1. |
Borrowed Time
02:47
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Do I really want to do this
Go back into the ring of fire
Is there something I need to prove right now
Would I not be much happier quiet
As I sit and drink this coffee
That I’ve added water to
Would I not rather have a watered down life
Instead of singing here for you?
But instead I keep on going
Because I’m here on borrowed time
Tomorrow’s back into the office
I need to leave this stuff behind.
My friend once said music was glamorous
But I explained that it was not
And she insisted it was glamorous
I guess we all want something else.
If I really end up doing this
Heading back into the ring
I suppose it’s kind of glamorous
At least that’s what one person thinks
So I guess I’ll keep on going
Exposing all my inner fears
Tomorrow’s back into the office
Go back to what I’ve done for years.
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2. |
1997 Again
02:47
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It’s 1997 again
I’m trying not to hate all your friends
The boys decide to break up the band
Then suddenly I lose my man
My friend says chin up he’s just a jerk
I took the bus to Providence
In hopes that I could lose my sense
Instead I faced the ghost of the past
He said go back to Boston
It’s 1997 again
It’s 1997 again
I never thought that I’d be back here.
It’s rock and roll all up in my head
And it’s turning out just like he said
Even though we're all going gray
There some things no one can take away
It’s 1997 again
I’m trying not to hate all your friends
The boys decide to break up the band
Suddenly I lose my man
My friend says chin up he’s just a jerk
I took the bus to Providence
In hopes that I could lose my sense
Instead I faced the ghost of the past
He said go back to Boston
It’s 1997 again
It’s 1997 again
I never thought that I’d be back here.
It’s rock and roll all up in my head
And it’s turning out just like he said
1997 again
1997 again
1997 again
1997 again
1997 again
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3. |
Smell
02:56
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You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
The smell is real
It’s not like the earth
The smell is real
It’s not like the earth
It’s like the smell of a hotel lobby
Where they give some of us dirty looks
It’s like the smell of someone who will look the other way
It’s like the smell of something spilled but cleaned up
Very quickly so there’s no smell.
You smell
Like money
With a smell so sweet
It will make most of us
Disappear.
You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
The smell is real
It’s not like the earth
The smell is real
It’s not like the earth
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4. |
A Woman of Few Things
02:03
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She came into my room and said
“You’re a woman of few things”
I looked her in the eyes right then
You know that really stings
Possessions shouldn’t matter much
In the eyes of Christ
Yet every day I spend my time
Accumulating mine
Creating and destroying
We’re all mini hindu gods
Environment can screw itself
It’s second to us slobs
Well I don’t have the answers
And I don’t have the time
I’ve got to get back to my desk
Pay for a roof that’s mine
I’ll leave that to the rich folks
They’ve got a conscience bad
To clean up all the garbage
Left behind by deadbeat dads
I’ve watched the 3rd world grow up
And now they’re just like us
Equal opportunity for accumulating stuff
Equal opportunity for accumulating stuff
How many plants and animals
Will we kill on our path
Until it’s barren like our souls
And there is no life left
She came into my room and said
“You’re a woman of few things”
I looked her in the eyes right then
You know that really stings.
She came into my room and said
“You’re a woman of few things”
I looked her in the eyes right then
You know that really stings.
She came into my room and said
“You’re a woman of few things”
I looked her in the eyes right then
You know that really stings.
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5. |
Blameless
03:07
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We can’t all be winners
If we are then who’s the loser
We can’t all be singers
cause then who’d be the listeners?
We can’t all be trusted
Because then who’d be the liars
We can’t all be quiet
Because then who’d make a sound?
We can’t all be lovers
Because then who’d be the sad ones?
We can’t all be happy
Because then who’d be the mad ones.
I’ve looked at this world
And I mostly find it lacking
But still here I make noise
Still here I’m living
We can’t all be winners
If we are then who’s the loser?
We can’t all be blameless
If we are then who’s to blame?
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6. |
Throwaway
02:53
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My hurt’s still alive - Leah
I only ask why
Why’d you decide?
Was it all lies?
My minds stuck in time - Chris
My heart’s smashed and frayed
Like an old sweater
That’s seen better days
The person I was - Leah
Is long gone away
I don’t want you back
I do hate your face
I want something else - Chris
I want yesterday
To turn back the clock
For only a day
It’s sunny outside - Leah
We’re going for a ride
Before you threw me away.
You threw me away - Leah
You threw me away
Been thinking bout how
You threw me away
You threw me away
Thinking how you threw me away
You said let’s be friends - Chris
I said go away
I’ll never forget
You threw me away
I wish I could forget - Leah
I wish I never met
You so smug and cold
I’ll hate you til you’re old.
You threw me away - Leah
You threw me away
thinking how
You threw me away
You threw me away
Thinking how you threw me away
You threw me away - Leah
You threw me away
Been thinking bout how
You threw me away
You threw me away
Thinking how you threw me away
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7. |
Bitter
02:27
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He said I was bitter
But I think I’m better
Pick of the litter
It’s now or it’s never
What does he want me to do?
Accept everything like it’s true
Failure’s so easy for you
But living like this I can’t do.
When I was a teenager
They called me a firecracker
If I didn’t have anger
I’d lose all my power
What would I be without being angry
Mad and resentful
Ill humored, displeased
He said I was bitter
But I think I’m better
Pick of the litter
It’s now or it’s never
What does he want me to do?
Accept everything like it’s true
Failure’s so easy for you
But living like this I can’t do.
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8. |
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I wish that I had never met you music,
Your melodies are going to be the death of me.
Ex lovers, they don’t bother me,
It’s just the tunes that torture me today.
I wish that I had never heard you interesting chord
Cuz lyrics they congest me like a cold that won’t go away
They’re deep inside my head and chest
There’s no pill I can take.
There’s nothing quite so low as this
A frustrated failed vocalist
I curse the day this baby touched an ivory covered key
Was a bad end for the elephant and probably for me.
I wish that I had never met you music,
Your melodies are going to be the death of me.
Ex lovers, they don’t bother me,
It’s just the tunes that torture me today.
I wish that I had never met you interesting chord
Cuz lyrics they congest me like a cold that won’t go away
They’re deep inside my head and chest
There’s no pill I can take.
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9. |
I Don't Relate
02:24
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I don’t relate
Never Did
I was fake
Tried to fit in
I changed the way I talk
The way I move
But they could still tell
I wasn’t from their private schools
And their daddies bought them cars
And their mommies tried to make them stars
Princesses in the slum
They had their fill they had their fun
They called me names
Didn’t like the intrusion
Stay in your place
Who do you think you are?
Then I never realized how I had to struggle
For a small fraction
Of what seemed normal to everyone else
While their families bought them homes
They had children of their own
Open arms in the corporate world
For every rich suburban girl.
I’m left struggling like a fool
Still trying to play by all their rules
I Wouldn’t know a better hell
I’ve lived a life of someone else.
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10. |
Those Were the Days
02:56
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Leah Callahan
Known for experimental pioneers Turkish Delight US, critics’ darling Betwixt, and shoegazers The Glass Set, singer-
songwriter Leah Callahan navigates between pop and art-rock on her 2023 album Cut-Ups, which charted in the top 200 on North American college radio NACC200.
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