1. |
Avalanche
04:18
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What I know is that I’m good
At getting on then getting right back off the hook
Making plans for someone else
But every book I’ve ever held re-writes itself
I get worn out on my favorite cycle
Where I do something dumb and try to survive it
When I try to say the things I can’t
It comes out like an avalanche
How else do I prove that I adore you
Something about my savage heart
That wants to tear your world apart
And stitch it all right back together for you
What you do just for me
Is rake yourself across the coals that I can’t see
You never ask for me to prove
You just know I do the very same for you
I get spit out facing problems sideways
And I dig my fingers into the good things
When I try to say the things I can’t
It comes out like an avalanche
How else do I prove that I adore you
Something about my savage heart
That wants to tear your world apart
And stitch it all right back together for you
For you
Got plans for you
Used to worry I was a goner
Wanted just what I wanted
Scraping down at the bottom
Thought I’d never dig out
When I try to say the things I can’t
It comes out like an avalanche
How else do I prove that I adore you
Something about my savage heart
That wants to tear your world apart
And stitch it all right back together for you
For you
Got plans for you
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2. |
Knife Went In
03:39
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Broken but not anymore
Ripped up on the living room floor
I’m done making a mess
When we undress
There’s a mark on your body
Where the knife went in
And I can’t get around it
And I won’t forget
That I need what I wanted
And it all begins
At the place on your body
Where the knife went knife went in
Hold me, hold me close
You’re the only one who knows
You’re the only one I need
So keep holding onto me
Your lungs fill, then empty again
It’s quiet in the big hotel bed
Birds come singing their song
We sing along
There’s a mark on my body
Where the knife went in
Like a map to the memory
Of who I’ve been
Can’t erase what I started
When I pulled you in
To the place on my body
Where the knife went knife went in
Hold me, hold me close
You’re the only one who knows
You’re the only one I need
So keep holding onto me
You’re the light you’re the lantern
And you shine right through
I don’t know why you love me
But thank God you do
All I need’s what I wanted
And it all begins
At the place on your body
Where the knife went knife went in
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3. |
Goldenrod
04:25
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Remember we got so lost
Up at your parents’ place
Out in the goldenrod
With the sun on your face
We wandered around all day
Shot off some flares at night
Drinking til we felt saved
But you know we were right
I never said goodbye to you
I never thought that I’d have to
I never said goodbye to you
I don’t know how
I don’t know how
We’d go driving around downtown
Smoking in parking lots
And letting the ash burn down
On the ones we forgot
Just taking the backroads fast
Singing and laughing loud
With the radio always on and
Fading in, fading out
I never said goodbye to you
I never thought that I’d have to
I never said goodbye to you
I don’t know how
I don’t know how
Oh the way that you looked into me then
I could put a frame around it
I could hang it up
Oh the way that you sang it to me then
I’m listening
But I’m out of luck
You never felt a thing
That’s what the paper said
Your sister just losing it
And the street glowing red
As soon as the call came in
I got the hell out of town
I couldn’t stand to see them
Put you into the ground
I never said goodbye to you
I never thought that I’d have to
I never said goodbye to you
I don’t know how
I don’t know how
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4. |
Everglades
03:43
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I know what I said but
I was wrong, I was wrong
You left when I said that
Now you’re gone, I was wrong
Couldn’t tell you what trip I was on
When I was in the Everglades
When I was in the Everglades
Caught a lotta shade
Can’t remember everything
I tell the truth but in between
I say a lot of things I don’t mean
Don’t know what you read but
It’s a lie, it’s a lie
Don’t know what they said but
It’s a lie, it’s a dirty rotten lie
This mark won’t wash away, I don’t know why
When I was in the Everglades
When I was in the Everglades
Caught a lotta shade
I can’t remember everything
I tell the truth but in between
I say a lot of things I don’t mean
Got whiplash trying to look back
In the sawgrass, what an awful mess
Hit me fast, just like glass
I shatter, doesn’t matter anyway
Scrambling to get your story straight
When I was in the Everglades
When I was in the Everglades
When I was in the Everglades
When I was in the Everglades
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5. |
Bury Me Slowly
04:47
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Got a retainer
It doesn’t fit now
But I had teeth once
Different from these ones
I got a loaner
Out in the driveway
I lost my own car
She’s strewn cross the highway
Gimme a reason
Gimme me a footnote
Tell me I’m yours
Or tell me that I won’t
Be in the morning
When I’m up early
Telling you straight
That I meant to get dirty
Bury me slowly
I got a long way left to go
I’m feeling mostly
One hell of a pull from down below
I hid in the bathroom
Next to my brother
While I was listening
To sounds of my mother
Learning the lesson
Somebody taught him
Time out of mind
But that wheel keeps on turning
I know what you’re thinking
I know what you do
I got a lot riding on you
I prayed to God:
Don’t let me grow to be
The bottomless monster
That I have seen
Bury me slowly
