Ashes Ashes lyrics - Katie Costello

The sun is bleeding and the ash is snowing
In the distance the fire is growing
The trees are shrinking and your heart is sinking
Yet you've never felt more alive

Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be
With the sun as red as it wants to be

The smoke is all consuming, the air of sadness looming
Orange and red lick up the sky
Your footprints pick up dust mites and you might not always feel right
Yet you know you're alive

Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be
With the sun as red as it wants to be

Ashes, ashes we fall and float away
Ashes, ashes come take my fears away
Ashes, ashes we fall and float away
Ashes, ashes come take my fears away

Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear
And when I didn't know I could be the very same person I want to be
With the sun as red as it wants to be

Ashes, ashes we fall and float away
Ashes, ashes you've taken my fears away
Ashes, Ashes you're but a memory
Of that not-so-gray day

After Dark lyrics - Katie Costello

Writing a letter to you like you're a foreign pen pal
Talking to you like I've never not known you
Smiling at you with my heart nailed shut
Time-induced-healing has not been enough

I swear you'd always need me
I swear you'd always see me
As the same blood that runs through your veins

Don't come looking for me after dark
I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
Roots of the ancient tree have changed
I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same

Hanging photo examples of golden moments
Your memory left in pages I wrote things down
Fizzy telephone calls generous to silence
Empty spaces and forgotten traces of you

I swear you'd always need me
I swear you'd always see me
As the same blood that runs through your veins

Don't come looking for me after dark
I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
Roots of the ancient tree have changed
I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same

You're not dead to me because you'll never be
You're as close to gone as distance will allow
Though that might seem fine, you're gone all the time

Don't come looking for me after dark
I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
Roots of the family tree are gone
It seems so wrong but I can't force someone to change

Don't come looking for me after dark
Don't come looking for me after dark
Don't come looking for me after dark

No Shelter lyrics - Katie Costello

Where do we lose ourselves in the winter months?
Where do we find ourselves when there's no shelter for us?

How can we cry when there's no way to make amends?
How can we fight when there's no lesson in the end?

You just tell yourself there's something to be found
Beneath that molten rock buried deep underground
When the cold is coming, you're stuck in the shade
And there's no one left to blame

Where do we go when all the birds have gone north?
Where do we stay when the snow has taken over us?

How can we scream when there's no way to make amends?
How can we lie when there's no lesson in the end?

You just tell yourself there's something to be found
Beneath that molten rock buried deep underground
When the cold is coming, you're stuck in the shade
And there's no one left to blame

I'm going somewhere where I know I can stay
I'm going somewhere where I feel a better, a better change

You just tell yourself there's something to be found
Beneath that molten rock buried deep underground
When the cold is coming, you're stuck in the shade
Though there's no one else around
Though there's no one else around
Though there's no one else around

Despite Time lyrics - Katie Costello

Will we ever really reach the moon?
Will we ever really march to the seashore?
Will we ever really break down walls that feel wrong?
Will we ever really come to terms with those bombs?

It's hard to say
Our past might have never come
The way it seems today, the way it seems today

Everything seems so far away when
Nothing appears the way it did then
Discover a photo of the night sky
Thankfully the stars do align
Despite time

Will we ever really befriend our demons?
Will we ever really pick apart the Milky Way?
Will we ever really sky-scrape toward heaven?
Will we ever really fight to forbid fear?

It's hard to say
Our past might have never come
The way it seems today, the way it seems today

Everything seems so far away when
Nothing appears the way it did then
Discover a photo of the night sky
Thankfully the stars do align
Despite time

Climbing through the ocean
Nothing can be held on to
Navigating skywards
Stars do not hold anchors
Nothing left to conquer
We are all that can see blue
We are all that can feel blue

Will we ever really leave the earth and reach the moon?

Out Of Our Minds lyrics - Katie Costello

I can't go to sleep tonight
Because the thought of darkness makes me feel alive
I can't find a way to dream
When I'm thinking about everything
I think I'll be happier if I turn my brain off
Until the morning stirs
I think I will find a day
When all this noise will help me sink away

My mind is running away with my sleep tonight
My mind is running away with my sleep tonight

Let's get out of our minds today
And take a little time to look at the stars and the moon above
Wishing someone like you
Was staring at them too

I can see my shadowed mirrors
Reflecting all my deepest darkest fears
I think home will fix this mess
A bed of my own makes it worth the stress

My mind is running away with my sleep tonight
My mind is running away with my sleep tonight

Let's get out of our minds today
And take a little time to look at the stars and the moon above
Wishing someone like you
Was staring at them too

It's a long shot to not think that we're alone
But it's not far off to know someone else is here and there and home
It's a long shot to not think that we're alone
But it's not far off to know someone else is here and there and home

Let's get out of our minds today
And take a little time to look at the stars and the moon above
Wishing someone like you
Was staring at them too

Fading Lately lyrics - Katie Costello

I've been finding reasons
To tell myself that I'm not really here or there much
I've been making scrapbooks
Of all the places I would like to go when I'm home

And I've got ways to disappear
And now I can't find my way out of here
Am I really here?

