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Hues
04:41
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Work until it’s effortless
You’ve got me putting in shifts
One second I am yours
The next you’re hers
Never mind my heart, never mind my mind
I’ll go looking for them some other time
Never mind reason, never mind my pride
I’d leave it all behind to see you one more night
Work until it’s effortless
You’ve got me putting in time
One second I am yours
The next I’m not even mine
Never mind my heart, never mind my mind
I’ll go looking for them some other time
Never mind what my friends say as we make our getaway
You’re here now, and that’s all I care about
It’s the same blue that keeps me coming back to you
I know its call, know the way it won’t change
Always the same room, we exist in until we’re through
I know these hues, they work their ways
‘Till I can’t see straight
Work until it’s effortless
You’ve got me well refined
Like a good wine, soft to the lips
Drink ‘till I am dry
Never mind my heart, never mind my mind
I’ll go looking for them some other time
Never mind a reason, never mind my pride
I said that I’d be fine, but it was a lie
It’s the same blue that keeps me coming back to you
I know its call, know the way it won’t change
Always the same room, we exist in until we’re through
I know these hues, they work their ways
‘Till I can’t see straight
It’s the same blue that keeps me coming back to you
I know these hues, they work their ways
‘Till I can’t see straight
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2. |
Yellow Sundress
03:08
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Yellow sundress, your hesitant step
on the stairs where you saw me crying.
Salt air, your hands in my hair,
were the only things keeping me breathing.
Like I kept up the lies
that I was brave enough inside
to keep myself from leaving.
It wasn’t you, it was bad timing,
my cowardice looking
for a way out.
It wasn’t just a fling,
but I flung it in your face
on the way out.
Always been on the outside looking in,
your friends are so kind it’s alarming.
I wander the halls of what makes you happy;
you got it wrong, I don’t belong, it’s not me.
Cause I kept up the lies
that I was brave enough inside
to set aside propensities.
It wasn’t you, it was bad timing,
my cowardice looking
for a way out.
It wasn’t just a fling,
but I flung it in your face
on the way out.
Lay awake at night feeling like I’ve known you my whole life
Lay awake at night feeling like I blew a lifetime
It wasn’t you, it was bad timing,
my cowardice looking
for a way out.
It wasn’t just a fling
but I flung it in your face
on the way out.
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3. |
Over & Out
02:41
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You’re all talk and no wisdom
I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough
Lip-service but you can’t deliver
I’m over and out
Over and out...
I’m over and out…
Let’s rewind,
your good intentions
asked me to commit.
To open my mind,
you rolled the dice
and I caught it.
Turns out you’re…
All talk and no wisdom
I’ve have enough, I’ve had enough
Lip-service, but you can’t deliver
I’m over and out
You’ve got a talent for bad timing,
a way with words
that don’t mean a thing.
And it’s alright, but I’m empty
and you’re still taking
all my time.
You’re all talk and no wisdom
I’ve had enough, I’ve had enough
Lip-service, but you can’t deliver
I’m over and out
Over and out...
I’m over and out…
Over and out.
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4. |
Catch the Light
03:42
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You’re not excused from this table
I’m still waiting for you
Still waiting for you to catch the light
Still waiting for you to catch the light
In the aftermath of each other’s choices,
we’re on to this fight, but it’s losing me.
And I’m tired...
Of chasing the end of each other’s words;
it’s a circle of life, but I’m seeing patterns.
You’re not right and I’m not the answer.
But I’m still waiting for you to catch the light
Still waiting...
It’s a matter of facts.
We swore on our sources, wasted.
Connecting the nights like the ground wasn’t blazing.
We still burn, for others, we still burn.
Chasing the end of each other’s words;
it’s a circle of life, but I’m seeing patterns.
You’re not right and I’m not the answer.
But I’m still waiting for you to catch the light
Still waiting...
I’m still waiting for you to catch the light
Still waiting for you to catch the light
You’re not excused from this table,
I’m still waiting for you…
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5. |
Pull Me Close
03:32
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Pull me close,
I know an answer’s coming.
Feel you near,
But my friends are calling.
Wash over me so I can
Drown out their pleas.
The outsiders watch
With eyes a-glowing.
They say “come here, dear”
But I don’t trust ‘em.
Wash over me so I can
Drown out their pleas.
Nobody knows how to exist like you do;
Nobody moves like the empty space in a full room.
You and I are so unlikely, but you and I could define me.
Chase the ache that I can’t placate.
If I can’t feel,
Then I’ll just sway
In this constant reel
Of loneliness and PDA.
I live for repeats
That never do as I please.
Nobody knows how to exist like you do;
Nobody moves like the empty space in a full room.
You and I are so unlikely, but you and I could define me.
Chase the ache that I can’t placate.
Give me a light, I’ll show how I catch in the breeze.
Give me a light, I’ll show how quick I can please.
Give me a light, I’ll show how I catch in the breeze,
Give me a light, give me a light, give me a light.
Nobody knows how to exist like you do;
Nobody moves like the empty space in a full room.
You and I are so unlikely, but you and I could define me.
Chase the ache that I can’t placate.
Pull me close, I feel an answer coming.
Sun’s rising, but my friends are fading.
Pull me close, I feel an answer coming,
Pull me close...
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6. |
The Way to Go
04:02
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They’re foxes but I’m no hound,
no match for their solemn races.
They’re a frenzy and I’m a light,
I see their stolen faces.
