Inner Dim
by Caroline Savery
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Haunt
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Ditty
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Gone Gone
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Present
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Replaceable
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Tense
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Forget It
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Eighteen Wheeler
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Yes
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about
Special thanks to Joy Toujours for believing in it from beginning to beyond. Special thanks to Aaron Fraser and Nate Savery for your encouragement. Thanks to Justine Michael, Eric Venuto, and Jay Johnston for contributing your time and energy to this project that means so much to me. And thanks to everyone for listening!
credits
released 25 June 2011
all songs written by caroline savery (c) 2011
produced and recorded by joy toujours
mixed by joy toujours and caroline savery
mastered by Jay Johnston @ Jaybirds Studios
album photography by Justine Michael (c) 2011
album design by Eric Venuto
Proceeds from the sale of this album go to support production of the independent documentary "Sust Enable: The Metamentary." www.sust-enable.com
all songs written by caroline savery (c) 2011
produced and recorded by joy toujours
mixed by joy toujours and caroline savery
mastered by Jay Johnston @ Jaybirds Studios
album photography by Justine Michael (c) 2011
album design by Eric Venuto
Proceeds from the sale of this album go to support production of the independent documentary "Sust Enable: The Metamentary." www.sust-enable.com
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Feeds for about
bold and bitter like Fiona Apple,
snarky yet cheeky like Nellie McKay,
moving and loving like Be Good
... more
Tanyas,
swinging and swooning like Eilen Jewell.
I'm all about exploring the genres that I love and that influence me.
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- Track Name: Haunt
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Haunt
take this town, girl
take this town
it won't buy you no time when your last hour chimes
but at least then you'll know where you're going
i've gone out searching for something i lack
got a chip on my shoulders, pack on my back
my feet are killing me and a cold breath is chilling me but
where i'm going there's no turning back
the bets are high the slopes are steep
been thirty miles, boy, ten more before i sleep
some people hold blades and others warm spaces
but they all hold skulls in their laughing faces cuz
there ain't nothing you can keep
nothing you can keep
oooh
all cities are the same
all cities are the same
they're full of people playing that game
yeah all cities are to blame
so keep on searching for that flame, boy
keep on searching for that flame
cuz when the joker comes to stake his claim
you won't be wearing nothing but your name
nothing but your name
oooh
take this town, girl
take this town
it won't buy you no time when your last hour chimes
but at least then you'll know where you're going
but at least then you'll know where you're going
said at least then you'll know where you're going
it might your heaven and it might be your hell
when you get you going stories to tell
stories to tell
oooh - Track Name: Take
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TAKE
I take
cigarettes now
Sucking smoke from the air you don’t breathe
Blowing smoke into the space you leave
Just to have something to fill it
I take
anything now
Just to have it... push on my skin
and show me the boundaries
between outside and in
So I’ll hold it
I won’t let it go
I’d kill to be in
Your glow
In your glow
I take
alcohol - who doesn’t?
To distill the words you left to soak in my ears
To drown out the drowning I’d do in my own tears
To dull the pain cooler
Make it go down smoother
Yeah I’d take
even meaningless - yes!
A big harsh dose of callousness
Just to contradict
All the meaning you left me
sick with
to drift in
thick with
to sit with
So I’ll hold it
I won’t let it go
I’d kill to be in
Your glow
In your glow
Oh no no no
Do you even know
What you done to me
Somehow I don’t think so
I don’t think so
No no no no
So. What can I do
What can I do
What can I do
What can I do
Oh what can I do
oh what can I do
oh what can I do
but
hold onto you
So I’ll hold you
I won’t let you go
I’d kill to be in
Your glow - Track Name: Ditty
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Ditty
I see you
I know that you saw me too
I forget
Etiquette
You’re so … oooh
I’m going to take you away
To my room
And make you think you want me too
And I’m walking into love
but I don’t know it yet
And I’m hoping to forget
All those choices I will regret
It’s just that some things in the moment seem more important
It’s so late
I am barely awake
But I can’t let go
of this sweet show
You look so pretty.
Oh, what are we doing?
What... are you doing?
What have I done?
And I’m walking into hate
Oh but it’s too late
So I’m hoping to forget
All those choices I did regret
It’s just that some things in the moment seem more important
Hey! You know what I’m talking about
You heard what I said
I don’t know where’s my head
Oh oh oh oh oh!
Look
Just forget what I said
Just forget what I said
I’ll see you later
Maybe - Track Name: Gone Gone
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Gone Gone
In my quiet moments when no one knows I'm here
I have always wondered this
Why can't I will myself
to not exist?
Even just for a few minutes, no
I've got these tired limbs and flesh
It's always this existence
So it's to be oppressed
Gone gone
and just maybe coming back
Gone gone
all that's left is a song
Gone gone
no longer tied to this sack of skin
For so long
Convincing ignorance of my body
doesn't mean it goes away
I know better than to think that humans are free
cuz we're always subject to this face
F
Fuck this fuck this
responsibility
fuck this fuck this
to entity
Forget this, forget me
I was never one to be much
Forget this trash, forget this play
I'm not substantial anyway...
