wish upon a bottlecap

by rorie kelly

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1.	american daydream 02:28	lyrics	buy track
this american daydream wrapped me up in gauze & paint it gave me a relapse, said i liked it better that way & that may be true i thought but it shouldn't be that way so where do i go with the ripped IV dangling from my vein? i don't care what you say to me it's easy it's easy it's easy to walk away, to walk away, to walk away from these conversations have been telling in many ways but they are not pushing me closer to my goals & this pile of parking tickets & bills in my face are making me think i should just do as i'm told i don't care what you say to me it's easy it's easy it's easy to walk away, to walk away, to walk away from five, six, seven, eight, i can think of better ways to make me like you, than to tell me that i'm pretty one, two, three, four, i'm not gonna fall for any of this because i know myself too well these american bad boys think they've got one over on me they come with their red sharpies to make editor's marks on my body i don't care what you say to me it's easy it's easy it's easy to walk away, to walk away, to walk away from i don't care what you say to me it's easy it's easy it's easy to walk away, to walk away, to walk away from this
2.	quick diagnosis 03:58	lyrics	buy track
& when i cried that day it did not reflect the greater need to medicate it was because i was thinking & conclusions sometimes hurt for an eighth grade girl who's just beginning to realize that just 'cause something's stupid doesn't mean that it's not there just 'cause i don't need to be pretty doesn't mean i don't care just 'cause everyone goes through it doesn't mean that i'm not there & then the theories came after invitations to unburden myself on you because i could tell you anything you said that i could tell you anything but i like the rain so it must mean that i'm lonely and the need for pain must mean that it's the only thing that i wanna feel like it was an addiction because self-exploration is sometimes an affliction & the tv & the magazines all say you can make it all just go away seems like you need something to get you through the day & isn't that just what you meant to say? so are you ready to give yourself up now? oh generation of guinea pigs, of blind compliance with a quick diagnosis & an easier fix i sing requiems for what we might've been but we're not too concerned & my newly sparkling friends all say you can make it all just go away just when you needed something to get you through the day & isn't that just what you meant to say? are you ready to give yourself up now? & echoes of fairy tales you heard when you were just this age, believe what they're saying to you believe the sugar water's gonna make it better believe the leeches will suck the sick from my blood am i ready to give myself up now? & you say in the morning you'll see how everything looks so much better in daylight it's a sunny day tomorrow just the kind you'll learn to like
3.	overthrown in seconds 03:26	lyrics	buy track
& the sky's the wrong color 11:30 is so different from 1 or 2 & it's throwing me off & babylon's so beautiful, always think i want to live here then i think of the train ride & how easy it would be i can't keep making decisions based on being close to someone sacrificing what i want to be there baby misses me tonight, said he wishes i could stay forever yeah & i don't get it: i am nothing but what i am for others & i don't wanna talk about it i am overthrown government better that he not find out yet always walking to the car, i feel the map like second skin but it's a pleasant human moment when you give me bad directions & i find myself planning what will just happen to be playing when i drive you to buy coffee, for me baby misses me tonight, said she doesn't expect to be lovers but there's an offer on the table, if i want when i start feeling better & i don't wanna talk about it i am overthrown in seconds better that she not find out yet so where's the line, my precious line i think it's time to be straight with you, so i hope you really want me to but your manner is begging me to lie i've been dancing, baby, since i started hanging out with you so if this is me coming clean then dirty is so relative i said intent here means nothing & you misinterpreted there goes my chance to gracelessly damn myself for you baby misses me tonight, if history is any indication & i can never make it right, only worsen the situation baby misses me tonight, & i'll never understand completely 'cause there's no room for me in my mind, so to want me is to misread me & i don't wanna talk about it writhe around on failed intentions i am overthrown in seconds
4.	you are my sunshine 03:45	lyrics	buy track
how can you mean what you sing when you won't say things to me worth meaning i struggle to keep up, i try not to earn your looks of confusion, throughout conversation i always let you down & you're my sunshine tonight, & the dark's where i feel most at home & i scream & shout just to catch you off guard in hopes i catch a glimpse of you in the dark i always say it's because i'm crazy but i don't really mean it unless you really believe me i always say things that i never mean in hopes you see through me now whose example is that, baby? you won't let me in again now & now the night is upon us, meaning so much more to me than it reasonably should murky waters & your songs & your kindness are all mixed down to fuck me up & everyone's falling all over themselves to say nice things to me, & i don't comprehend it i always let you down i always go home let down now who can live by the skies, baby? why should i think clouds & stars are enough to fill in happy in the blanks i... you're my sunshine tonight & i am running around with umbrella at ready whose problem is that; whose problem has any of this ever been really i always say it's because i'm crazy but i don't really mean it unless you really believe me i always say things that i never mean but these things they get away from me now whose example is that, baby? you won't let me in again now...
5.	too smart 03:54	lyrics	buy track
i'm singing harmonies to an old song, any old song, it don't matter thinking of the car, tegan & sara, & waking up with you hard against me & the window that i stare at rolls the evening on by like nothing ever happens & time just passes by & i'm thinking i have friends here, & these people somewhat know me & i sidestep conversation so i don't have to feel the truth i'm too smart to believe i'm too smart not to see i'm not too smart to grieve & the pages of my notebook filling up with my selfishness & it's true all i could think of was who's gonna make me feel better now? i know how to get attention now, & it's killing my hope i know how to be good to you but i don't want to make myself into a chump i'm too smart to believe i'm too smart not to see i'm not too smart to bleed & i wasn't always crazy; i saw magic in the subways i saw the best minds of my generation succumb to numbness & lipstick to post-feminism to post-everything we're too smart to believe we're too smart to feel free we're too smart to do a goddamn thing about anything we take it lying down we take it cracking jokes & i'm singing harmonies to an old song any old song it don't matter thinking of the car, tegan & sara & waking up next to you i will call this sentimental i will write down that i miss you that's as far as i am willing to go
6.	tsunami 04:46	lyrics	buy track
