1. |
abyssal
02:22
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2. |
the river
04:51
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Verse 1:
We were down by the river when you told me
The sun that day didn’t look quite right
I asked you, was this our last night
You told me we didn’t need to know yet
Chorus:
And even if the sky falls down tonight
We’ll sink into the riverbed, I know we’ll be alright
Even if the moon falls from the sky
Hold on tight to me, darling, I’ll teach you how to fly
Even if we don’t end up together
The stars will still shine in my memories
Even if I lose you
I will never lose you
Verse 2:
We were dancing in the summer grasses, laughing
The buzz of bees and hummingbirds so far above our heads
Nobody ever told me it could end without a fight
And nobody ever told me, sometimes things just don’t turn out right
Bridge:
And you were mine
So I did not cry
And you were the moon’s
You were alone
When I took you home
The river flowed on anyway
And we were alive
And you saw the look in my eyes
When I asked you to stay
I wasn’t alone
You were the breath in my lungs
And you didn’t understand how much I needed you, so
Stay, please
Stay, please
Please stay
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3. |
shattered
03:25
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Verse 1:
Don’t let it change you, they said.
if you weren’t yourself before it, you won’t be after
don’t let it fix you, they begged
there’s something about that sharp part of your heart
that makes you matter
Chorus:
I don’t know where to go from here
if the exhaustion follows me past the fear
if what broke me makes me unique
what the hell am I supposed to think
I don’t want to feel like this
I want to finally know bliss
but if I’ve lost a part of me
then I guess I’d rather be
shattered
Verse 2:
I didn’t ask to draw this line
I didn’t ask for my mind to hide
the truth, day in and out, what’s wrong,
my brain is stringing me along
I didn’t ask you for your help
I just wanted to be myself
and if I became more than fine
would that finally cross the line
Chorus:
I don’t know where to go from here
if the exhaustion follows me past the fear
if what broke me makes me unique
what the hell am I supposed to think
I don’t want to feel like this
I want to finally know bliss
but if I’ve lost a part of me
then I guess I’d rather be
Bridge/Outro:
Myself.
But that’s a lie.
I don’t know anymore
what side of my true self I’m fighting for
My eyes used to sparkle, my hands used to not shake
before I could hit the ground I jolted awake
I was seven years old yesterday
I’ll be dead sometime next millennia, you say,
The world is flashing, spinning,
already over, never ending,
I smash my old self, create my new hell,
and find the woman that can’t be broken,
can’t be bent, can’t be changed, can’t be
shattered, but I am shattered
is that okay?
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4. |
deified
02:33
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5. |
doxology
01:53
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Where I come from, we don't talk about the waves
Where I come from, we make the same mistakes
Where I come from, asking questions is the same as sin
If you're not looking up to look for God, then why the grin?
God was here, autumn of last year
But just like most of us, he got the hell out of here
Saw a distant breaking sun, between the steeple and the gun
Saw an opening in the clouds, couldn't tell what was peeking down
Where I come from, we don't talk about the waves
Where I come from, we make the same mistakes
Make the same mistakes
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7. |
to a universe not ours
03:07
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Verse 1
It’s just that: a theory, and if you began
With a whisper or a cosmic cataclysm
Just like— made by a new sun but unlike us,
Are some things the same, are you the same
Pre Chorus:
They say you’re moving away from us, and still
We send postcards into the vacuum, love letters into the void
Because we can’t accept you’re empty
No we can’t believe you’re infinity
Chorus:
At the beginning they told me you weren’t there
Only an atom waiting to birth the stars we share
In another millennia when we are all gone
They’ll start all over, we’ll start all over, and we’ll find you again
Verse 2:
At your heart is something black, just like ours
Just like mine, we all sit in our little rooms and wonder
If you could say one word to us to explain all we know
Tell us how far we are from the edge because I have to go
And most of the universe is invisible, so maybe you are too
And if you are colder than us, I hope a sun warms you
And I won’t be alive to see it, but I think that one day
Someone will touch you for the first time, not even realizing it’s changed
Pre Chorus:
They say you’re moving away from us, and still
We send postcards into the vacuum, love letters into the void
Because we can’t accept you’re empty
No we can’t believe you’re infinity
Chorus:
Whoah,
Oh,
In another millennia when we are all gone
We’ll start all over, they’ll start all over, and we’ll find you again
