LYRICS « Brynn Andre

LYRICS

Lyrics from Brynn Andre

CHAMPAGNE

There was a lesson I almost learned it
You were the messenger you made me earn it
I showed up all nerves and curves
everything you said you made it worse

Wouldn’t have mattered my wine selection
Wasn’t a night when I was following direction
Threw out my menu and my manners
Everything you said you made me matter

Oh nobody told me not to drink the champagne
Now I’m in my best dress, knowing I look desperate
Eyeliner all over my face
Oh the sunset is bleeding on the horizon
Just as the sky swallows the sun
The sun it also rises

I sat pretty I didn’t disguise it
I was selling my soul for you to buy it
Took back all my wasted time and
Left my number on another man’s night stand

Tonight I’m the sinner at the center, I’ve always felt that way
I wanted to feel the pressure I wanted to feel the weight
I’ve lived my life as a renter of a glass cage
I’ve lived my life as a renter

FIRE ESCAPE

you were like a floor board I could never nail down
I was your mail order bride, you shipped me out

I came and I saw you, and you conquered me
I’ll say it, I’ll be honest I was just lonely

I chose a damn piano
over a guitar I can’t play
I can’t help it though
if I want to feel safe
I’ve tried to love the echo
of my empty place
but I want rocks at my window
crawl up my fire escape

it did not feel that good the experiment we had
oh we had chemistry but chemistry went bad

I came and I saw you, and you conquered me
I’ll say it, I’ll be honest I was just lonely

I chose a damn piano
over a guitar I can’t play
I can’t help it though
if I want to feel safe
I’ve tried to love the echo
of my empty place
but I want rocks at my window
crawl up my fire escape

I don’t want to be alone

CRIME

valley down my heart rain in the air
get out of my car fix my hair
It’s just me now I’ve got lead in my veins
can’t sink now, gotta find my brave face

oh what have you done oh it’s the scene of a crime
I’ve got evidence that you’ve been lying to me all across state lines
while you make a great case for me, I found your fingerprints on every single exit sign
I’m putting it together, you were never mine.

The bones in my back I finally feel them
They’re all stacked and I’m not kneeling
I don’t kneel on a ground that’s bare
you wore it down layer by layer

oh what have you done oh it’s the scene of a crime
I’ve got evidence that you’ve been lying to me all across state lines
while you make a great case, I found your fingerprints on every single exit sign
I’m putting it together, you were never mine.

oh it’s a shame oh it’s a crime
you pulled the whole damn world, over my eyes
I stood by for the worst violence
took years of my life

and now my worst fears, are at my heels
but I’m not about to flee
this is your crime, this is your scene
this is what you’ve done to me

GRANITE

do you remember that road trip
that we took out west?
I looked at you and I knew
you are the one, but you run fast.

I fell fast as the breeze on that prairie trip.
fell in love with your big wingspan,
you ran everywhere
and I bear with it.

these days I have sat here like granite.
you carve crevices when you are gone.
oh I know, I know it’s how we planned it.
you climb high and I power along.
but I’m at the side of the highway waiting on a letter.
something that says whether you think that I was strong.

do you remember that road trip
that we took out west?
I looked at you and I knew
you are the one, but you run fast.

I fell fast as the breeze on that prairie trip.
fell in love with your big wingspan,
you ran everywhere
and I bear with it.

I drop to my knees for a little rest.
I’ve been waiting on a dream but it’s starting to rust.
but I heard what you told me, and I’m one to trust
that the world breathe and turn out
the best for us.

HOMECOMING KING

there’s a kind of muscle
I’ve never had in me

I think you’re made of it
from your forearms to feet

I’m a stupid girl trying to arm wrestle
the homecoming king at the lunch table

I’m a stupid girl

and you never let me finish
what I want to say
and there’s so many limits
to what you can take
and we’re drunk in a cab
this is not a date
your’e the homecoming king
I’ve got nothing to say

there’s a kind of quiet
I could never quite keep

and you’re made of silence
it goes bone deep

and I’m a stupid girl singing on my lawn
asking the homecoming king to prom

I’m a stupid girl

and you never let me finish
what I want to say
and there’s so many limits
to what you can take
and we’re drunk in a cab
this is not a date
your’e the homecoming king
I’ve got nothing to say

