Lyrics

about me

music and lyrics: a. witt

isn't it funny
i was so right about you all along
mmm hmmm

isn't it crazy
how much i wanted you to prove me wrong
la da da da

i wanna grind you into the floor
but you're not worth the scuff on my shoe
i wanna make you take a look in the mirror
but hey- enough about you

what about me
this is my voice now
spent too long letting you say it all
and i don't care how many ways you take down
everyone else cuz i'm standing tall

put it away cuz i'm done with your game
it's time for a new set of rules
you can't live without me? well this one's about me
and baby i'm over you

i bet you never once looked back at all the shit i took from you
i bet you never saw this comin wonder what you're gonna do

so sick of talkin bout your stupid life
so sick of hearin you got so little time
you're as deep as a sock and as true as a lie
yeah fuck your shit are you ready for mine?

(chor)

this one is not about a boy
this is about the void i left wide open
this one is almost like a gift
feels like a weight has lifted off my shoulders

and i don't want you missin me
don't need your sympathy
dont care how many things you left unspoken
go try your tricks out on some other bitch
not here to be your fix
cuz i'm not broken

what about me
this is my voice now
spent too long sayin nothin at all
and i won't shut up, no i like the sound
say what you want but i'm not gonna fall

put it away cuz i'm done with your game
from now on we play by my rules
you can't live without me? well this one's about me
and baby i'm over you

already gone

written by alicia witt & mike bradford - 2012

i'm not looking for
what you think i am
i should let you down gently

nothing i can do to lose my mind
you're too close to reaching
what i never want to find

you can look but you won't find me i'm
already gone
you can't tell i hide it well and i
keep moving on
i'm already gone

can't sit still and i
can't run fast enough
nothing's ever come easy

hard to hold the dam from breaking free
and all the lies i've left behind
come pouring out of me

you can look but you won't find me i'm
already gone
you can't tell i hide it well and i
keep moving on
i'm already gone

didn't know what we were getting into
no one ever does until it ends

always tuesday

music and lyrics: Alicia Witt

tuesday i woke up in a world turned upside down
where nothing i’d ever do would amount to anything
surrounded by the proof of all i’ve built up from the ground
as it came closin in on me

the piles of clutter tumble down
the miles of wasted years you drowned in
i couldn’t save you from your own mess
you didn’t want to be saved
but i do

i can feel your pain
and mourn the chances you’d never take
i can honor you by vowing not to
keep reliving your mistakes

i know it’s what your truest self
would want for me
the one that all my life
was only lost to me

i can forgive you now
i can see inside your furrowed brow
it was always tuesday

all the dreams you had, all the things you were just about to do
it was always someone else’s fault you couldn’t follow through
if i’m braver than you ever dared it won’t all be a waste
even if it takes all i have to chase your rage away

now your voice echoes back
unlocking trunks i thought i’d unpacked
i still wither when i catch the ripples
of the hateful things you’d say
but i won’t

i can feel your pain
and mourn the chances you’ll never take
i can honor you by vowing not to
keep reliving your mistakes

i know it’s what your truest self
would want for me
the one that all my life
was only lost to me

i can forgive you now
i can see inside your furrowed brow
it was always tuesday

tuesday i woke up in a world turned upside down
down
down

any midnight

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

once in a blue there comes a moon a not the same
they haven't yet invented any language to explain
in lieu of lines one goes for signs upon the breeze
and rolling up the windows
blasting love songs from the 70s

wakin like a quake that's shakin up the lines along the faults
and vaulting on repeat to something
of or like a waltz

cuz you got those eyes that could light any midnight
your own little piece of the sky
you walk thru the day rearranging the frames
changing the space with your mind

light speed in motion and still as the ocean
i watch as they bask in your tide
cuz you have this effect on everyone, don’t you
you have this effect on everyone

what brought you here what kind of fear what kind of free
how much lives within the skin of who you used to be
and all the pain behind the strength beneath your shine
you wear it like a coat of magic
vanquished and divine

well you got those eyes that could light any midnight
your own little piece of the sky
you walk thru the day rearranging the frames
changing the space with your mind

strong as a sparrow, and fragile as ocean
i watch as they bask in your tide
cuz you have this effect on everyone don’t you
you have this effect on everyone

and you got those eyes that could light any midnight
your own little piece of the sky
familiar and strange, rearranging the days
the view from your beautiful mind

and I'm only human I'm helpless for movin
when you fix your stare onto mine
but you have this effect on everyone, don’t you
you have this effect on every, everyone

anyway

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt and Matt Beckley

i’m bruised again i wear it well the self inflicted tale they telli singed my hair i broke my nails you’d love me then if all else failed the night was long and dark and just another dagger to my trusti thrust it in until i bleed i wiped my point for you to see
and anyway it’s over now - nothing left to sayi don’t know why i don’t care how
it’s over anyway
its broken in pieces
you got the space you needed
too late to try just say goodbye its over anyway

i fell so far i felt so small i shrank to not exist at alli beat me up till i was sure you gave me just what i deservedi woke up every day afraid my so called faith went up in flames still i believed in all your lies for the life of me i don’t know why
they got you wrong youre not that strong i don’t belong here
and anyway it’s over now - nothing left to sayi don’t know why i don’t care how
it’s over anyway
its broken in pieces
you got the space you needed
too late to try just say goodbye its over anyway

you’ll say i’m self destructive - i constructed all this tragedy
go tell them all it’s all my fault - you’ll tell them i was crazy

blind

written by alicia witt, jeff fiorello and matt beckley - 2009

you keep waiting for me to come to my senses
waiting for the other shoe to fall
how can i walk, walk away from what we had
like it never never happened at all...

