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The Bird
03:31
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I know my words won’t do if I keep coming at you
I know I use too many anyway
And you’re the one I want to turn to,
But I keep turning on you
There’s a bird that calls my name
Since a child I thought it vain
To think the world was calling for me
Through the tall grass, through the trees
I know my words won’t do if I keep coming at you
I know I use too many anyway
And you’re the one I want to turn to,
But I keep turning on you
You’re not the one who hurt me then
But you’re human just like him
And I’m the one he left behind
I’m the same old troubled mind
And I know that I can’t see too clearly from
The corner of my eye
But you used to keep me flying
I know that I can’t see too clearly from
The corner of my eye
But you used to keep my flying
You’re the one I want to turn to
But I keep turning
Oh I keep turning
Oh I keep turning
Oh I keep turning
On you
There’s a bird that calls my name
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2. |
Memorize Me
02:21
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I’m gonna bundle you up
Til the butter melts
Don’t ask me how
It’s summer now
I’m gonna build you a little canoe
And you’re gonna tell everyone
Don’t ask me how
I’ll get it done
You’re my spider
I’m gonna build you a little spider house
Don’t ask me how, I’ll get it done
All by myself
You’re my pecan
You’re my own little pecan
I can do it, I can
It’s summer now
If I said I’d do it
Babe, you know I’ll do it
If I said I’d do it babe
You know I’ll do it
Somehow (x4)
Could you memorize me
Yes
Thank you
Could you memorize me
Yes, til the butter melts
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3. |
Janie Doe
03:50
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She taught me the rules of her game
She walks up, I fill her cup
She walks away
Nothing left for me but hope that she might stay
I was never really with her
Just chasing her the whole time
I was never really with her
Just drawing inside her lines
I made it all up in my mind
She was never really mine
So it goes, so it goes
Like the last, so apropos
Round and round, nobody knows
So we’ll call her Janie doe
I don’t know, no I don’t know
I’ll let her break my heart
I’ll let her go
Like the last Janie doe
Didn’t mean to cause her pain,
But she couldn’t say the same
And every time she yanked that chain
More and more to blame
I lost a little love for her
With every siren’s song
Til it was all but gone
So it goes, so it goes
Like the last, so apropos
Round and round, nobody knows
So we’ll call her Janie doe
I don’t know, no I don’t know
I’ll let her break my heart
I’ll let her go
Oh where have you been
My darling Janie doe
Oh where have you been
Why do you come and go
I’ll be waiting here
With open arms and champagne
And one day I’ll know your name
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4. |
Around
03:44
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If I had a drink
Would it turn to two
If I had another
Would I turn to you
If I had a drink
What might it be named
When I reach your lips
Sweeter than rose
A round on me, a round on you
Around the room we flew
Again and again
Were I to be true
Tell you all my names
Would it make you sad
Bluer than the rain
If I were to wed
On one sunny day
Would the roses still be black
As the night we parted ways
A round on me, a round you
Around the room we flew
Champagne on the ceiling
Next to that unmistakable feeling
I guess I’ll never stop falling
Again and again
If I had a drink make a fool of me
Could I put it down
My new enemy
A round me, a round on you
Around the room we flew
Dancing around the ruin
As if we did not see it
I swear I never saw it
Again and again
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5. |
Opacity
03:27
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I could hold you, and tell you it’s okay
It’s just today, and other things that I could say
Hold the winter daphne close to your face
And I could’ve told you that you wanted to leave me
But you would have not believed me
You were always full of lines and full of love
I thought I’d made myself clear
So why again are we right back here
Maybe it’s me
Maybe it’s me
Maybe it’s me
Had you thought of that
Of course you have
Why would you have blamed yourself
You don’t know how
I could hold you to remind you of being safe
It’s not a waste of time to make you feel that way
To let it go wild in between us
A gentle ricochet
But we know that it can’t stay so
In the end it gets away
Safety is a holiday
Maybe it’s me
Maybe it’s me
Maybe it’s me
Had you thought of that
Of course you have
Oh I didn’t think of it til now
Why would you have blamed yourself
You don’t know how
You saw right through me
Have you ever been so wrong
To have learned somebody to the point
Of not knowing them at all
You looked so hard
Straight to the other side of me
Was it rose colored glasses or a flag of opacity
Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s me
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6. |
Lost in It All
04:10
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I was playing it out
I was writing you off
It’s so easy to get soft
It’s so easy to get lost
Lost in it all
Do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean
Are you feeling it too
How it doesn’t get old
To be told
I love you too
If I can get up
Turn off the review
I’d still have nothing to do
I’d still have nothing for you
He’s sad but he ain’t mean
Things are bad
But they’re exactly what they seem
And isn’t that nice
Do you know what I mean
I was playing it out
I was writing you off
It’s so easy to get soft
It’s so easy to get lost
Lost in it all
Things are good, like I dreamed it
