Ships In The Night lyrics - Katie Costello

I'm finding farewell is the word I won't say, at the risk of being what it is
I'm finding so long is what took so long to finally utter with strength

I can't be what I need
And I can't treat you right
Nothing lasts forever
But this, my friend, won't pass in the night
And this, my friend, is still a goodbye

You're so far away, I don't know what that means; It's finally dawned upon me
I couldn't hold on to what's moving on; We've passed like ships in the night

I can't be what I need
And I can't treat you right
Nothing lasts forever
But this, my friend, won't pass in the night
And this, my friend, is still a goodbye

I will haunt you, haunt you
I will never feel you gone

I can't be what I need
And I can't treat you right
Nothing lasts forever
But this, my friend, won't pass in the night
And this, my friend, is still a goodbye

I can't be what I need
And I can't treat you right
Nothing lasts forever
But this, my friend, won't pass in the night
And this, my friend, is still a goodbye

How Do We Know lyrics - Katie Costello

I want to make this concrete
I want to make this firm
I want to decide something
But I'm scared of what I'll learn

I don't know that I've been the best boss of myself
I might as well get out of town or hire someone else

How do we know when it's all going to work
How do we know when being away from home
Makes us stronger, yet I will not stay a moment longer

I want it all right now
All the answers at my door
I know it's wishful thinking
But I still want more

I don't know that I've been the best boss of myself
I might as well get out of town or hire someone else

How do we know when it's all going to work
How do we know when being away from home
Makes us stronger, yet I will not stay a moment longer

We can't go back in time
That's why we think about it day and night
That's why we think about it day and night

How do we know when it's all going to work
How do we know when being away from home
Makes us stronger, yet I will not stay a moment longer

How do we know when it's all going to work
How do we know when being away from home
Makes us stronger, yet I will not stay a moment longer

I will decide something
Another lesson learned
I will write it down
So the memory doesn't burn

"Kaleidoscope Machine" (2008)

Anywhere Place lyrics - Katie Costello

Tell me a story that consists of more than once upon a time the end
Staring that same familiar friend
Sing me a song that I can hum upstairs and back
That can live in my mind, maybe for all time

I don't need a wall or face
I just need a place
I can call and name my own
My anywhere place
My anywhere place

Walk with me somewhere where I can run until no end
Hands held tight and no one is looking for me this night
Look with me someplace where the sky is as endless as the rhythm of the sea,
It rhymes in ecstasy

I don't need a wall or face
I just need a place
I can call and name my own
My anywhere place
My anywhere place

Now that the trees are gone and the water is cool
I'll go back where I can find what's true
Where it isn't grey, where I can stay
An anywhere place

Tell me a story that consists of more than once upon a time the end
Staring that same familiar friend

I don't need a wall or face
I just need a place
I can call and name my own
My anywhere place
My anywhere place, oh

I don't need a wall or face
I just need a place
I can call and name my own
My anywhere place
My anywhere place
Oh no

Songbird lyrics - Katie Costello

I've been told by many books and things
That I can read minds and I agree, at least in my dreams
I've been yelled at by many road-ragers
Making love to their coffee and pagers now, heading down south

The lark was humming and softly I kept drumming
And the world was in rhyme and it made sense for a short time
In this little tune about the old kazoo

Songbird, Songbird, whatever bird you are
Give me your voice and your flight
Songbird I don't care if you're an old kazoo
Sing to me and I will sing to you

I've been seen to be heartbroken
Not so much a heartbreaker but an "I love you,"
And "I think you do too"
I've been known to be confused
By the colors and the shapes of our round little sphere,
On which we appeared

The lark was humming and softly I kept drumming
And the world was in rhyme and it made sense for a short time
In this little tune about the old kazoo

Songbird, Songbird, whatever bird you are
Give me your voice and your flight
Songbird I don't care if you're an old kazoo
Sing to me and I will sing to you

