Original song recorded at Future Fields in Burlington, VT. 
Thank you to Dan for recording, mixing, and mastering. 
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LYRICS:
buzzed Aldrin to sober Armstrong:
'don't you know that something grave is wrong?
our engine's hot and rotation's weird
as we're drifting through this atmosphere.'

Darling communication is key
we're making love but you don't look at me
we're no astronauts, not play pretend
maybe you're right and this is the end

simulation swarm a matrix hive
don't you know that reality lies?
post-apocalyptic do-or-die
but which one of us will survive

Darling communication is key
we're making love but you don't look at me
I'm no Neo: you're no Trinity
maybe you're right and I should leave

Oh, I love you so
Slow down your words so I won't be alone
Oh I know we won't work as just friends
So is this the end?

you like poems and provolone cheese
I like cheddar and philosophy
if the end would make you happy
I'll do as you please </3
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The End

Demo of original song 'Sober Again' by Paige Thibault, produced by Will Easley.  Background vocals by Ella Grace. 

LYRICS:
smoking seltzer
coughing up caffeine
who would’ve predicted
that this is where we would be

they call me crazy
they call me someone they’d never meet
not in this lifetime
but close your eyes then you’ll see 

all my friends are comatose
come back home just to leave again
all my friends already know
how to show up the reaper’s grin

all my friends are chasing ghosts 
takin blows straight to the head
breathing slow we’re getting sober again
and again

disaster movies
skippin over the scenes
that aren’t the most scary
but hurt somethin in me

they call us jaded 
they call us actors in our own schemes 
we are the directors
nightmares turn to dreams

all my friends are comatose
come back home just to leave again
all my friends already know
how to show up the reaper's grin

all my friends are chasing ghosts
taking blows straight to the head
breathing slow we're getting sober again
and again

isolation
desperation
we all have to try to forgive

no erasing
the pain of staying
and being someone who chose to live

worried mothers
and missing fathers
but we all have to try
to forgive

therapy is
the only reason
we’ll forgive but never forget

all my friends are healing now
calling out their last regrets
all my friends are learning how
to feel again.

Sober Again - demo prod. Will Easley

Original song "Tiger Lillies" from the 2019 EP 'Just Hands'.  
Paige Thibault - piano, vocals
Henry Wu - cello
Recorded at Meadowlark Studios with Yasmin Tayeby (co-producer) and Daniel Kruglak (engineer). 

LYRICS:
Flicker of a flame
burn through the rope tied around her neck 
I don't wanna have to see her hanging up there any longer 
Spark of sage regret
join the worms harvesting underneath her chest 
She didn't wanna have to feel their teeth , underneath, any longer

You're to blame, cause you were a part of their hunger 
and I'm ashamed, cause I was just one of the many braided fibers
Say you do all that you can, 
and then try to wash her tiger blood off of your tame hands 

Of course you try to say that she's lucky to have survived
There's nothing lucky about being burned alive. 

She died with her eyes wide open
the worms still thrive
'round her pretty head 
they ate away her mind and now she's just a sharp silhouette
pretending to breathe and to love the boy from which she lived off like water lilies

 Lies they knock down my door, while the truth just keeps t-t-tapping on my window 
till I can't ignore the blood pouring out of her eyes and her ears at least it's not MY soul

You're to blame cause you were a fingernail on the trigger 
and I told her not to drown, but she kept on walking towards the raging river

Say you do all that you can, and then try and wash her tiger blood off of those tame hands 
and of course you try to say that she's lucky to have survived

There's nothing lucky about being buried alive
the dirt just makes the worms thrive 
you all can watch from the sidelines 
as we're being eaten alive.

Tiger Lillies - 2019 Just Hands

Original song "(You Are A) Jellyfish" from the 2019 EP 'Just Hands'.
Paige Thibault - piano, vocals
Recorded at Meadowlark Studios with Yasmin Tayeby (co-producer) and Daniel Kruglak (engineer).

LYRICS:
Her lips are draining the juices out from the sunset
But chances are his lungs are breathing in the dust straight from the moon

He's too high to tie his own shoes
and she's too blasted to even know that she has shoes on.

