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Full Moon Charm Bracelet
04:16
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Put this on a bracelet because the charm is just a memory now
I have had all I can take of suffering and sacrifice now
I am not helping one single being when I count myself out
I am not doing myself a service when I push it all down
CHORUS:
Goodbye I'm letting go
Help me be brave 'cause I don't know
Anything for certain anymore
But I know some things are worth it: being scared for
I'm letting go I'm letting go I'm letting go
I'll let you know I'll let you know I'll let you know...
How it goes
Now the moon is full again and this time I have done my homework
Seems like I am always saying no but at the end of the day
I don't know how to say just what is I need to throw away
Or what I will replace it with so I stay and stay and stay
CHORUS
Goodbye to the anxious feeling that I have to be predictable comprehensible to everybody
But me, Goodbye to believing overwork is the only way to get there I am living at a deficit, goodbye
Goodbye to believing I'll be free in one more year, twelve more months biding time until the stories get thin enough
to let me out
magic moments never come so fine I'll make the magic myself
CHORUS
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Black And White
02:56
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I never wanna be under your protection again,
The kind of protection that bends
people to your will
I never wanna fold into nothing again, or have to pretend,
that I'm not who I am
CHORUS:
Crack, boom
Steal all my color leave me standing here black and white
Crack, boom
The only time I ever went down without a fight
Black and white
black and white
I'm sick of the repercussions in my mind, who am I
If I don't have to fight
I stood for myself and what I knew was right, but inside
You stayed in my mind
CHORUS
I don't wanna know I don't wanna know what came
Scratching at my window tonight
I don't wanna run I don't wanna run
I don't wanna run but I really don't wanna fight
I don't wanna the meaning behind those red red eyes
I don't wanna be a killer just to stay alive
CHORUS
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Lying Streak
04:00
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I try to put my heart in it but I just end up feeling stupid
I think that I was meant to be a weird old cat lady
I try to let go and just be myself
Has anyone ever found that helpful, I don’t
Even know who the real me is these days
CHORUS:
I’m on a lyin streak
I didn’t mean to be
I’m hiding I’m hiding I’m hiding
Everything about the real me
Real me
I try to tell you who I am but it just ends up getting twisted
You walk away thinking something that was never what I meant
It was never my idea to go in any closets
People just stuff you in there in tight storage boxes
I fight my way out again and again and still you think it was me who was confused
CHORUS
This isn’t really my life, people make me nervous
This isn’t my real world, this is just a stepping stone
I build my life on truth, still I put on a mask every day
Only until I am strong enough, brave enough to go it alone
CHORUS
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Let You Down
03:17
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You wanted the conversation to be easier on me
You envisioned a rosier history for me and my family
And I didn't want to let you down, no
I didn't want to let you down, no
I didn't want to let you down by telling you the truth
I've not walked the usual path and I have not regretted that
But just by going differently so many strangers have misread me
I do not attack your ways just by choosing my own
I do not eschew company, I just find myself alone
And I didn't mean to let you down, no
I didn't mean to let you down, no
I didn't mean to let you down but don't twist my words around
Don't say the parts that you don't like are not the real me
I am finished shielding you from what you don't wish to see
So that you can feel more comfortable around me, go ahead
And be uncomfortable, it never killed anybody
Morning comes and I feel crazy, but I am so over assimilating
Your sarcastic punishments of my and others differences
Have been dismissed, I wish you well but not so well
That I'll continue to let you put me and others through hell
I'm ready now to let you down and
I'm ready now to let you down and
I'm ready now to let you down, so don't come back around
Please enjoy your normalcy, feel free to speak unkindly of me
'Cause it says more of you than it will ever say of me
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Magick Comin'
03:34
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there are times when she knows that this life is not enough
and all the dull platitudes in the world can't make it so
working hard every day for the bills she still can't pay
she RPGs late at night into someone else's life
CHORUS
when's it gonna be my turn? when's it gonna turn around?
when am i gonna wake up happy, knowing what i found
when's it gonna turn around? when's it gonna be my turn?
when am i gonna wake up smiling, knowing what i learned
and she lays out the cards to see how the day will be
and she turns with a sigh, it's another one of these
but the wind blows strong now, and she knows it's only time
just a matter of time until she spreads her wings and flies
CHORUS
when's it gonna be my turn? when's it gonna turn around?
when am i gonna wake up happy, knowing what i found
when's it gonna turn around? when's it gonna be my turn?
