OLIVIA jane
GLASS HOUSE
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Missed my window now, and it’s much too late
I’m just hearing static, feeling my heart break
This world, the one I made is crumbling in time
My house is red and wretched
No hush for me to find
Now I know why the radio went silent
Now I know why that was the last time
You closed the door, I closed my heart
Thought I needed to be free
I kept you locked away, and you didn’t keep me
Looking through glass at your peaceful picket fence
I’m grasping this here stone, pacing, wondering when
I throw this stone and crash through this wall
But now I’m stuck here bleeding
Watching the glass fall
Now I know why the radio went silent
Now I know why that was the last time
You closed the door, I closed my heart
Thought I needed to be free
I kept you locked away, and you didn’t keep me
Walk away from my window through the alley all cut up
I’ll see you someday, my friend
You’ll always have my love
I throw this stone and crash through this wall
But now I’m stuck here bleeding
Watching the glass fall
Whoa, now I know why the radio went silent
Now I know why that was the last time
You closed the door, I closed my heart
Thought I needed to be free
I kept you locked away, and you didn’t keep me
WAIT FOR ME IN THE MORNING
Lyrics by Nathaniel Cox & Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Wait for me in the morning when the moon is going down
Wait for me in the morning till you see me come around
Park the car low, down by the meadow
Gotta leave this city now
Oh, won’t you help me out, won’t you help me out
I took a man’s life for something that he never should have done
I took a man’s life for gunning my baby to the ground
And getting clearer in every mirror is a shadow of what I done
Now help me, lord, to run
And at every turn I hear the wind cry your name
And in every bed where I lay, I wake up to that sound going
Bang, bang, bang
(Oooooh)
So wait for me in the morning when the moon is going down
Wait for me in the morning till you see me come around
Park the car low, down by the meadow
Gotta leave this city now
Oh, won’t you help me out
Oh, won’t you help me out
Gotta leave this city now
Oh, won’t you help me out
Won’t you, won’t you, won’t you
Won’t you, won’t you, won’t you
I’m running into the dawn
Take my hand and we’ll be gone
A WAY OUT
Lyrics by Robert Davis, Nathaniel Cox, & Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Maybe there’ll be ground beneath my fall
Maybe there’s a way out after all
The voices deep down that I’ve known begin to shout
Maybe then there’ll be a way out
Oh, my my, your face it says it all
But I’ve never known you to lose control
If I could I’d take with me all of your doubt
Maybe then you’d see a way out
Watching the stars that seem to fade out of view
I’m leavin’ in the lonely light of the morning
Just a stranger passing through
Stay with me a little longer then
Tell me that you’ll see me soon again
Focus your faith in that long winding path
That someday it might lead a way back
Look at me once more like you did
On the day when I was just a kid
Lost in a world that was filled up with doubt
Maybe then I’d see a way out
Watching the stars that seem to fade out of view
And leave you with the lonely light of the morning
Just a stranger passing through
Watching the stars that seem to fade out of view
I’m leavin’ in the lonely light of the morning
Watching the stars that seem to fade out of view
And leave you with the lonely light of the morning
Just a stranger passing through
(Ooooooh)
You slip through my hands and you leave me no doubt
Someday I’ll find a way out
IRENE
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Sweet smile woman, so my life won't bore me
Tell me where I'm going in your mind's eye
Call on St. Germain who's hanging up above me
Tell me that I'm gonna meet somebody who'll love me
Horse-haired woman, tell me a story
Tell me where I'm going in your mind's eye
Horse-haired woman, tell me a story
Tell me where I'm going in your mind's eye
I’m stuck in conversations, between earth and air
Trouble in mind, now help me, dear Irene, to take care
Wake me up and send me out
Obliterate the voices that are housing me in aching doubt
Whoa, horse-haired woman, tell me a story
Tell me where I’m going in your mind’s eye
Horse-haired woman, tell me a story
Tell me where I'm going in your mind's eye
(rpt Chorus)
In your mind’s eye
In your mind’s eye
In your mind’s eye
DREAM TO LIVE IN
Lyrics by Nathaniel Cox & Olivia Jane
Music by Nathaniel Cox & Olivia Jane
On a cold misty morning over the mountain
Sons and daughters lift their heads and found
Way down in the deep recesses of those
That came before them, lived a dream of them
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
High on a hill, far over an ocean
Stood the daughter of a land unknown
Clutching a written letter of living
Words unspoken, of a dream of her
