tag:licitycollins.com,2005:/blogs/lyrics
Lyrics
2023-06-28T21:22:01-07:00
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
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tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/7234386
2023-06-28T21:22:01-07:00
2023-10-16T07:51:49-07:00
Moving In My Sleep
<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XVnUEVbHN24" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVnUEVbHN24?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><o:p></o:p></p><p>In the mornings, early <br>I fall back to sleep<o:p></o:p><br>And every morning, early<br>I have a recurring dream<o:p></o:p><br>I’m packing every thing I own<o:p></o:p><br>Running out of time<br>I’m out of time…<o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p>Moving in my sleep again<br>Lost the landlord’s keys again<br>No security again<o:p></o:p><br>Cleaning on my knees again<br>Moving in my sleep ——<span> </span>Again.<o:p></o:p></p><p><br>When I’m dreaming, worried<o:p></o:p><br>Time is ticking for me to flee<o:p></o:p><br>And then I’m dreaming, worried<o:p></o:p><br>What to take, what to leave<o:p></o:p><br>There’s no new place where I belong<o:p></o:p><br>Where can I go?<o:p></o:p><br>Where do I go….?</p><p> </p><p>Moving in my sleep again<br>Lost the landlord’s keys again<br>No security again<br>Cleaning on my knees again</p><p>Moving in my sleep again<br>Boxed up memories again<br>No one hears my pleas again<br>High anxiety again</p><p>Moving in my sleep<br>Moving in my sleep — Again, again.</p><p> </p><p>Hiding in corners trying to stay<br>Desperate for one more day</p><p> </p><p>Time, more time. I just need some more<br>Time, more time. I just need some more<br>(repeats until end)</p><p> </p><p>Moving in my sleep again<o:p></o:p><br>Lost the landlord’s keys again<o:p></o:p><br>No security again<o:p></o:p><br>Cleaning on my knees again<o:p></o:p></p><p>Moving in my sleep again<o:p></o:p><br>Boxed up memories again<o:p></o:p><br>No one hears my pleas again<o:p></o:p><br>High anxiety again<o:p></o:p></p><p>Moving in my sleep again<o:p></o:p><br>Leaving things behind again<o:p></o:p><br>Running out of time again<o:p></o:p><br>Running out of time…</p><p>Moving in my sleep <o:p></o:p><br>Moving in my sleep <o:p></o:p><br>Moving in my sleep —Again, again, again.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p></o:p></p><p>I just need some more time.<o:p></o:p></p><p> </p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/7162503
2023-02-28T14:00:47-08:00
2023-03-05T09:57:44-08:00
Left to Learn
<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="tK_X3Dz7FFM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tK_X3Dz7FFM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p>It was over yesterday<br>it was over this morning<br>it’s been over every day this week.<br> </p><p>I went to the store<br>I bought his favorite foods<br>so he’d stop eating away at my dreams.<br> </p><p>and I’m begging for quiet<br>I'm pretending I'm peaceful<br>but I plead with the forces for one more fight.<br><br><br>I’m aching for conflict<br>I call for corrections<br>I plead with the voices <br>stop trampling, stop trampling, <br>stop trampling my mind.<br>It's my mind.<br> </p><p>I was waiting for him <br>waiting for me<br>neither of us came.<br><br>Creating someone<br>berating what’s done<br>Can’t we share the blame?</p><p><br>Breaking rivers <br>stealing oceans<br>scratching out the sky<br>I took my turn<br>my skin began to burn<br>the same thing left to learn<br>same thing left to learn. <br> </p><p>I woke up yesterday<br>I woke up this morning<br>I woke up every day this week.<br><br>and I’m practicing patience<br>calculating my wisdom<br>and I plead with the forces—no more fights.</p><p><br>Breaking rivers <br>stealing oceans<br>scratching out the sky<br>I take my turn<br>my skin begins to burn<br>the same thing left to learn<br>same thing left to learn.<br> </p><p>same thing left to learn<br>same thing left to learn<br>same thing left to learn.</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4911599
2020-12-29T23:15:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:14:17-08:00
Cracked Window
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<p>A broken day <br>no way <br>to have a say <br>or make my stand </p>
<p>I’m at your door <br>a crumpled whore <br>pour myself in your hands </p><!-- more -->