I don't know where I've been lately
All I see is myself fading
I don't know who I've been lately
All I see is this place fading

I've been playing dress up
Trying to find a sweater that makes sense, given the climate
I've been wearing glasses
To let myself see the blurry mess, that I've yet to relate with

And I've got ways to disappear
And now I can't find my way out of here
Am I really here?

I don't know where I've been lately
All I see is myself fading
I don't know who I've been lately
All I see is this place fading

I just need to watch some TV
To get a better sense of what I shouldn't be
I didn't use breadcrumbs and now I'm stuck in this place
I left my compass at home and now I can't find my way
I just didn't, I just need, and now I can't find my way

I don't know where I've been lately
Everything has changed vaguely

I don't know who I've been lately
All I see is this place fading
I don't know where I've been lately
All I see is myself fading

Dig A Hole lyrics - Katie Costello

I'm beginning to feel like an empty shell
With nothing to embrace and nothing to expel
I'm beginning to feel like a very crumbly street
With nowhere to go and no place for you feet

I just don't know anymore
I just don't know

Isn't this house really a box?
Isn't this life really a hole?
In this day to day feeling of static-fearful-thinking,
Am I really alone?
So let's dig a hole where we can build a home,
Where the previous feeling of static-fearful-thinking
Can leave us all alone

I'm beginning to feel like a very wounded heart
Not because of lost love but because it's career has yet to start
I'm beginning to feel like a paralyzed pendulum
Hanging like a body with no momentum

I just don't know anymore
I just don't know

Isn't this house really a box?
Isn't this life really a hole?
In this day to day feeling of static-fearful-thinking,
Am I really alone?
So let's dig a hole where we can build a home,
Where the previous feeling of static-fearful-thinking
Can leave us all alone

I will sleep tonight
I'll lay my head down and tell myself goodnight
I will be alright
Because even nightmares can't keep me up all night

Isn't this house really a box?
Isn't this life really a hole?
In this day to day feeling of static-fearful-thinking,
Am I really alone?
So let's dig a hole where we can build a home,
Where the previous feeling of static-fearful-thinking
Can leave us all alone

I'm beginning to feel like
I just don't know anymore

Old Owl lyrics - Katie Costello

You are one hundred thousand years old
You know everything ever been told
You can map the globe in a millisecond, can't you?
You are five thousand leagues under the sea
You see everything in sight
You don't need binoculars; you have your eyes

If you had hope would you feel stronger?
If you knew how would you sleep longer?
If you did not fear what you fear most,
Would you feel anything at all?
Would you see anything all?
Would you feel anything at all?

You are an old owl sitting in the treetops
Looking at the housetops, you are in the know
Watching newcomers come and go, come and go
You are all alone, cooped up inside
Cold by the fireplace's haunting gold size
You are dwarfed by your own self-loathing, ambitious tendencies

If you had hope would you feel stronger?
If you knew how would you sleep longer?
If you did not fear what you fear most,
Would you feel anything at all?
Would you see anything all?
Would you feel anything at all?

We all hide from our minds
When the lamplight goes out and dims
We all try to de-rust the hinges squeaking deep inside
Rest now while you're still alive
You will rest more in the afterlife
I can't catch you, and you don't want me to

You read those books all alone
Looking for the home you never owned
You can be whatever you need to be
Don't let that bomb explode, like in the Twilight Zone
Your glasses are still intact, you know

People: A Theory lyrics - Katie Costello

People can be mean and people can be nice
People can be any single way you'd like
People can be meaner, people can be greener
Than you'd ever thought you'd know

Paris or London or New York or Mars
People can be any single way they are
Wherever you go you just have know
People can be mean or nice

Float far away from all the lights and the paint
Makeup and curtain and stage
Away from what you think you are
Away from who you think you are
Away from all the burnt down sights
Away from all the sunken kites

People can be big and people can be small
People can be any single shape at all
People can be richer, people can be slicker
Than you'd ever thought you'd know

Dumpsters or mansions or boxes or barns
Everybody lives underneath the stars
Wherever you go you just have know
People can be real or molds of steel

Float far away from all the lights and the paint
Makeup and curtain and stage
Away from what you think you are
Away from who you think you are
Away from all the burnt down sights
Away from all the sunken kites

Float like a cloud in the stratosphere
Float like a bubble in the mesosphere
Float like a seahorse in the troposphere
Float like whatever you are
As long as you're in the atmosphere

The Weirds lyrics - Katie Costello

Tiny raindrops salute gravity
The pavement smells like the taste of blood
I need to get out of here - even the trees are gilded
Smiles ooze of depression with no creative perks