...this time gone by and i keep waiting for the words to say
but nothing's changed

nothing that a little living won't heal
nothing but a little love i don't feel
take it or leave it it's all i can say
made up my mind and i'm walking away
you keep waiting for me to see the light
but i've gone blind to you
i've gone blind to you, blind

you keep wonderin' what i've done to make this die
waiting for the other man to call
i could never break your heart and leave that way
like i never, never loved you at all...

....i know is i can see forever and it's come and gone
but nothing's wrong

nothing that a little living won't heal
nothing but a little love i don't feel
take it or leave it it's all i can say
made up my mind and i'm walking away
you keep waiting for me to see the light
but i've gone blind to you
i've gone blind to you, blind

saw the writing on the wall
before it was written
i knew it all felt wrong
even when it didn't
you don't know why i'm not cryin
as you're standing there about to leave
so sorry baby but i'm already free

blinkers

blinkers on wear em just the perfect size
so you're halfway gone but you never lose your mind
ride this out no coincidence at all
cuz it's all too loud no matter what it's called

hold on tight all you have to stay is cool
you can fold in five cuz the house is yours to lose
don't need sleep when you're feeding on a flame
and a smile so deep that it doesn't know its name

go on you got this one life to live
you gotta take up your hook and sail
let go you know the letdown
give it a chance why don't you to fail

laugh out loud in the face of the absurd
at the shape of sound that you never knew you heard
which came first the poem or the pen
yeah it all goes blurred when you're falling down again

go on you got this one life to live
you gotta take up your hook and sail
let go you know the letdown
give it a chance why don't you to fail

what if for once you see all you could've been is all that you're gonna be
why can't you stay this spellbound
give it a chance why don't you
to lead

chasing shadows

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)
david jonelis (ASCAP; Bindervox)

friday the 13th nobody noticed
it was exactly a month to the moment
when all of the world stood still
when all of the world stood still

parked in the lot and we met at the subway
laughing cuz nobody does that in la
a handwritten map for a guide
we watched as our station went by

we didn’t see we were already wrong
connecting the dots where the lines don’t belong
too late to stop we were already off
and running

chasing shadows
racing back to spite the time
tracing jagged lines
we were broken
long before we took that ride
chasing shadows, you and i

summer in downtown, sandals and sneakers
the bar had a dress code, we couldn’t believe it
so we strode off into the night
under a strawberry sky

and everyone told us we looked so in love
so we kept falling down and we never came up
to the sound or the speed
of our hist’ry repeating
itself

chorus

nobody sees you when everyone's lookin
hiding in plain view
sometimes you need to forget where you came from
to fall where you belong

chorus

friday the 13th, nobody noticed
it was exactly a month to the moment
when all of the world stood still...

christmas miracle

music and lyrics by alicia witt

sleigh bells and snowflakes
and magic in the air
warm nights and cold days
and laughter everywhere

mistletoe i hang alone
and stockings filled with faith
turn my eyes to winter skies
and search them for a sleigh

cuz if i wish with all my heart
this time of year it might come true
hope with all i’ve got
that this will get to you

i don’t want gifts i’ve made my list
theres just one thing i need
a christmas miracle
to bring you home to me

i’ll tell you i love you
not only in my dreams
we’ll fall asleep beneath the tree
like kids on christmas eve

i grew up so long ago
but truly i believe
santa knows the things we don’t
and so i’m asking please

cuz if i wish with all my heart
this time of year it might come true
hope with all i’ve got
that this will get to you

i don’t want gifts i’ve made my list
theres just one thing i need
a christmas miracle
to bring you home to me

it isn’t peace on earth i know
but i’m still asking please
a christmas miracle
to bring you home to me

clever mind

Music and Lyrics: Alicia Witt, Tia Sillers (ASCAP/Petite-T Music; Razor and Tie) and Mark Selby (ASCAP/Howlin’ Otis Music)

life is messy
it's a twisted road
it's all much easier said than done
there's so much you can’t control

before you said a word
i saw that band of gold
i swear i never meant to go tumblin down
this rabbit hole

struck up a whiskey conversation
the kind you said you hadn't had in way too long
shut down the bar and then we went somewhere
i never should've gone

chorus:
is this what you call a clever mind
same broken record up all night
spinning round and round while you decide
who you choose to love

thirty seven going on sixteen
signing your last name in all my dreams
waitin for the day you call to say *you're finally free
and i'm the one you need

you keep saying
that it's gonna end
at this point it's not a question of if
it's a matter of when

but then you tell me how
she's been so good to you
when you talk like that you're not the only one here
who's damn confused

tracing letters on your back
everything i'm not supposed to say
if i'm half the girl you think i am
why can't i turn away

chorus:
is this what you call a clever mind
same broken record up all night
spinning round and round while you decide
who you choose to love

thirty seven going on sixteen
don’t know what you want or what you need
waitin for the day you call to say
you're finally free…

chorus:
is this what you call a clever mind
does lyin to myself count as a lie
another 3 am checking my phone
and wakin up alone

consolation prize

music and lyrics: alicia witt – 2013

every now and then
i wonder how you’ve been in all this time
i wonder if you ever came around to
what went down and
once in awhile i think of all the life we spent together
and i don’t even know your number anymore

looking back at all your quiet desperation
in retrospect now aren’t you glad i let you go

isn’t it nice to know that you’re not my consolation prize
doesn’t it feel like freedom breathin in and out now
isn’t it good to see all the love in someone else’s eyes
doesn’t it all make sense that you’re better off without me
oh, oh, whoa
oh, oh… whoa

i wonder if you kept the painting that i gave you
pretty sure she made you throw it out
that sucks i would have loved to have it back
i only brought it home for you because i loved it
all revisionary history aside i loved you too

so why am i the bad guy in your estimation
for being brave enough to say what we we both knew