I got a long way left to go
I’m feeling mostly
One hell of a pull from down below
Now I am quiet
No one can hear me
Faded to nothing
Barely a memory
But I’ll be up early
Just like I said so
Looking for reasons
Looking for footnotes
No one believes me
But I think I’m good
I think I’m worth it
And I wish you could
Pick me up right here
Speed through the stoplights
And don’t stop driving
Til we get all right
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6. |
Next Time Around
03:09
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City livin’s mighty close
I wanna know what I can’t know
I seen you from across the street
Chances are, we’ll never meet
But oh, when I fall, I fall good and I fall hard
Can’t tell between what I need and what I want
Goodbye sunshine, I see straight to the heart of it
We slide right by then go back to the start of it
Maybe we’ll get even closer the next time around
One day you might grab a seat
On the empty barstool next to me
Or you’ll drop your books and I pick em up
When I hand them back, our fingers touch
Oh, when I fall, I fall good and I fall hard
Can’t tell between what I need and what I want
Goodbye sunshine, I see straight to the heart of it
We slide right by then go back to the start of it
Maybe we’ll get even closer the next time around
Maybe we’ll get even closer the next time around
As I lay me down to sleep
I pray that I might dream so deep
Of all the things that might have been
Or that right now might be happening
Goodbye sunshine, I see straight to the heart of it
We slide right by then go back to the start of it
Maybe we’ll get even closer the next time around
Maybe we’ll get even closer the next time around
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Got a memory to amputate
Digging for the novocaine
Looking for some relief
Doctor of ontology
Took some wanting out of me
Like he was pulling teeth
I don’t know why
I keep losing time
The sun was high until I blinked
Look up, it’s later than you think
Got a finger to my wrist again
Thrumming underneath the skin
Is singing be here now
Can you point me to a simple thing
Loosen up my suffering
Because I don’t know how
I don’t know why
I keep losing time
The sun was high until I blinked
Look up, it’s later than you think
Flattening the parallax
Numbing out behind the glass
Waiting til the feelings pass
Way down in the mirror screen
Nothing got ahold of me
Turned me inside out
Finally resurfacing
I mostly don’t know where I’ve been
Or what I thought about
I don’t know why
I keep losing time
The sun was high until I blinked
Look up, it’s later than you think
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8. |
Salt
04:51
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I gotta be honest, we have a problem
Got a call from the bar in Clarion
You left your wallet, career alcoholic
Say every day is your last day on the job
Anybody anybody worth their salt
Knows the arrow hurts worse when you pull it back out
Get me out of the midwest, we put your mom into hospice
Let me know when you’re ready to go
I’m gonna do what I do best and try to forget this mess
Doesn’t make any real sense I know
Anybody anybody worth their salt
Knows the arrow hurts worse when you pull it back out
If I could make enough money, I’d move out to the country
Where no one can bother me
I think it just hit me, I don’t want you to come with me
And all I can say is we’ll see
Anybody anybody worth their salt
Knows the arrow hurts worse when you pull it back out
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9. |
Set It On Fire
03:51
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From the first bite on the first night
I could tell I would never be done
Couldn’t get right in a past life
Trying to hold what was already gone
There’s a darkness looking in
Like a kind of spiraling
Holding hands at the edge
You make a little whirlpool in my heart
Tiny constellations pulled apart
Killing what I can’t control, I’m fine
I love you I’m ready to set it on fire
Like a moth to the moon I get carried away
Chasing the light you throw before me
Just as often I choose getting lost in the flame
To feel the heat of something holy
There’s a darkness looking in
Like a kind of spiraling
Holding hands at the edge
You make a little whirlpool in my heart
Tiny constellations pulled apart
Killing what I can’t control, I’m fine
I love you I’m ready to set it on fire
You make a little whirlpool in my heart
Tiny constellations pulled apart
Killing what I can’t control, I’m fine
I love you I’m ready to set it on fire
I love you I’m ready to set it on fire
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10. |
Now Comes the Mystery
03:12
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Now comes the mystery
Not like I thought it’d be
Feeling my pockets now
For missing keys
I don’t know what to do
To say goodbye to you
Maybe another day, I’ll know why
So I been circling
Looking for anything
That I could say to you
To dull the edge
Am I avoiding it
How to forgive, forget
Maybe another day, I’ll know why
Somehow I felt you go
Before I heard it though
I know you’re on your way
From where you came
Beat of an archer’s heart
Back up among the stars
Maybe another day, I’ll know why
Maybe another day, I’ll know why
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Jenny Owen Youngs Maine
Avalanche, Youngs’ exceptional debut for Yep Roc records, offers up an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth from an artist who’s experienced more than her fair share of each in recent years. The songs are deceptively serene, layering Youngs’ infectious pop sensibilities atop lush, dreamy arrangements that often belie the swift emotional currents lurking underneath. ... more
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