if the tsunami were to hit a year or two from now me on the road you here at home, i would be orphaned i would hole up in pittsburgh california with my last friends i would be haunted by the ocean & still alive, i would scatter myself across the sea in hopes that the particles that once were you & me would find each other & on the shores of fire island i will find religion in your breath & i won't know how or why or what it means but it will be all there is for me & that's why you can't leave confiscate your car & legs but it wouldn't work love you so much that it hurts love you so much that it hurts love you so much that it hurts & in the morning, trapped inside our offices like ghosts cement, across long island, connecting us somehow beneath our feet if the tsunami were to hit the middle of last night so much to lose, so much left undone but we would be each other's last words bodies tangled up in the water trapped inside this room for years correct for the explorers love you so much that it hurts love you so much that it hurts love you so much that it hurts
7.	gray starlight 02:53	lyrics	buy track
how does it feel to mean it this time? desperate today wafts into desperate tonight oh & there was no "oh, how the years go" "glad that you're back" on your side you are distracted & distressed & i am killing-time & tonight beckons tomorrow night closer now but without the eye contact nothing like feeling all right & while we are on the subject of patterns why don't i throw off my whole life for you why don't i just stop thinking, & just give to you into the morning & where are my feelings now that i'm home in bed? & tonight beckons tomorrow night history i thought i had right nothing like feeling all right i'd like to welcome you to your new mythology 'cause you're still mine & i'm still all empathy & you're feeling so much that there's no room left for me & you're feeling so much that there's no room left for me & tonight beckons tomorrow night closer now but without the fireworks nothing like feeling all right tonight beckons tomorrow night colder now in the gray starlight nothing like feeling all right
8.	sincere 06:17	lyrics	buy track
you said I like the middle one best & I said thank you & your eyes are brown, & I forget what comes next but unfazed you spend the evening making jokes comparing different brands of cigarettes & i never tell you that I don't smoke so now you think i do & you think i don't mind when you say that all those boys on the radio need to learn how to play & you think that your hubris is so justified 'cause you're so indie, you're so undiscovered, you're so male, therefore so self-satisfied i don't know why you think you can see me through all of this trying, when i can't see you & i don't want to change myself for you but i do & i do & i do & i do & i do & you say the unadorned human body is such a beautiful thing yeah, then you snicker, then you make it ugly, & i'm supposed to laugh or something & you talk about sex like i'm supposed to think i'm weird, so i get to feel weird for not thinking that you're weird, how fucked up is that, then you offer me a cigarette i don't know why you think you can see me through all of this trying, when i can't see you & i don't want to change myself for you but i do & i do & i do & i do & i do & if you like me now, it won't be on my own terms & when i see you on friday, i'll smile but i won't know half what to say but something will surely take over, it's dreadful, but i'll sound sincere when i say yeah, i like your new song a lot yeah we should do something together sometime, yeah, why the hell not? & everything everything you've been saying to me so far has been leading up to this beautiful moment, so free of faux pas so free of something real i don't know why you think you can see me through all of this trying, when i can't see you & i don't want to change myself for you but i do & i do & i do & i do & i do & when i see you on friday, i'll smile but i won't know half what to say but something will surely take over, it's dreadful, but i'll sound sincere when i say...
9.	convenient 03:36	lyrics	buy track
why don't you cry about it, always works, i will do anything to fix lie about it, biggest perk, i am walking benefit of doubt you want so badly for me to feel the same way you do now & i know, i know what it is to love to be in someone's presence & later hate their guts for it but i know what i am to you don't think i can't see right through your kindness too convenient is my middle name so take me out to dinner i will be touched by the gesture & forget if i had a problem, do you ever feel like you are in another country speaking french & every now & then you think of something that's in english, but it doesn't last for long so yeah, let's play another couple hands & talk about the hazards of drinking but i won't actually do any, i don't want to be off my balance with you 'cause i know what our friendship means i know just how much help a willing ride can be i already know what you're gonna say, so you don't have to tell me, see convenient is my middle name so tell me what has happened in your own words, in your own words, i wanna know what you think this means to me & all it doesn't mean to you, when you say hey what happened happened & the past is in the past even five minutes ago, hey ain't that why it's called five minutes ago when you said baby would you keep quiet for just five minutes so i can turn it around so i am the victim keep quiet for just five minutes so i can make it so we always were at war with east asia & always were allied with eurasia & your nature, baby, makes it easier for me but i know what i am to you don't think i can't see right through your kindness too convenient is my middle name i will keep quiet so you can have the satisfaction knowing that this has ended politely so you can go home & fake admit to your mommy she was right about me, see i know what i am to you don't think i can't see right through your kindness too i know everything, i know everything, that i do for you convenient is my middle name
10.	this is not a love song 03:21	lyrics	buy track
i tuned my guitar down for you you know i envy your ability to make the whole world disappear, except for you & your song i envy your ability to speak & act your mind, & play piano like you do, & i envy your ability to not be afraid of anyone who interests you & here i am, so lame writing about you misha tells me that envy gets me nowhere, calm me down, turn me on, turn me on like you do like you do i must have made you up inside my head, no one who plays that way ever appears near me if i show up asking who's that jerk playing blackbird it is only out of some ilk of jealousy, you are playing just for yourself out here you sound serene, & here i am, so lame listening for you oh, i am so not grounded calm me down, calm me down, turn me on, turn me on like you do like you do i want you i want you wherever you are... skittish me, this not a love song this is just a way that i am in i don't even know what i want oh, i am so not grounded calm me down, calm me down, turn me on, turn me on like you do like you do & everyone has days like these calm me down, turn me on, turn me on like you do like you do
11.	pennsylvania 04:12	lyrics	buy track
sit, stare at the windshield dressed to impress singing to stay sane & drive like there's no tomorrow want to go back east want to spend tonight in pennsylvania with you but today i am working not making money i've given my notice & am looking for something that's new & yet the same something with a long drive singing to stay sane & drive like there's no tomorrow want to go back east want to spend tonight in pennsylvania with you but you have to study you have to find a job just like me, so a trip is out of the question & anyway it wouldn't be the same once we stopped being on our way cause 80 is my in-between place it's my getting somewhere my letting the journey do the thinking for me & life is just road & arby's fries that you feed to me as i drive... oh, & that's where i was, all this time, in pennsylvania, i was driving i was driving conveniently letting it slip my mind there's more to my life than interstate 80 & pulled up to my new apartment made some new friends took my work home with me & drove like there was no tomorrow never knowing why it was the only time i let myself think & now, now, you have to study i have to find a job but i'll come home tonight, find pennsylvania with you
12.	shining tonight 03:33	info	buy track