I've overstayed my welcome in this life
And it seems as though time won't tell you exactly what you'd like
I've given up on waving off the flies that have blackened my mind -
My sugarcoated mind

Why can't I whistle? And why can't I cry?
Why can't I be the way I wish I liked?
I guess I have The Weirds
Which truth is true? And which real is real?
Why must we whistle to what we cannot feel?
I guess I have The Weirds, oh I have them bad, and it's so sad

Starring contests with eggshell-tinted walls
It's all that seems productive - you'd be surprised
Procrastination Nation is where I've learned to live
Turn on the tube, romanticized until you can't move

I've overstayed my welcome in this life
And it seems as though time won't tell you exactly what you'd like
I've given up on waving off the flies that have blackened my mind -
My sugarcoated mind

Why can't I whistle? And why can't I cry?
Why can't I love you the way I wish I liked?
I guess I have The Weirds
Which truth is true? And which real is real?
Why must we whistle to what we cannot feel?
I guess I have The Weirds, oh I have them bad, and it's so sad

Why can't I whistle? And why can't I cry?
Why can't I love you more than what I'd like?
I guess I have The Weirds, oh I have them bad, and it's so sad

Prisoner of the mind, trapped within the confines
Of self expectation, of obligation -
I guess I'll be just fine

Stranger lyrics - Katie Costello

Stranger I've known you for so long
I found you lost with a compass in the fog
Stranger you know me too much
Illusionary-self had not be touched, until you

Humming Hallelujah in the dark
Whispered poems leave you to be
Humming Hallelujah in the night
The sun might rise, as sometimes does it fall

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Stranger you've followed me so far
Until the roads converged, as did the stars
Stranger the moon looks blue tonight
Your photo framed, raw within my mind, but not tonight

Humming Hallelujah in the dark
Whispered poems leave you to be
Humming Hallelujah in the night
The sun might rise, as sometimes does it fall

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Humming Hallelujah in the dark
Whispered poems leave you to be
Humming Hallelujah in the night
The sun might rise, as sometimes does it fall

Hallelujah

EP: "The City In Me" (2010)

We Are The Way We Are lyrics - Katie Costello

We are gray like the sidewalks, old like the sidewalks, wiser now
We are tall like the buildings, strong like the buildings, skyward bound
Who am I to be?
Anything other than the city in me?

We are the way we are
We are the way we are
We ran away from where we couldn't stay
We are the way we are
We are the way we are
Who would I be without this city beneath my feet?

We grow green like the tree's here, we'll always be here
With or without leaves
Let's travel deep like the subway, far like the subway,
Far away from what we know

Who am I to be?
Anything other than the city in me?

We are the way we are
We are the way we are
We ran away from where we couldn't stay
We are the way we are
We are the way we are
Who would I be without this city beneath my feet?

Come here, towards all the bright lights, I'll be your night light, trust me
Don't go, don't let yourself down, know that right now, this is all yours

Lost & Far From Home lyrics - Katie Costello

With her head on her pillow and her pain tucked under the sheets
Music playing softly without a steady beat
The TV flickers flames of color; it ignites the room
A black and white face, the colors escape, her heartache

She ran away, so far away
That the streets were no longer paved with lines
The soles of her feet weren't as tough as she claimed them to be

She wiped her eyes, it was no surprise
That she was lost and far from home, strange unfamiliar signs
Little to coincide, however she packed her bags and made her way
Anywhere her feet could take her

With her arm around her keepsakes and her mind on her mistakes
She climbed a hill - one of a kind, numb to her step, she had to accept
Changed scenery, it was now clear to see torn petals on a flower of her past
Memories she hoped wouldn't last

She ran away, so far away
That the streets were no longer paved with lines
The sole of her feet weren't as tough as she claimed them to be

She wiped her eyes, it was no surprise
That she was lost and far from home, strange unfamiliar signs
Little to coincide, however she packed her bags and made her way
Anywhere her feet could take her

With her head on her pillow and her pain tucked under the sheets
Music playing softly without a steady beat, without a steady beat

Cityscapes lyrics - Katie Costello

Cityscape, I want to escape, take me to the root of your light
Cityscape, forever engraved, stuck in time, stuck inside my mind

And how, did you ever get so bright?
And how, did you soar so very high?

When did I not love you?
When did I not know you?
You make me better than I could be
I'm bursting at my seams

Cityscape, I know I'm home when I see your skyline in the night
Cityscape, you've let me see, that I'm my home wherever I shall be

And how, have you taken all my fears?
And how, have you made everything seem clear?

When did I not love you?
When did I not know you?
You make me better than I could be
I'm bursting at my seams

Cityscape, you're more than a place, you're part of everything that I am
Cityscape, you make me chase, you make me follow everything I can