isn’t it nice to know that you’re not my consolation prize
doesn’t it feel like freedom breathin in and out now
isn’t it good to see all the love in someone else’s eyes
doesn’t it all make sense that you’re better off without me
oh, oh, whoa
oh, oh… whoa

no grand intention
no pain to mention
just too many days that fade to blue
and look how it came out perfect
for better would have been for worse if
i’d have been the one to settle down that walk with you

down (feat. T.O.N.E.-z)

music by alicia witt, lyrics by alicia witt & T.O.N.E-z

Sick of the game and living in pain emotionally drained
The shame in our name breaking the chains
A life full of money and devious ways
The love in our heart is family bound
We all have grown up made a mark in this town
Promises made to keep us together
Material wealth enduring the weather
Been bustin' our guns stacking them funds
Bodies laid out decay in the sun
Enemies shook they're scared to approach
We ran the game never needed a coach
The time has come to break all the shackles
Blood is blood we're forever attached to
Tired of living this lawless life
Forever we're crows time to take flight

down with the guns and gutters
down with the clear blue sea
down where you call my number
no you won't ever find me

Doing this for myself no help when I move
Look into the mirror got something to prove
Nothing to lose I gave all I could
Beef a drama surrounding my hood
My siblings are crazy I love'm to death
But we're playing a game and pain is the ref
I'm changing the rules paid all my dues
Load up the whip and bounce on you fools
Ha been a dreamer since the cradle
Cooking some plans setting the table
Time for a feast get ready to grub
Wave to my fam throw them some love
I'm not really trying to hurt nobody
Clear out my path but don't try to stop me

down with the guns and gutters
down with the clear blue sea
down where you call my number
no you won't ever find me

down with the shame and shutters
down with the bloodstained stream
down with the bones and bluster
boy, you won't ever find me

Like I said before
Forever we're crows but we never dose or
Sleep on our toes cause poverty chose
To tackle our lives but we keep it G
Protecting our pride why
Cause this is the world that we live (in)
Never submit (in) times that we get in trouble
We flip the game reversing the pain
Never do it for fame
We do what we do it is what it is
But I have a life that I'm trying to live
Bask in the sun take a deep breath
There's happiness out there I want what's left

down with the guns and gutters
down with the clear blue sea
down where you call my number
no you won't ever find me

down she goes

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

It was just another second date
The end of a busy day
Casual distraction
A way to pass the time

Just another city sidewalk
Summer night making small talk
Corner stones and conversation
Thank you for the wine

That old familiar feeling
Takes the breath she's breathing
It was only meant to be a goodnight kiss

Down she goes
Falling like a feather
Made of flesh and bone
Heading for the ground
She doesn't know
What her heart's already figured out
She's about to hit the clouds below
So down she goes
Down she goes

She turns the key and steps inside
Doesn't even wave goodbye
Cuz she's afraid that he's already noticed way too much

She leans against the door and smiles
Cheeks are flushed it's been a while
Shakes it off and tells herself
It's just a little fun

Out of sight and out of mind
She goes on with her life
But then he call and it all starts again

Down she goes
Falling like a feather
Made of flesh and bone
Heading for the ground
She doesn't know
What her heart's already figured out
She's about to hit the clouds below
So down she goes
Down she goes

She holds on tight
And tries to fight it
Till just the day she's finally in control

Down she goes
Falling like a feather
Made of flesh and bone
Heading for the ground
And now she knows
What her heart knew from the start
This is love it's finally safe to fall So down she goes
Down she goes

earful

music and lyrics by david jonelis and alicia witt

lie awake
my mistakes playing back in my head
every word that i wish i had said
if you were here you’d get an earful tonight

your fingers on my shoulder
did you mean it that way
is it my imagination are you feeling the same
if you were here you’d get an earful tonight
yeah if you were here you'd get an earful tonight

i would ask you if i’m on your mind
did the whole world stop when your eyes met mine
like a twenty second life time
it was a twenty second life time

did you feel the same deja vu
like a memory you never knew you knew
did you see it as it all flashed by
if you were here you’d get an earful (tonight)

Caught in thoughts
Getting lost
If you’re not on my page
Then i’m obsessed it’s a mess in my brain
Words on a phone, can’t read your tone, can’t decide
And I can’t unsee the secrets between the lines
Yeah if you were here you’d get an earful tonight

I would ask you if I’m on your mind
Did the whole world stop when your eyes met mine?
For a 20 second lifetime
a 20 second lifetime

Did you feel the same déjà vu?
like a memory you never knew you knew
Did you see it as it all flashed by
Yeah if you were here you’d get an earful

maybe I'm crazy making this up alone
but I just need to know if I'm right
what if the reason why i can’t let you go
is cuz you’re supposed to be in my life

I wanna tell you you’ve been on my mind
That the whole world stopped when your eyes met mine
For a 20 second lifetime
A 20 second lifetime

Did you feel the same déjà vu?
Feel your heart beat faster than you ever knew
Did you see it as it all flashed by
Yeah if you were here you'd get an earful tonight

face change

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

what is it supposed to mean
what am i supposed to do
how do i go back to who i used to be
now that i know the truth
secrets came undone in fragments left unwound
traveled time again we closed it down

and i saw your face change
some kind of magic took a breath beneath your skin
i saw your face change
strange and emphatic lookin out to let me in
my heart went helpless
i fell in something strong that doesn’t have a name
i saw your face change
just for a moment and nothing now will ever be the same

i still believe there’s no mistakes
i can take or leave most anything or anyone
but i would drop my life and drive for days
without thinking twice if you said to come

all this distance still you’re close enough to touch
i’d just sleep you off if i made this up

and i saw your face change
some kind of magic took a breath beneath your skin
i saw your face change
strange and emphatic lookin out to let me in
my heart went helpless
i fell in something strong that doesn’t have a name
i saw your face change
just for a moment and nothing now will ever be the same