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Wish Upon a Bottlecap is the full-length debut of independent singer/songwriter/conquistadora rorie kelly. rorie is a female musician hailing from various places on Long Island, various boroughs of NYC, and wherever else her banged-up little Toyota will take her.

Spanning 10 years of songwriting, the subject matter of Wish Upon A Bottlecap is both personal and political. rorie explores love and relationships with the heartfelt reflection often found in Jackson Browne songs, but she also turns a serious and critical eye on the homogenized culture of America today, and what it's like growing up inside of it. The songs American Daydream and Sincere shed some light on what it's like for a woman to try to come into her own in what is still a male-dominated industry.

Wish Upon A Bottlecap was co-produced by rorie kelly and Kevin Kelly. Kevin is a seasoned producer, engineer, and gearhead who has a soft spot for John Levanthal guitar arrangements and an ear towards what is current in an ever-changing soundscape. rorie was influenced by the riot grrl movement, is into rawness and screaming, and, incidentally, wants to own everything Chris Walla has ever produced. The two of them had a freaking blast making this record.

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released August 31, 2010

All songs © rorie kelly; all songs produced by kevin kelly and rorie kelly.

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rorie kelly is on a quest to bring her songs to ears around the world through the cunning use of the internet and a small blue Toyota with over 200,000 miles on it.

rorie writes songs that are melodic and catchy but more thoughtful and introspective than the average pop tune. Her vocals are bigger than you would expect out of her small body and her guitar playing is powerful and percussive. ... more

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May 3

Cowfish Hampton Bays

Hampton Bays, NY
May 18

Edith May's Paradise

Jessup, MD
May 19

Sunroom Songwriter’s Series House Concerts

Dover, DE
May 24

Tap Room

Massapequa, NY

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