But I don’t know how to believe it
Even then, even now
I don’t know how to not see it
All the ways to put me out and put me through
When I’m standing in front of you
Playing it out
Writing you off
It’s so easy to get soft
It’s so easy to get
Lost in it all
Lost in it all
Do you know what I mean
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7. |
Wildest Dreams
02:53
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When all my wildest dreams come true
How will I know
Will there be someone next to me
To tell me that it’s so
How will I know things will turn out like they should
They probably won’t go wrong
Then again, they always could
How will I know when I know
What it means to know it
If I walked out my door tomorrow morning
And ran into the perfect person
How would I know to stop and say hello
And not go on with my day
How will I know things will turn out how they should
They probably won’t go wrong
But they have, so they could
How will I know when I know
What it means to know it
And maybe when all my aunts are little old ladies
And we have to plan the holidays alone
And all the kids are grown and having babies of their own
Would anybody show
How will I know
How will I know
When all my wildest dreams come true
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8. |
Ships in the Night
03:13
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I keep myself warm
Under an electric blanket
I stay forlorn
Cause I haven’t had the chance to thank you yet
I think I’d like to pass you by
If only to wish you well
Like ships in the night with our lights down low
Haven’t seen you in a long time now
I got into some trouble
And I’m driving a new used car
The headlight’s broken
But I haven’t gotten pulled over so far
I think I’d like to pass you by
If only to wish you well
Like ships in the night with our lights down low
Haven’t seen you in a long time now
(I remember falling in love
I remember falling in love
I remember falling in love
And falling out) x3
I remember falling in love
I remember falling in love
I remember falling in love
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9. |
To the Nines
02:15
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I’m not having fun at this party
Wishing that I had stayed home
I could ask the man in the corner
He’s been picking my brain all night long
I suppose I could leave anytime
But I’m out and I’m dressed to the nines
I spent all my tips on a blouse I just stained
Another thing I have to explain
I’m not having fun at this party
This drink is making me tired
And I don’t think the people here like me
So I’ve been sitting and tending to the fire
It’s times like these I almost regret
Not picking up a cigarette habit
I’ll find better things to do with my hands
Now that you don’t hold them
You don’t hold them anymore
And I’m not having fun at this party
Think I said too much to that man
There’s a good chance that he won’t remember it
After all he could barely stand
Saw him making his way round the dance floor
Ain’t it awful to always want more
I suppose I could leave anytime
But I’m out and I’m dressed to the nines
I’ve spent too much money on nights that don’t turn me on
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10. |
It Took Me Down
02:52
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I watched my cup fill up
And I watched you drink it down
I watched as all the love I gathered fell into your mouth
And finally, I cried for us
And it took me down
When I heard that song
I knew it was your pain
That leapt into my eyes and out
As fast as it came
And finally, I cried for us
And it took me down
Down
It took me down
And I gave into the sound of myself going down
When it fell I knew at once something was amiss
I wasn’t sad to see it go, only curious
I didn’t say goodbye til it was gone
I wouldn’t say you did me right
Neither did you do me wrong
And finally, I cried for us
And it took me down
Down
It took me down
And I gave into the sound
Of myself going down
Down
It took me down
And I gave into the sound
Of myself going down
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11. |
Lucky
03:21
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Wasn’t scared of dying til I saw my name in marble
Didn’t graze among the garden for my food was on the table
Freedom wasn’t on my mind til I was told it’s cause I have it
Growing old was just an idea in my youth I took for granted
I always thought that I could break a habit
As if it were a heart
And I believed in the feet of rabbits
And that the right side of a coin could keep you warm
Am I really all that lucky
Am I really all that lucky
Is anyone so lucky as me
We didn’t do much talking for three days in the winter
My nails were getting shorter
And my face was getting thin
I always put an ear down to my gut
So I could hear what I believed was true and right
Could not conceive that it might lie
And I never thought my need to turn both ways
And kiss the door could rule my days
I didn’t ask, I didn’t know
My skies were gray cause I had yet to see the blue
But I got someone to talk to
I always thought that I could break a habit
As if it were a heart
So easy to pull apart
I believed in the feet of rabbits
And that the right side of a coin could keep you warm
Am I really all that lucky
Am I really all that lucky
Have I really been so lucky
Am I really all that lucky
Is anyone so lucky as me
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12. |
Lost in It All
04:10
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Kate Rhudy Raleigh, North Carolina
“Kate Rhudy is changing the name of country by doing things her own way”
-She Shreds
“One of the Triangle’s sharpest young songwriters"
-WUNC (NPR)
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