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Hawks
02:33
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They tried to make me a computer
But that was never gonna click
I woke up at the concert hall
Energy high and patience thin
And from the start I heard you singing
I knew I wanted part of it
When the hawks flew north for the summer
I knew I needed a piece of it
I was sixteen and a menace
I was young blood and I knew
I knew what happens when the show ends
And I took part in it too
Two weeks and you’re writing songs about me
You say I’m young but I’m mature
And then we’re smoking in the parking lot
Or drinking whisky on the floor
When the hawks flew north for the summer
I knew I needed more
Look at me like you’re singing to me
Didn’t you say the world’s your stage
Don’t you go to the next city
I’d like it better if you stay
You said, you know I’m leaving darling
I’ve got another show to play
So instead I’ll do you one better
If you don’t mind me taking you away
When the hawks flew north for the summer
I finally got away
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2. |
The Band's Baby, pt. 1
03:31
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I said “do you think i could ever be a singer”
I laid on the bed opposite of you
You kissed me, said sure, then you kissed me some more
You’re my weakness, you’ve painted me blue
So I give you my hand, or a smoke, or a gram
You say you just need it to get through
We just need it to get through
We just need it to get through
So I’m high off of something
I’m low off the rest
I’ve been broken to pieces
I’m shattered and bent
And I’m counting the seconds
I lay on your chest
And I die
And I die
And I die
We pulled into Nazareth, feeling half dead
I’m half yours, half the rest of your friends
Guess I’m the band’s baby, I’m spoiled enough
And I certainly cry enough for it
I get high off the weight of it all
I get high off the weight of it all
I get high off the weight of it all
And Rick got so angry that night in my bed
For the very things he wanted
I guess I didn’t realize that part of the deal
How he feared my body was haunted
But you climbed in and you laid with me for the night
And it’s perfect, it’s perfect I knew
And its all that I need to get through
And it’s all that I need to get through
And it’s all that I need to get through
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3. |
The Band's Baby, pt. 2
02:25
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My Tracy Lee
You were born in the morning so early
I will try to make you happy
You’re the only one who loves me
In the way I love you
When I was your age
I wound up in a new place
With a brand new family
Maybe that’s the ghost I’m fighting
I’ve been fighting all these years
Or maybe I’m just mean
My Tracy Lee
No, he doesn’t mean to hurt me
He just sees the band
My Tracy Lee
No, he doesn’t have to hurt me
He just knows he can
And I’m broken for the both of us
I can’t hide you from the tears
Down my neck and hands
My Tracy Lee
Can’t raise you on my own
Like my own couldn’t for me
Hoping they can make you happy
You’re the only one who loves me
In the way I love you
Hoping that you don’t become me
In the way I am somebody
That I’ll never even know
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4. |
The Bust
02:30
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We got stopped at the border
And the cops went through your bags
You traded glances at each other
I painted my nails in the back
And I could sense a shift in energy
That they’d found something bad
Cause there was green tea in the glove box
In a little plastic bag
And this was 1964
It was a bigger deal back then
And so Levon came to speak with me
So easily he said
My darling you can save us
In a way no one else can
Can you do it for me baby
Can you be part of the plan
Well before the conversation
The whole scheme had been devised
They had located the detective
Who was set to testify
And then they tested out the waters
And there weren't any waves
So when they felt that they could move him
They worked out the time and place
So I walked into the hotel
Then my memory gets slow
And I know I did a good job
Though the task was awfully low
And then I told him who I was
I lied and said I was fourteen
And in a haze I left the bedroom
And the band would get off free
Except for me
Though I was never getting charged
And i felt dirty in the moment
And the grime seeped into the scars
And I have proof from all those fuckers
That they wouldnt do the same
Rob and rick wrote it in their tell-alls
Addressing me by the wrong name
You forgot my name
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5. |
Drunk and Madly In Love
02:02
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We were trading stares
Led to our first affair
It was brief
Few years pass in a glance
Elevator by chance
It was fate
Our first paths changed again there
You said I’m not like her
And I doubt it
I’ve dealt in your trade before
Take me on your trips take me on your drives
I want to see you living want to see you live
I don’t think you think about what I’m made of
We’re too busy being drunk and madly in love
Now that we’re an item I’m your little thing
I help you behind the scenes when by head’s working
But working is exhausting and we’d rather just coast
You’d better show yourself soon I’m holding hands with a ghost
You said you’re not like you were
And I doubt it
I’ve dealt in your trade before
I don’t ask where you’ve been, don’t ask what you’ve done
I’m too busy being drunk and madly in love
You don’t know the time, don’t know where I was
You’re too busy being drunk and madly in love
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6. |
Sundown
02:28
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7. |
Flash of Fire 2
02:56
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You let me cowrite on your song
Flash of Fire
You said that I did nothing wrong
And I cried
And I did backup on a minor hit
You know I used to want to sing for real
