More songs by Madilyn Mei
Description
A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1
Programmer, Producer, Other, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Scrawny
Composer Lyricist, Vocal Engineer: Madilyn Mei
Mastering Engineer: Joe Hutchinson
Lyrics and translation
Original
One, two, three, four
Wish I could stick my memories
Under my pillow for a quarter each
Losin' all my baby teeth anyway
So give me a quarter, please
I just want a gumball at the mall
Here I am, in a place I've never been
All alone, two decades old
My best friend is a cat who is buried in the yard
Across the country safe at home
Wouldn't you believe the things we do to breathe?
The things we gotta just let go?
Endin' up again in a place I've never been
All alone, two decades old
And I'm excited for Colorado
But not for the altitude
Got real sick last time I went
So I'm givin' Mother Earth some attitude
All alone watchin' a movie
In some motel in New Jersey
Nobody here can hurt me
They don't know me well enough to
Here I am, in a place I've never been
All alone, two decades old
Learnin' different words for the clouds up over head
But the stars are still the same as home
Wouldn't you believe the things we do to breathe?
The things we gotta just let go?
Endin' up again in a place I've never been
All alone, two decades old
I wanna move and never settle down
But I also want a chicken coop and a thousand hounds
Mind if I keep you in my collection?
I gotta build new friendships, new connections
Here I am, in some place I've never been
All alone, it don't get old
Learnin' how to cope with the fact it has to end
When I'm out of quarters in my coat
Didn't wanna leave Willy on the scene
Fig will have to learn to float
Startin' over again in some place I've never been
All alone, two decades old