Aleah Taylor

Verse 1
Keep your head down, block it out
Keep your eyes down, go without
Who wants to be seen the way you are
Who wants to see how it could be

Drowning it tar
You know what you are
Drowning in rain
You know you’re here again

Keep the curtains drawn, block it out
Keep it to yourself, go without.
Who wants to be seen the way you are
Who wants to see how it could be

Pre-chorus
I think I’m drowning
I think I’m drowning in tar
I think I’m drowning
I think I’m drowning in rain

Chorus
I’m all consumed
I’m all confused
One day when I was walking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

Now I’m doomed
Now I’m bemused
One day when I was talking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

Verse 2
Turn my head away, tune it all out
Turn my face away, gonna go without
Who wants to be seen the way you are
Who wants to miss how it could be

Drowning it tar
You know what you are
Drowning in rain
You know you’re here again

Turn the volume down, tune it all out
Turn your thoughts in, gonna go without
Who wants to be seen the way you are
Who wants to miss how it could be

Bridge
And you think I don’t try to be what you want me to be
And you think I don’t care about this sticky mess I’m in

I just want to breathe
I just want to breathe

I’m drowning and no one can save me

I just want to breathe
I just want to breathe

Pre-chorus
I think I’m drowning
I think I’m drowning in tar
I think I’m drowning
I think I’m drowning in rain

Chorus x2
I’m all consumed
I’m all confused
One day when I was walking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

Now I’m doomed
Now I’m bemused
One day when I was talking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

I’m all consumed
I’m all confused
One day when I was walking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

Now I’m doomed
Now I’m bemused
One day when I was talking
I realised I couldn’t breathe
And that was it

Ending lines
I just want to breathe
I just want to breathe

I’m drowning and no one can save me

Verse 1
Everything happens under the wide sky
Everything happens and I can’t see why
With all the wisdom that I’ve been taught
How did I not see all that you brought

How did I miss your mournful looks
How did I miss everything I took…
From you…
From me…
From us

Chorus
Kiss me good night and tell me you’re happy
Kiss me good night, I’ll tell you I care
Baby good night I hope that you’re happy
Baby good night, I still care

I want to kiss you good night and tell you I’m sorry
While lying in your arms

Verse 2
Everything ends way too fast and sudden
Everything ends while you’re busy looking in
With all of the lessons that I’ve been taught
How did I not love all that you brought

How did I miss those final looks
How did I miss everything I took…
From you…
From me…
From us

Chorus
Kiss me good night and tell me you’re happy
Kiss me good night, I’ll tell you I care
Baby good night I hope that you’re happy
Baby good night, I still care

I want to kiss you good night and tell you I’m sorry
While lying in your arms

Bridge
Would it help for me to claim blindness
Would it help for me to thank your kindness
Would saying sorry mean anything?
Would saying sorry mean anything?

Chorus x2
Kiss me good night and tell me you’re happy
Kiss me good night, I’ll tell you I care
Baby good night I hope that you’re happy
Baby good night, I still care

I want to kiss you good night and tell you I’m sorry
While lying in your arms

Kiss me good night and tell me you’re happy
Kiss me good night, I’ll tell you I care
Baby good night I hope that you’re happy
Baby good night, I still care

I want to kiss you good night and tell you I’m sorry
While lying in your arms

Verse 1
It starts in your chest
A warmth, a flutter, an awakening
It spreads from your chest
A twitch, an ache, it’s thrilling

It starts with a smile
A laugh, a joke, an awakening
It spreads through your mind
A twitch, an ache, it’s thrilling

Pre-chorus
But it builds too high
And you can’t even cry
Your mind can’t handle any more
You just can’t handle any more

Chorus
I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic
You start to panic
Panic
Panic

Who is this person you once knew
How can do these crazy things they do

I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic…

And it’s no fun anymore

Verse 2
It ends in your bed
Sweating, moaning, an awakening
It spreads through your limbs
A shake, a shudder, horrifying

It ends with a fit
A plea, a pill, and sleeping
It spreads through your mind
You’re numb, you’re cold, you’re empty

Pre-chorus
But it drops too low
Where you fear to go
Your mind can’t handle any more
You just can’t handle any more

Chorus x2
I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic
You start to panic
Panic
Panic

Who is this person you once knew
How can do these crazy things they do

I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic…

And it’s no fun anymore

I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic
You start to panic
Panic
Panic

Who is this person you once knew
How can do these crazy things they do

I think I’m manic
Manic
Manic…

And it’s no fun anymore

And it’s no fun anymore

Verse 1
Wake up, wake up, it’s time get up
Tackle the day in the usual way
Just sit in your chair
Stay right there
And watch it all drift away

Wake up, wake up, it’s time to get up
Sort through the day in the usual way
Stare out the window
Stare out the window
And watch it all drift away

Pre-chorus
Sunshine-yellow daisies wait for you to smell them
Vast blue skies are calling you
Blood-red roses wait for you to pluck them
Vast blue skies will sing for you

Chorus
What if I never get out of bed
Will the world stop
Will it be dead

What if I never get out of bed
What would change
Will I be dead

They can’t cure me
Wake up sleepy
They can’t cure me
Wake up, wake up

Verse 2
Wake up, wake up, it’s time to get up
Seize the day in the usual way
Just slump to the floor
Slump to the floor
Wait for the sun to drift away

Wake up, wake up it’s time to get up
Jump into the day in the usual way
Trying to breathe
Trying to breathe
Wait for the sun to drift away

Bridge
Give me your smiles
Give me your sympathy

Give me your wisdom
Give me your empathy

Watch me throw them to the floor
Show you to the door
Watch the guilt eating me alive…