Gone gone
and just maybe coming back
I wanna be
Gone gone
all that's left of me is a song
Gone gone
no longer tied down to this sack of skin
For so long
Yeah
Gone gone
and just maybe never coming back
I wanna be
Gone gone
cuz all that's pretty about me is a song
Gone gone
no longer tied down to this scourge of cells
for so long
so, so long - Track Name: Present
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Present
I have no reason
to walk those streets again
the houses mean more to me now
than the inhabitants
Grown, now I'm just one more
unwelcome presence
All I might have seen there
moves in the past tense
Any truth it might have held
irreversibly expanded
Where there once were whispers and concepts formed
there's now a wire fence
I walk alone down the paths of my childhood
I walk the same down the streets of any neighborhood
I wander around
since I haven't ever found
home
Accolades
accepting my award on a stage
built of their praise
How silly
to consider my worth in terms of
later fame
Success
cannot be defined by
their idea of "best"
Happiness
cannot be confined
to their judgment
There's no future in that for me anymore
there's no me in that future
I don't know where I will go from here
I don't know...
But for some reason
I don't have a reason for
it feels all right
to just sit here and talk some more
when the meaning bleeds out of my words
and they become a shell
when I lose any stories I had to tell
and when time drips past...
and I've got no notion to move it by fast
when...
everything that went before and
everything that will become is
nothing to what we are, so
This is home
this is home
this is home
this is home - Track Name: Replaceable
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Replaceable
I am replaceable, but
I never found it so easy
to forget you, and
fit someone else to you
I am exchangeable, but
you didn’t come with a warranty
and that displeases me
cuz you broke, when you left
you up and left
and i
i here and stayed
you cut all ties
and me
there’s not me enough left to tell anymore lies.
So I ain’t gonna pretend
that I don’t want someone to share even this moment with
And I ain’t gonna defend
that I do want someone to lay and to wonder with
And what’s more no I ain’t gonna rescind
my offer to love someone whole-heartedly, but
the one thing I really ain’t cut out to do is mend
so don’t expect me to bend when I say
I am erasable, and
I’ll never mean anything more to
a man I want, and
that’s the sick fucked up truth!
yeah that I am disgraceable, cuz
I took that fall when you tripped me up.
Now I’ve only got this one way left anymore,
to fuck you.... up! - Track Name: Tense
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Tense
Tense, yeah, I'm fucking tense
Fence, yeah, I'm on the fucking fence
Shoulders clenched, wound up round this point of pretense
Suffering from your defense
Waste, yeah I'm a fucking waste of your time
Face, no I'm not ready to face this line
If there's one thing you do for me, it's just
please don't let me see
how little you're going to mean to me
how little you're going to mean to me
Hope, yeah, hope is dope for the mind
Faith, faith is to forget about mankind
Wondering is plundering around this cosmic treasure box
Desperate and failing to find
A reason for this unrest of mind - Track Name: Forget It
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Forget It
there's nothing quite like realizing
you never made a mark in your whole damn life
there's nothing quite like giving in
to the knowledge that you forget you ever had a spark
you never made a splash
except in your mother's womb
you never made a difference
except to your lonely bedroom
why don't you fall down the stairs?
to see if anyone cares?
then you'll know, then you'll know
just what you're worth
your significance is figured by the thickness
of the pile of paperwork that defines your existence
a stack of codes and numbers cataloging the blunder
that your pitiful life has become
go on, plug into their society--they've got neat roles
to print next to your name
no, they're not concerned with identity--
yeah it's a non-entity in their sick game
why don’t you fall down the stairs?
to see if anyone cares?
then you’ll know, then you’ll know
just what you’re worth
no i'm not telling you anything you haven't thought before
i'm just reminding you of what it is that you fought for once
why don't you go grab you gatt?
and show them where you been at?
then they'll see, then they'll see
just who you are - Track Name: Eighteen Wheeler
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Eighteen Wheeler
Eighteen wheeler rolling down the track
and don't you know I’m never coming back
You said hey baby you can come my way
as long as you'll be coming back soon one day
Oooooh
Oooooh
Engine coughs smoke railing on
And you will never know just why I've gone
Upon your bed of dreams you'll wake
To lie and die never knowing how I made my escape
Oooooh
Oooooh
And he begs, “why won’t you hate me?”
As he starts to slit her throat
And she pleads, “why won’t you love me?”
As she bleeds upon their hope
Oooooh
Oooooh
Oooooh
Oooooh
So you'll wait for me there - Track Name: Yes
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Yes
Walking through a world
full of ordinary people
Chancing to find under a rock
a stranger who changes everything
With one word, I'd find
an uncommon mind
Hope flew, up like a bird
but be careful, because the word was
Yes
the word was
yes
the word was
yes
but be careful, because the word becomes
goodbye
Cursing, an Earth's worth of gods
incomplete and undecided
Raining, hope down in shards
on this one shattered woman's visions
Sick, I'm sick and needing a guide
through these treacherous waters
Then I met one. But he likes to hide
and repeal his offered hand inch-by-inch
Yes
the word was yes
but the word became
goodbye
The word was yes, but he forgot hello
the word was yes, but it came out like no
the word was yes, but it came out like some other time
the word was yes, but it came out like goodbye - Track Name: I Want Nothing
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I WANT NOTHING
I want nothing more
I want nothing more what you're offering
I want nothing but
I want nothing but just what life holds for me
There is nothing I see
that isn't just right where it's supposed to be
I want no thing
just to clap and sing!
"Why why why" we cry to tomorrow,
that a lie lie lie betrays all that follows!
why seek truth when there's no proof out there?
it's what we share
If I strive to perceive
then everything seems to slip right past me
But when I just let it be
there's so much she wants to show me
"Why why why" it's our greatest fear
that we can't say why we've all been just put here!
Desperate to find the core of our unity
But what don't we see?
I'm not at fault for what I be
He's at fault for what he fails to see!
There is nothing that exists
but everything to take from this
"Tiger gets to hunt
Bird gets to fly
Man gets to ask himself 'why, why why?'"
"Tiger gets to rest
Bird gets to land
Man gets to tell himself he understand."
