Lyrics

All words and music written by Zoe Elliot

A New Christmas
Ain't Gonna
Another Page
Boulevarde
Cast Before Him
Drink of the Rain
Fool Like Me
Frangipani
Hey Peter
Hold My Hand
I Say to Love
If
Life Well Spent
Liza
Mediocrity
Mess Me Up
Mind of Dreams (Queen of Babylon)
My Only
Not So Merry-Go-Round
Obilivian
Precipitate
Sorry
Thunder and Rain
Thinking of You
Undone (Miss You)
Watchman
Without You
Yesterday Today
You Assume

A New Christmas

I feel a little numb this Christmas,
I’m cornered by the catalogues
Pushing me to buy all the joy they can sell
In a queue with my yuletide stock.

I feel I’ve never truly mastered
The recipe for Christmas cheer
In the movies it seems so perfect
But I dread the stress every year.

So today I write my wish list, I’ll avoid what I don’t need
All I wish for is my loved ones, and to give rather than receive...

I feel a little numb this Christmas,
I don’t know what I’m meant to give
For we’ve got everything and more than we need
Just like the names on the list.

It seems that all the hype of Christmas,
Is stirred by those who wish to sell
While the time that we’re meant to be sharing
Has been taken...

So today I write my wish list, I’ll avoid what I don’t need
All I wish for is my loved ones, and to give rather than receive...

I would do away with presents, I would sit and give my time
To treasuring those around me, and enjoying Christmas time.

Today I will write my wish list
I’ll avoid what I don’t need
All I wish for is my loved ones
And to give rather than receive...

Ain't Gonna

It could be easy to change like the colours on your tv set but
I’ve been a thinkin, and I’ve been compromising ever since we met.
Maybe I’m crazy, I won’t dispute, but now I’m gonna keep my dignity
Cause I ain’t gonna become someone else to try to win your love for me.

You ask for classy but I live for fun and do not want tying down,
And you want romantic but I love erratic common ground can’t be found
If you can’t handle living life free, don’t go tryna tell me who to be,
Cause I ain’t gonna become someone else to try to win your love for me.

I’m sorry I’m gonna have to let you go,
I’m sorry I’m gonna have to let you go,
I’m sorry I’m gonna have to let you go,
Cause you can’t love me for me.

Oh I ain’t gonna become someone else... to try... to win your love...
For me.

Another Page

Your newest fairytale's begun, you claim it's all you aver dreamed.
Just look how easily you've been won,
All he had to do was breathe on you.

Another page passes us by,
Blown by the winds of whimsical nights
Monday he's come, Tuesday he's gone, Wednesday you'll call me.

Oh it hurts to see you cry, cry.
Oh it hurts to see you cry, cry.

Prince charming rides up to your door in his chariot of chrome,
Too cool get up off his steed,
One of those kinds you should've known so much better.

Another page passes us by,
Blown by the winds of whimsical nights
Monday he's come, Tuesday he's gone, Wednesday you'll call me.

Oh it hurts to see you cry, cry.
Oh it hurts to see you cry, cry.

Drink of the Rain

Admit defeat, the battle is over
You lost your seat to daisies and clover…

Bow your knee, dust off your shoulder
There’s some things you need to discover for yourself.

Drink of the rain
Let it cleanse you of yourself
Swallow your pain.
For in your weakness you will find your wealth.

In your defeat I’ve seen your victory,
Rest your feet… You’ve been running so long,
You don’t know what your running from.

Mourn with the sunshine, rejoice in the gray.
Shout in the valley, lets begin our yesterday…
Our yesterday.

Lay down your crown, I’ll show you your kingdom.
What you’ve found is treasure far too heavy for your burdened heart
With which you cannot part

Fool Like Me

I take a day to appreciate you
To take you in in all your beauty
I watch you I’m nervous,
You’re walking towards me
And I will take your hand and walk with you.

Chorus:
I fear you’re wasted, your beauty wasted
Perfection wasted on a fool like me.
From our first glance, I was captured
All I ask is that you’ll never set me free.

On this day I understand why
Every head turns in the moment you walk by.
You watch me I’m breathless, You’ve witnessed my darkest
Loved me through the things I couldn’t hide.

Chorus:
I go to lock the gate you’re at my door
The deeper that you see the more I’m sure
Love was never true until I felt it for you.

Chorus:
All I ask is that you’ll never set me free.