I’ve lived through others, I keep living
And that’s my life, that’s my career
And I’ve gone pro
I don’t forgive, I don’t forget
Don’t let it manifest as rage
I let it kill me from the inside
The fire is burning through my veins
I think we wrote a decent song
And maybe that’s the way I’m saved
But its the only thing I’ve written
And out of spite it stays that way
It stays that way
(scream)
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8. |
Marmont
02:21
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Chateau Marmont
Located on sunset boulevard
Best known as a residence for the rich and famous
for the up and coming
Or the down and out
I’m the supplier
You’re the addict
I’m the addict
There’s a dragon in your mind
Cocaine wasn’t doing it for you anymore
You wanted something with a bite
It’s a five day party
You’re visited by your famous friends
I think I creeped them out
Something about my fragile frame
With somebody on the down and out
Well I suspect you could keep better company
And that extends to well off friends
Though it includes me
Rob and Robin bobbin their heads to the music
Leave you when it starts looking dicey
I get it, they have reputations
But I don’t
In fact I test the drugs for everybody else
Check if they’re cut with something worse
And then administer
And watch your breathing, watch for signs of overdose
And I don’t think you look that close
I make you get up and go take a shower
Drink some water
I’m insane
The speedball’s speeding through my veins
The speedball’s coursing through my veins
I need to leave here
On the afternoon of March 5th
Cathy Evelyn Smith
Drove the wrong way into a one way exit
Of Chateau Marmont on Sunset Strip
In John Belushi's red mercedes
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9. |
Thighs
02:54
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Enquirer offered 15k
For an article about the events of the day
It’s not like I had other options
So I’m funding my habits in freelance and pain
I cut myself open, they take and they take
And they take me out of context
And they’re booking me interviews, I don’t know why
I’m part of the process and part of the prize
And my compensation is the drugs that I buy
I’m coming off cynical evil and wry
I don’t know what I’m doing man I’m so high
The article starts with remarks on my thighs
I told you he was the best I’ve known
Already said it a few times, I was too fucked to know
You didn’t tell me, cause that’d ruin the show
And you know we both had a death wish
Wouldn’t have made the news if I’d beat him to it
But that’s fine, I’m hardly in it
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10. |
Refused
02:32
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I get a place in vancouver
I’m talking to kids
Telling them not to make the mistakes that I did
The world won’t forget you
But the hatred is less
I know I’m a hypocrite
Preaching against
A vice I won’t quit
But I don’t have time for it
The well-off can be logically consistent
I’m just trying to survive
Least now I’m getting by
And the flame starts so small
With a flicker or spark
An electrical failure
Now you see in the dark
Then it’s eating the walls
And it’s spitting out smoke
And I run for the doorway
And try not to choke
And if I died here
And if I died now
Then I’d die old enough
No one will wonder how
But I stumble outside
And the cruel sirens sound
I’m choking on air
In the headlights I drown
I don’t know why I ran
It was against my will
My body betrays me
Refused to be killed
And I have to keep living
Something won’t let me die
My heart continues beating even though I don’t try
Lungs sink and expand
I don’t know why that is
But I’ll fill them up somehow
I’m not sure what with
I don’t know why I ran
It was against my will
My body betrays me
Refused to be killed
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11. |
Pretty, Dead, Clean
04:01
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I think maybe I’ve been cursed
I get pulled over, hit the curb
He finds two grams in my purse
That’s two thousand dollars that I don’t have
Two thousand that I won’t get back
Two thousand that he won’t have
To think about
And it doesn’t matter you’ve seen
They want you clean
Oh as a child I sure cleaned up nice
You passed me back and forth
Ruining my life
You didn’t spare me
You couldn’t spare a thought
But as the years wear on
My eyes no longer glow
And suddenly you’d never be so low
As to lend me a hand or your time
I’m just too far gone
They want you pretty
They want you clean
I know I’ve sinned most sins in my time
I know I’m burning from the inside
And I know where I’m headed
I’ll stand behind you in line
For who among us wouldn’t die
Give up everything to go back in time
And undo the worst moment of our lives
I would
But that’s not gonna save me
They want you pretty
They want you dead
They want you clean
I’m the monster underneath your bed
I’m the evil you can’t get out of your head
I’m your enemy, if you so project
Cry me a river and then drown me in it
They want you pretty
They want you dead
They want you clean
Refusing to die my lungs sink and expand
Cause atoning for one thing is all that I am
Was part of the process and part of the plan
Femme fatale freak show, the critics have panned
There’s a dragon living in my mind
It’s been chasing me
I’ve sung backup on a minor hit
The sun went down I didn’t care for it
Don’t know where i am or where I’ve been
I trace the scars where all the dirt seeped in
I don’t know where my daughter is
I hope she’s doing well
The weight is drawing me to the ground
My hair gets thinner my skin sinks down
I was sixteen when the hawks flew down
I didn’t know I was prey
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Skyler Foley Virginia
Skyler Foley is a Northern Virginia based singer-songwriter. She is also sooooo funny and can beat anyone at skee ball and at Livin La Vida Loca on Just Dance 4 (even you danny) AND she makes a MEAN carrot cake.
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