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8. |
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Verse 1:
It doesn’t feel so pretty now
Looks like the life has been sucked out
Sunshine, sand dunes, little girl who
Did not know that she was not yet grown
So she ran into the foam
They all know it’s cheaper if it’s fake
Rough to the touch, but doesn’t fade
Something’s always making noise
It’s louder softer can’t avoid the chords
They cut but not a sword
Chorus:
If I threw you into the waves
Would you float on, or would you stay
Wash up on the shore, begging for a moment more
Just tell me you’d stay
Verse 2:
The moon it pulls up on the night
Endless sand, endless sight
Terrified the moon will fail,
The endless sand will turn to hail and break
The world was made to shake
The trip back always seems so short
The waves return but this time warm
I missed you, did you miss me
I asked you for you specifically my love
Did you hear me from above
Chorus:
If I threw you into the waves
Would you float on, or would you stay
Wash up on the shore, begging for a moment more
Just tell me you’d stay
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9. |
i don't know myself
04:15
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Verse 1:
Someone told me once, go fix yourself
I smiled at them instead of giving them hell
‘Cause what they didn’t know is that I had given up
Stared at the bottom of the barrel, drank the last sip from my cup
Stars on my ring, laughing as I board the bus, we sit, it’s dark,
They take us on and on and on and on and on and
Pills by my bed, don’t forget one,
Or you’ll be crying, screaming, running in the street and shouting,
Chorus:
I don’t know myself
I don’t feel too well
I can’t tell you the last time I knew
What was going on
Yeah
Verse 2:
Someone told me once go change yourself
I smiled at them, and then I gave them hell
‘Cause what they didn’t know, is that I don’t give a fuck
From the bottom of the barrel, only place you go is up
Spinning in my chair, trying to understand
They’re laughing at the end of the world, holding death inside their hand
Pills by my bed, forget this one,
or maybe I’ll never remember how I felt when I was shouting
Chorus:
I don’t know myself
I don’t feel too well
I can’t tell you the last time I knew
What was going on
Yeah
Bridge/Outro:
I don’t know myself
I don’t feel too well
I can’t tell you what message I’m trying to get through
Yeah, I don’t know myself, I don’t feel too well, yeah
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10. |
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11. |
how it ends
03:15
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Verse 1:
Is this how it ends
Not with a fight but with a glance the other way
The same way it begins
I pretended not to see you from a block away
Pre Chorus:
Your skin up to my heart beating
Felt the end inside your breathing
I could walk away and skip the pain
Your lips on mine, you’re retreating
Can we choose to fix this even
If you won’t be here when I awake
Chorus:
If this is how it ends
Can I go back and make amends
To the girl I was last winter when
I saw it all unfold
If I was right
And this all crumbles down tonight
Can I say sorry to myself
Go back and choose somebody else
Go back and choose somebody else
Verse 2:
What went wrong with us
Sat down beside you but you didn’t look my way
The same way it began
I would have talked to you if I knew what to say
Pre Chorus:
You’re laughing with her like I was
Nothing, like I didn’t mean enough
For you to take a second to move on
Oh, see flashes before my eyes
Our tight hugs, last kiss, first goodbye
Even if you never do explain
Chorus:
If this is how it ends
Can I go back and make amends
To the girl I was last winter when
I saw it all unfold
If I was right
And this all crumbles down tonight
Can I say sorry to myself
Go back and choose somebody else
Go back and choose somebody else
Outro:
Your eyes on mine, you’re retreating
Would we want to fix this, even
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12. |
the 88 keys
01:21
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Did we run out of notes
Did we try to sing along but choked
This has been sung before
By another girl along another shore
When I was ten, the eighty-eight keys
Seemed just like infinity
And all the songs I hadn’t wrote
Loomed in the air, caught in my throat
Have I run out of brand new notes
Of brand new hopes, of songs that spoke
To me back then, when pages thinned
With all the melodies yet to spend
Can I just think of one
Can I just think of one
Can I just think
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13. |
curtain's close
00:59
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I hope you’ve all enjoyed my show,
‘Cause now it’s time for me to go
Somewhere silent, into the wind,
Where only I can be my friend
I can decide if I’d like to stay
If I need people, anyway
And if I’ve become sure and steady,
you will see me again,
Be ready.
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Zoe Wynns North Carolina
19-year-old pianist and singer-songwriter who can't pick a genre. <3
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