Pre-chorus
Sunshine-yellow daisies wait for you to smell them
Vast blue skies are calling you
Blood-red roses wait for you to pluck them
Vast blue skies will sing for you

Chorus
What if I never get out of bed
Will the world stop
Will it be dead

What if I never get out of bed
What would change
Will I be dead

They can’t cure me
Wake up sleepy
They can’t cure me
Wake up, wake up

Chorus
Lucid, in sleep
Caving underground
In tunnels so deep
And I have the choice to leave
But I stay and weave
My dreams around you
My dreams around you
I stay in the dark and weave dreams about you

Verse 1
If I knew where musings cease
I’d follow the path, path, path
You’d followed before me
When this got too deep, deep, deep

If I knew where to find peace
I’d let go the wrath, wrath, wrath
You’d conjured in me
When strain used to creep, creep, creep

Chorus
Lucid, in sleep
Caving underground
In tunnels so deep
And I have the choice to leave
But I stay and weave
My dreams around you
My dreams around you
I stay in the dark and weave dreams about you

Bridge
And what can I say
At the end of the day
We both miss the warm and cold

And what do we say
When we’ve left things this way
We both feel the pulse grow old

And what’s left is cheap
I can’t even weep
For the end of a concrete road

All we have is our sleep
Caves and weaving dreams

In darkness weaving dreams

Verse 2
If I knew how to move on
I’d follow the path, path, path
You’d followed before me
When I was still blind, blind blind

If I knew how to move on
If I knew how to move on, on, on
I wouldn’t weave a million dreams
Where you weren’t gone, gone, gone

Ending lines
All we have is our sleep
Caves and weaving dreams

In darkness weaving dreams

In darkness weaving dreams, dreams, dreams

Verse 1
Sunsets sail away through the sky
Silent moments broken with a sigh
Content and warm and I know why
Because I love you

Until I find bigger words
I love you

Laughter sails with ease through the room
Inside jokes make lazy smiles bloom
Growing hands lighten the gloom
Because I love you

Until I find bigger words
I love you

Pre-chorus
Every hair on your head
Every sheet on your bed
I care for because I love you

Every meal you’re fed
Every story read
I live for because I love you

Chorus
Never has hard work felt so worth it
Never have I felt such purpose
I look at you and feel my worth
I look at you and feel my purpose

Until I find bigger words
All I can say is that I love you

Never has fear felt so worth it
Never have I found such purpose
I think of you and know my worth
I think of you and know my purpose

Verse 2
Summer breeze and picking pretty flowers
Kissing tears and staying up for hours
Falling flat and then building towers
Because I love you

Until I find bigger words
I love you

Teaching you how the wide world grows
Asking me how the adult always knows
One day you’ll know how it goes
Because I love you

Until I find bigger words
I love you

Pre-chorus
Every hair on your head
Every sheet on your bed
I care for because I love you

Every meal you’re fed
Every story read
I live for because I love you

Chorus
Never has hard work felt so worth it
Never have I felt such purpose
I look at you and feel my worth
I look at you and feel my purpose

Until I find bigger words
All I can say is that I love you

Never has fear felt so worth it
Never have I found such purpose
I think of you and know my worth
I think of you and know my purpose

End verse
Sunsets sail away through the sky
Silent moments broken with a sigh
Content and warm and I know why
Because I love you

Until I find bigger words
I love you

They say you’ve got a temper
That’s right
They say I can do better
That’s right

But I just can’t remember
What they say
But I just can’t remember
What they say

They say you’re always distant
That’s right
They say you’re not persistent
That’s right

But I just can’t hear it when
They’re insistent
But I just can’t hear it when
They’re insistent

Pre-Chorus
They say you’re just so bad for me

They say you’re just so wrong for me

Chorus
You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I think it’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Let’s fight
And prove them all right

You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I know that’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Hold tight
And prove them all right

Verse 2
You see I’ve got a temper
That’s right
You see you can do better
That’s right

But my friends don’t remember
Little things
But my friends don’t remember
Little things

You see I’m never distant
That’s right
I’m always too persistent
That’s right

But they just can’t hear it when
I’m wrong
But they just can’t hear it when
I’m wrong

Pre-chorus
They say you’re just so bad for me

They say you’re just so wrong for me

Chorus
You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I think it’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Let’s fight
And prove them all right

You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I know that’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Hold tight
And prove them all right

Verse 3
But I just can’t remember
What they say
But I just can’t remember
What they say

Chorus
You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I think it’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Let’s fight
And prove them all right

You know they really hate, hate, hate you
I know that’s why I want, want, want you
So baby tonight
Hold tight
And prove them all right

Verse1
Just when you lay down on your back
Think how my hands used to track
Up your shape and held your neck

Just when you lay down on your bed
Think how my hands always read
The perfect places from your head

Think of my touch on your back
Think of my hands on your neck
Think of you trapped on your back

Pre-chorus
You can’t think I don’t know your mind
You can’t think I don’t know your mind

You like to think of us
You like to moan to us

Chorus
Burnt out memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

But I know you can still feel it
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

You can feel but you can’t see it

Verse 2
Just when he lays you on your back
Think how my hands used to track
Up your shape and I’d lick your neck

Just when you lay down on his bed
Think how my hands always read
The secret places in your head

Think of my touch on your back
Think of my tongue on your neck
Think of you trapped on your back

Bridge
All I want is to know
That you know
We had something worth your time

All I want is to know
That you touch
What we had from time to time

Pre-chorus
You can’t think I don’t know your mind
You can’t think I don’t know your mind

You like to think of us
You like to moan to us

Chorus x2
Burnt out memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

But I know you can still feel it
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

You can feel but you can’t see it

Burnt out memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

But I know you can still feel it
There’s no spark there anymore
All our memories steaming heat
There’s no spark there anymore

You can feel but you can’t see it