APOLLO’S GIRL LYRICS
Released and unreleased songs written for Apollo’s Girl (or other projects I am a part of). The entirety of lyrics, melodies, and chord progressions were written by and belong to me unless otherwise stated.
PREY
I can tell my time is up / I can see it in the way you size me up / I might be prey / I might be prey / I can tell the end is near / You hold me so close and so dear / I might be prey / I might be prey /
I’m falling, falling into space / And there will be nothing to replace / Except my body / You can always take my body
BABY’S GETTING SICK OF ME
I’ll be a good girl / I’ll be a tv screen if that’s what you want / I’ll bear your child / ‘cause I think you’ll leave me if I don’t / Why stay sincere when I can’t get you on your own?
‘Cause baby can’t sit still with me / Unless he’s on amphetamines / Oh God / I think I got fooled again / Baby’s getting sick of me / My friends hate how he talks to me / accusing me of having secrets
Cause they know something about me / something about me / something about me / He holds it over my head / Cause ive been bad / he makes it worse / when he talks like that / It sends me out on another bend
Cause baby’s getting sick of me / I miss the way he looked at me / He tells me everything’s in my head
DIVE
When you dive / I know you hold my lifespan twice / A light / so bright / it blinds and burns the white out of your eyes
Where I cannot hide / from the inside of your mind / the moon / a pull / that holds / favor of your design
I know one day I’ll leave this world behind / I’ll wade these waters until I / meet my lover again / He left me wading in the sand
He says I’m a shade of green turned jaded / He says / He shouldn’t keep me waiting for you
WHEN YOU CALL
The lullaby / of a NyQuil bottle / A car ride / to rock me near sleep / I drink my coffee real early / I don’t mind when I hear you breath
Cause when you call / I’ll be the one / Who always caves and picks up the phone / It’s nice to care / If you stop and stare / I’ll pretend to not notice you do
So give me something / to pour myself into / I feel better when the days orbit you / It’s comfortable / and calming / delightful / But only when it’s somebody new
Cause when you call / I’ll be the one / Who always caves and picks up the phone / It’s nice to care / If you stop and stare / I’ll pretend to not notice you do
I don’t / want to feel a thing / so lay it on me, babe / take it all away / I know you need me / you know that I can fake
HEAVEN SOUND SURRENDER
Is our sound gonna make it through smooth / or will we be lost in heaven, baby? / What gets to come up with me, / or am I stuck playing around down here?
Don’t want to take the fall now / Don’t want to take the fall now / Don’t want to take your fall now / Don’t want to take your fall now
Need to get a new driver to take me / somebody keyed my sides and took my things / With the moon so bright, so real now / you think it would be enough to make you cry out
But you just sigh / Or don’t / Wait no / I can’t take / All that you’re offering / me right now / I gotta go / I gotta go
Need a new distraction / your Monday bumps just don’t hit the same / Where do we go now? / Where do we go when we feel ashamed?
CALIFORNIA EYES
Your eyes / don’t lie / Midnight / we hide /Did you mean what you said today?
My limbs they never rest / but I’ll do my best / to stay
No one believes I can love you right / I still try / No one believes I get mean too / Babe, I’m gonna leave you
In California tonight / California Eyes / California tonight / California Eyes
UNTITLED (W.I.P.)
Lock the door / I’m in for the day / Rest my head and let the tension fall away / To a place where the come downs not so bad / With an upper id feel fine / I say woah, oh / I fall apart at every song / I say woah, oh / He says I have to keep steady, but I think somethings wrong
I’ve got a ticket / Call that repression / Fly away to ease the ache / but I think that its time to take / The blame / instead / Don’t know how to start again, / So I’ll just lay instead
WARM BUT NOT RIGHT
Co-written with Jared Snyder; the following is my verse
When you leave / me alone / I turn bitter / not cold / Some things / stay the same / even when / they refuse to change / It’s not new / what you / bring / and I choose / I’ve never felt / this right / this down / in a long, long time
PITTSBURG
Written for my Arizona-based project, Liberty Theory
Waking up to find that you’ve moved on / You’re going back to Pittsburg / So I wrote a song / In your favorite genre
You don’t love me anymore / and it shows / This I know / I don’t know what I’ll be without you
It’s dark in here without you here / I wish / you didn’t find / some other girl / Do you tell her that she’ll have beautiful children / the way you told me not so long ago?
And my ex didn’t get jealous / ‘cause he knows I’ll leave here soon / But he doesn’t know I want you / like a dog wants to be abused / And I still want you / as bad as you don’t want me / I did some bad things for you / I’m only as good as I am naïve
WANNABE
Written for my Arizona-based project, Liberty Theory
I prefer my grey skies / to your blue / Misery loves company / and so do you
And if you wannabe a rock star / so bad / then why don’t you get it? / It mattered more than what I had to say that day / so don’t you forget it
I find out everything I need to know / by what makes you lose control
And you / I remember how you looked that night / blank face, loud tone / and slightly impaired / And you / You grabbed me by the arm and said / Why don’t you talk? / Why are you acting scared? / Yeah, you / I could hand you a mirror / and you’d still find a way to reflect it back to me / saying I’m disrespecting your name
I find out everything I need to know / by what makes you lose control
You found it too easy / to talk down to me
WHEN WE SLEEP (W.I.P.)
Lining side streets / police blocking driveways in / I can’t stand it / The construction noise goes to my head / And the sky’s a dome that’s going to fall / It’s not right / that we learn to / run before / we crawl
And the walls cave in / the devils close / but his men just seem to shelter him / It’s not right / that the angels learn to hide / up above / in the trees where / birds forget / to fly
So baby I pray for my peace of mind / Don’t you know that we’re living on borrowed time? / The life that we hold isn’t ours alone /
Don’t cry / they don’t have to know / where we sleep / where run / where we dream / where we go / they don’t have to know
SPEED QUEEN
I wannabe / a regular mess / I wanna play guitar / and look my best / I want my menthols / and a pack of reds / I wanna kill my lungs / and go back to bed
So I can be lazy / So I can be free / So I can hit a curve at 180 / and no one sees / I want the ocean / I want you to die I wanna be all alone / I don’t know why
Jamie says he’ll treat me right / Gonna by me all nice things / He shared his stash with me / and then made me a speed queen / But Jamie leaves me dry / then he goes back to bed / So I stole his stash and hit the road / but it all went to my head
And it made me lazy / It made me free / His friends all say there’s something wrong with me / I want the ocean / I want them to die / I wanna be all alone, I don’t know why /
I wanna be lazy / I wanna be free / My friends all think there’s something wrong with me / I want the ocean / I wanna go slow / I wanna see just how long I can float