SINGLES

Slow Down

Slow down with the sun 
Hold on we’re still young 

And I’m thinking of leaving town 
Broken looking for love 
And you’re making everything hard 

How wrong could I be 
I’m not that good at following my heart 
And I disappoint so easily 

The sun went down tonight 
And you’re thinking of leaving town 
And I’m broken looking for love 
You’re making everything hard 

Slow down with the sun 
Hold on we’re still young 

Monday Thrill

Ooh you’re my Monday night thrill
Gonna catch a superstar
Now the makeup’s gone

One day you’ll know babe
You had a hold on me

I’ll work on my star gazing
My Monday night thrill
Aye is giving me the fade
Gonna catch a superstar

I’m not sure anymore
What we are
If I should let go

And you thought you were like a god

Aye I’m a shell a remain
An illusion you held
In the palm of your hand.

One day you’ll know babe
You had a hold on me
One day you’ll know babe
You had a hold on me

And you know that you got me
Like everything’s so disconnected

Gonna catch a superstar

Concealing your feelings
Isn’t a way of living babe

One day you’ll know babe
You had a hold on me
One day you’ll know babe
You had a hold on me.

Ooh you’re my Monday night thrill
Now the makeup’s gone
I’ll work on my star gazing

My Monday night thrill
Is giving me the fade

I’m not sure anymore
What we are
If I should let go

KOTZ AVE. (FEATURED)

Turned our Heads

Lights are on
Moving on
Shining bright
Like the sun
Hear them speak
Feel the heat
Light on

Light on
Are you ready for some fun

Higher now
Down we go
They call you out
Keeping it real low
Take a bow, move on
Are you ready for some fun

You make space for it
There is a fire burning my skin
Are we ready for fun
The bright lights keep you from seeing

Won’t stop information feeding
What’s wrong with being

And I’m falling falling falling
The rain pours pieces of heaven
Down my naked skin
I’m alive

Maybe we’re locked inside our heads
Not finding any meaning
At the height of this parade
We’re in
Maybe we’re locked inside our heads

Maybe we’re locked inside our heads
Not finding any meaning
At the height of this parade
We’re in
Light on
Light on

Are we locked inside our heads
In a digital age.

Maybe we’re locked inside our heads
Not finding any meaning
At the height of this parade
We’re in
Light on
Light on

(Featured on Kotz Ave.)

Like a light inside

I wonder what time of year 
If it all went down the path
to the past or future 

Live before you die
Like a lion inside 

All the stars and neon lights 
Daydreaming on my cloud

The sun in my eyes
Oh, looking deep inside

We carry the dreams
of our mothers and fathers

They won’t take what’s inside 
We’ve got nothing to hide

We carry the dreams of our mothers

Some people lie and will try to crush you
In your dreams you are the same no matter what you do

Like a lion inside 
Look away out of sight
All of the fallen trees

In this forrest of fears 
Turned into silence 

All the stars in broad daylight 
Daydreaming
Surrender neon lights 
Come down

(Featured on Kotz. Ave)

So Much Time Gone By

You and her are not exactly lovers
But you’re good at starting over 

She doesn’t ring your bell 
She keeps tripping on her pills

Tripping on her pills, oh no
You’ll cross each other’s mind off and on 
You won’t reach out stay clear of expectation 

Tame the fire that burns in her still
Numb her body till you can’t feel

She will fly across the sky
You will hide above the clouds

You’ll cross each other’s mind off and on
You won’t reach out stay clear of expectation   

She won’t give herself to you
What have you been told

It’s 40 degrees so much time gone by
And it’s hard to breath
 
She will fly across the sky
You will hide above the clouds

All you ever taken for granted 
You’ve fucked this up from the start
Oh no

She won’t fight no
She won’t fight no
Cold heart

She will fly across the sky
You will hide above the clouds

(Featured on Kotz. ave)

Swim Away

Throw me off your boat in a deep blue sea
Watch you blow away set sails won’t tell
Fucking underwater i’m feeling free
The sunset and all when comes the fall you fade

Don’t jump in I’ll swim away
It’s not like you and I babe
We’re gonna luck out someday
Don’t jump in I’ll swim away
I caught a rose colored ray

