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Chosen
04:35
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Take these arms, these legs, they are broken
This love, it’s too much, I am frozen
I don’t know if I have what it takes
To be chosen
I arose with wings I am flightless
Someone’s carving a statue in my likeness
I will never live up to this portrait, I’m just posing
I don’t know if I have what it takes
To be chosen
Give me a sign, a photo, a map, something to go by
How am I supposed to know what I’m supposed to look like
I leaving dust running fast like I’ve always done, from everyone
Stepping up to no battles, no I never win
Laces undone, I’m always falling
Dodging my own heart like a bullet full of failure and sin
I don’t know if I have what it takes
To be chosen
I am tired and worn thin from
Healing wounds inflicted by none other than my own scorn
I am at war and I am alone
I take off before the horn is blown
I hear all the doors on their hinges and now for some reason
I’m scared of all of them closing
Still I don’t know if I have what it takes to be chosen
To be chosen
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2. |
Like Trees
03:44
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I swear your nerves are thick like trees
You sit so still do you breathe
The world comes just to your knees
Scars like leather, weather and age
Softest when you they reach the grave
We may never be saved
I thought that I could lift anything
The rain from the ground
Your ship from the deep
You’re probably stronger than me
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Freedom
04:28
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This quiet is full
This quiet is loud
I’m sorting through
What’s left of us now
I’ve found freedom from
What could have been
And freedom from
The love you give
Freedom
I pride myself
In letting go
Better off
Stronger alone
When I’ve got my freedom
From choices made
And freedom from
Being brave
Freedom
The tides of love
They ride the moon
It’s only at night
I think of you
And my new-found freedom
From your caress
Freedom from
The blame, I guess
Freedom
You left me
With no illusion
You and I took this to
It’s natural conclusion
I should have gone
Right from the start
I would have freedom from
This broken heart
And every breath
That’s marking time
And the distance from
When you were mine
Before this freedom
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4. |
White Flag
03:34
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Take my ears I won’t use them
They no longer hear the music
Just silence and walls, no footsteps in the halls
Take my hands they are grieving
Nothing to hold onto or believe in
No loving embrace, just big empty space
I belong to you
Take my heart it’s beaten
Fought hard and was defeated
I didn’t give up, just wasn’t enough
I belong to you
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5. |
Chains
03:14
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Black is the devil, dark as night
Stealing every shine of light
Holding hostage the fire’s bright
Black is the devil, dark as night
You have drained out all the good
You have taken all the good
I admit you got me good
You have nailed me where I stood
You have left me where I stood
I must have misunderstood
I was waiting for the good
I did everything I could
I keep dragging these chains you made
I drag my legs through dirt & mire
Two heavy pegs on a tight rope wire
My guts are raw with the lines of a liar
I drag my legs through dirt & mire
You have told me it’s no use
You have told me I’m a fool
I keep dragging these chains you made
Chains
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The Grate
04:33
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The low moan of your voice on the phone
Comes through the floor from below
I’m listening in when you think you’re alone
I press my ear to the grate
Who keeps you up so late
You won’t hear me complain
As years turn my bones to dust
You change and I adjust
I shift my weight to the side
Futile my tears to your pride
But we leave on the bathroom light
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My Friend
01:32
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My friend
Seems we have come to an end
My friend
We’ve been down this road and around it’s bend
Stabbed in the back with my own knife
Is just about all I can take
To trust was my mistake
My friend
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8. |
Tender Is The Man
02:39
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Tender is the night
Tender is your heart
Tender in your plight for love
Tender lives the hope
Time carries along
Tender to be left alone
Tender is the man
Tender holds the words
Tending not to say
Tenderly you smile in light of day
Tender bows your head
Tender grows desire
To chop the tallest tree
To share a fire
Tender is the man
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Lock and Key
05:18
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I spilled my heart you watched me bleed
I am a thief and you keep giving to my greed
You are the water to my thirsty seed
I am the lock and you are the key
I am my own worst enemy
Somehow you stand alone
And you still fight for me
Love is the cure and the disease
We are lock and key
Always there to break my fall, push me from the highest wall
It all makes sense to me
I wait until you call, you’re the best and worst of all
Without you where would I be
We are lock and key
Sometimes it’s hard to see
that I'm for you and you were meant for me
You’re the only one to ever set me free
I am the lock and you are the key
Always there to break my fall, push me from the highest wall
it all makes sense to me
I wait until you call, you’re the best and worst of all
Without you where would I be
We are lock and key
I pushed you away, and now you’re all I need
We are lock and key
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Grace
04:21
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It was not my bed to make
It might have been my heart to take
I pay dearly for my mistake
But it was not my bed to make
It was not in the way I move
Or everything I tried to prove to you
Grace, I’m trying to be stronger
Grace, this wounded heart it longs for
Grace, mercy take your time
Help me find my way to grace
I surrender
I lay down my arms
If I can do no good I will do no harm
Truth the eye of every storm
I lay down my arms
It was not in my words
Or in the ways they hurt you
Grace, I’m trying to be stronger
Grace, this wounded heart it longs for
Grace, mercy take your time
Help me find my way to grace
Forgiveness
Grace, I’m trying to be stronger
Grace, this wounded heart it longs for
Grace, mercy take your time
Help me find my way to grace
Grace, I’m trying to be stronger
Grace, this wounded heart it longs for
Grace, help me find my way
Tell me it’s not too late for grace
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11. |
Donoughmore
03:15
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In the green of Ireland
Oceans in between
I think of you again
And what all of this means
And what all of this means
And what all of this means
In the green of Ireland
Oceans in between
The sky it fills with rain
And empties o’r the fields
My heart can do the same
In each drop of revealed
Everything I feel
Everything I feel
When the skies fill with rain
And empty o’r the fields
Surely comes the day
That I will rest my head
Let everything I say
Be everything I’ve said
On days that fill with doubt
Let wisdom hold me up
Heart be with me now
As I make way for love
May I make room for love
May I make room for love
Heart be with me now
As I make way for love
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Coda
03:26
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We’ve been down this road before
We have closed every open door
I will never let you know
I will never let it show
I will never stoop that low
But I will never let you go
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Rose Cousins Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax singer-songwriter Rose Cousins finds insight in solitude and strength in numbers. Supported by a thriving Halifax
music scene and welcomed by an equally vibrant Boston community, her album WE HAVE MADE A SPARK was made in the spirit of community and collaboration.
Winner of 2011 East Coast Music Award for Songwriter of the Year and 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards for Contemporary Singer
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