i saw your face change
just for a moment and nothing now will ever be the same

fighting for crumbs

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt and Alex Solowitz, 2011

damn my intuition here it goes
wish i didn’t know the things i know
youre backing off from me
i saw it happening
the moment she came back to you

you never said so didn’t have to
that sinking feeling always knew
and i don’t understand
you’re trying to hide it but you can’t
no need to tell me that its true

looks like it’s time to walk away
looks like my moment here is done
your heart is broken in too many pieces
and i’m not fighting for crumbs

did you really think i wouldn’t notice
it hurts the most that you don’t know this
i hear what you don’t say
i see it on your face
leaving out the truth is still a lie

you want me here in case she breaks your heart again
you keep your second place i only came to win

i hope it's me

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

your life is like a movie your heart’s a thing of beauty
you spread your beats all over town
i don’t know how you do it you make em all so stupidthey love you when you're not around

i've been seeing something thru the cracks
will i catch you looking back

when the crowd around you starts to make you lonely
when the traffic at your door is growing old
when you need a place to lay down your story when the only thing you wanna be is home
when you wanna wake up knowing who you're holding
the day the freedom stops feeling freewhen you're ready to give all of you to someonei hope its mei hope its me

i’ll never let you see this i’ll keep your dirty secretsi’ll help you sweep the mess you make
but i can barely breathe some times i wonder if you see the kind
of everything i wanna say
and yeah you're chasing what you feel right now
but someday you may turn around

when the crowd around you starts to make you lonely when the traffic at your door is growing old when you need a place to lay down your story when the only thing you wanna be is homewhen you wanna wake up knowing who you're holding
the day the freedom stops feeling freewhen you're ready to give all of you to someonei hope its mei hope its me
you could make me something no one else has done
but someone just like you has never come

i'm not ready for christmas

music and lyrics: alicia witt - 2012

another summer's gone
don't know where it went
i can't believe it's that time of year again
winter's closing in
some kind of messed up time
the calendar begins its race to
december 25

i'm not ready for christmas
don't need a gift list
don't give a shit
how many shopping days are left
this holiday season
give me one reason
i should believe it's ever gonna change and
why should i be merry
when every january
i come back so very broken hearted
i'm not ready for christmas
i think i'll skip this one and
santa i will see you next year

got my blue jeans on
no need for red and green
go rock your light up hat
i'm not tryna make a scene
it just occurs to me
the grinch was not so mean
he had a point or two
i think he'd've liked me

i'm not ready for christmas
not gonna listen
don't even ask me cuz i'm tellin you i'm not
unpackin my tinsel
puttin up mistle-
toe this year i'm gonna kiss it goodbye
and i don't wanna tree or
any company it's
never how i dream it
white or otherwise
i'm not ready for christmas
won't even miss this yule tide
peace on earth i'll see you next time

i'm done with wrapping boxes
buying things that no one wanted
trying on my own to save the day
while dad plays cards and bro reads verses
mom's in tears between the curses
i need a fucking holiday

i'm not ready for christmas
don't need a gift list
give me your stockings and i'll stuff em for ya
i'm not ready for sleigh bells
two months of carols
playing from galway bay to california
and i'm not makin nog
or dressing up the dog
you can keep your yule log
i'm still burned out
i'm not ready for christmas
i think i'll sit this out and
maybe i will see you next year

is this what you meant

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt, 2011

rushin through the world in your unmade bed
with your head on fire and your heart undressed
you can always tell when youre in my dreams

nothing but the clothes that you left remain
in a paper bag with a faded stain
you can always tell when i wipe you clean

aint no surprise you’d call me up today
aint no surprise i’m still the same

is this what you meant is this what you said
that some day i might miss you when youre gone
is this what you saw is this what you want
just to hear me say that i was wrong
isn’t this right where i belong
here on the floor imploring you to change your mind
is this what you meant is this what you meant
still no less the mess you left behind

Don't u think I know I'm a joke these days
with a broken track and a laugh I've saved
From the time I almost gave a damn

Guess i built u up til u tumbled down
And u tried so hard just to stay around
U tried to love me the way I am

i never heard a word u had to say
so mad i couldn't have my way

still no less alone without your hand in mine
waiting by the phone after all this time
wishing i had one more chance to never let you go
wishing you’d come say i told you so

judgment day

Alicia Witt, 2010

take this book of lies and burn it down
break your bank of rules
scrape your knees and bleed the fire out
flame to fight the fuel

hold your head up high to face the past
stare it in the teeth
question everything you never ask
the earth shall drink the meek

is there lighting in your veins
is there something that remains
nothings ever gonna change
so take yourself out in the rain
life is bleedin while you wait
waitin for your judgment day

hypocrites and fools to line your towr
proof you might belong
justified and cruel the velvet hour
drowns out all your wrong

is there lighting in your veins
is there something that remains
nothings ever gonna change
so take yourself out in the rain
life is bleedin while you wait
waitin for your judgment day

you woke up dead
you filled your head
with all this shit to crowd the pain

your promised land
slips thru your hands
the soul you sacrificed to save

last surviving son

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)
crystal bowersox (ASCAP; Mamasox)

you’re a drinker a smoker
hoisting lies upon your shoulder
And every notch carved in your bedpost
was like revenge upon that man

so you fake it you just take it
it’s etched into your crooked chin
you say you’ve learned but you never change
you’ve given up so much for him

the guilt wells up in your baby blues
well someone’s got to fill them boots

you're daddy's last surviving son
and he'll never let you love someone
like me, someone like me
long as he lives you’ll be alone
you signed the rules he wrote in stone
til he’s 6 below you won’t be free
to love someone like me

i know you felt it i’m not crazy
i saw every sign you gave me
you coulda made the choice but he stole your voice
instead you ran for safety

