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Good People (Sideways)
03:29
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Good people commit crimes. I've been known for it at times.
But is it the action in the moment or the action taken after that really counts?
Your somebody, your somebody, oh Your somebody is coming, creeping up behind to decide for you, leaving me SIDEWAYS.
Make a rose from clay. Wipe it on my face.
Cut out my picture and cover it in paste.
Your somebody, your somebody, oh Your somebody is coming, creeping up behind to decide for you, leaving me SIDEWAYS.
Make a rose from clay. Paint it on my face.
Cut my picture out and colour it in.
Your somebody, your somebody, oh Your somebody is coming, creeping up behind to decide for you, Leaving me SIDEWAYS.
Your somebody, your somebody, oh Your somebody is coming, creeping up behind to decide for you, Leave it up to me to destroy myself, or console myself; control myself. I guess it's time for me to go
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The Weather Girl
03:15
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Grassy green and slippery, who knew that ghosts grow like weeds?
THE WEATHER GIRL confides in rain, she finds her gift outside. She finds her way into the bright, white lightning strike
It sets a fire in August rain, explodes and blows the girl down. Electrified by the bright, white lightning stike. The bright, white lightning ...
Wind sock says clear skies ahead and extra sensory side effects
Now in an atmospheric state, half asleep, half awake
Her body rises in the bright, white specter's light
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Long Way
04:02
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House parties and noise complaints. Stubbled legs on double dates
Singing songs and spilling drinks while never quite pulling off Bohemian Rhapsody
Perms and proms. Sandals with socks. Eventually getting caught.
We've come a LONG WAY, baby. We've come along. We've come a LONG WAY, baby
to love the things we all fuck up and it's all fine to me
Homemade beer. Lost wedding rings.
Getting locked out of the house and breaking back in.
Broken bones and breaking hearts, making people think we're "really" smart
Mistrusting a friend. Beginning at the end. Eventually caving in.
We've come a LONG WAY, baby. We've come along...
Salad bar religion and debt for education. Believing what they say on television.
We've come a LONG WAY, baby. We've come a long.
We've come a LONG WAY, baby, to have it all.
We've come a LONG WAY, baby to love the things we should have done a little differently and it's all fine to me. Ya it's all fine. It is all fine to me.
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Hush
03:32
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Relax? Revive? Forgive? Depends on the substance I'm in.
I think better when I'm under water
The answers seem clearer when I'm completely covered, but I can't breathe in
Not like we can when our lives begin
Fragile bones and flimsy knees
Compose the structure hidden deep beneath a thick, thick skin
That's where the healing begins
HUSH HUSH, HUSH HUSH, HUSH
Your need is more than a little
In light, in deep, in dim, exist the shadows I'm in.
With salt thrown over my heavy shoulder I cross my fingers that getting older will bring strength within and courage to love the darkness I'm in and out
HUSH HUSH, HUSH HUSH, HUSH Your need is more
HUSH HUSH, HUSH HUSH, HUSH Your need is more than a little
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Letting Me Down
03:40
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What if this was my last breath? What if it was? What if this ... what if this was it?
What if this was our last kiss? What if it was? What if this ... what if this was it?
I'd be LETTING ME DOWN, LETTING ME DOWN like this
I'd be LETTING ME DOWN, LETTING ME DOWN living like this
What if we never have another and we die hating our mothers, hating our fathers?
What if we never have another? What if this was it?
We'd be LETTING US DOWN, LETTING US DOWN like this
We'd be LETTING US DOWN, LETTING US DOWN living like this
If all that we have is each other, why are we chasing the dollar blue and white collared? All that we have is each other, so what of all of this?
Are we LETTING US DOWN, LETTING US DOWN like this?
Are we LETTING US DOWN, LETETING US DOWN living like this?
Don't you LET YOURSELF DOWN, don't you let you LET YOURSELF DOWN for this and I won't LET MYSELF DOWN, I won't let me LET ME DOWN for this.
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Shy Lungs
02:48
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Are you blind or unassuming? Have you really never thought about it? Naive and nervous, I'm a coward because I can't decide to say it; the thing in my head.
SHY LUNGS waited too long. Held my breath, now you're long, long gone.
Bend, Bend, a triangle's bent. That's the want-to-be lover's lonely longing lament.
Manifesting secrets, I resort to drawing symbols in the sand. If I could draw them any clearer on this beach, would it help you understand what I'm saying Silently in my head?
SHY LUNGS waited too long. Held my breath, now you're long, long gone.
Bend, Bend, a triangle's bent. That's the want-to-be lover's lonely longing lament.
It appears the sun is setting as you're packing up the blanket and me, I'm nervous. I'm a coward 'cause I know I won't decide to say it; the thing in my head.
SHY LUNGS waited too long. Held my breath, now you're long, long gone.
Bend, Bend, a triangle's bent. That's the want-to-be lover's lonely longing lament.
SHY LUNGS waited too long. Held my breath, now you're long, long gone.
Jealous heart, beaten and bled. Your affections for another will be my end.
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Tsunami
04:47
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TSUNAMI
Before the Earth’s plates had shifted, I had stopped swimming in the ocean
Because I kept getting pulled under by the waves
You were a wave, at least you looked like the others
But you weren’t the undertow … You weren’t the threat
You were a wave, but you weren’t really quite like the others
You were much bigger and could do way more damage
So I reacted faster and stronger than I normally would have
Faster and stronger than I probably should have
If I had just held my breath ‘til I floated to the top
If I had kept my mouth shut when the water felt rough
If I didn’t feel inclined to start flailing around
There would have been no fight, no reason to panic
You would have given me the air had I not become savage, but the struggle was mine. I was being totally overprotective of myself
But you weren’t the undertow… You weren’t the threat
I was scared. I had never seen a tsunami before.
And I’m sorry you had to see me in my survival mode.
And I’m sorry for not trusting that you would stay
Yes I’m sorry for not trusting that you weren’t the undertow,
that you weren’t the threat
If I had just held my breath ‘til I floated to the top
If I had kept my mouth shut when the water felt rough
If I didn’t feel inclined to start flailing around
There would have been no fight, no reason to panic
You would have given me the air had I not become savage, but the struggle was mine and I totally over-reacted
Well I know better now and I know it’s too late. Your flood waters have all evaporated, but still I owe you my apology, nonetheless
So I’m standing with my arms reaching to the clouds
With my heart in my hand and my lips pressed shut, Hoping you’ll hear it beating.
Because you weren’t the undertow… You weren’t the threat.
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This Song
04:23
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Sprawled out on a painted floor, taken over by rawness and void
Coming to terms, coming to grips, sounds something like this
This song is the sound that my heart makes
It's the sound of my heartache
Now that you're gone
Reason will assure me that this ill will pass, that it's for the best,
And your wounded heart will mend, like I pretend mine has
But how can I trust my reason? It lied to me. It took you from me
And it lies and plays games with me
This song is the sound that my heart makes
It's the sound of my heartache
Now that you're gone
This day didn't have to come
This day ... though I brought it on
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Meghan Morrison Toronto, Ontario
Imagine the members of Coldplay dancing circles with Loreena McKennitt in the Woodstock rain and you can begin to sense the rhythmic and vibrantly haunting music that Meghan Morrison orchestrates with her lilting coloratura soprano vocal range and eclectic backing band. ... more
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