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Never Let Me Guess
03:14
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In the dawning of the day
I can see time slipping by
And you’re stepping from my doorway
as the sun begins to rise
Oh how I wish that you could stay
or I could go along
Or your arms and all you are
could make the night keep stretching on
]We both know I’ll write about this
long after you have gone
How we both know
I sure can carry on
Does it make a difference
that I know you feel it less
Or that you didn’t,
you would never let me guess
You crawled into my bed,
now return most every night
You came to me in dreaming
then moved me into life
Though I know that this is fleeting
if asked again I still would choose
The time we have is precious,
I’m spending all I have on you
We both know I’ll write about this
long after you are gone
How we both know
I sure can carry on
Does it make a difference
that I know you feel it less
Or that you didn’t,
you would never let me guess
When you move in close
so to hold me when you sleep
I know those moments loveliness
I am not meant to keep
It’s the things you say in darkness
that you never say in light
For that trespass I’ll forgive you
if right now you’ll hold me tight
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2. |
Gravitate
04:57
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Twinkle all the little stars
I admire from afar
I am pressed against my window
bathing in their shine
Bless the satellites that spin
and the moons they hold as kin
So trusting do they stay,
spinning circles
The ocean pulls up to the sand,
Licks the edges of the land
The tide it draws us
to the moon-drawn sea
Tell me truly what you think,
is it the ocean or the sand?
Which is the puppet,
which is the hand?
I can tell that you can tell
I am totally taken with this beauty
And I can tell that you are too
I can tell that the world can see,
You and me are meant to be
And I can tell that you agree
You gravitate me
You gravitate me
It’s holding me up, it’s pushing me down
It’s keeping my feet a mile above the ground
It’s making me move, and it’s making me sing
And it’s helping me to see
I can tell that you can tell
I am totally taken with this beauty
And I can tell that you are too
I can tell that the world can see,
You and me are meant to be
And I can tell that you agree
I can tell that the world can see,
You and me are meant to be
And I can tell that you agree
You gravitate me
You gravitate me
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3. |
Perhaps It Is The Rain
03:34
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Perhaps it is the rain about to fall
Or the phone begging to call
Maybe my memories belie
The truths of you and I
Perhaps it is the rain
Perhaps it is the rain
Tonight it’s raining in Boston
And I am lost in thoughts of you
Darlin’, just pick up the phone, don’t leave me alone
And lost in you
I am a transient moving on
After years immersion in you
What do I do with this language I honed.
Your careful accent I knew?
Perhaps it is the rain
Perhaps it is the rain
Perhaps it is the rain,
and I am the sun
You said, always the sun
to your hard rain
So now on the eve of the day that marks
A year since I left your shores
Can you feel the rain and the edgy dark
No sign of relief in the weather report
Perhaps it is the rain
Perhaps it is the rain
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4. |
Time It Takes
04:04
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I feel the space between us
when we’re talking on the phone
The time is passed in heartbeats
as the silence starts to grow
This meeting in the middle is my pleasure, It’s my curse
To hear you but not see you
Is a dirty little trick
To have you but not hold you
Is the irony of this
And we both know I never hang up first
In the time it takes a storm to roll in
The time it takes the rains to begin
The time it takes a tree to lose a limb
In the time it takes to kiss you goodbye
The time it takes the tears in my eyes to dry
I realize the ruthlessness of time
Sixty mixed emotions
that I can’t begin to sort
and I know that when you call
I’ll have no progress to report
I admit that to forget you I haven’t really tried
What I don’t get
is this letting, letting go
And then this getting so low
now you’re gone
And I’ve not kissed another since last we said goodbye.
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5. |
Whispers By The Lake
05:26
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Like a glass of water all filled up
On the dashboard of a shaky car
First we were spilling over on
Anyone willing to get close
Until we were empty
And now the car doesn’t even start
It’s showing its age despite
Its many new parts
What were those promises we whispered by the lake
Were they so flimsy that any wind could take
How can we sleep so close and drift so far away
Where are those whispers by the lake?
My skin it is somewhat tender
My teeth they are somewhat sharp
I undress in the bright of day
Then bare my teeth when it gets dark
It’s been said my bite can soften
Or I could learn to kiss instead
A lesson you thought you’d teach me but
I was schooled in self defense
It used to be the house was still
No sounds to wake me in the night
Now I lay awake till dawn
The walls they creak with troubled times
A scales weights, they fall so loud
The neighbors fret along with me
Will the scales say we’re blessed
Or prisoners of our unlived dreams?
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Arielle Silver Los Angeles, California
Music Connection TOP 2020 PROSPECTS and
American Songwriter Daily Discovery, Arielle Silver's songs have the heart of
Laurel Canyon, the pulse of Americana, and the soul of the Chelsea Hotel. Her long-awaited upcoming album, A THOUSAND TINY TORCHES, was community-funded and releases June 2020. The Boston Globe called Something Pretty Something True album,“Lovely songwriting and arrangements,”
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