you don’t need fixing you ain’t broken
can’t you see the door is open
the only thing standing in your way
is the key you think he’s holding

i keep praying like a fool
but this ain’t up to god it’s up to you

you're daddy's last surviving son
and he'll never let you love someone
like me someone like me
he says jump you say how high
his twisted ancient lullaby
Til he’s 6 below you won’t be free
to love someone…

tell me can you sleep at night
do the possibilities of what might have been
keep swimming round your head
or do all the stakes you think you’ve claimed
in the shadow of his name keep him alive
while you’re dyin slow instead

the guilt wells up in your baby blues
well someone’s got to fill them boots

the guilt wells up in your baby blues
well someone’s got to fill them boots

you're daddy's last surviving son
and he'll never let you love someone
like me, someone like me
long as he lives you’ll be alone
you signed the rules he wrote in stone
til he’s 6 below you won’t be free
to love someone like me

letting you go

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt, 2011

This is the part where i walk away
Fade to darkness start this back off where u found me
This is the day i say i'm busy when i'm not
And watch u try to bring me back before i'm really gone

This is where i start letting you go
thÍs is where it all comes down
This is when i first begin getting over u
this is where it all comes down
This is where u start to scare me
Weaving me between your threads of fables gold and blue
dark as plunder smooth like heroin
i fly away on what you see in all ive never been

This is where i start letting you go
thÍs is where it all comes down
This is when i first begin getting over u
this is where it all comes down
you could wrap me up
In boystained sheets and midday morn
until the sun goes out
tie me down til all these days gone by
give up the ghost and fill me til i drown

i’m falling i’m falling
theres no way out
i’ll break you i’ll break you now

lie to me

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)
jay knowles (randill music/acme nashville- BMI)

i can tell that you got something you don’t wanna say
do us both a favor, take a breath and walk away
or just make up a story that you know i won’t believe
don’t look me in the eye when you lie to me

before you take this somewhere there’s no coming back
just break my heart, and save the trust we have
don’t leave me with a picture that you know i won’t unsee
don’t look me in the eye when you lie to me

after everything that we’ve been thru
all the forgiving and the living that we’ve done
don’t take for granted all the faith I’ve placed in you
don’t take advantage of my love

don’t play me for a fool, don’t work me til i feel
like i don’t know which end is up what part of us was real
i know you hate to make me cry but if you’re gonna leave
don’t look me in the eye when you lie to me

don’t play me for a fool don’t work me til i feel
like i don’t know which end is up what part of us was real
don’t leave me with a picture that you know i can’t unsee
don’t look me in the eye when you lie to me

you haven’t lost me yet, but we’ll lose everything
if you look me in the eye when you lie to me

loop

Written by Alicia Witt and Tripp Weir (SESAC/Alden Road)

going about my day
nothing’s changed
except i’m wide awake
got that buzzin brain

on two hours sleep
can barely keep still
i’m pickin up speed
runnin full tilt

you give me
a crash free
caffeine

stuck on a kinda loop i don’t wanna need you
but i also kinda do and you know it’s probably true
you’re a kinda trap make me laugh more than anyone has
no joke no line

i don’t wanna drop from this hi…
one little word from you
and i’m coastin up in the clouds
like you got a key to my room
and i can’t begin to know how
cuz you’re on my mind more than i think i probably should say
don’t stop don’t go
cuz i’m digging feelin this way

don’t even ask why
or what it means
just enjoy the ride
drifting downstream

don’t need a map
i’ll wind up back where
you took me off track
but i don’t seem to care

go on keep
your space here
rent free

chorus x 2

love anyway

written by Alicia Witt and Jeff Cohen, 2016

wrote the happy end
before the story ever started
but you chose a different book
used to be so free with me
now suddenly you're guarded
I've lost you now, I know that look

and everything that you're not sayin
I've heard it all before

   so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut
keep my heart wide open
    I'm gonna keep my head up
like I know where I'm going

I'm gonna look you in the eye
stare down faith and all the signs
that say
    nothing's gonna change
and love anyway

I can't change my heart's refrain
when i know what I feel
and you won't tell me what you're needing
I'd do anything and everything to make this real
but once again I've just been dreaming

words are gonna fail me
there's too much left to say

even when they say you can’t go on, go on…

friend

me or new york

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt and Jeff Fiorello, 2010

all of these faces look just the same
lookin for someone in me
all of em wanting to see how i’ve changed
i don’t know who’s to blame… me or new york

they keep on askin where are you goin
i don’t have the answer in me
they keep on bein so sure without knowin
there aint no place like home it’s me or new york

me and new york never sleep any more
we just keep movin on without goin nowhere
leavin before i could take it or go
now i’m tired and nobody’s going to care
what are we waitin here for it’s me or new york

outta these windows they keep on movin
i just wanna fall back asleep
all of their eyes on me faintly accusing
who you tryin to be…

me and new york never sleep any more
we just keep movin on without goin nowhere
leavin before i could take it or go
now i’m tired and nobody’s going to care
what are we waitin here for it’s me or new york

late nights fade into day light wired and
weary we dream all alonethe trains and my mind losin track of the timeone or the other must go

friend

written by alicia witt

how do i put this well
you rip me down and fell
the branches i've been building up around me
til i think i'm gonna cry
not because it hurts it's just been so damn long
since i could see the sky

and here's the part where i'm
supposed to play it cool
won't be the first time i'm accused of sayin way too much

but i don't wanna be your burden
i don't wanna weigh you down
i don't wanna make you hurt
i just wanna stay around
i don't wanna turn you on
this aint no start but it aint no end
i don't wanna be your promise
i just wanna be your friend

you've split me spine to page
i smile so wide the strangest ways
i can't believe you'd open up your complicated life to me

but lately i've been so afraid you'll change your mind
and wake up one day thinking i've become too close for comfort

