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All This Time
03:41
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Battleships, they fall from our lips
What a terrible sound
I practice semaphore, you fix the flags before
Oh but we're running aground
If it's rocky between the waves, would we have gone straight ahead
and just drifted apart
Battleships, how they fall from our lips and it's breaking my heart
All this time, we've been anchored
All this time, out to sea
All this time, holding out for
When you had all this time for me.
It's battle cry, as we list to the side
And the storm rages on
I take the wheel before, you crash the tidal bore
Oh, but we're coming around
There's hope in between the waves
Should we dropped anchor and
Thrown our past in the sea
The battle cry, falling silent beside
Our abandoned debris
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Fall
03:16
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Fall
He sees me leaving, he'll never ask me to stay
Love an emotion, that only gets in the way
Of life, or work...he's the rational kind.
Love is the last thing, that would enter his mind.
If he were asked he might call me naive
Head in the clouds and my heart on my sleeve
If he were asked he'd express his dismay
Reality never was my forte
Chorus:
And I'm older now, God knows I'm no wiser
I can read the signs, a little better that's all
And I've made mistakes, but I know what really matters
I can stop myself, if I'm starting to fall.
Sometimes my heart feels, so battered and bruised
From all the years that I wasted on you
Sometimes my heart feels so cruel to be kind
And like a clock I just slowly unwind
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Crazy hazy summer days
Dancing 'round in pouring rain
It's not love...just something like it
There's a gentleness behind your eyes
You say it's been there, since you were a child
It's not love, just something like it.
I believed that I didn't care
After all, love and war ain't fair
And I believed that I didn't know
I'm an old fashioned girl
You got no space in your world
I need love...not something like it
So stand aside and let me go
I've got my own mind, it's time that you know
I need love, not something like it.
I'm not your puppet on a string
I don't raise my voice when you tell me to sing
That's not love, it's nothing like it.
I believed that I didn't care
After all, love and war ain't fair
And I believed that I didn't know
I'm an old fashioned girl
You got no room in your world
I need love...not something like it
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You
05:34
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I'm on the train headed to somewhere
Thinking of you
That's how I spend most of my time now
So it's nothing new
And I could just go far away
Iffen I got a clue
But I figured this too shall pass
As these things tend to do
I dreamed that we made different choices
In our lives
And though they seemed wrong at the time
In the end they all worked out right
And I'm frozen here to the ground
Waiting for that faint little sound
When my heart tells me that it's true
All this time, it could have been you.
And I think about speaking my mind now
But what would that change?
I'd still be here wishing for sunshine
While you pray to stop the rain
And maybe we'll meet in the middle
If the path doesn't change
But after all of these years
Taking it just seems so strange.
I dreamed that we made different choices
In our lives
And though they seemed wrong at the time
In the end they all turned out fine.
And I'm frozen here to the ground
Waiting for that faint little sound
When my heart tells me that it's true
All this time, it could have been you.
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Ghost
03:22
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She won't be able, to live with my ghost
With my name upon the lips you love the most
Like a shadow cast on all that's passed between us you will know
She won't be...me.
She won't be willing, to lend you the strength
To recognise the rope you're hanging yourself with
And as the ship goes down and all has drowned in some forsaken sea
She won't be...me.
I am at your side
In your corner you will find me
And I can't make you change your mind
But love for you will never leave me
Never leave me.
She won't be able to recognise
That the mythology of new is full of lies
And the person that you thought you knew can't look you in the eyes
She won't be...me.
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Oh California
03:43
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Oh California
You have done me wrong
Coveting a dream that he sold for a song
And all the plastic faces
Frozen in a smile
Staring at the feet that never walked this mile
And all I know is that I love you still
Even if it's not to be
All I know is that I'll always feel
California you have kept secrets from me.
Oh California
Do you think it's fair
That you are in my life though I don't want you there
Everything is broken, shattered by degrees
As I pick up the pieces for not one but three
All I know is that I love him still
Even if it's not to be
All I know is that I'll alway feel
California you two kept secrets with me
Oh California, I still believe
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Say That You Do
03:37
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I knew things were desperate
When he left here that day
His eyes wouldn't meet mine at all
Just please don't be stupid, was all I could say
He mumbled "I love you, I'll call."
I knew things were over when I boarded that flight
As I steeled up my mind for the fall
We hadn't been close in a very long time
it seemed like she just didn't want me at all.
It's ok if you want something more
It's ok if you've found someone new
It's ok if you no longer love me that way...
But don't lie, and say that you do.
Don't say anything
We're over
I still love you, I still want you
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Paper And Envelopes
04:34
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I feel so tired I could sleep till the end
This bed like an anchor
While the sea closes in
And I feel so lost that I can't even breathe
Your memory, the pillow
That is smothering me
You left me, you left me this song
Scrawled on paper and envelopes
You left me, you left me this song
Scrawled on paper and envelopes.
I was blindsided, I had no way to know
No we weren't happy
But I thought that how love goes
And I feel so angry
Your voice rings in my ears
Who gets the pardon
From the last 20 years?
You left me, you left me this song
Scrawled on paper and envelopes
You left me, you left me this song
Scrawled on paper and envelopes.
I could forget you
Move on and stand clear
But I'll never forgive you
For leaving me here
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Saying Goodbye
04:23
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Winding roads, never knowns
Falling beneath our feet, fast asleep
From hanging on
Guiding light, milky white
Believing in more than this
Is hardest when you're all alone.
We'll say goodbye tonight
The last thing we want to do
Your name filling lungs like air
As you prepare, we do too.
Never fair, too much to bear
Stretching from weeks to years
Fighting fears that never fade
Falling leaves, wait and sees
Blue skies between the trees
Pasting seams that never mend.
We'll say goodbye tonight
The last thing we want to do
No Pain no wait and sees
As you breathe out, you fly free
And we'll say goodbye tonight
The last thing we want to do
No Pain, no wait and sees
We breathe out; you fly free.
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Deep Blue Sea
03:34
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I ran away to an island
Built up a castle in white sand
Set my whole life to remote and
Breathed a sigh of relief
I ran away to a new life
Looking for something that felt right
Making my way in the half light
I was a real sight to see
And I feel I'm losing myself
I am in irons, torn out to sea
And I wonder if you can tell
When you will notice
There's nothing left but deep blue sea
I towed the line to the rope's end
Hoping to find a break to mend
But found only dashed expectations
And an anchor secured by debris.
And I feel I'm losing myself
I am in irons, torn out to sea
And I wonder if you can tell
When you will notice
There's nothing left but deep blue sea
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Lobelia Birmingham, UK
Award winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lobelia has been featured in Billiboard Magazine, PBS and worked as a studio musician for 10+ years, She books and hosts a variety of songwriter nights for Birmingham's best small artist-led venue, Tower of Song and is an advocate for sustainable touring, She travels the world performing at house concerts and small venues. ... more
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