Frangipani

Friend of unknown what is your name? Care for a coffee now?
You are surprisingly the same as I had imagined somehow.
Replica of thoughts and dreams walking beside me now,
All that glistens and gleams might just be gold somehow.
It might just be gold somehow.

Make your way to number nine, don’t make my watch work overtime,
La la la la la la, la la la la.
And when you find me waiting there, frangipani in my hair
Will you dare to care for me, for me.

First impressions can’t be true, I can’t believe it’s you
Some major case of déjà vu, and you arrived right on cue.
I suspect that you have sneaked a peek at my script of life
Waited til I began to seek, entered the scene right on time.
You entered right on time.

Make your way to number nine, don’t make my watch work overtime,
La la la la la la, la la la la.
And when you find me waiting there, frangipani in my hair
Will you dare to care for me, for me.

Corny as this case may seem, you are just what I had dreamed,
If not that your even better, if you come I’ll know you’re true.

Make your way to number nine, don’t make my watch work overtime,
La la la la la la, la la la la.
And when you find me waiting there, frangipani in my hair
Will you dare to care for me, for me.

Hey Peter

Hey Peter, Waddaya say
Lets run from here so we can play
And I don't mind if you say it was your idea.
Take me to Never Land
For this is not what I had planned
And we'll stay young forever

Why don’t we find a tree
Sit beneath the falling leaves
Catch the rain upon our tongues
As it tries to steal the sun
Why don’t we play hide & seek
While we’re small enough to
Sneak amongst the trees.

Hey Peter, lets bring our friends
It’s much more fun when games are shared
And I might even let them try some cake
We’ll dig our toes in the grass
And laugh at how we always laugh
And everyone will feel alive

Why don’t we find a tree
Sit beneath the falling leaves
Catch the rain upon our tongues
As it tries to steal the sun
Why don’t we play hide & seek
While we’re small enough to
Sneak amongst the trees.

Hey Peter, I’m getting old
Don’t let them lock me in a home
We can run away to Neverland
I know my memories no good
I forgot where we left the food
But do we care?

Why don’t we find a tree
Sit beneath the falling leaves
Catch the rain upon our tongues
As it tries to steal the sun
Why don’t we play hide & seek
While we’re small enough to
Sneak amongst the trees.

I Say to Love

Accompanied by this guitar, I share with you straight from my heart
Exposed to the world to be judged, I find solace in your arms.
Some say to love’s to be weak, others say lovers are fools
I say to love there is no greater gift, I know of love it endures.

We don’t agree much the time, I can be stubborn and harsh.
But as we’ve both learnt sometimes fighting must end, agree to leave wounds in the past.
Some liken love to a war, lovers like others soon hate,
I say to love’s to release one another, letting each make their mistakes.

Some say that love is a joke, some don’t believe love exists.
But I believe love is the one truth of life
True love will truly enrich...

Beauty will fade like a flower, as the elements wear at our skin,
When all our allures have been snagged, I will still be infatuated
Some say our primes in our youth, that age is a downward run.
But I know that as I grow older with you our best days are yet to come...

If

There is a saying that goes, you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone
But I never listen to wise words, I only follow foolish ones in my head.
It doesn’t mean I did the wrong thing, when it’s time to leave I leave
All I know is you look better when you’re not attached to me.

Chorus A:
And all those thoughts, they swarm my head
And those feelings I thought were dead,
Tormented by what could have been
If I’d not left you that day.

I watch you cross the crowded room to dance with ladies who’ve decided
You’re their medication for the night.
Oh and you get something – they get something
Boy and girl leave with nothing but a
Mind that’s tasted lust and just longs for loving.
I notice that you look much better when you’re not beside me
Oh when you’re not beside me.

Chorus A: x 2
Stupid mind wake up and lungs just breathe, Do not get caught in the moments heat
Do not forget the careful thought that went behind the call you had to make.

Chorus B:
And though those thoughts still swarm my head
And those feelings I’d laid to rest
I won’t lament what could have been
If I’d not left you...

Liza

Liza put a smile upon your face,
I love to see you glow so let your essence show
Amongst the people who are down like me,
Amongst the people who are down like me.

Liza, when your head’s above the clouds,
You have this grace and air I long to join you there
So I can get above my troubles and see what’s more to see.
So I can get above and see what’s more to see

Chorus:
And you dance with your shadow as the sun it warms your core,
Your blue eyes on the blue sky seem to capture so much more.
You don’t worry ‘bout the clouds, for the rain is welcome too,
Mmmmmm, every morning the sun rises for you.

