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The Loneliest
03:52
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The loneliest that you can be is when you are in love
With someone who doesn’t want the same thing that you want
And you might try to change them, and one day you’ll give up
The loneliest that you can be is when you are in love
The loneliest you’ll ever feel is knowing it’s too late
And maybe that your strategy of hoping things would change
Is just another entry in your long line of mistakes
The loneliest you’ll ever feel is knowing it’s too late
I watch this old town
Run down to the water
All of the lights are coming on
In all of those houses
Blessed with sons and daughters
Slowly growing up
Once I thought the loneliest were running wild and free
Until I learned the hard way that darling, actually
It’s when you’re two but only one is wishing you were three
Once I thought the loneliest were running wild and free
I watch this old town
Run down to the water
All of the lights are coming on
In all of those houses
Blessed with sons and daughters
Slowly growing up
The loneliest that you can be is when you are in love
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2. |
Mary
04:25
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I’ve got a place down by the shore
I’ve got a bottle of wine and no glasses for it
I’ve got a sore heart
I’ve got a bad head
Since you stopped laying next to me
Mary
Walking around taking up
Space on the sidewalk
Looking for someone to throw me a line
Since I lost my Mary I’m
Just looking for a little company
I’ve got a trunk with all of my things in it
I’ve got a bed on the floor at my best friends
I’ve got a sore heart
I’ve got a bad head
Since you stopped waking up with me
Mary
Walking around taking up
Space on the sidewalk
Looking for someone to throw me a line
Since I lost my Mary I’m
Just looking for a little company
I’ve got a place down by the shore
I’ve got a bottle of wine and no glasses for it
I’ve got a sore heart
I’ve got a bad head
Since you stopped laying next to me
Mary
Walking around taking up
Space on the sidewalk
Looking for someone to throw me a line
Since I lost my Mary I’m
Just looking for a little
Since I lost my Mary I’m
Just looking for a little company
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3. |
Amsterdam
04:01
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On the train to Amsterdam
Stopping now in Rotterdam
I guess I should give a damn
I’m leaving on my own
We just had the summertime
Now there's trouble on your mind
And a distance in your eyes
That sinks me like a stone
Cause love is just a choice to make, babe
And every choice is hard until it ain't
But if you ask me darlin
There's no such thing as fate
Love is a choice you have to make
With all the things to sing about
Most days I can't make a sound
I just sit and think about
Things I'll never do
I can hear the silver bells
Ringing down the old canals
I don't think that I have ever
Truly been this blue
Cause love is just a chance to take, babe
And hope it treats you kind along the way
Cause if you ask me darlin
Noone can rig the game
Love is just a chance you have to take
Well, winter melts to honeyed Spring
Colours all the people in
I feel the planet start to spin
Maybe I'll survive
And one day soon I'll wind those stairs
I hope I'll find you standing there
With sunlight tangled in your hair
An answer in your smile
Cause love is just a choice to make, babe
And every choice is hard until it ain't
But if you ask me darlin
There's no such thing as fate
Love is just a choice you have to make
Love is just a choice you have to make
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4. |
Her Name
03:59
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Another Sunday morning spent laying in your bed
Watching as the curtains painted flowers on your legs
But there’s no rest for the wicked, you made that coffee strong
And we ran out into the world thinking nothing could go wrong
We were kissing at the station when someone called your name
And you didn’t introduce me but I caught that look he gave you
I watched you try to hide it but it was written on your face
I guess everyone’s got secrets and I learned I was yours that day
But I’ll stop dwelling on the things that I can’t change
Sometimes love is better when it fades
But a little part of my heart still always breaks
When I hear someone calling her name
“Can I see you on the weekend?” is all your message said
And I stared at it a long time before I sent back yes
And we got drunk at Lefty’s dancing to the band
Until you got us both kicked out hell here we go again
You said you knew a party and as you led me there
That maybe that you loved me and it was more than you could bear
And there’s a billboard by the river that says “Love’s a magic spell”
I guess it wore off at that party when you left with someone else
But I’ll stop dwelling on the things that I can’t change
Sometimes love is better when it fades
But a little part of my heart still always breaks
When I hear someone calling her name
When I hear someone calling her name
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5. |
The Wolf
02:52
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Once I played in a rock & roll band
Once I hit the road and I never looked back
And never once I thought to ask
Did it mean something that all my heroes drank themselves to death?
I just played their songs, and sometimes had
A few too many beers after my set
Cause Hell, I deserved it
I deserved it
But there's a darkness that lures you in
In a painted smile it'll call you a friend
But it's the Wolf and you're the Lamb
And I let it take every goddamn thing I had
And when I'd driven off the last of my friends
And I had nothing left to give
I told myself I deserved it
I deserved it
But that was all before
Now I sit and watch the roses bloom by our front door
Cause you let me see
A second chance is just the start of what forgiveness really means
And I'm not promising that I'll ever be perfect
But I married you in Spring
And every morning now I wake up there beside you
And I look at the ring
And I’ll try to deserve it
To deserve it
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6. |
Blue-Eyed Annie
03:18
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I was singing for my supper in a bar called The Davy Lamp
When Blue eyed Annie came waltzing in with a feather in her cowboy hat
I knew I was in trouble by the end of the second verse
The way she was smiling at me, I forgot all the words
Blue eyed Annie
Oh Lord you’re pretty
But I think your boyfriend wants to hit me
If you don’t stop looking at me like that
An hour later and I’m at the bar, I guess I’m buying her a drink
Whiskey and water when she takes a sip
She rests her head on my chest
I take a deep breath and ask myself
How am I getting out of this mess?
I curse my lucky stars
Blue eyed Annie
Oh Lord you’re pretty
But your boyfriend definitely wants to hit me
Cause you won't stop looking at me like that
Well that’s all’s fair man, this is love and war
But why does that bastard have to be seven feet tall?
