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Singer

by Buick Audra

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1.
who knows why we say the things we do in the moment it seems true enough, true enough . . . but, wait the intangible, the immeasurable weight often leads us down the wrong road, and it’s suddenly too late all the “I love you's” floating in the air, should be strong enough to lift you up from right there where you stand but, maybe all of those said with too little care just make the slightest breeze, and leave you there, tethered to the land so you should know, in all my life I may have misjudged moments in the night but not with you, not this time I meant what I just said, yeah, I mean it you are mine oh how quickly we forget, how we walk away and did we always know it, in our hearts, that we’d never stay? was it one small thing, that you heard somebody say that turned your world around, and changed how you saw everything that day? all of the energy wasted on the pain should be strong enough to generate lightning in the sky but, maybe no one ever channels it quite right and it’s just strong enough to generate the redness in our eyes so you should know, in all my life I may have left before the time was right but not with you, not this time I'm here to stay, you know I'm never leaving you are mine white and black, the old photographs are just a road map of where you've been you can't go back to where you came from that path has faded, there's just the space you're in I took my time around the long way but I have only ever had one place to go by way of hope and love and jealousy and pain I came to you . . . and thought that you should know I thought that you should know yeah, you should know, in all my life I may have left before the time was right but not with you, not this time I'm here to stay, you know I'm never leaving so you should know, in all my life I may have misjudged moments in the night but not with you, not this time I meant what I just said, yeah, I mean it you are mine
2.
my days get so long and I don’t feel like I’m driving where I begin and end up, is the middle enough? I’m just along for the ride I live my life in the moving sometimes I lose what I’m doing I keep the dream in my mind when I get my own time, I know where I wanna be and I call you just to tell you stories cuz baby when you laugh it’s the best part of my day and I call you just to hear your stories I love it when you laugh but I love you anyway and the streets of my town don't recognize your face when I turn all of the lights down low, I know I only live with the trace I'm holding on to all I know but, every time you go I get around, but I'm walking all alone I'm making my own way through the streets of my town the oldest adage, to be apart, and how it leads to a faithful heart ignores the less of romantic parts like how I make tea for one I’ll be the last one to make demands on anyone living out their plan as long as music flows through your hands I’ll always be at be at the show and I call you just to tell you stories cuz baby when you laugh it’s the best part of my day when I call you just to hear your stories I love it when you laugh but I love you anyway and the streets of my town don't recognize your face when I turn all of the lights down low, I know I only live with the trace I'm holding on to all I know but, every time you go I get around, but I'm walking all alone I'm making my own way through the streets of my town
3.
Going Home 04:05
here we go again, I think I’ve been this way before another round of crazy, I can’t take it anymore It’s been an endless season, watching every day race to the night It’s been an exercise in madness, and I just can’t get it right I’m going home I never saw the beauty in the simple things of life I always complicate it all by holding on too tight sometimes a little loss is just the thing you need to feel alive I’ve been losing big, and for right now, that has to be all right I’m going home I've been runnin' 'round in circles, trying to find the straightest line going off the deep end, getting shallow just in time I've been down to New Orleans and heard the voices of the dead I've seen California girls and I just can't compete with them I'm going home now, I’m tired all the way down to my bones, I’m wearing thin and I’m sick of justifying it, just because it’s always been there are two ways to be: for everyone, or only for yourself and I can safely say, I’m giving up on anybody else and I’m going home I've been runnin' 'round in circles, trying to find the straightest line going off the deep end, getting shallow just in time so when you think of me please think of how I always tried to be I never settled for a single thing because you believed in me I'm going down to where the land still has a chance of growing wild down to where, in my own heart, I'll always be a child I'm going home
4.
Happy Loser 03:23
never was a happy loser never could agree with falling down always was an easy bruiser always wanted to believe in softer ground taking early bows, before you hear the faintest, quick applause you think it kills you now, just imagine how you’ll feel later on later on . . . so far, it's all a heart attack so far, I'm living on my knees so far, I give and don't get back so far, I'm always asking "please" please through the process of elimination I decided who I am, and who I’m not in my wildest of imaginations I would never ever dream this twist of plot taking extra bows, because you just can’t walk away from applause you think they love you now, just imagine how they’ll love you later on later on . . . so far, it's all a heart attack so far, I'm living on my knees so far, I give and don't get back so far, I'm always asking "please" please and if you can’t say something nice then, baby, you should lie I may not win big affection from the world but, maybe that’s not why I try I’ve had enough of truth tonight and really, I don’t want to fight I just need to know that you're behind what my heart says is right cuz I'm tired of living on my knees oh, I'm tired of always asking "please" please
5.
I’ll break you out of here tonight, I promise we best get moving they’ll notice before long they’re crowning weak and jailing up the strongest the time is now, love we should be moving on and if you can’t look back, no, not ever I’ll understand, hey I’ve been that way before and if you get off track once you get there climb on my shoulder that’s what you have me for and, I get around the get around they’ll tell you that you’ll be the better for it they’ll paint the picture of those who came before and there’s comfort in the ramble of the story some kind of safety in a risk that wasn’t yours but if you never write your own ending you’re just a player in someone else’s plot and if you leave all circumstances pending you’re living way down, to someone that you’re not and, honey, you should get around hey, get around the get around januaryfebruarymarchandaprilmay I look for something in the sky the stars aligned as if to say that, maybe junejulyandaugust are the time for you and I I hold my breath and somewhere in the grey of fall . . . say goodbye you should get around and I should get around we should get around we’ll get around
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7.
it seems we’re running out of time to be the magic we could be I put my hand up to the sky no full eclipse, no shooting stars that I could see I’m looking out for you, you’re looking back at me like we are still too young to die but we aren’t angels, not even close, my love we are just old ghosts, you and I stay with me we could be somebody great I know that if you'd only stay with me I'm up for some brilliant mistakes with you some quiet days, I’m on my own I think of who you are to me you matter deep down in my bones no matter how distant you’re working hard to be you think you know me well, I thought you knew enough to let the past just rest in peace but you weren’t able, you took me down with you this isn’t who we’re meant to be stay with me and we could be somebody great I know that if you'd only stay with me I'm up for some brilliant mistakes with you I'd light it all on fire walk the tightest wire to spend some time with you let's stay awake all night jump the wall and write the song we always said we might why don't you stay with me? we could be somebody great I know that if you'd only stay with me I'm up for some brilliant mistakes with you
8.
The Everlast 04:09
I used to know you best when I was a little mess and you were the good guy by my side we used to speak in words that nobody ever heard because we were speaking from inside it looks like you’re not the boy for me and I was never the girl, it seems still, here we are, the same old friends and we are so far from the end who would I be? where would I stand, if I had never held your hand? how would my heart know how to ache, if I had never seen your face? now it’s the day-to-day the most that we ever say, is how we are barely getting by the world’s in-between us now and we’ve both grown up, somehow but, you were the first to see me cry it looks like you’re living out your dreams and I’m getting closer to mine, it seems still, here we are, it never ends I guess that you’ll always be my friend who would I be? how would I learn, that you can never grow without the burn? how would my heart know how to break, if you hadn't been my first mistake? maybe we got lucky, I’ve suspected all along maybe we were wasting time, I know I can be wrong and I don’t know quite where you fit I don’t know that I ever did I keep you next to Miami sunsets deep in my heart my heart who would I be? where would I stand? who would I be? how would I know? who would I be? how would I love? who would I be? how would I know?
9.
no one knows better than me I'm the youngest of pirates you ever did see I'm still searching always learning about what not to be you do what you can to be free you're the most unknown genius there ever will be always working at the art of captive liberty so when the shadows have fallen can you hear me? I'm calling from the other side of the island between ocean and sea can you hear me? what's the formula for our success? is the secret equation still anyone's guess? have you found it? is there something you won't let me see? cuz, I found the map of my heart seems the place where it ends circles back to the start I'm here waiting, for you to understand what I mean so when the shadows have fallen can you hear me? I'm calling from the other side of the island between ocean and sea and in the light of the morning it will hit you, without a warning that the distance is growing between you and me I've tired out my sea legs I'm coming to shore, give me your hand I'm weary of my old ways so, you come aboard, or I'm coming to land so when the shadows have fallen can you hear me? I'm calling from the other side of the island between ocean and sea and in the light of the morning it will hit you, without a warning that the distance is growing between you and me
10.
there’s a hole in the landscape I look at each day and I would fill it if I only could there’s a crack in the city, and I can’t find a way to turn anything bad into good and the love of my life loves the road and it's time that I find a road of my own there's a hole and the love of my life loves the road and it's time that I find a road of my own there’s a hole in the landscape I look at each day and I would fill it if I only could