<p>Sunlight rides the breeze <br>like the first day of spring <br>You assemble me <br>piece by piece </p>
<p>This tryst <br>proof I exist <br>certified with one kiss </p>
<p>You send the clouds <br>spinning round <br>and carry me to our nest </p>
<p>Staircase disappears <br>all the questioning is done <br>You undress my fears <br>one by one </p>
<p>Skin against courageous skin <br>your touch is my reprieve <br>Air came through a cracked window <br>and you saw me breathe</p>
<p>We never rush <br>a savored touch <br>no earning my reward </p>
<p>Your control <br>lets me let go <br>my innocence restored </p>
<p>Curtains float and sigh <br>like my heart against your chest <br>We are intertwined <br>Yes by yes </p>
<p>Skin against courageous skin <br>your touch is my reprieve <br>Air came through a cracked window <br>and you saw me breathe </p>
<p>Skin against courageous skin <br>your touch is my reprieve <br>Air came through a cracked window <br>and you saw me breathe </p>
<p>Air came through a cracked window <br>and you saw me breathe </p>
<p>Air came through a cracked window <br>air came through a cracked window <br>air came through a cracked window <br>and you saw me breathe</p>
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<hr><p>Cracked Window <br>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town</p>
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Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4911600
2020-12-29T22:15:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:14:32-08:00
Just My Love
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<p>I get the feeling<br>you’re getting nervous <br>that time I touched your arm <br>Just a passing spark of my passion <br>made it clear the game is on </p><!-- more -->
<p>Call it a game but you know there’s no shame <br>When you say my name <br>my heart trembles and quakes </p>
<p><br>We like to play but there’s no pulling away <br>When stars fall from the sky <br>and the earth starts to shake </p>
<p>It’s my love<br>It’s just my love<br>It’s my love<br>It’s just my love </p>
<p>I get the idea this makes you anxious <br>I know you’ve been so hurt before <br>Fathers and mothers <br>threw your love in the gutter <br>Made you pack up your bags <br>and run for the door </p>
<p>Let’s make a new family <br>you and me understanding <br>we can fill in the lines we left empty so long <br>Year by year no hesitation here <br>I’ll be the one who makes you feel strong </p>
<p>It’s my love <br>It’s just my love <br>It’s my love <br>It’s just my love</p>
<p>It’s just my love <br>It’s just my love </p>
<p>Somebody told me once <br>I have a lot of love to give <br>I said I try I try <br>to keep my oceans reined in <br>Then you came along, <br>lovin’ every way I am <br>And now I am so free </p>
<p>I get the sensation this is getting good <br>That day you looked me straight in the eye <br>Your mind gives me shivers <br>intellectual quivers <br>Makes me wanna find out <br>if we’re two of a kind </p>
<p>It’s you’re kindness that gets me <br>how you never test me <br>It lets me take in all you can give <br>You’re my four-leaf clover <br>my misfortunes are over <br>This is the life I’ve been dying to live </p>
<p>It’s my love <br>It’s just my love <br>It’s my love <br>It’s just my love <br>It’s my love <br>It’s just my love…</p>
<hr><p>Just My Love <br>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town</p>
<p>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4911593
2020-12-29T21:15:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:15:15-08:00
Love Me Like That
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<p>Last night I heard a beautiful<br>poem about love <br>a cowboy to his woman<br>the one he called his home <br>Every breath she took<br>seemed to bring his soul to life <br>And everything he did<br>he did for his wife </p><!-- more -->
<p>The poet who read it <br>he sent it out to me <br>saying someday some cowboy <br>might make me feel that free </p>
<p>But if someone <br>would love me like that <br>I’d tear down my walls <br>Turn in my hats <br>Surrender the war <br>Learn to relax <br>Stop scheming of smashing things up with a bat <br>Be who I am <br>Be done with the act <br>If someone would love me like that <br> <br>Like that <br>Like that <br>Love me like that</p>