Liza there is magic in your eyes,
You love to breathe life in, no care to lose or win.
You make a game in your walk down the street.
You make a game in your walk down the street.

Liza, how I long to walk like you,
You walk like life’s a dance, like every steps a chance,
As you carry the world upon your smile,
Yes you carry the world upon your smile.
Chorus:

Mediocrity

I don’t want to waste a day in placid mediocrity
I’ve seen it coming, I’ve seen it coming
You watch me trip myself over then laugh and say I told you so
I saw it coming, I saw it coming

Chorus:
I don’t miss you or your misuse.
These wounds will dry once I’ve left your chains behind.

These boots of lead that I have worn, I won’t wear them anymore
I see them going, I see them going
These bars hat kept me from the world so you’d have me to yourself
I see them falling, I know they’re falling

Chorus:

You’ve got troubles, I’ve got troubles
Keep your bruising off of me
Take your anger somewhere else
From now on just let me be...

Chorus:

Mess Me Up

You make me smile when life intends to make me frown
You mask my shyness, showing me off to a crowd

I cannot wait til you catch my eye
Tell me the words that mess me up inside
I cannot wait til I'm in your hand
Marking time like a grain of sand

You take my sorrow, turn it to a fun parade
So by tomorrow my struggles seem a mile away

I cannot wait til you catch my eye
Tell me the words that mess me up inside
I cannot wait til I'm in your hand
Marking time like a grain of sand

So by the next time you should come across my path
I'll come to your side wipe your worries from your heart

I cannot wait til I catch your eye
Whisper those words that mess you up inside
Feeling you dancin’ upon my hand
Marking time like a grain of sand

I cannot wait til I catch your eye
Whisper those words that mess you up inside
Working my magic to make you smile
Boy you really mess me up inside.

My Only

I was entranced by you, caught in a dance with you
Easily lit by a spark, a romance.
You were in awe of me, fell to the core of me
Said you were sure we could fall even more.

Pre:
But I, I feared you would steal me
Oh I, I thought you’d conceal me
No I never thought we could be.

Chorus:
You are my only, part of my story
How could I dream beyond you?
You have inspired me, helped to untie me
I could not I dream beyond you.

Here we are entwined in action and in mind
I find I can’t define the line between self
Fighting the incline to fast redraw the lines
Before I forget where my walls used to lie

Pre:
Chorus:
I was – cautious – little – nauseous
Something – told me – don’t give in to this
Fighting – my mind – rather – be blind
Than to – live in total irrational fear

Chorus:

Precipitate

This doesn’t have a name, and neither do I
No sought after fame, Just tryna get by
For heaven I reach, my toe dipped in hell,
Face down on the beach as I fall through the swell

Dropped from the clouds I thought that I
Was destined to more than the world could provide
Make my reflection, I sit and stare
At all I am not.

I’m left with a choice, I’d rather not make
To open my voice, or to drown in the shade
With the others who gave
Their freedom away.

Dropped from the clouds I thought that I
Was destined to more than the world could provide
Make my reflection, I sit and stare
At all I’ve become.

Drop from the clouds, see all I am not
Like the rain falls on the ground.

Drop from the clouds, now I decide,
Whether I’ll fall to the earth where I’ll dry
Or will I glide, like the first snow.
We must all precipitate - how will you fall?

Sorry

You were alone, and I was around. Did it get any deeper?
You sought in me what I did not have, it didn’t take me long to figure.
Your heart is unlocked by any spare key, where is the mystery for me?
You fall in love for any loves sake, I let you fall...

I’m sorry about the mess that I le-e-eft in the hallways of your mind.
I’m sorry about the memories I kept of us, I should have left them behind.
I’m sorry that I don’t fe-e-el any regret. But deep down I know.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.

I was a girl, and you were a boy. That’s probably all the chemistry we had.
You had a need and I had no plans. What a coincidence, fate had us planned.
I you were a bird, then I was a fish. Though we could wish it could not be.
We were the blind leading the blind. Caught up in hope not reality.

I’m sorry about the mess that I le-e-eft in the hallways of your mind.
I’m sorry about the memories I kept of us, I should have left them behind.
I’m sorry that I don’t fe-e-el any regret. But deep down I know.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.