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released February 26, 2008

TTS038

All songs written by Buick Audra, with the exception of "One Good Year" which was written by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero

Produced by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero

Recorded by Mario Quintero, Alex Hartman, Dean Baltulonis and Shawn Kimon

Tracked at Black Box Studios in San Diego CA, Camp St. Studio in Cambridge MA, Atomic Recording Co in Brooklyn NY, and Mission Sound in Brooklyn NY

Mixed by Mario Quintero at Black Box Studios in San Diego CA

Mastered by Doug Sax and Sangwook "Sunny" Nam at the Mastering Lab in Ojai CA

Buick Audra - guitar, autoharp, mandolin, piano, and vocals
Mario Quintero - guitar, bass, drums, mandolin, and harmony vocals
Boey Russell - drums
Levi Fuller - upright bass
Nate Edgar - electric bass
Jeff DaRosa - electric bass
Brian Pearl - keys and electric bass
Dave Walsh - guitar
Michael Pereira - cello

Cover photo and graphic layout by Corey Tatarczuk
"Singer" logo and lettering by Ram Hannan

℗ & © 2008, Trimming The Shield Records

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Buick Audra Nashville, Tennessee

Buick Audra is a Grammy-award-winning musician and writer living in Nashville, TN. She is the guitarist and primary songwriter and vocalist in the melodic heavy duo, Friendship Commanders. Her new album and corresponding memoir, Conversations with My Other Voice, were released on September 23rd, 2022. ... more

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