(chor)

you're a road i never cleared a path for
it's safe to say you made your own way over
you're a gift i'd never dare to ask for
i'm just asking you to stay

cuz i don't wanna be your burden
i don't wanna weigh you down
i don't wanna make you hurt
i just wanna stay around
i don't wanna turn you on
this aint no start no happy end
i don't wanna be your promise
i just wanna be your friend

new word

music and lyrics: alicia witt - 2011

i wish i never said i love you
i wish i had a new hand
i wish i knew the thing i used to think it was
was nothing less than everything i planned

you walked in and lit my shadows
for once i’m not afraid to lose
clear as day i see the frame beneath this steel
the empty spaces in the shape of you

it’s all been said it’s all been done
it’s all been wasted on the ones
who came before and fade to grey
they all look more or less the same
and here you are i’m swept away
you make it hard for me to say
a simple line they’ve all been used
i’ll have to find a new word for you

i could tell you you amaze me
but you’d still have no idea
feels so good to know i really wasn’t crazy
so good to find you standing here

one last drink

Music and Lyrics: Alicia Witt and Matt Wynn

i can tell you where we’d be right now
all our walls would be tumbling down

ice cubes would be melting, I wouldn’t feel guilty
about what’s about to go down

then the next day I’d walk away
and find a place to place the blame
on one two many rounds
but we can’t say that now

there’s a freedom that comes
from the falling apart
when there’s nothing to loosen your tongue
but your heart
chasing this what if with no liquid courage
facin our fears from the start

i would be leading you back in the day
to my famously well stocked blockade
but tonight at the door you can be sure
that i’m askin you in for one thing

will you take my hand and maybe stay
when it’s not for one last drink ?

no wonderin what i said
or why did i do that again
no hungover headache
did i make a mistake
no tylenol on the nightstand

we’ll know for certain it wasn’t the bourbon
that got you right here in my arms
no sneaking out ‘fore you wake up
just breakfast and two coffee cups

chorus

but tonight at the door you can be sure
that i’m askin you in for one thing
will you take my hand and maybe stay
when it’s not for one last drink ?

right now

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt and Jeff Fiorello
RIGHT NOW

i always think of you at the wrong times
she’s close enough to kiss
i thought i wanted this
but when i think of you i change my mind

tonight i laughed so hard it ached
put a silly movie on
then we talked until the dawn
but you’re the reason why i’m still awake

i want to be holding you right now
i want to fall asleep in your arms
i want to feel your breath in my hair
i want to be wherever you are

tonight i stayed out late and i drank a few
she called at half past three
and i smiled in my sleep
but i still wished it were you

tonight we watched the moon til the sun came out
i took his hand in mine
and i went all warm inside
but then i thought of you and it all fell down

you said i mess with your mind
i chose to hear a compliment
you were only real when you looked in my eyes
i saw everything you meant

satellite

written by dan fernandez and alicia witt

wasting my time
following you
falling behind
the flight that you choose
you say you need space

lost in your sky
I couldn't see
chasin the high
of your galaxy
as you spin away

Ive tried to break this orbit
I'm tired of waiting for it
the bright side
to come back around
you don't see me now
I won't shine til I come down
I'm just another satellite in your sky
I'm just another satellite in your sky

you let me in
closer than most
then once you did
you let me go
almost but not quite

I'm still out here
reaching for you
invisible mirror
just like the moon
waiting for the night

Ive tried to break this orbit
I'm tired of waiting for it
the bright side
to come back around
you don't see me now
I won't shine til I come down
I'm just another satellite in your sky
I'm just another satellite in your sky

someday

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

i want to take you to the city you’re afraid of
introduce you to the places no one writes about
i want to show you all i love in what it’s made of
i want to kiss you just a moment from your mouth

i want to walk with you down ancient avenues
break bread together in glutenous ravines
i want to wander where the hungry hordes won’t follow
somewhere beyond the pale of wondering what it means

and i will tell you one day
i will tell you one day
not today, not tonight
but someday

i will tell you one day
i will tell you one day
not today, not tonight
but someday
someday

i want to take your hand and guide you thru a portal
ride like a shadow, and throw the wind to caution
i want to catch your breath and dream of life immortal
light you a match when no one’s watching

i will tell you one day
i will tell you one day
not today, not tonight
but someday
someday

i want to render you invisible
capture your lightning in a bottle, set you free
i want to blur the lines you’ve chiseled til
you can’t see any road but me

i will tell you one day
i will tell you one day
not today, not tonight
but someday
someday

someone to write me a song

Music and Lyrics: Alicia Witt and Jeff Cohen (BMI/As You Like It)

i’ve lived the movie moments, kisses in the rain
been flown cross an ocean first class ticket free champagne
had all night conversations sharing dreams in destinations
i never thought i’d see
but where’s that gotten me

is there something i keep missin cuz it all ends up the same
or maybe i just don’t know what it takes

in a city full of music
never thought it’d take so long
for someone to write me a song

one of those songs that grabs your heart and won’t let go
one of those songs where you’re falling fast and dancing slow
where the moment lives forever in a three chord memory
every word sounds so familiar but only i know what it means

chorus

a song i can hold onto when the sky is turning gray
a song i’ll sing along to when the music starts to fade
i want someone, i want someone
i want someone to write me a song

chorus

still sorry

written by alicia witt

someone asked me yesterday
was there ever one who got away
and I been thinkin bout you since
wonderin all that might've been
if I wasn't so afraid

and I got all these rules I never break
I tend to mean the things I never say
and i never told you how I felt
for the sake of someone else
and I let you slip away

if I could take back that time
if I could wake up and find myself back where I had a road to choose
I'd follow you
I should have made up my mind
I should have left him behind
instead of fighting
for something so wrong
now you're gone and I'm still sorry