<p>People say love is gentle and kind <br>That’s not the type I’m so anxious to find <br>The love I’ve known did not start out true <br>The fraudulence twisted my heart through and through </p>
<p>I want a lover courageous and real <br>who’ll pick up my map steady the wheel <br>and get drunk on devotion not on the drink <br>who trusts what I feel and knows how I think </p>
<p>The love that I give <br>is brighter than the sun <br>my heart is steady beating <br>waiting for the one </p>
<p>Who’ll say “I am the one <br>who loves you like that <br>So tear down your walls <br>Turn in your hats <br>Surrender the war <br>Learn to relax <br>Stop scheming of smashing things up with a bat <br>Be who you are <br>Be done with the act <br>‘cause I am the one who loves you like that </p>
<p>Like that <br>Like that <br>I will love you like that <br>Like that <br>Like that <br>I will love you like that”</p>
<p>And the day I wake up <br>with that person next to me <br>is the day I’ll start believing <br>love can set you free </p>
<p>And I’ll turn to the one <br>who loves me like that <br>Tear down my walls <br>Turn in my hats <br>Surrender the war <br>Learn to relax <br>Stop scheming of smashing things up with that bat <br>Be who I am <br>Be done with the act <br>In the arms of the one who loves me like that </p>
<p>Like that <br>Like that <br>Do you love me like that? <br>Like that <br>Like that <br>Can you love me like that? <br>Like that <br>Like that <br>Like that <br>Love me like that</p>
<hr><p>Love Me Like That <br>Licity Collins <br>From the album One Girl Town</p>
<p>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
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Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4914253
2020-12-29T20:15:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:15:30-08:00
One Girl Town
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<p>Wandering around<br>this heartless town <br>restless and aching to write <br>a letter to you all about you <br>to say that I love you <br>but it’s too soon to tell </p><!-- more -->
<p>In the haze of disguise how can I exist <br>in styles, signals and signs? <br>Fire trucks racing to a scene far away <br>everyone’s racing <br>to a scene far away </p>
<p>One girl town </p>
<p>Faces march by with artillery eyes <br>waging a new war called doubt <br>It raises the soldiers from the trenches <br>of my echoing <br>battle-stained past </p>
<p>In this one girl town <br>One girl town <br>One girl town</p>
<p>And the rain keeps falling <br>and the sky is rarely blue </p>
<p>A traffic light squints tempting my stride <br>but I don’t dare a step forward <br>Cowards dismantle my courage <br>Seasoned destroyers <br> and counterfeit friends <br> <br>Turning around a voice in the crowd <br>is mine for the very first time <br>pouring a sidewalk of freedom and fire <br>Everything ending <br>is where I begin </p>
<p>And the rain keeps falling <br>and the sky is rarely blue </p>
<p>One girl town <br>One girl town <br>One girl town <br>One girl town <br>One girl town</p>
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<hr><p>One Girl Town</p>
<p>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town </p>
<p>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4914254
2020-12-29T19:20:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:16:13-08:00
Staring at the Dark
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<p>I’m sitting in my bedroom<br>staring at the dark <br>The dog woke me up again<br>five a.m. sharp <br>So I dug out a pencil<br>to write you some words <br>while I waited<br>for the sun to come </p><!-- more -->
<p>You’re on my mind again you always are <br>I can’t seem to scrape your face off of my heart <br>I told you I loved you when we were just friends <br>But I’m not gonna do that again </p>
<p>And I should open some windows <br>and let in some air <br>But I can’t wake up yet <br>And I should welcome this day <br>with a flourish and flare <br>But I don’t </p>
<p> ‘Cause it’s you, you, you <br>always you <br>And it’s me <br>Just me </p>
<p>It’s been all these years since you first touched my hand <br>Your fingerprints stayed on me they’re part of my skin <br>The curl in your mouth and the shake in your voice <br>And it’s yesterday </p>
<p>What can I tell you <br>to make it all clear? <br>I’ve got nothing to say to you <br>I just want you here <br>So get on the plane <br>and come walk through my door <br>That’s why I gave you the key</p>