Take all my clothes off lift that weight off me
We both know that someday we’ll have to part ways
Praying for clouds i will let it be
Praying aloud i will let it rain

Don’t jump in I’ll swim away
It’s not like you and I babe
We’re gonna luck out someday
Don’t jump in I’ll swim away
I caught a rose colored ray

You were looking out the window
Melting clouds
Waiting for the pain to go
Caught a glimpse of color
Like the sunshine
Never would have asked of you to be mine

How we all go
How we all go wrong
Dreams are on the other side
Walking down the aisle all tongue tied

Dreams are on the other side
Taking me for a ride

(Featured on Kotz. Ave)

Drops of You

The warm summer rain
Washing off the window
Pain rolling down my face
You are not the one I thought

You could have taken my heart away
Forever
Running in the summer rain
I wonder

On and off again
Drops of hope
Why rack my brain

Silhouettes and ghosts
Making up, a lost cause

For you are not
Who I thought
Won’t let me in
Forget me then

Drops of you are falling down
The drain now
Drops of rain are warming out
My pained heart

(Featured on Kotz ave.)

Missing a Train

Are we living in the right time
Or a make belief that it will be right tomorrow

Maybe none will be
What you want them to be

And you feel like you keep missing the train
Even though the last one waited for you
You couldn’t make it on time

In a fairy tale you’d turn around
And she’d be standing right in front of you
In a fairy tale you’d turn around
And she’d be standing right in front of you

All the things you could have done differently…

Another day is all we have
Feel the present like it is our lives

The choices we make
The line between the life we could have had
It’s called denial
The best thing we’ve found
When reality deceives
When it creeps in
There is not much we can do   

Are we living in the wrong or right time
Or a make belief that it will be right tomorrow

Maybe none will be
What you want them to be

And you feel like you keep missing the train
Even though the last one waited
For you.

(Featured on Kotz. Ave)

AWAKE WE DREAM

DARK LULLABY

Hey darling don’t you cry no more
Close your eyes when the night is falling down
I know you can’t see me
but I’m here now
If you needed me
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.
Hey darling don’t you be scared of the dark.
Its only meant to guide you
To the light
in times of doubts.
Hey darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home is where the light fills up the dark
And mama can feel your heart beat now
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.

THE BRIGHTEST SUN

I can be the brightest sun,
On your heart.
Or the darkest cloud
This is not up to you,
To decide.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
We both know,
What is real
And whats a dream.
Chasing ghosts,
Down in the middle
Of our sleepless sins.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
No I’m not one
To want to have,
What I want.
This story has just begun,
But I beg you to leave me,
Incomplete.
Or I’ll run, run run
Yeah I’ll run
Faster than the sun.
Yeah I’ll run, run, run,
I’ll run.
But I’m scared
It will never rise
Around the corner of my eye
Again.
And I’ll run, run, run
I’ll run
Away from the sun
And I’ll wait
Yeah, I’ll wait.

THEY SET YOU UP AGAIN

They set you up again,
My son
I promise you,
We’ll find a way out
We’ll run.
They set you up again,
My son
This order’s taller
Than we ever asked for,
But I can’t take their egotism
Anymore.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
this fight.
They set you up again,
My son
These walls are high
But we’ll get them all,
To fall tonight.
They set you up again,
My son.
(Guitar interlude).
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.
They set you up again, my son.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.

ALBATROSS

You’ve been listening
To everyone else
They said your broken wings
Would crumble under your weight
Let the clowns run their show
While you fix them as you go
Go…
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
You’ve been trying to please
Everyone else
With their make-believes
You got in, over your head.
Let them fool themselves
While you find your own.
Own… self.
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
(Interlude)
Rise, rise
Keep your head up
In the sky
And hold on
Yeah hold on
Please
To this magic flight.
When your feet are back
On the ground
Feel the lights above you rise
And fall in line
All Fall in line
Or Fall in line
Fall in line

SHAMAN

When the ice is melting and the rivers are swelling.
Makeshift winter roads are no longer practicable.
We’ve got to find new ways to make the journey back home.
To reach the mountains back,
Home.
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
When the grounds are shifting and your home in sighting
And you meet a wandering soul
by the edge of a forrest
remember what you’re looking for
in the first place
In the first place
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
And here I stand
I’ve been watching clouds
Collide
Where the stars can’t hide
Come on walk with me a while
A while….
Higher and higher and higher
Higher and higher and higher
A while.