lookin back I see you watchin me
tryin to figure out if I would leave
I stood there proud on sinkin sand
talkin bout my best laid plans
til you gave up on me

taken

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt, 2008

and so i sit here thinking
  you’re really sinking in
i can taste you in my mouth
  i can feel you on my skin
i walk outside it’s raining
  what sense in feigning sleep
cuz all i’d do is see your eyes
what have you done to me

and all around
i see these faces finding mine
i hear the sound
of something pulling me aside
my heart glows small and still and strong
nothing makes me feel this gone
and this real
i’m taken

wakin up i stay in bed
i press my head to yours
you’re still not here but there you are
it doesn’t matter any more

the clock insists it’s 3 am
i have no when but now
   something is missing in me
what have you taken out

and all around
  i see these faces wasting time
i laugh aloud
  and none of them can tell me why
the crowded hallways of my dreams
are drowning out the miles between
and i know
i’m taken

you’re breakin me
  and takin all the pieces for your own
stranger things
  have happened i believe but i don’t know
cause here i am
standing by myself and not alone

(verse)
your face the way i left you
is burned into my screen
i stare until the light goes out
i can almost hear you breathe

the room has turned to darkness
i try and start this song
  and sit here in another plane
while the night outside goes on

talk to you

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

you’ve been turning every head again
tonight out on the town
i’m not the best at this at standing out
within a crowd i just shut down

and everyone here’s competing over who will catch your eye
no i don’t blame them none for i am one
within the fray your starry sky

and i should make small talk and keep it light yeah be polite
cuz you’re not the only one here

but i just wanna talk to you
to hear all your stories the glories and shame
i just wanna talk to you
to know where you’re going the choices you’ve made
i just wanna walk thru your highways and byways and valleys between
everything that brought you right here to me

room’s spinning seventh inning stretching out to catch a sign
i feel electrified i look to find
your liquid eyes are fixed on mine

truth is i didn’t come tonight to see or be seen
i wanna spill the beans and drink your wine
download your feed and share your time

and just a while longer now maybe we can finally leave
somewhere we can hear every word

but i just wanna talk to you
to hear all your stories the glories and shame
i just wanna talk to you
to know where you’re going the places you’ve been
i just wanna walk thru your highways and byways and valleys between
everything that brought you right here to me

you’ve broken me open cracked a shell i didn’t know i had
how long’s it been since i forgot to miss
the one who came before all this

i just wanna talk to you
to trace back the pages
from your side of space...
i just wanna talk to you
to know where you’re going, the choices you’ve made
i just wanna walk thru your highways and byways and valleys between
everything that brought you right here to me
everything that brought you right here to me

the conduit

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)

oh god i get it now
the pieces fall dreamless to dust
in this moment i know you'd laugh at me so hard
what was i thinking of

and so it never was
still it was all meant to be
i waited so long for you to be fearless
but you knew one day i'd see

you're not the earth or the sky or my
constellation
you're not the one for all time or my
destination
you're not the love of my life
you're the love that set me free
i'm finally on to it
you are the conduit

and all that time i spent
too hung up on you to see straight
you stayed and waited
oh is this the ending
you didn't wanna give away

and you're inscrutable
but it was mutual
the usual which came first
still i went tumbling down your tunnel
and you remained on solid earth

the ocean

alicia witt (witty ditties, SESAC)
marty dodson (SNG music/My Favorite Songs - SESAC)
simon reid (Simon Reid Music Publishing - SESAC)

they say the one you think of when you stand and watch the waves
is the one you’ll always miss, and time will never change
something bout the way the moon keeps pulling on the tide
makes me think i’m always gonna wish that you were mine
still mine....

some people are boats
just passing thru your life
some are the sunsets
perfect for one night

some are only grains of sand
that wash away like moments
oh i was young i had no way of knowing
you are the ocean

i’ve walked a thousand beaches trying to get you off my mind
all alone and with some different footprints by my side
it only brings me closer to the truth i’m running from
nothing gets you over knowing that you lost the one

some are only grains of sand
that wash away like moments
oh i was young i had no way of knowing
you are the ocean

constant as the seasons
the heartbeat in my chest
forever even if i never see your face again...

some are only grains of sand
that wash away like moments
oh i was young i had no way of knowing
you are the ocean

they say the one you think of when you stand and watch the waves
is the one you’ll always miss, and time will never change

the other girl

Alicia Witt , 2010

i wanna be the girl who dances
the one whos called and never answers
i wanna take you down like a tidal wave

i wanna live inside your freedom
go home late and leave you needin
i wanna ride your fever til it breaks

and you’re the boy they all adore
you always get your way
they go in and out your door
and then you walk away

i wanna be the other girl
i wanna be the one you never leave
i wanna be the other girl
i wanna be your sweetest mystery

i wanna stay and rock your world
in a way that no one else can do
they’ll come and go you know i wont
i wanna be the other girl to you

don’t get me wrong you drive me crazy
its getting hard to keep behaving
but i can be good when i got so much to lose

haven’t we both got toys enough thru
all of the girls and boys i love you
so many ways i don’t wanna choose

and there’s nothing we cant talk about
i think my heart would break
if you ever started treating me
like just another game

theme from 'pasadena' (you can go home) feat. ben folds

music by ben folds, lyrics by alicia witt - 2013

and for the falling stars
the broken hearts
mansions in your mind

and all the roads that were lost
the signs you missed
turns that passed you by

maybe it's not too late
to find your way
it's not your place to say
what if you can-
you can go home again

what if the cards you thought
were stacked against you
never knew your name

what if you're seeing it wrong
and nothing was lost
we all have to make mistakes

you can retrace the steps
you took that led
you back to where you came
what if you can
you can go home again

you can go home - again
you can go home - again
you can go home - again

and tho you lost your way
it's not too late
god knows you damn well tried

and all the stones you tossed
they're ripples now
waves you left behind
they're leading you back
you can go home again
you can go home again
you can go home again

there is no someday

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt, 2012

Fairy tales are made for children
no one cares if london's burnin
Down around you rainin pots of gold

even rainbows end and move along
The knight in shining armor strong
Goes weak and drops you in the road