And then the Greek Muses and the sirens on the rocks
Told me they liked my song
And then the Greek Muses told the sirens on the rocks
Don't you dare touch those folks near those rocks
Don't you touch those folks near those rocks
Orpheus told me so

Songbird, Songbird, whatever bird you are
Give me your voice and your flight
Songbird I don't care if you're an old kazoo
Sing to me and I will sing to you
Sing to me and I will sing to you
Sing to me and I will sing to you

Isn't It Lovely lyrics - Katie Costello

Isn't it lovely: the rhythm of the sea
That deep black blue whispers gentle melodies
Isn't it lovely: the pitter-patter of the rain
The drops fall upon your face each with it's own domain

The sky is vast with stars and it seems impossible
To find a place where there is endless amounts of time and space

But somehow...that beauty's lost in the need to -
Need to be just another symphony
Another weak beat in a worn out tune but never
Of who we are, who we need to be,
What we could do with our own simple melody

Isn't it lovely: the disposition of the trees
So peaceful as they dismiss their falling leaves
Isn't it lovely: that foggy morning rusty sun
Perched on your window sill revealing shades and hues

The sky is vast with stars and it seems impossible
To find a place where there is endless amounts of time and space

But somehow...that beauty's lost in the need to -
Need to be just another symphony
Another weak beat in a worn out tune but never
Of who we are, who we need to be,
What we could do with our own simple melody

Kaleidoscope Machine lyrics - Katie Costello

When the tears begin to flow
Or I stub my pinky toe
I will somehow never be alone
If I'm bitten by a dog
Or kissed by a charming frog
This will someway make it all okay

I've got something strange about me
But somehow I know

There's a song in my mind and a poem in my eyes
My Kaleidoscope Machine knows what's real
There's a beat in my heart that sets me apart
From the man in the hat who lives down the street

When my night-light starts to fail
Or the wind attacks my sails
This little thing makes it worth my while
When there's zombies at my door
I'll sing out like never before
Oh a happy melody is all I'll ever need

I've got something strange about me
But somehow I know

There's a song in my mind and a poem in my eyes
My Kaleidoscope Machine knows what's real
There's a beat in my heart that sets me apart
From the man in the hat who lives down the street

There's a song in my mind and a poem in my eyes
My Kaleidoscope Machine knows what's real
There's a beat in my heart that sets me apart
From the man in the hat who lives down the street

I Can't Fix Us Two lyrics - Katie Costello

Left you by the phone at half past three
Now it's quarter ‘til and you're not to be seen
Last I saw your face was ten hours gone
And suddenly you're sorry; it's my fault for giving in

You will never love the way you know
You would never love the way you show

Yet I go back to you every chance I get
No matter how soft my skin is from last time you dug real deep
My bones are shaking; I can't do this anymore
I need to stop missing you; I can't fix us two

Left you by my heart, now it's raw and red
I should've said how mad I really was
Told you how I felt, but now it's done
I go to sleep upset; I didn't tell you what I meant

You will never love the way you know
You would never love the way you show

Yet I go back to you every chance I get
No matter how soft my skin is from last time you dug real deep
My bones are shaking; I can't do this anymore
I need to stop missing you; I can't fix us two

Will we part our ways, it's hard to say
We've come too far to say we just can't stay
It seems we'll always be two
And I'll never quite get you

Yet I go back to you every chance I get
No matter how soft my skin is from last time you dug real deep
My bones are shaking; I can't do this anymore
I need to stop missing you; I can't fix us two

You will never love the way you know
You would never love the way you show

Left you by my heart, now it's raw and red
I should've said how mad I really was

Time Left Room lyrics - Katie Costello

It was just a cold day, no day for laying in the field
It was just one star, far too far that made him turn away
Bland boy, no toy to a man like yourself
He was just no one, someone who needed something else

Time left room for me to reconsider
What had been winter and where the grass did grow
Time left room for me to reconsider, who and what I knew
And where that boy did go