PEACE

You were always here with me
in the forrest of my demons
Finally recalled you through the trees
I was hunting for some reasons
interferences in forms of judgment
Wasted time comparing
To let go the path I was on
Too many doubted the way.
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Laying across a little row boat
I am wondering where you are taking me
Eyes are shut trying to stay afloat
Swinging our bodies at the seas
The sun has almost reached touch down
Soon there ll be just you and I
Morning rolls in with shores or nothing.
Stars shifting’s our only sense of time,
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Tides, come and go
But I’ll lay right here.
Till you bring on an ocean
Over my soul
Over my soul… you
Were always here with me
With you
I am Peace.

PUPPETEER

There’s the sound of a plane
Roaring to silence
When I open my eyes it will fade
In the distance.
There’s a taste on my tongue
From the hot air we breathed
I can still feel your skin
and the sun.
And its hard to recall how we came into a stall…
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
There’s an odd silver lining
At the end of the road
I will see you again in the house
On our hill.
In this book made of dreams
Full of empty pages…
All the wars we fought were missing
While I’m holding onto the same old pictures of you.
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
Yeah maybe I fell out of place.
If my heart had been lighter
But it turned to stone
When the forces of attraction got stronger
And you tried to control
What was meant to be free
Then my dreams played the puppeteer
Yeah.
But in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
And maybe I was to blame.

RECEDING

Looking to the far side
Where the sea meets the sky
Swelling up from the tides
It seems like god’s wrath found me

We keep getting knocked down
Its hard to stand our balance
Rising up from the ground
We dive in bells of silence.

We are receding
Flowing back to the start
Receding
In mending silence
We ‘re swimming upstream
We are
Receding

Quiet Collision

You seemed so self assured
I gave in quietly
Drinking wine in bed
Followed the sun

Silence opens doors
Hold on to your thoughts
Looking through the window
You’re watching me

A twisted bed of hope
You tried to bring me home
Reel me in to shore or cut all the ropes

Entangled in a web
Who’s messing with my head
Read my lips and cast the magic spell

And I hope you’r coming my way
Heaven silence’s burning time away

Round and round and round we go.

Warrior

Dreams on fire
Light the sky
I won’t let go
I won’t let go
Breath in
The wind against your skin
Did you see the moon
Its so shallow

Mother
Forgive me for my fears
But I won’t give in

Father
Protect me from their lies
Will they come for me,
will they bend at last?

Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out
Oh you warrior inside let the fire sing out
Reap what you sow, what do you say

Find me by a lake when you run out of light
Find me by a lake when you run out of life
Find me in a haze when you run out of light
Reap what you sow, what do you say

Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out

Oh you warrior give into the fire
Reap what you sow,
What do you say?

Find me on a lake when you run out of life
Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out
Reap what you sow,
What do you say?

EXILE ON EARTH ALBUM

DARK LULLABY

Hey darling don’t you cry no more
Close your eyes when the night is falling down
I know you can’t see me
but I’m here now
If you needed me
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.
Hey darling don’t you be scared of the dark.
Its only meant to guide you
To the light
in times of doubts.
Hey darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home is where the light fills up the dark
And mama can feel your heart beat now
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.

THE BRIGHTEST SUN

I can be the brightest sun,
On your heart.
Or the darkest cloud
This is not up to you,
To decide.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
We both know,
What is real
And whats a dream.
Chasing ghosts,
Down in the middle
Of our sleepless sins.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
No I’m not one
To want to have,
What I want.
This story has just begun,
But I beg you to leave me,
Incomplete.
Or I’ll run, run run
Yeah I’ll run
Faster than the sun.
Yeah I’ll run, run, run,
I’ll run.
But I’m scared
It will never rise
Around the corner of my eye
Again.
And I’ll run, run, run
I’ll run
Away from the sun
And I’ll wait
Yeah, I’ll wait.