<p>And I hear smarter voices <br>talk sense in my head <br>But I tell them no <br>And I reach for your arms <br>when I turn in my bed <br>Because I can’t let go </p>
<p>And it’s you, you, you <br>always you <br>And it’s me <br>Just me </p>
<p>So I put down my pencil there aren’t any words <br>And if you could say anything you’d say it to your girl <br>And you’d leave me here lonely <br>but you’re not to blame <br>For what I just won’t say </p>
<p>And it’s you, you, you, <br>always you <br>And it’s me… </p>
<p>Sitting in my bedroom five-thirty a.m. <br>The dog’s gone to sleep but I’m still where I am <br>Facing the day with this half-broken heart <br> ‘Cause I’ve been staring… </p>
<p>Staring at the dark <br>Staring at the dark <br>Staring at the dark <br>Staring at the dark <br> <br>I’m just staring at the dark <br>I’m just staring at the dark <br>I’m staring at the dark <br>Staring at the dark <br>I’m just staring at the dark</p>
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<hr><p>Staring at the Dark</p>
<p>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town </p>
<p><br>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4914229
2020-12-29T18:20:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:16:32-08:00
Sometimes
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<p>By the side<br>of the Ventura Freeway <br>a warehouse<br>in a blaze of orange fire <br>reminded me of you <br>reminded me of you </p><!-- more -->
<p>You’ve been burning most of my life <br>and I keep trying to do everything right <br>But those people by the side of the road <br>not a single one of them dared to be so bold </p>
<p>to walk into the flames <br>The alarm sounded my name </p>
<p>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>but don’t let the smoke get in your eyes </p>
<p>You’re a ravishing natural disaster <br>and I will miss the absurdity of the laughter that we shared <br>You’ll never know the promises I made you <br>You’ll call me selfish, say I have betrayed you </p>
<p>But I’m finished with your names <br>I can’t put out your flames </p>
<p>They build up a ruse <br>and tear down the truth <br>lie by lie by lie by lie by lie</p>
<p> <br>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>After all these years I finally have learned <br>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>but don’t let the smoke get in your eyes </p>
<p>Watch that fire burn <br>Watch that fire burn <br>Sometimes <br>Sometimes </p>
<p>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn <br>Sometimes you gotta watch that fire burn </p>
<p>Doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Do do doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Do do doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Do do doo doo do-do-do-doo doo doo <br>Doo doo do-do-do-doo doo dooooooo </p>
<p>You gotta watch it burn <br>Sometimes <br>Sometimes watch it burn <br>You gotta watch it burn</p>
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<hr><p>Sometimes</p>
<p>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town </p>
<p>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4914226
2020-12-29T17:25:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:17:13-08:00
These Eyes Don't Lie
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<p>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la </p>
<p>Absolute <br>You called me absolute <br>I swallowed my refute <br>You’re so damned astute <br>What will you do now that you<br>have caught a glimpse of me? <br>Will you stay<br>or will you need convincing? </p><!-- more -->
<p>I choked out my reply “We’ll talk about that later” <br> ‘Cause in your eyes I feared the old invaders <br>Should I see this through or grab the plans for my escape route? <br>Will you take a stand between me and every way out? </p>
<p>Quit the schemes <br>Forgive the crimes <br>Risk it all for clear blue skies <br>These eyes don’t lie </p>
<p>La la la la la la la la La la la la </p>
<p>I’ve lived so many fictions I’ve got sonar for the truth. <br>Yeah you sound delicious but I gotta hear some proof <br>What if you knew you’re the only one that sees me cry? <br>Each time I leave you I’m scared it’s the last time </p>
<p>Quit the schemes <br>Forgive the crimes <br>Risk it all for clear blue skies <br>These eyes don’t lie</p>