So if you start thinking that the tac holes in the walls are constellations
I'm not gonna say you're 'cool' or 'alright' as any consolation
- Because you're just wrong - 
Your room is not the night sky.

And if you say 'who cares since everything dies at one point or another'
I'll remind you that Jellyfish are biologically immortal
Unless they get stepped on.
So keep holding on. 

You have made all my dreams sweet with that antidote
Give it to me, it's all for me, let me be; I need it the most.
So let 'em go out, let 'em go get another fix for it
But if I didn't make them try it first  I wouldn't be stuck her singin' this.

Cause now
He's too wasted to even finish his own song (it was a good one)
and She's too stoned to even realize she has written one.

So if you start thinking that your heart and soul are starting to bleed
I'll walk you home and say "Darlin, you really gotta breathe."
'Cause otherwise, you'll be gone.
Your heart isn't full of it

And if you're afraid of the jaws waiting for you for being sober 
I'll point out that Jellyfish have killed more people than sharks.
Why didn't you know that?

Why didn't you know - why didn't you know to keep holding on?
Keep holding on

(You Are A) Jellyfish - 2019 Just Hands

Normaltown - 2019 Just Hands

Original song "A Little Easier" from my 2019 EP 'Just Hands'.
Recorded at Meadowlark Studios with Yasmin Tayeby (co-producer) and Daniel Kruglak (engineer).
Paige Thibault - piano, vocals

LYRICS:
I'm losing my grip on what is real 
these things that I feel, when life starts to kill me slowly
Time's moving much too fast 
 Am I flying forward or am I falling back?

And comparison should help me, but it doesn't 
It locks me in a dungeon, 
and all my demons they come running, they ask:
 "Girl what's wrong with you?
You're only stuck here due to your hesitation. 

Everything's a little easier
when you learn it from your papa
And every girl's a little prettier 
when you use paint and photoshop to cover up her pain
Every smile's a little brighter when you're poppin' happy pills from the doctor,

but where does that, no no, where does that, no no, where does that leave me?

I'm not sure why, but I'm feeling so far behind. 
All my friends they must be cutting lines
Seeking salvation from their white lies, 
they claim it's just a trend,
But I won't be able to breathe again 
until it ends, and I transcend.  

Everything's a little easier
when you learn it from your papa
And every girl's a little prettier 
when you use paint and photoshop to cover up her pain
Every smile's a little brighter 
when you're poppin' happy pills from the doctor,

but where does that, no no, where does that, no no, where does that leave 
Where does that, where does that, where does that leave
Where does that - where does that leave me?  
No no where does that leave me?

I've been looking 'round 
seems like I am laying on the empty ground again.
I can't keep bugging out
every time they tell me I am nothing.

Everything's a little easier, when you - 
and every girl's a little prettier when you -
Every smile's a little brighter - 
But where does that leave me?  

(Where does that, no no where does that no, no...)
Where does that leave? 
(Where does that, no no, where does that, no no...)
Where does that leave? 
 Where does that leave me?

A Little Easier - 2019 Just Hands

Original song "What Good" from my 2019 EP 'Just Hands'.
Recorded at Meadowlark Studios with Yasmin Tayeby (co-producer) and Daniel Kruglak (engineer).
Paige Thibault - piano, vocals
Bruno John - bass
Ben King - drums

LYRICS:
every breath I take
preludes my next mistake
that I must inevitably make 
as I challenge my place in your universe

and just like the window pane
looked through with utter disdain
and from the words that remain
I can tell pretty well: I don't mean a thing to ya

don't mean nothin
I mean nothin
I mean nothin to you
don't mean nothin
I mean nothin
I mean nothin to you
and to you and -- 
 (scat)

I am quite aware
this game ain't played fair
everything I say
you just don't seem to care
it's my role to lose
treated as a fool
for having something to say

but what good, what good would it do?
for me to bow down to you

and everywhere I walk
gotta be dainty or the critics will talk
but what the hell do they want me to flaunt?
I'm just trying to live my own life over here

somebody tell me: what's this world about?
I'm silenced before I open my mouth
and he wins, because, well, he can shout 
a little loud?
it tells me I don't mean a thing