And here you come again
To reach beneath my pillow
Save your penny I already know

There is no someday
There is no once upon a time
There is no one day
There is no when the stars align
There is no wait and see
No maybe we can try another way
Our happy end will never come
There is no someday

Make believe is fine and well when
all you need are lies you tell yourself
to make it easier to breathe

Windows don't go flyin open
Every time a doors been closed and
toads arent (really princes at your feet) princes just you wait and see

Wishes won't come true
Shooting stars don't give a damn
Just like you they're never gonna change

The storm will sleep
far out at sea
the mermaids will be swimming in the sky
You'll take me in your arms and set me free
when horses grow a silver horn and fly

younger

written by Alicia Witt, Catt Gravitt and Tofer Brown

these eyes are closin in around us

these walls are holding you hostage

you're so afraid but let's be honest

it's not too late

to fade away

and disappear into the stars

above the noise

and rise the silence like a wave

you have the choice to

reveal the quiet that you're hiding in your voice

let's take the world and discover

all we used to know.... I

wanna find a way to the wonder,like

when we were younger

let's run where it says there's no running

let's break our hearts open wide

turn down the static and the buzzing

let's leave this cage

and lose our chains

and disappear into the stars

above the noise

and rise the silence like a wave

you have the choice to

reveal the quiet that you're hiding in your voice

let's take the world and discover

all we used to know.... i

wanna find a way to the wonder,like

when we were younger

(when we were...)

free to color way outside of the lines (when we were...)

seeking everything with nothing to hide (when we were...)

making up the rules we knew we could fly

let's find our way tonight

and disappear into the stars

above the noise

and rise the silence like a wave

you have the choice to

reveal the quiet that you're hiding in your voice

let's take the world and discover all we used to know.... I

wanna find a way to the wonder,like

when we were younger

why christmas

music and lyrics by Alicia Witt

sometimes it seems like life is flying by

do we really have time to take time off

even for a silent night

but when you wake that sacred morning

for a moment you’re a kid again

and you forget to worry where you’re going

or how far away you’ve been

All the busy sounds of life

Come down to a whisper

Whether there’s snow or sunny skies

Or any sign of winter

wherever we are we’re home

with all the ones who’ve missed us

the peace in every heart lights up the sky

and that’s why christmas 🎄

nothing left to do but breathe it in

love like it’s all we really are

and all you have to give

everything just melts away

except for why we’re here

you know one thing will always be the same

for one day a year

secret

music and lyrics by alicia witt

I know your secret I know you keep it

In your bottom drawer with all the pencils

I know your secret the way you feed it

Like a child you pull it out in handfuls

I've got you somewhere in my heart

I've got you somewhere in my heart in spite of me

and i think you're there to stay

I know your secret I've seen you sleepin

with your eyes wide open barely keepin time

I know your secret you always mean it

right until the moment when you change your mind

I've got you somewhere in my heart

I've got you somewhere in my heart beyond my reach

and i think you're here to stay

i see the bloodstains on your smile

your call’s a lie before you dial

your kiss like porcupines

and the girl you can’t get over in your eyes

i know your secret i know you're weaker

than you've ever dared to say out loud

i know your secret i know you see it

every time you find me in a crowd

ive got you somewhere in my heart

inside of me, and I think you’re here to stay

and i think you’re here to stay

christmas will never end

music and lyrics by alicia witt

dusting off these memories

one more year gone by

face to face with meant to be

the truth within in your eyes

and it’s happened so unexpectedly

like the best things always do

the lights in my heart are on again-

i think it’s all because of you

you are the piece i’ve been missing

i couldn’t have prayed i’d find

you are the gift i’ve been wishing for

my hope on this holy night

here in the glow of christmas past

everything old feels new again

please let this be the beginning

and Christmas will never end

the only thing we know for sure

is nothing stays the same

there’s a grown up child in every smile

a tree in every store

who am i to question why tonight

this is all i need and more

please say we’re only beginning

and Christmas will never end

written by alicia wiit, catt gravitt, and skip black

more days

more nights

more truth

more time

more touch

no lines

more you

more mine

a little bit closer little more open

little more heart little less broken

a little less fear, more here,

more mine

more sure

more free

more burn

for me

a little bit closer little more open

little more heart little less broken

a little less fear, more here,

more mine

a little more easy, a little more wide

a little less ceiling, a little more sky

more love, more you,

more mine

no questions no reasons

no secrets no leaving

a little more easy, a little more wide

a little less ceiling, a little more sky

more love, more you,

more mine

witness

Music and Lyrics: Alicia Witt (SESAC/Witty Ditties) and Matt Wynn (BMI/It’s A Given)

i can read my history in your eyes
like a capsule saved in time
as life moves on and memory fades
with blessed distance on these days

i remain forever changed
you’re the frame that holds this space for me

will you be my witness?
i held on when the mountains moved
you shared my sentence
stood strong and you saw me thru

god knows that you’re my living proof
call you to testify the truth
whenever i miss it

yeah you’re my witness
and i’ll be your witness too

pour your secrets into mine
you know i’ll carry them with pride
there’s the story they all know
and the one for us alone

walked thru the flames and still survived
miles away but side by side

chorus

oh, this strangest season
went by in a blur
i'm still spinning from the whirlwind
but you walked me thru the worst

witness…
witness

god knows that you’re my living proof
call you to testify the truth
whenever i miss it
yeah you’re my witness
and i’ll be your witness too