Stranger

by Emily McCollum

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released 01 October 2010
Entire album recorded, produced, mastered at Archer Avenue Studios in Columbia, SC by Kenny McWilliams.

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Track Name: Beautiful Boy
What was that look, the one that you gave me
As I pulled by your house, did you think I was crazy
Or were you glad that I had arrived?

Is anything different, you ask me to describe
Let me tell you my dear, the whole world's different tonight
You said not a word, but I swear that I saw you smile

Theres a train running through the yard
Waking the neighbors
There is smoke racing past my lips
Seeping through my fingers

With a knot in my throat, and teeth in my head
I'm spouting off words like you did in your bed
and something melodic brings me back to you
Beautiful Boy, you were never worth it all

It seems like the world is back where it was
I'm not looking for you, you're not looking for love
So tomorrow we won't speak a word
My skin starts to shake as you turn on the lights
Am i breathing the same breath you taught me to fight
Into your plan im falling but it feels nice
to be hypnotized

With a knot in my throat, and teeth in my head
I'm spouting off words like you did in your bed
and something melodic brings me back to you
All that i turned on is now off I breathe just to see my breath hit the fog
Im wasting away and threatening who catches my fall
Beautiful Boy, you were never worth it all
Track Name: Leaving is a Lie
Don't tell me your reasons
The truth is I don't care
You keep talking 'bout leavin
When the truth is you're going nowhere

I don't have time to sit and listen
of how this love won't work for us
you've got me laughing out loud
when you swear to me enough's enough

Don't you say goodbye just yet
You're pretty cute when you get mad

With
One hand on the telephone and one on the door
Leaving me behind is more than you could ask for
Baby it's okay
Baby it's just find
We both know that you leaving is a lie

You can fight if you want to
But no sir I'm not fighting back
Come tomorrow I'll be in your sweet arms again
God knows we both know that

If you leave you know you'll be
Crawlin' back to me
Track Name: Permanent
These days I sing too much
it's all i know to do
I used to find my voice
and give it back to you

does the sun still hit your face
with all those pretty little hues
am I a lover who lost their way
when I lost you

Oh what did I do
To make you run
Oh what can I say
You were enough for me

Tonight I lay in bed
Waiting on the rain
with the voice of mr. gray
my whole body went insane

Tell me the truth
Will you ever again feel this way
Nearly a year ago this time
It was all about to crash right into play

I'll say it as a fact there's nothing left for me to lose
I kept my best with you
When the permanent becomes my temporary fool
I kept my best with you

No there's no way I can make it stop
It's not my fault I fell in love with a bull in a china shop
No there's no way I can make it stop
It's not my fault i fell in love
Track Name: What It Is
Where are you going
where have you been
have you been crawlin'
up under my skin

Can you escape it
Do you feel free
or are you captive and waiting
for some clarity

please take a number
she should get in line as well
something's in the water
something's brewlin I can tell

It's an odd situation
but none the less
it's the hand we've been played

take some time to wrap this around your head
and so it is just what it is again

Your search for an angel
is what she's become
but she deserves more than
a man on the run

You'll grow up lonely
cause you're not sure how to
figure out goodbye

Wash your hands in dirty water
Clean your eyes and take the blame
I'm just a stranger so I'll wander
until the river overflows and drowns you in my name
Track Name: Lion
I found the lion that saved me
He lay asleep on a hill
His paws all covered in ashes
His mouth still fresh from the kill

He showed himself as a wise one
never to speak without thought
within creation his genius
I know he is what I am not

He let me sleep in his arms
I know that there I am home
No need to chase what I hate
Cause his arms, they carry my weight
alone

The lion roared out his thunder
he overtook the strong man
and carried me safely to freedom
again

But his mane is tattered and tangled
his chest wont rise anymore
he lost his fight and his hope that
there was something worth fighting for

I owe my life to that lion
I owe my life to that man
I find myself in his perfect
and blood stained hand

Never have I seen so much beauty
In all the nation or land
So I find myself in his perfect
and beautiful plan