1. |
Normal
02:31
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A demon crawling from inside
The lungs are done, the heart is dry
I pulled the wool over your eyes
Just so you couldn’t recognize that
I’ll never be wasted, wasted
What’s there to waste
I’ll never be thirsty thirsty
Since I never got a taste
My bones are cracking
While yours are still and safe
Why can’t I
Just be normal, just be fine
We’ve been screaming since the christening
Why do we fight if no one’s listening
We watch the flames engulf the house
We hear their screams
Their cries for help
I’ll never be wasted, wasted
What’s there to waste
I’ll never be thirsty
Since I never got a taste
My bones are cracking
While yours are still and safe
Why can’t I
Just be normal, just be fine
I, I can’t be normal
I, I won’t be normal
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2. |
Just for the Day
04:07
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Come on, just accept me
The sensibility of it’s so sweet
I know you wanna let me in
I know you want to take a peek
Take a look under my skin
I want to show you what I’ve become
And what I’ve been
I want to show you how to love another
And then at the end, baby
We can turn into each other
But just for the day (x4)
So you like to condescend, I heard
Well that’s funny ‘cause I don’t like to listen
So you like to pretend, I heard
Well good ‘cause darling that’s a given
Take a look under my skin
I want to show you what I’ve become
And what I’ve been
I want to show how to love another
And then at the end, baby
We can turn into each other
But just for the day (x4)
Some say that it’s like traveling
Down my rocky spine
Some sat that it’s a revelation
Traveling this body of mine
Take a look under my skin
I want to show you what I’ve become
And what I’ve been
I want to show you how to love another
And then at the end, baby
We can just turn into each other
But just for the day (x4)
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3. |
Oh Honey
03:16
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Dirty hands, and dirty feet
She grasps for me with her dirty hands
She pleads and she receives
All the pain that she constantly demands
So I gave her the gun
Thinking she’s gonna leave the room
But no, she wants me to watch her scream
So I just close my eyes
‘Cause isn’t that the same as not listening
So I just take an eye for an eye
And think, why didn’t I listen to my mother’s lies?
Oh honey, honey you’ll be ok
If you just turn your cheek and look the other way
Oh honey honey you’ll be ok
If you just turn your cheek and look the other way
I think what am I doing with my soul
I think do I have too much control
I think
That I think too much
So I look at the wilted flowers on my desk
And think, “wouldn’t they be prettier if they weren’t dead?”
So I just take an eye for an eye
And think why didn’t I listen to my mother’s lies?
Oh honey, honey
If you just turn your cheek and look the other way
Oh honey, honey
You’ll be OK
If you just turn your cheek and look the other way
So I just take an eye for an eye
And think why didn’t I listen to my mother’s lies?
Oh honey, honey
If you just turn your cheek and look the other way
Oh honey, honey
You’ll be OK
Everyone is doomed to die
Someday
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4. |
Earthbound
03:39
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Am I in a rut
Or are you just willing to move
Darling have I put you in a cage
So you’re just focused on getting loose
The people are watching
So you better smile
My love is like molasses
It’s sweet but it’s gonna take a while
My mouth is stitched up
I can’t make a sound
My hands are tied up to the sky
But darling you’re earthbound, so earthbound
You interweave
But I intertwine
Darling what’s the point of living
If you’re living lie?
You ask me to take the driftwood
and make you bleed
But darling if you do not spill blood
What do you really leave
My mouth is stitched up
I can’t make a sound
My hands are tied up to the sky
But darling you’re earthbound, so earthbound
My mouth is stitched up
I can’t make a sound
My hands are tied up to the sky
My hands are tied up to the sky
My hands are tied up to the sky
But darling you’re earthbound, so earthbound
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5. |
Just Kids
03:04
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Take me for a ride
In your silver blazing car
Make me feel alright
With no troubles in the world
Take me in the night
And then, maybe
I can fight the fright
And trust you completely
But then one day
You stepped out of my world
And then one day
You stepped into the whirlwind
But then one day
You crossed the bridge
And then one day
You didn’t love me
Like you did
You threw me out your life
Put me on the curb
Made me feel so alone
Just like a homeless bird
We were just friends
Nothing more
Guess it’s cuz you
Didn’t feel the same as before
But then one day
You stepped out of my world
And then one day
You stepped into the whirlwind
But then one day
You crossed the bridge
And then one day
You didn’t love me
Like you did
Oooh oh oh,Baby bombs dropping blue
We were just kids
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6. |
Exchange
02:58
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Fold me up
Put me in your pocket
I know love doesn’t rest easy on your chest
But if you give me the key
I could unlock it
This is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
The weavings in the rug
Have lost their color
They’re starting to resemble me
And in the mirror these days
I see my mother
I wonder if she’s proud
This is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
The church’s eyes
Are looking at me
Looking at me
Their faces a mix of pride and disdain
I feel my mother’s eyes
Looking at me
Looking at me
Their color a mix of beauty and pain
This is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
So my heart won’t break
Oh this is my exchange
Red lips
And a blue window pane