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
Far away, breathing their names
They rose unbound and sang of home
Home, tales of a dream of golden ground
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream to live in
Oh, what a dream
In another world, in another time, in another place unseen
In another world, in another time, in another place unseen
[OUTRO]
STRANGE
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Robet Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Ain’t it strange how your knees are shaking
And your hearts are breaking
But we’ll forget it all tomorrow
Ain’t it strange, all your pressed-suit promises
And you’re trumpeting our flawlessness
But we’ll forget it all tomorrow
Let the sun kiss your face, sigh in the breeze
Don’t look over your shoulder, boy
Relax, be at ease
Ain’t it a shame, bloody fists on the brick walls
Nobody hearing your calls
And hearts screaming into nothing
Ain’t it a shame, they’ve twisted your cries
Made a mixture of lies
But we’ll forget it all tomorrow
Let the sun kiss your face, sigh in the breeze
Don’t look over your shoulder, girl
Relax, be at ease
They knot up your voice with a star-spangled shroud
But you’re coming in so clear, your march is so loud
Now hear me, love, hear me, love
You know you matter, you know you matter
I want the sun to kiss your face
For you to sigh in the breeze
Not have to look over your shoulder, now
Relax, be at ease
BE MINE
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Tyler Nelson & Olivia Jane
In the quiet I see only you
But there’s a melody inside and it’s calling you, too
Baby, have mercy on my burning heart
We’re both little fools if we ever should part
Look into these emerald eyes, you know I’ll carry you
Go on, say I’m wrong, I dare you
Play me a sweet bass line smooth like molasses
All we got is time, and all I wanna ask is
Be mine
Take a leap of faith with me and I’ll promise you the sun
I’ve got my feet on the ground waiting for you
You know that I’m the one, I don’t care what they’ll say
‘Cause they don’t know you like I do
My gypsy heart can’t live without you
And you know you can’t live without me, too
Go on, say I’m wrong, I dare you
Just please play me that sweet bass line smooth like molasses
All we got is time, and all I wanna ask is
Be mine
(Oooooh)
Play me that sweet bass line smooth like molasses
All we’ve got is time and all I wanna ask is
All I wanna ask is
All I wanna ask is
Be mine
Baby, be mine
Oh
When your world is cruel and cold I’ll be yours until we’re old
Just please, dear heart, be mine
Yeah
Baby, be mine
Be all mine
Baby, be mine
Oh—yeah—whoa—whoa
Baby, be mine
THE FISHERMAN
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis, Nathaniel Cox, & Olivia Jane
The day the fisherman came ashore
Was the day his soul had drowned
There came a sadness in his eyes
A black mood and not a sound
Walled in by concrete and whiskey
Pulled into the thick smoke of land
He curled his toes inside steel-toed boots
Feeling for a wisp of phantom sand
Bring me home, he sang, home to the water
Bring me back to the life of my mother and father
I'll be sure at last and forever be free
When my lungs are full of the life of the sea
He sank down into a battered bar stool
The whole world rusting beneath
His mind set adrift on the sea once more
A cold knot between his teeth
Bring me home, he sang, home to the water
Bring me back to the life of my mother and father
I'll be sure at last and forever be free
When my lungs are full of the life of the sea
Boots slung over his shoulders, stood
In the dirty weather taking form
The fisherman’s hands pulled on his oars
Rowing hard into the heart of the storm
Bring on the crack of the waves, he yelled
I am ready for the restless fight
Then he slept in the cradle of the calm
As the storm passed in the night
Bring me home, he sang, home to the water
Bring me back to the life of my mother and father
I'll be sure at last and forever be free
When my lungs are full of the life of the sea
(Oooooh) (rpt. Chorus)
Of the life of the sea (x2)
AMSTERDAM
Lyrics by Olivia Jane
Music by Robert Davis & Nathaniel Cox
Today was a mirage
Side-lined and surprised
Listening at last
Seeing through new eyes
Catching my reflection
In rivers of light
Time to look up now
Travel through the night
Farewell, Amsterdam
Until next time, Joe
So long, goodbye, jungle lullabies
Gonna get up and go
Farewell, Amsterdam
Until next time, friend
So long, goodbye, jungle lullabies
Till we meet here again
Gray haze on the north bridge
Mists me again
And I blow it a kiss
So it can't keep me in
You look like Eden
From a window in the sky
And on the ground's
My wasted time
Farewell, Amsterdam
Until next time, Joe
So long, goodbye, jungle lullabies
Gonna get up and go
Farewell, Amsterdam
Until next time, friend
So long, goodbye, jungle lullabies
Till we meet here again
(rpt chorus)
Farewell, Amsterdam
Until next time, Joe
So long, goodbye, jungle lullabies
I love you so