First kiss: neither hit nor miss; it blurs from the quickness it keeps
First love: too much at once for that troubled boy to take
Blue lake, for sanity's sake he swam and dove too deep
Grey skies, green eyes - they change with the growing grass

Time left room for me to reconsider
What had been winter and where the grass did grow
Time left room for me to reconsider, who and what I knew
And where that boy did go

Loss of what is so precious
Confused with the scenery
A face with no name, a place without space
It's useless, boy don't you see

Time left room for me to reconsider
What had been winter and where the grass did grow
Time left room for me to reconsider, who and what I knew
And where that boy did go

No chance, no turning back, that lake is but a stream
One wish, one day for that kiss to return to those wanting lips

Ever Since The Stork Came lyrics - Katie Costello

Ever since the stork came
We've heard of scholarly pride
And passionate drive
Every since the stork came
We've held the flag at highest highs
Looked at by dishonest eyes

And now that we're vacant, with a badge on our chest
We preach of good ethics and the grade A - what success

Our shells are painted gold
And our minds are rendered full
Though we have not a thought of well-being
Or what is desperately the truth

Ever since the stork came
We've known to work hard all along
Then happiness comes
Ever since the stork came
No one's seen the ways we are blind
To the walls built inside

And now that we're vacant, with a badge on our chest
We preach of good ethics and the grade A - what success

Our shells are painted gold
And our minds are rendered full
Though we have not a thought of well-being
Or what is desperately the truth

Far away someplace where the streets lead to both fear and love
It's okay to fail and fall, there's no formula to uphold
Laws of the unruly and standards of the seemingly wise
Dissolve beneath a stereotype's demise

Our shells are painted gold
And our minds are rendered full
Though we have not a thought of well-being
Or what is desperately the truth

Nobody's Perfect lyrics - Katie Costello

Nobody's perfect
Thank you for reminding me again, my friend
When we would lay with my face in your neck
I would confess there's no place I'd rather be

And I can't convince you to not make me cry
And I can't convince you that I'm your guy
It's time to realize

The moon is ripe, the stars tonight are telling me
That goodbye is the only way to say
Thank you for the memories, I guess
The trip around the clock has been real nice

When we would dance you would put my cheek next to yours
No matter the height difference
We used to say, "I love forever and I'm yours"
I wonder how much of that is true now

And I can't convince you to not make me cry
And I can't convince you that I'm your guy
It's time to realize

The moon is ripe, the stars tonight are telling me
That goodbye is the only way to say
Thank you for the memories, I guess
The trip around the clock has been real nice

And I can't convince you to not make me cry
And I can't convince you that I'm your guy
It's time to realize

Sometimes in the dead of night
When the quiet makes me forget our fights
I see your love and smile your smile
But the you I knew no longer makes me happy, sadly

The moon is ripe, the stars tonight are telling me
That goodbye is the only way to say
Thank you for the memories, I guess
The trip around the clock has been real nice

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, etc.

And I can't convince you that I'm your guy
It's time to realize

Congratulations lyrics - Katie Costello

The boy in the gown today became a man
His future's oh-so-bright, at least it looks like
The pretty girl holds her picture in hand
Gives it to the man as she recites her lines

Why does there exist a need to be somebody do something
Whose origins are from that box we all know too well?

What I need is to be okay with being nobody knowing it'd be alright
What made us think that being happy came from a piece of paper that said Congratulations, Congratulations

The man in the green wears a name tag
Out of fear they'll mispronounce "Larry"
The woman in the fur coat wears her lipstick strong
Mascara stained eyes hidden

Why does there exist a need to be somebody do something
Whose origins are from that box we all know too well?