<p>I’ve tried too many times <br>Looked in so many eyes <br>But everyone’s a liar <br>Until you tell yourself the truth </p>
<p>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>These eyes don’t lie <br>These eyes don’t lie <br>These eyes don’t lie </p>
<p>So I’ll quit the schemes <br>Forgive the crimes <br>Risk it all for clear blue skies <br>These eyes don’t lie <br>These eyes don’t lie <br>These eyes don’t lie </p>
<p>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la </p>
<p>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la <br>La la la la la la la la La la la la</p>
<hr><p>These Eyes Don't Lie<br>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town</p>
<p><br>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4914227
2020-12-29T17:20:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:16:47-08:00
Turn
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<p>They say you don’t know<br>what choice you will make <br>‘till the day you’re staring<br>your life in the face <br>Then you’ll know<br>what sort of caliber you shoot <br>and which direction<br>and what targets you’ll choose </p><!-- more -->
<p>This day it seemed my turn had come ‘round <br>and I might lose the little of me I had just only found <br>And I cursed the one note legacy they believed <br>and the girl they all had mistaken for me </p>
<p>And the clouds might turn <br>and the river might rise <br>and the dam might break <br>right before our eyes </p>
<p>I don’t know what makes blood turn to rust <br>I don’t know which of my instincts to trust <br>Some secrets you just don’t give away <br>when all the confusion might strike a new pose <br>by the end of the day </p>
<p>And the clouds might turn <br>and the river might rise <br>and the dam might break <br>right before our eyes </p>
<p>So do I pray for rain? <br>Do I pray for rain? <br>Do I pray for rain? <br>Do I pray for rain?</p>
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<hr><p>Turn</p>
<p>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town </p>
<p>© 2018 ASCAP all rights reserved</p>
Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist
tag:licitycollins.com,2005:Post/4911594
2020-12-29T16:20:00-08:00
2020-12-30T20:17:31-08:00
Weather Gets Warm
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<p>Looked out this morning<br>the sky was falling down<br>the ice was forming in mid-air<br>crashing like bones<br>breaking when they meet with<br>unforgiving ground</p><!-- more -->
<p>I tried to turn the heat up<br>but the pilot would not light<br>I burnt out every match we had<br>wishing the wind<br>could invade some other home for just one<br>unsuspecting night</p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm? <br>Holding on for that breaking sun <br>Tell me how long ‘till the weather gets warm? </p>
<p>It’s been twenty days and thirty nights <br>since one of us got paid <br>the neighbor brought a bag of food <br>straining to stretch <br>a remedy of hope across his <br>un-denying face </p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm? <br>Holding on for that breaking sun <br>Tell me how long ‘till the weather gets warm? </p>
<p>We shut the door behind him <br>and we watched him walk away <br>the bag of food dropped from my hands <br>shaking and cold <br>down to my toes another <br>unrelenting day</p>
<p>I wanna walk outside <br>barefoot in my lemon thyme <br>You put your hand over my eyes <br>and say <br>“Dream… <br>Dream… <br>Dream” </p>
<p>So you wrapped me in that blanket <br>Your mother had crocheted <br>we fell together on the couch <br>kissing like kids <br>finding ourselves in an <br>unauthorized embrace </p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm? <br>Holding on for that breaking sun <br>Tell me how long ‘till the weather gets warm? </p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm? <br>Holding on for that breaking sun . . . </p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm <br>Holding on for that breaking sun <br>tell me how long ‘till the weather gets warm? </p>
<p>Will there be an end to this storm? <br>How long ‘till the weather gets warm <br>Holding on for that breaking sun <br>Tell me how long ‘till the weather gets warm?</p>
<hr><p>Weather Gets Warm <br>Licity Collins <br>from the album One Girl Town</p>
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Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist