Paige's Songs

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

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 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

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Sober Again - demo prod. Will Easley

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