You’re the homecoming king
we’re not going to prom
we’re barely speaking
it’s the bare minimum
I’m a stupid girl thinking you would stay long
It’s time to pay we’re almost home

We are drunk in a cab this is not a date
You’re the homecoming king I’ve got nothing to say

MY BEST

I got caught
Taking a breath
Got lost
When I picked up your scent

For a while I missed you
For a while I missed you

But now I’m on a rooftop
Strings of lights in the air
All the world stops
The streets are bare

I own the night
I own the night

I’m on fire, on fire
To all the ones who left
You have never seen my skin glow
Quite like this

And tonight, tonight
I’m ‘gonna give someone my best
And way across town you’ll feel my breath
On the broad shoulders you’ll carry the weight of what you miss
On the broad shoulders you’ll carry the weight of what you miss

I found your shirt
At the foot of my bed
Like a last word
Just a mess

For a while I missed you
For a While I missed you

But I found my city
You found the road
I live my living
You live alone

I own the night
I own the night

I’m on fire, on fire
To all the ones who left
You have never seen my skin glow
Quite like this

I can roll around my bed with a worn t shirt
The way it smells it makes me want to make things work
But it’s over, gotta fold it up

I’m on fire, on fire
To all the ones who left
You have never seen my skin glow
Quite like this

DEVIL

I showed you one tenth of what I’m really like
it was a fast summer, traveling that light

There was sun and sand, like in the movies
I kept my upper hand, but now I’m losing

Now I’m losing

Somehow I let the guards down
They were manning their stations Keeping you out
And I saw you Devil, pull up a chair
And I’m in so much trouble Because I like you there
You little devil with your head on my shoulder
This is gonna hurt when it is over

And I’m right on the border right next to the fence
And I could jump right over ‘cuz I grew up out west

Where the stars shine brighter and I came to expect
That people love with fire, but here they love in bed

They just love in bed

Oh baby what are we gonna do
When you kissed me I thought nobody knew
Oh baby how do I quit this
When you kiss me I’m starting to notice

RAVINE
if I had my way, I would build you a home
rub your back free of nights on the road
if I had my way I would cook like a wife
you could work all day, come home hungry at night

but isn’t that the point, aren’t you the one
who’s supposed to pull out the rug
and tell me baby, all of our waiting
it’s finally done
you should be hammering away, on a nice white fence
saying there’s no more Sundays, where you will leave my bed

So show me the way, because I am lost
I’m down in a valley and the walls are tall
and baby you are six foot three
and I know you can reach anything
so pull me out of this ravine
and I can be the girl I used to be

if I had my way, I’d be the kind of girl that makes a point
you’d think of me in ways, like when you were a teenage boy
if I had my way I would never hold my tongue
when I needed love, I would take it until I was done

but isn’t that the point, aren’t you the one
that’s supposed to pull out my chair
you’re supposed to say, when you were on the run
you always missed the smell of my hair
you should be making me breakfast
because you like the look on my face
and there’ll be no more paychecks
that will take you away

SHOT GLASS

we smashed a lamp last night
there’s shards all over my carpet
fun is what it looks like
guess we haven’t gone too far yet

let’s just wreck this baby
it was made for that
not like it is precious
no, it’s just a shot glass
fill it up with good stuff baby
take it down fast
fill me up with good stuff baby
we’re going down fast

fell into the wrong bed
someone else’s clean sheets
let’s pretend we’re them
make ourselves a love scene

don’t slow your hands
on my buttons
be a man
and show me something

OCEAN

the good is gone
as soon as it hits you bad
and you taste it
fingertip to tongue
fast as you can
and I want it to stay
as soon as it runs away
like a river that’s only got power
when it rains

I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to
let you in
I looked into your eyes
and saw the ocean

I had no blueprint had no one to build with
baby are you my blueprint?
the only face, in a tidal wave
that I have chosen

I’m in your ocean come tear me open
come tear me open

oh my god are you a river
did I fall into moving water
oh my saint, are you a sinner
that I thought was a safe harbor
oh did I, oh did I
make love harder
Did I, oh did I
make love harder

I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to
let you in
I looked into your eyes
and saw the ocean

I had no blueprint had no one to build with
baby are you my blueprint?
the only face, in a tidal wave
that I have chosen

I’m in your ocean come tear me open
come tear me open