I mean nothing 
 mean nothin
I mean nothin to you
don't mean nothin
I mean nothin
I mean nothin to you
and to you and -- 
 (scat)

I am quite aware
this game ain't played fair
everything I say
he just don't seem to care
it's my role to lose
treated as a fool
for having something to say

but what good, what good could it do?

treat me as your equal
cause I am
worthy of respect
don't you understand?
redefine what it means to be a man
I know you can

cause I am not one of your pretty toys
I'm not just another piece of meat 
dressed to please a boy
in fact
we will be the ones to change the world
and still you're sure?

cause we mean something
we mean something
we mean something to you

we mean nothing?
nah -- we mean everything in this world to you
and to you and to -- (scat)

What Good - 2019 Just Hands

self-produced demo of original song by paige tbo 
music and lyrics by Paige Thibault
art by Hunter Hartz
July 2024

LYRICS:
oh god i wish you were awake
glowing sticky stars on my wall
feel like everything is fake
i’m a teenager I question it all

I said I’m lost in aisle 8
through a silent intercom
please help me, please let me escape
from lucid dreams of can’t-find-my-mom

from grocery stores + monologues 
from can’t move my legs or arms
from just a kid I did it wrong
this is a coping song

your sister never liked me anyway
why am I so sad that she’s gone
just like that boy from 12th grade
I do it for her I do it for Paul 

the principal made a call
I hated him for very long
I’m an adult now I feel it all
this is a coping song

coping song (demo 2)

unfinished guitar loop I'm working on!

lyrics so far:
would you look at me
I am trying to protect you, dear
from what you can't see:
the suffering of three long years

do you get me?
I am trying to forget you
do you get me?
I am trying to get you

get you 1 (unfinished)

Original song written and performed by Paige Thibault.
Recorded at Dubway Studios, NYC, during SOCAPA 3 week program.  Special thanks to Sam Palumbo, Kelley McRae, and Matt McRae.

***LYRICS:
Whoops there I go, let a little sunshine in again / yellow brick road lied to me about the poison / that some happiness, and ignorance bring: p-p-poison.
I'm not scared of the dark, I'm just afraid of what it does to me
In my home of misery, where my pain is a remedy
In my home of misery, where my pain is a remedy
Now here I sit, stuck with the fast car in my head / suffer the ride or  just choose to jump out of it / let the pavement, and the cement; do the rest.
I'm not scared of the voices, I'm just afraid of what they tell me
In my home of misery, where my pain is a remedy
In my home of misery, where my pain is a remedy
it's a remedy (+scat)
(+instrumental)
Home ain't where the heart is / unless my heart is full of madness / won't let me go or set me free / and this tension is slowly killin me / it's just killin me...
In my home, in my home, in my home of misery. ***

Home Remedies

Original song written and performed by Paige Thibault.
Recorded at Dubway Studios, NYC, during SOCAPA 3 week music program. Special thanks to Sam Palumbo, Kelley McRae, and Matt McRae. 
LIVE RECORDING : https://youtu.be/Y-jYBzG5kZw

***LYRICS: My tactics are unorthodox / flirting with the beauty I caught / My hint stuck on her bra of lace / she's more than a soft shape below a pretty face // step one / step two
/// We bonded over barefeet / yup that's all we really needed
I said "Girl, just be real with me" / she said "sweet!" and then shoes were off her feet
and alright, alright (+scat)
// Can't tell if she's interested / speaks her mind if I'm the one who's listening / I fade to the background / I'm her lover disguised as her clown / step two / step three
/// We bonded over barefeet / yup that's all we really needed
I said "Girl, just be real with me" / she said "sweet!" and then shoes were off her feet
and alright, alright (+scat)
// High heels - won't you walk my way? That's right gotta come a little closer / Fake nails - what's your real name? No hiding anything no more / I'll open the door if you just choose to get out of the box / I apologize if my tactics are unorthodox
/// We bonded over barefeet / yup that's all  we really needed / I said "Girl just be real with me" / she said "Sweet!" (+scat)
and the shoes were off her
feet.  ***

Bonding over Barefeet

singer-songwriter and keyboardist.
she/they

paige tbo

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