What I need is to be okay with being nobody knowing it'd be alright
What made us think that being happy came from a piece of paper that said Congratulations, Congratulations

Being happy doesn't mean being somebody
Take away the impulse to have our portrait framed
Might as well just sign me up for a fancy tomb
With my name engraved, my name engraved

What I need is to be okay with being nobody knowing it'd be alright
What made us think that being happy came from a piece of paper that said Congratulations, Congratulations

What I need is to be okay with being nobody knowing it'd be alright
What made us think that being happy came from a piece of paper that said Congratulations, Congratulations

Inside Out lyrics - Katie Costello

Just the other day as I was walking
I felt someone mimicking my steps
I jumped and fled yet however later
I found it was just a lonely silhouette

I should've stayed a little later
And cut my hair a hair more short
Made my lips real red and worn the yellow dress
Fight when all I did was turn

We're scared of the strangest things
Yet we regret them with more shame, blame, fame, we're insane
When all we need is to think, try, reach, love, live die
And is it so hard to just let go and know you're better off
Living inside out

Just the other day as I was swimming
I felt a wave rush up and take my breath
Before I could resign and drown - a mermaid
With green eyes suggested that I dive

I should've stayed a little later
And cut my hair a hair more short
Made my lips real red and worn the yellow dress
Fight when all I did was turn

We're scared of the strangest things
Yet we regret them with more shame, blame, fame, we're insane
When all we need is to think, try, reach, love, live die
And is it so hard to just let go and know you're better off
Living inside out

Break the promises and the words that surrender you to this trend
Basing what you know on your own outer skin
Try living inside out; defeat what you know
For the sake of a better mind, no outside in

We're scared of the strangest things
Yet we regret them with more shame, blame, fame, we're insane
When all we need is to think, try, reach, love, live die
And is it so hard to just let go and know you're better off
Living inside out
Living inside out
Living inside out
Living inside out

Shadow Love lyrics - Katie Costello

Single wishing flower on my lawn
New freckle on the moon's face
Closed eyes saw new grace
Go to sleep blue eyes and wake me when I'm dreaming
Close your lips real tight
Let me kiss them while you're sleeping

It's fool's gold when you realize
Your love was a shadowy bear
It's your child, your baby, your safety
You love them when you can't find your love

Let us just lay here until the record can't go ‘round no more,
Even if the room is all but dark, those blue eyes light my own
I don't know how I know, but I need to run away from your shadow love
I forgot what was dear to me, your shadow love is treachery

Something in the way you kiss me goodnight
The warm night air wraps around me tight
Something in the way the quiet room speaks
I find the music loud, that precious sound

It's fool's gold when you realize
Your love was a shadowy bear
It's your child, your baby, your safety
You love them when you can't find your love

Let us just lay here until the record can't go ‘round no more,
Even if the room is all but dark, those blue eyes light my own
I don't know how I know, but I need to run away from your shadow love
I forgot what was dear to me, your shadow love is treachery

The streets are ours to dance in
The waves are ours to dive
The sky is for our wishing stars
Dreams so that kiss will survive
But the shadows still blind your eyes
From the love outside the lines
Of the shadowy prize

It's fool's gold when you realize
Your love was a shadowy bear
It's your child, your baby, your safety
You love them when you can't find your love

Let us just lay here until the record can't go ‘round no more,
Even if the room is all but dark, those blue eyes light my own
I don't know how I know, but I need to run away from your shadow love
I forgot what was dear to me, your shadow love is treachery

City Lights lyrics - Katie Costello

City lights awake
City lights awake
City lights don't you see them
Laying here straight cold
Wondering if this is getting old
My head is far too soft for this pillow
The lights stream through the seems
Of my painted room, the beams
They don't seem to blind me

No stars or moon in my reach
I guess I'll have to keep hope
For those city lights
They're the only thing that's bright

The power behind what so quickly removes dark
We sit below it, we don't even know it
It's not just stars
Oh it's all so much to take
But for my eyes sake
I'll let them shine bright

No stars or moon in my reach
I guess I'll have to keep hope
For those city lights
They're the only thing that's bright

This is where my room will stay
So I'll have to learn to pray to those city lights, city lights
This is where my room will stay
So I'll have to learn to pray to those city lights, city lights awake

The stars above are bright, but not like those city lights
Your heart drops like a stone, but you seem to feel indifferent

City lights, city lights, city lights awake