I’m sorry that you thought I was your to own, a doll for you to protect.
It’s crazy I let you think I was weak. Where was my self-respect?
And it’s crazy we both lost a little of ourselves, trying to keep alive.
Something that never woke from the dead.

I’m sorry about the mess that I le-e-eft in the hallways of your mind.
I’m sorry about the memories I kept of us, I should have left them behind.
I’m sorry that I don’t fe-e-el any regret. But deep down I know.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.
You can’t end something that never started, yeah.

Thinking of You

Water trickling down my window,
Skies grey canvas has soaked through.
I am warm and I am happy.
Tucked in my blankets, thinking of you.

Steam is dancing from my teacup,
Shadows lurk as shadows do.
I’m not sad, I’m not lonely.
In my own world thinking of you.

No reality can distract me,
You’re a mist before my eyes,
You’re running through my mind, uncontrollable.
Every moment is greater with you,
Every dull grey has now turned a sky blue
And I’m dancing in a daydream thinking of you.

Now the moments just beginning,
Yesterday is but a thought
You’re my tomorrow, you’re my today.
Sketching with crayons. Thinking of you.

Thunder and Rain

Thunder, thunder and rain.
Flick of a switch and lightning courses through cloud veins.
Thunder, keeping me sane
Rumbling through my mind shutting open doors, oh
Thunder and Rain.

Chorus:
Listen to the pulse of the rain gently falling
Sing with the howl of the wind’s reverie
Answer the plea of the sea’s gentle calling
Amidst all this chaos…
Is where I want to be.

Thunder, pounding the sky
Beat of a drum resonating like a monsters cry
Thunder, thunder and light
Making sure that no one has any peaceful dreams tonight

Chorus:
And I will trapse through the wet, wet grass to get a little closer.
Rain refracts like molten glass I’ve got to get closer…
The danger is so sweet,
Oh the Danger is so sweet!

Thunder and rain,           thunder and rain
Thunder and rain,           Thunder and rain,
Thunder and rain…        oh oh Rain…

Undone

I waved goodbye to someone, watching him carrying away my heart in his bag,
I hid it in his suitcase hoping one day he would return to bring it back.

Oh, I miss you, whether an hour or a day
Oh, I miss you, you’ve taken my heart far away.

Here in a crowd I am swimming through silence,
Wishing I was in a dream so I’d hold to your ghost,
Gravity far behind us, Holding – everything – back so you’d appear close

Never would, I believe, I could feel, incomplete, here I am watching the clock tick on I’m,
Holding on, tryna push, lean on time, make it rush, all the while knowing my heart is coming undone.

Oh --- I miss you, whether an hour or a day
Oh --- I miss you, you’ve taken my heart far away.

Never would, I believe, I could feel, incomplete, here I am watching the clock tick on...

Without You

Here stands the day our vows end complete,
Somewhere in that wooden box lay the one love that I dared to dream,
I’ve been told that I’ll learn to live again
I just hope it’s one of those dreams.

Little boy blue don’t blow on that horn today,
The sun should’ve been too heavy laden to rise
If you’re gone then why is the world in spring?
I can’t fathom life beyond you and me.

I thanked the angels when they lowered you into my arms,
Praying the sun would never set upon our lips
But in the shadows of our sleep you were carried to heavens keep
And with you a whole of me was carried with you.

Ring the church bells the birds need not sing
This coffin’s too small to carry the weight of my world
But goodbye is all I can think to say
For the first time words will not mend this fray
Throughout our house I only see history,
Every half full not only half empty.
I pray when the sun sets,
They take me to you...

Yesterday Today

Last weeks end and this weeks beginning
Mold to one boring pie with no filling.
Tastelessly flavourless, circle that’s centreless
Luckily boredom ain’t prone to bulk billing

Yesterdays news is todays social highlight
Keeping my mind entertained through to twilight
Yesterdays history keeping my sanity
Same hook for the same fish to bite

Chorus:
          I like yesterday better than today
          It always looks better when the ends already played
          Shoot myself in the foot so I can stay in bed
          Maybe I’m too lazy to get off my hiney and
Jump in the gene pool to make some waves…

Waking up late to make sure I feel awake
Wasting the morning to savor the day
My insignificance caused by my selfishness
Feelings of hopelessness wash me away

Won’t someone notice me, won’t someone carry me
Feel I’m cast in some social parody
Every line spoken a mirror is broken
It’s time I throw off my fears

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