They say the way to go is up,
but the sky is falling.
They say the way to go is up,
but I’m a settling snow and I…
Feel the cold becoming frost,
brimming the windows.
I am stranded and that’s all I want.
They’re fast but I’m no prize,
no stop on someone else’s watch.
They’re a fleet and I’m a falter
at the edge of the dock.
They say the way to go is up,
but the sky is falling.
They say the way to go is up,
but I’m a settling snow and I…
Feel the cold becoming frost,
brimming the windows.
I am stranded and that’s all I want.
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7. |
Now I Wait
04:15
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Meet me in the bedroom
In my best dress, Sunday’s finest
I’ll be your every want
If only for a kiss
Real as the ocean we jumped in
Water still drips down my legs
Real as the things unforgiven
Still I play pretend
It was yours to want, it was mine to give
While you’d escape your world
You’d lay siege to my own
Now I wait, but you never come
I’m not your evening news
Can’t turn it off when it goes bad
You were something blue, but I saw you
Now you say I shouldn’t have
Remember the motions we’d follow
You’d beg me not to go
Remember all of your I love yous
Now, you can’t even pretend
It was yours to want, it was mine to give
While you’d escape your world
You’d lay siege to my own
Now I wait, but you never come
Left the key under the door
While I cried on the floor
You shook me from your skin
Why can’t you love me right,
Like I’m brand new again?
It was yours to want, it was mine to give
While you’d escape your world
You’d lay siege to my own
Now I wait
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8. |
Bandits
03:17
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Born to run, playing bandits with fake guns.
Hair undone, rain on tongues, how did I forget this?
The lingering smell of gasoline on your shirt.
Crossed our hearts golden and righteous.
A hundred years of excavations
To finally blow the dust off my lashes
These mortals’ cages
Weren’t made for bandits like us
Now, some say I’m soft as the stars that you wish upon
But I’m a pawn and a player too; look deep, you’ll see the clues
I want what you want but it’s amplified
And I’m scared it’ll take all of my time
To cross these lawless lands
A hundred years of excavations
To finally blow the dust off my lashes
These mortals’ cages
Weren’t made for bandits like us
Twenty odd years that I’ve given
Twenty odd years that it’s taken
Still, they say “you’ve got some time, kid”
But the tide is closing in
A hundred years of excavations
To finally blow the dust off my lashes
These mortals’ cages
Weren’t made for bandits like us
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9. |
My Other Life
03:09
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My other life is calling again,
it breathes and demands to be fed.
I contemplate leaving it out in the cold
with a sign that reads, “For you to take home”
These matters are best left unshared.
If I open that door, it won’t close anymore.
Will I spend my nights turning to the days
I watch burn away?
I’m so done with taking these shifts
I’m done trading for a life
that I can’t even call my own.
And they say I’m the lucky one…
An entertaining thought
spoken like it’s all for fun and games…
I’ve always been undisappointing
Is that why the loneliness sends me reeling?
Always, always, always wanting
Always, always, always waiting …
I’m so done with taking these shifts
I’m done trading for a life
that I can’t even call my own.
And they say I’m the lucky one…
An entertaining thought
spoken like it’s all for fun and games…
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10. |
Willow
04:09
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I’m looking at the sky and asking why….
It’s the way we grow, but when did I stop seeing?
A friend saw the weather changing
But it never rained, and we didn’t believe him.
A friend saw the weather changing
But it never rained, he was saying…
You don’t even know
You don’t even care about it
You’re above it
You thought it would die out
Didn’t see the willow weeping down...
Whispers all around
Turning into shouts
Voices canceling out
Each starved for the love it wasted
There’ll be hell before heaven
Dues for all to pay before it’s even…
There’ll be hell before heaven
Dues paid by all we believed in.
You don’t even know
You don’t even care about it
You’re above it
You didn’t see them drown
Didn’t see the bodies flowing down...
Didn’t see the blood ‘till it reached us
‘Till it made our edges borderless
I saw the weather changin
And the colour of the rain
I saw the colour of the rain
But they didn’t believe me
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11. |
In My Head
03:43
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I’m so sick of being kind to myself
Pats on the back while the hourglass bleeds out
I feel my temper growing short
I’ve held my peace and it’s killing me
Are you gonna call me in the morning
Ask me how I’m feeling, or was it all in my head?
We weren’t even close but I swore on you
Wasn’t even lucky but I bet on you, was it all in my head?
Your sincerity don’t run with my own
You want the accolade, go on, have it
May it give you honour
I feel my signals falling short,
I don’t know what’s real anymore
There isn’t much life in these parts,
but I swore I heard a beating heart
Are you gonna call me in the morning
Ask me how I’m feeling, or was it all in my head?
We weren’t even close but I swore on you
Wasn’t even lucky but I bet on you, was it all in my head?
I need a cold shower, a warm shoulder
To tell me how it is
I shot in the dark and lost it.
I talk myself out of pain and envy
Of digging up the graves
Of old ties that I buried.
I’m so sick of being kind
Pats on the back while the hourglass bleeds out…
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Erika Lamon Kingston, Ontario
Folk-rock songstress Erika Lamon has been charming crowds with a sound steeped in reverie ever since her music scene debut in 2013. In 2017, she released her self-titled debut EP to a packed house in her hometown of Kingston, ON and spent the next two years performing and touring from Toronto to Charlottetown. Hues is her first full-length record, released ON September 9th 2022. ... more
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