for the paint to dry
Waiting on the love of my life
Come on and need me again

V2
Yeah, I thought all the growing was over
That I'd hit some kind of stride
So I went and I put my guard down
You all came and hit me from behind
Hit me from behind

B
And you think I would have learned all this
The first time around
That pushing only busts stuff
Lying makes me feel obnoxious
And you, yeah, baby you are clearly still no good for me at all
You’re no damn good for me
I said, you're no damn good



CH
And I'm stuck here
Waiting for the shoe to drop
Yeah, waiting for the phone to ring
Want someone to need me again

Yeah, I'm stuck here
Waiting for the paint to dry
Everybody look at the folk singer waiting on the love of her life
Come on and need me

TAG
So rest eludes me
Now I’m back where I've already been
Waiting for the rain to start
Looking at the sky

Stuck

One Year

So Far Gone

Valentine Heartache

Crack the Mirror

One Night Stand

70 People at 7,000 Feet

Drive (Live) [feat. Brian Winton]

Will You Be the One

Mercy (Live) [feat. Brian Winton]

The Other Side

Anything Anywhere

I Still Love You

Some Kind of Nerve (Live) [feat. Brian Winton]

Skinner, Faster, Live at the B.P.C.

Everything I Need (Live)

Listen Hard

Burn This Guitar

Win 'Em Over (Live)

Drive (Mk's Moog Mix)

Drive (MK's Moog Mix)

Sky Above

On August 15th, 2023, Ferrick released Black Dress, their first single in eight years, via the venerable Kill Rock Stars Records. This release coincides with the 30th anniversary of Ferrick's critically acclaimed major label debut, Massive Blur. Ferrick is celebrating the new release and her 30th Anniversary by touring a retrospective show titled, Throughlines. In other big news, Melissa has started a management company, Drive Music Agency (D.M.A.), where she represents Brennan Wedl and Joh Chase. 
     Melissa Ferrick is regarded in the industry and by their peers as one of the most prolific, generous, and hardworking people in the business. After opening for Morrissey in the U.S. and UK, Ferrick signed with Atlantic Records at the age of 21 and released her debut and sophomore albums with them. Between 1996 and 1999, Melissa released three albums with the Colorado-based indie label W.A.R. Records. In 2000, Melissa launched the nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records. Ferrick put out two critically acclaimed albums with NY-based label MPress Records between 2011 and 2013. She's released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and has won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. Melissa has shared the stage with countless acts, some of which include Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d. Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others. 
     Besides her work in the music industry, Ferrick is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University in the Music Department. Melissa teaches courses in the music business, songwriting, creative entrepreneurship, demo recording and production, live performance, and the psychology of creativity. From 2013 – to 2019, Melissa was an Associate Professor of Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. She holds an Ed.M from Harvard University.   

*Melissa is the named plaintiff of the class action lawsuit Ferrick v. Spotify for willful copyright infringement.  

An internationally recognized performing songwriter, Melissa won numerous awards and honors some of which include:
2016    #3: Song of the Year, “Stars Outnumber our Hearts”—Boston Herald, 
2015    #20 “Top 50 Indie Women in Music”—Non-Hollywood
2014    Alt-Country Album of the Year Independent Music Award - Fan Vote.

Signed to Atlantic Records in 1992 at the age of 21, after opening up for Morrissey in the US and UK, they released their debut and sophomore albums on Atlantic to critical acclaim before moving on to Independent label W.A.R. Records between 1996 and 1999. In 2000, Ferrick founded the nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records. Regarded in the industry and by peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business, Ferrick still tours regularly playing throughout North America. They have shared the stage with Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, Dar Williams, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d.Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others.

                                            Extended Bio:
Melissa grew up in Ipswich, MA during the 70s, playing the violin and going to jazz clubs on the North Shore with her father, who managed local bands. In elementary school, she learned to play trumpet and bass guitar, which led the way to songwriting in high school.  At 16, Melissa was accepted into the New England Conservatory (N.E.C.) Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble as a trumpet player, allowing her to tour with the N.E.C. Extension Division, which traveled to perform in California and China. She was accepted to Berklee College of Music on songwriting and trumpet scholarships and chose to continue her music education there from 1988-1990.  After two years playing in Boston's local rock club scene, Melissa left school and moved to New York City.  In July of 1991, Melissa's phone rang and she was asked to open that night for Morrissey in Boston on his “Kill Uncle” tour.  She was invited to finish the U.S. dates with Morrissey and to continue to the U.K. as his opening act.  When she returned to the States, at 20 years old, she was offered deals with three major labels. 
Melissa signed with Atlantic Records, and in 1993 she released her debut album, "Massive Blur."  After her sophomore effort, "Willing to Wait," was released in 1995, Melissa was dropped by Atlantic Records.  She regrouped and released three albums on Boulder, CO-based W.A.R.? Records. In 2000, Ferrick founded her label, Right On Records, and released a string of Albums and EPs. In 2010, before almost going bankrupt, Ferrick put her label on hold and signed with NY-based MPress Records. Melissa released two albums with MPress, 2011's "Still Right Here" and 2013's "The Truth Is.” Still Right Here debuted on Billboard’s Heat-Seekers Album Charts, won an 8th annual International Acoustic Music Award (IAMA), and garnered two Independent Music Award (IMA) nominations. The title track’s music video premiered on the launch of Huffington Post’s Gay site and won two RightOut TV awards. Ferrick was also a featured music honoree in OUT Magazine’s OUT100 – focusing on artists who make an impact on the community.  2013's "The Truth Is" won the 2014 Independent Music Award for Alt-Country Album of the Year Fan Vote. Ferrick is an eight-time Boston Music Award winner.

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