THEY SET YOU UP AGAIN

They set you up again,
My son
I promise you,
We’ll find a way out
We’ll run.
They set you up again,
My son
This order’s taller
Than we ever asked for,
But I can’t take their egotism
Anymore.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
this fight.
They set you up again,
My son
These walls are high
But we’ll get them all,
To fall tonight.
They set you up again,
My son.
(Guitar interlude).
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.
They set you up again, my son.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.

ALBATROSS

You’ve been listening
To everyone else
They said your broken wings
Would crumble under your weight
Let the clowns run their show
While you fix them as you go
Go…
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
You’ve been trying to please
Everyone else
With their make-believes
You got in, over your head.
Let them fool themselves
While you find your own.
Own… self.
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
(Interlude)
Rise, rise
Keep your head up
In the sky
And hold on
Yeah hold on
Please
To this magic flight.
When your feet are back
On the ground
Feel the lights above you rise
And fall in line
All Fall in line
Or Fall in line
Fall in line

SHAMAN

When the ice is melting and the rivers are swelling.
Makeshift winter roads are no longer practicable.
We’ve got to find new ways to make the journey back home.
To reach the mountains back,
Home.
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
When the grounds are shifting and your home in sighting
And you meet a wandering soul
by the edge of a forrest
remember what you’re looking for
in the first place
In the first place
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
And here I stand
I’ve been watching clouds
Collide
Where the stars can’t hide
Come on walk with me a while
A while….
Higher and higher and higher
Higher and higher and higher
A while.

PEACE

You were always here with me
in the forrest of my demons
Finally recalled you through the trees
I was hunting for some reasons
interferences in forms of judgment
Wasted time comparing
To let go the path I was on
Too many doubted the way.
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Laying across a little row boat
I am wondering where you are taking me
Eyes are shut trying to stay afloat
Swinging our bodies at the seas
The sun has almost reached touch down
Soon there ll be just you and I
Morning rolls in with shores or nothing.
Stars shifting’s our only sense of time,
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Tides, come and go
But I’ll lay right here.
Till you bring on an ocean
Over my soul
Over my soul… you
Were always here with me
With you
I am Peace.

PUPPETEER

There’s the sound of a plane
Roaring to silence
When I open my eyes it will fade
In the distance.
There’s a taste on my tongue
From the hot air we breathed
I can still feel your skin
and the sun.
And its hard to recall how we came into a stall…
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
There’s an odd silver lining
At the end of the road
I will see you again in the house
On our hill.
In this book made of dreams
Full of empty pages…
All the wars we fought were missing
While I’m holding onto the same old pictures of you.
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
Yeah maybe I fell out of place.
If my heart had been lighter
But it turned to stone
When the forces of attraction got stronger
And you tried to control
What was meant to be free
Then my dreams played the puppeteer
Yeah.
But in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
And maybe I was to blame.

RECEDING

Looking to the far side
Where the sea meets the sky
Swelling up from the tides
It seems like god’s wrath found me

We keep getting knocked down
Its hard to stand our balance
Rising up from the ground
We dive in bells of silence.

We are receding
Flowing back to the start
Receding
In mending silence
We ‘re swimming upstream
We are
Receding

SECRET JOURNEY THROUGH DEEP SEAS EP

HOLD THE MOON

I’ve never been one to seek out company
I’ve never been one to ask for anything
Just the truth
But if I could take it all back to be with you
Look at the stars and make it up to you

I wouldn’t hold the moon down
Just let it grow
I would turn the lights on
And make it slow
I would figure out the dreams in you
and make them all come true
I would turn the lights on you
and make it all come through
Make it all come true

The night was all we had to shine
And I left it all up to you
to find a way
to read between the lines
But if I could take it all back to be with you
Look at the stars and make it up to you

I wouldn’t hold the moon down
Just let it grow
I would turn the lights on
And make it slow
I would figure out the dreams in you
and make them all come true
I would turn the lights on you
and make it all come through
Make it all come true

But if I could take it all back to be with you
Look at the stars and make it up to you

I wouldn’t hold the moon down
Just let it grow
I would turn the lights on
And make it slow
I would figure out the dreams in you
and make them all come true
I would turn the lights on you
and make it all come through
Make it all come true

FREE FALLIN

I’m fallin I’m torn
Going down like a storm in the sky
Feeling my heart beat through your light
I’m free falling for you

Dreams of getting by on fire
i’ve been living with a bitter taste.
But something told me to run
Cause there’s no exit through an open door.