Darling they’re beautiful, so beautiful
But they’re no replica for rain
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7. |
Crooked Man
02:39
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The crooked man sat upon his throne
Sure the view is pretty
But what’s a view
When you see it alone
He stumbled through life
With no sheath, no sheathing
On his crooked knife
‘Cause somewhere on his crooked path
He decided to crookedly stab
Anyone he could find
Who was full of light
‘Cause to those with no light at all
Light is a blinding fall
With no promise of landing
So one day as he crookedly reached for the door
He saw my tiny body
And he saw more light
Being breathed in than ever before
So somewhere in his crooked mind
He found, he found the crooked right
To steal my light
And he replaced it with what he could find
A bee sting, a paper cut, his mother’s eyes
How could he have known it would hurt
Every time I was touched
And how could he have known
That the light wouldn’t sit right
On his crooked soul
I never wanted him to go
So now, I’m crooked too
Yes, I’m crooked too
But I’ve found the beauty
In what my crookedness can do
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8. |
Masquerade
03:31
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You were my savior
But you clipped your wings back
Just to save face
You were my lover
And you came as you were to me
And that’s OK
You were my puppet on a string
I could make do almost anything
But to me, darling, you were the masquerade
The ball, the band
And the pretty little girls singing
Ooh oooh (x2)
I used to say that I was
Sick of my skin
But now I’m realizing
It’s not the skin, it’s the veins
And you may find
That we are quite different
But if you look under the pigment
It’s all the same
You were my skin and bones
When you weren’t around
Baby I didn’t feel safe
‘Cause we’d go drinking out
At the bar alone
And you would end up crying
And all the drunkards would end up singing
Ooh oooh (x2)
So in the middle of the night
I stripped you of your skin
‘Cause lately baby that’s the only thing
That I feel comfortable in
I left the haven
That kept me safe
‘Cause what’s the point of staying
If all I do is give and all you do is take
Maybe on day we will meet again
And you will still love me
But darling I just won’t feel the same
You’ll still steal me away
From the world
And the only thing I will be able to do
Is sing
Ooh oooh
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9. |
Blow Away
03:21
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I’m sick of my skin
The thickness, the depth
All of it
I’m fading away
I’m an outsider looking in
Watching other people light up from within
My door’s still closed
The lake I stole away with you
Is gone through and through
Through and through
I’m through
Loving you was my demise
But the love was the truth
And I was the lie
The hunt had begun before I could see
And I heard my shot before the shot heard me
Blow away, blow away
Blow away, blow away, blow away
Lonely stars is all I see
Within, without you
Without me
The dust covered box is painted in red
For what I don’t know
They never said
This mirage of madness
Inside my head
I’ve become afraid of
I don’t care what’s left
Of the broken door
Loving you was my demise
But the love was the truth
And I was the lie
The hunt had begun before I could see
And I heard my shot before the shot heard me
Blow away, blow away
Blow away, blow away, blow away
Blow away, blow away, blow away
Blow away, blow away, blow away
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10. |
Lucille
01:47
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I am made of flesh, blood and bone
And I know one day that I’ll be rotting and alone
But for now, let me lay by the lake with you
I’m gonna make my mistakes
And I’m gonna learn from them too
Got to teach you, got to teach you, Got to teach you the art
Of learning not to bleed
When you’re pulled apart
But for now you’re here and you’re meant to heal
So love me when no one’s watching
My darling Lucille
Caught you breathing, caught you breathing
Caught you breathing again
So you crept in my skin and you played pretend
I was your puppet of hollow bone
But finally I was alive, and I wasn’t alone
Oh I am made of flesh, blood and bone
And I know one day that I’ll be rotting and alone
But for now, let me lay by the lake with you
I’m gonna make my mistakes
And I’m gonna learn from them too
Got to teach you, got to teach you, got to teach you the art
Of learning not to bleed
When you’re pulled apart
But for now you’re here, and you’re meant to heal
So love me when no one’s watching
My darling Lucille
One day I found out your heart
was mine to keep
But your eyes were dry
And your veins wouldn’t bleed
I guess I’m meant to live alone
But darling you were so lovely
And you were so young
You were made of flesh, blood and bone
And you knew one day
That you’d be rotting and alone
So for then you let me lay
By the lake with you
You made your mistakes
And you learned from them too
You taught me, you taught me, you taught me the art
Of learning to find love
When you’re pulled apart
But for then you were there and you were meant to heal
You loved me while no one watched
My darling Lucille
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11. |
Lullaby
01:59
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Wipe away your tears
The cage has been unlocked
Forget your tears
The masses have already lost
This is my lullaby
Made up of child’s cries in the night
For fear of goodbye
For fear of losing that light
You close the door
Not to keep things in,
You don’t do that anymore
You let the blood seep
For yourself
Not for me
This is my lullaby
Made up of child’s cries in the night
For fear of goodbye
Fear of losing that light
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Lila Blue New York, New York
LILA BLUE (they/she) is a 23 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23 ... more
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