That really don’t seem fair man…
Well bruises heal and broken hearts they’ll mend
So I’ll take my chances on this road to Hell
Blue eyed Annie, keep looking at me like that
Bruises heal and broken hearts they’ll mend
So I’ll take my chances on this road to Hell
Blue eyed Annie, keep looking at me like that
Blue eyed Annie, keep looking at me like that
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7. |
Waiting For Someday
04:32
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I drive out to the edge of town
I turn the engine off and watch the water
Here the river's wide and deep
All that water, running on and onwards
I keep having the same dream
Where I let that current carry me
Far away from everything I know
I just think about that feeling
Until I turn the engine on and I drive home
Cause you wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Trying to leave if it's easier to stay
They say a watched pot never boils
Boy, I never even lit the flame
You wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Waiting for someday
But time is like that river too
Winding on it's one year then another
It fills your mouth full of excuses
Tells you that you're happy with your lot here
Now I'm standing in my kitchen
Staring out the window
Watching sparrows catching tiny butterflies
Trying hard to listen to the voice down in my heart
The only one that still knows when I'm lying
Cause you wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Trying to leave if it's easier to stay
They say a watched pot never boils
Boy, I never even lit the flame
You wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Waiting for someday
Waiting for someday
Waiting for someday
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8. |
Little Pearls of Water
05:39
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There's memories strung up like dew drops
On spider webs in the spring
Evaporated by daytime
But at first light they're shimmering
Like I remember, you were holding your breath
When you put your hands into mine
And carefully lifting your dress up over your hair
You couldn't stop smiling
They're all just little pearls of water
All strung on a line
They're all just little pearls of water
There's memories falling like rain drops
Hammering down on the tin
And I can't speak over the sound of
All those dumb things I did
Too drunk at the concert, a staggering king
Believing in all my own lies
Cause too much attention might make a man think
He can take what he wants without paying the price
They're all just little pearls of water
That keep falling all night
They're all just little pearls of water
Your twenties will tell you
It's be in love or be free
But I swear I never felt freer
Than when you were singing with me
There's memories hiding in teardrops
That blur the ink on the page
Now, when I read the words back to me
All the meaning has changed
Cause we're all given chances
That we know won't happen twice
That night you took me dancing
You were saying goodbye
They're all just little pearls of water
Gone in the blink of an eye
They're all just little pearls of water
They're all just little pearls of water
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9. |
Now I Don't
04:04
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As a boy, I believed
That the nuclear plant was the factory
Where they made all the clouds
Cause I could see them all floating out
So I believed
But now I don’t
Now I don't
Now I don’t
And my darling girl, what did we see?
Pink flamingos in a corn field
You were crying out
We were crying out
I thought the world was ours
I thought world was ours
But now I don’t
Now I don't
Now I don’t
Now I don’t
Now I don’t
From the corner of that tiny balcony
You could look out across the town past the cemetery
Watch them all go to work
Till the day they’re all laid to rest
I thought that I was different
But now I don’t
Now I don't
Now I don't
Now I don't
Now I don't
And my darling girl
You grew up without me
Still I see you visit
You sit so quietly
And darling I’m sorry
And I worried
That you would be alright, yeah I worried
But now I don’t
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10. |
Starting Tomorrow
04:30
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If I sit here any longer I might turn to stone
Just a statue of an arsehole staring at his phone
Cause I've been here for hours and it's plain to see
That dollar beers and Instagram make for shitty company
And I'm so tired of this rut I'm in
It's high time I finally change something
Starting tomorrow
If I sit here any longer I might fall asleep
And the man who runs the bar will come and drag me to my feet
So I'll pay my tab and go
Buy another can and drink it while I'm walking home
And I'm sorry, I know, I'm drinking too much
I promise I'm gonna quit the stuff
Starting tomorrow
Cause everyday's the same
So what's the difference between starting today
And starting tomorrow?
Sometimes I sit and try to fade away
Getting older ain't much fun if you don't like who you became
Cause I'm just trying to find a way
To be more than just a list of all the habits I can't break
And I close my eyes
I take a sip
I raise a glass to cowardice
And say starting tomorrow
And in the morning I'll wake up and say
Starting tomorrow
Every morning I wake up and say
Starting tomorrow
Starting tomorrow
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I found a little piece of heaven
I wrapped it in a cloth
I slipped it in my pocket
That valley in the sun
I carry it around with me
Whenever I feel lost
I found a piece of heaven
And I wrapped it in a cloth
Fishing in that black lake
I think I caught the moon
It was round like yellow butter
It was smooth like a river stone
It was heavy as the tape hiss
Before the guitars bloom
Fishing in that black lake
I think I caught the moon
Those days
Those days never really end
If we can keep the fire lit
If we keep singing into it
It might never fade
But we, we get older all at once
Before you notice it's all gone
And then you'll know
That nothing stays the same way for long
Time is slick like oil
Time melts away like snow
It's a sunset in the mountains
It's friends you used to know
It's all these goddamn hours I've spent
Locked inside my home
Time is slick like oil
It melts away like snow
Those days
Those days never really end
If we can keep the fire lit
If we keep singing into it
It might never fade
But we, we get older all at once
Before you notice it's all gone
And then you'll know
That nothing stays the same way for long
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Steve Wallis Paris, France
Steve Wallis writes honest, clear eyed folk songs, driven by his shrewd fingerstyle guitar, and his wry gift for finding joy
in the melancholy. His songs are old letters from ex lovers, regrets folded into fond souvenirs, that final glance back before rushing onwards.
In 2018, Steve's song 'Melbourne Rain' reached new success after it was featured in PS4 game Detroit: Become Human.
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