when am i gonna wake up smiling, knowing what i learned
and she lays her head tonight, and she knows it's still not time
and she dreams with the power of a phoenix in flames
and she thinks she begins to understand what she has inside
it's not a thing to disavow, it's not to fix, it's not to tame
CHORUS
get ready for the rest of your life
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So Much Of Me
03:31
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i like to learn from my mistakes
but i don't like to think about them
you live sometimes in your regret, but i just lock mine away
in a deep dark cave
what shadow self am i creating
anger and humiliation
the only thing that saves me from her coming for me is is she's lazy
CHORUS:
you've seen so much of me
and you still love me, and you still love me
you've seen so much of me
and you still love me, and you still love me
you like the deck stacked in your favor
i don't think you realize how much you lucked out with me
'cause i will beg and i will plead, i will fight and I will scream but i will never ever leave
when i commit i commit, it is built into my skin, it is part of being me
CHORUS
i know it's not easy
we both need the things we need
but every single morning
we try again, we try again
the best hug i ever had
was the morning after my birthday
i was so hungover and i'd hurt you so much & you took care of me
you just held me and you held me, there is one way that you're like me, when you commit, you commit
CHORUS
i know it's not easy
you still love me, you still love me
but every single morning
you still love me, you still love me
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What We Get
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it's time for a new voice
it's time for a new moon
it's time to stop waiting for the old men to make room
it's time to pass the flame and use the candle offered
to burn down the gallows and the stocks
no i don't believe
without prisons we will monsters be
and if you do it says more of you than of me
and you say you want to see order restored
but i know it means that you don't wanna have to hear it anymore
you say that it's about respect as the cop kneels on his neck
and if we can't keep a civil tone we deserve what we get
we deserve what we get
we deserve what we get
we deserve what we get
you come with your half truths
and just like the half moon
the light and the shadows make nightmares fill the room
it's time to turn the lights on 'cause we can't see the truth
if we're too scared to move
i won't heed the cries
of these privileged men so scandalized
there's no time to argue just call a lie a lie
and you say that you want civility restored
but i know it means that you don't wanna have to hear it anymore
the water still runs poisonous in flint and you change the subject
for you it's academic, you just like to play devil's advocate
and we get what we get
and we get what we get
and we get what we get
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This Girl
03:15
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Sorry but the schedule's full right now
Sorry but we found somebody else
Sorry but we can't afford to pay you tonight
Sorry had to cancel I hope it's all right
I'm so far from all right I've come out the other side
CHORUS
And this girl won't back down, won't back down
This girl won't back down, oh
This girl won't back down, won't back down
This girl won't back down, oh
Sorry if it really went down like that,
I had no idea
I guess it must have been painful for you
I guess you're OK now
I guess i gotta suck it up and press on
I guess I'll be all right
I guess the nightmares will remind me that I got to the other side
'Cause I can't live inside the past, the time just goes so fast
CHORUS
I learned you get punished for sticking out
I learned to be strong and never shut my mouth
I learned the resistance is fuel
I won't let you make me a fool
I'll use the resistance as fuel
I'll use the resistance as fuel
I'll use the resistance as fuel
I'll use the resistance as fuel
CHORUS
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Up From Here
04:01
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Shall we talk about the loss of tiny objects
Very small specific parts, without which nothing can be fixed
Shall we talk about mercury retrograde,
it's totally cool I love to put the past in perspective!
But now that we are back in the present
Everything in my life seems to be broken
Shall we talk about my psychological state
Let's not play with fire here, it's already been a long day
CHORUS:
You cannot be serious
The way you're jerking me around
This bad luck is hilarious
'Cause you can't keep this fucker down
You can't keep this fucker down
Shall we talk about guitars and cars and bank accounts
It's a Russian roulette! Where will the problem be today!
I am one headlight short of a bright outlook
That's not a metaphor! I hope I don't get pulled over! Anyway
I'll count my lucky stars that I am good in a crisis
And I'll thank the universe for giving me so much practice
CHORUS
Don't threaten me with a good time
I wouldn't know what to do with it
Everything will be just fine
As soon as I find my keys and my wallet,
I can only go up from here
I can only go up, up
I can only go up from here
I can only go up, up
CHORUS
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Liminal Spaces
03:20
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I have a thing for liminal spaces
I get stuck inside them for ages
When you observe a particle the particle changes
But no one's understanding when I change too, if you're lookin
I had a book of dreams on my nightstand
I always thought that I'd come back for it
I had to prove that I could make rent
I had to prove I could do it my way
If you'd just believed me the first time, it wouldn't have been so hard for me
Where are the moon sisters I was promised
Where is the music monk I never got to be
'Cause I got stuck chasin' love from somebody
'Cause I got stuck having to chase money
I have a thing for piano players
I try to learn from the things I am drawn to
I try to learn why the moth inside me likes this particular flame
So I don't get burned again
I have a notebook, so many it's embarrassing
I have a lot to say for someone so quiet everyone thinks that I'm a
stuck up bitch until they get to know me
And by the time they get to know me
I'm attached even if it's wrong
Where is the knight of cups I was promised
I went all in and I got was this lousy discernment
'Cause I got stuck chasing love from somebody
'Cause I got stuck having to chase money
It's too late now
You can never take it back
It's too late now
You can never get the years back
Too late now
And the future looks exhausting
Where are the good hearted but broken people
Feel myself changing into something I don't like
'Cause I got stuck chasin love from somebody
'Cause I got stuck having to chase money
I have a thing for liminal spaces. (Ahhhhhh)
I get stuck inside them for ages
When you observe a particle the particle changes
I can barely recognize the particle I've become
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rorie kelly New York
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.
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