Winds have blown me far
Enough where giving life has come to shore
And I find it incomprehensible why
Looking at the light burned my eyes.               

But you came and taught me how,
I could feel the light without eye sight.

Now I’m fallin I’m torn
Coming down like a storm in the sky
Feeling our heart beats
Through the light we’re free falling
Tonight

Now I dream of getting by with you 
Singing our hearts out to the crowd
We’ll make a living from our lives on fire
Let the devil on our shoulders fade.

I don’t know what else to say to you
Cause we both know whats going on
They’ll find out where the light is at that we hide
but I promise you we’ll be alright

Cause you came and taught me how
I could feel the light without eye sight.

Now I’m fallin I’m torn
Coming down like a storm in the sky
Feeling our heart beats
Through the light we’re free falling

If only I could be all you needed
Cause I’ve been dreaming of a warm summer night
When we walk out to the show and let it go
All these ties you know
they are trouble.
Cause I’m fallin, yeah

Now I’m fallin I’m torn
Coming down like a storm in the sky
Feeling our heart beats
Through the light we’re free falling

RYTHM OF LIES


I try to pay attention to what you’re saying
But my senses keep drifting away
I’m trying to get out of this damn forrest
Running while the storm is pounding
I’ve been searching for the light
Searching for a road
but it keeps getting farther away

Cause I can’t feel anything
but a grip on my heart and I
can only let things go by
Oh they don’t stick they just pass me by
Like the rhythm of your lies.

Your lips are moving but I can’t hear a word you say
cause I spent years building a thicker skin and I
can’t seem to shed it off
Like a cancer that grew slow
Its in the way of everything
And It won’t let the light in
It won’t let you in

Cause I can’t feel anything
but a grip on my heart and I
can only let things go by
Oh they don’t stick they just pass me by
Like the rhythm of your lies.

DRAWBRIDGE

Woke up a little late today
Got to get dress and find my way
Dragging my feet out the door
I got to fight these rolling tears
Now I’m standing alone in the middle of a bridge

A river used to flow here today has gone away
Glittering and easy we used to play here everyday
We couldn’t see it end or begin
I never thought that someday all soul within would go away
That I’d be staring down watching sand blow in the wind

Won’t you come out and play today
I’ll be your queen and you can be king
Fighting and fending everyone
We would draw the bridge into our home
But now running away from the angels on their way

A river used to flow here today has gone away
Glittering and easy we used to play here everyday
We couldn’t see it end or begin
I never thought that someday all soul within would go away
That I’d be staring down watching sand blow in the wind

I Remember that day
We made up a raft and paddled far away
We Layed on the grass watching clouds go by
And we stayed for a while till the sky got dark
We couldn’t care less what the world would think but we got busted
So we swore that if, anyone got in between again
We’d always meet at our secret hideaway.

ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

I’m on the train like every other day
the city lights are fading so fast
day after day I keep loosing track of you
I Wish I had all the time in the word
To take it all in and find my way
To hear children’s laughters
And the sound of the ocean
But I’ll be getting off at Bushwick Avenue
Drag my body to sleep and wake up
wake up to the tick tack clock
Reminding me how I wish I had all the time
in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had more time
but I cant rewind any of my life
and every waking hour feels like a waste
I Know I got to feed myself
but my soul is dying
I Wish I had all the time in the word
To take it all in and find my way
To hear children’s laughters
And the sound of the ocean
But I’ll be getting off at Bushwick Avenue
Drag my body to sleep and wake up
wake up to the tick tack clock
Reminding me how I wish I had all the time
in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had more time for you

© Stella in the Clouds