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Track:
Melancholy Moon (tape recording) (unreleased demo ARCHIVE)

Artist:
Linda Strawberry

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This is a song from my archive called Melancholy Moon - It is a tape recording from 2002 when I was working on the Zwan record in Chicago. Occasionally I had off time so I would go into a side studio with a tape recorder - When I wrote this I was practicing the guitar picking pattern that Billy had just taught me and then this song popped in my head. (I have found so many of these songs on old tapes and cd’s that I found in my storage -so more to come).

Lyrics

I was a sullen star

orbiting a blue moon

then I met you

and I fell

oh well oh well oh well…

I used to wear my pain

like a tear

a dirty stain

then you came

and I felt your chest pound against mine

and I awoke just in time

to realize that I deserve to be happy

someone like you

existed

I need to know you’re gonna be alright

gonna be alright

I need to know you’re gonna be alright

please say you’ll be fine

you’ll be fine oh….

I was comatose

lying in a given fate

then I touched you

and I began to quake

and I got a taste

and I fell

oh well oh well oh well..

‘cause I looked for you in so many eyes..

to be let down..

to be compromised..

then all the sudden

there you were

with no disguise…

with your hair in your eyes

your hair in your eyes

I need to know you’re gonna be alright

gonna be alright

I need to know you’re gonna be alright

please say you’ll be fine

oh..

you’ll be fine

oh…..

that you’ll be fine …

oh…

I am Clara

live performance.

The scar is rising

and all I want is distance

The shadows are biting

and all I want is in you

Nothing can quiet the reason

Nothing can cover the marks

I know that I’m gonna get over this

I know that I’m gonna pull through

But now I’m just shadowing

dragging the blues

It’s a heavy, heavy, heavy mood.

The incantation

all my life to love you

lives past illusion

and all my life, all my life, i’ll love you

nothing could quiet the reason

nothing can cover the marks

nothing could make me regret you

nothing could outlast the spark

I know that I’m gonna get over this

i know that I’m gonna pull through

But now I’m just shadowing

dragging the blues

it’s a heavy, heavy, heavy mood.

It’s a heavy, heavy, heavy, mood.

The Saddest Song -

I wrote this song one day in a writing session with a producer Chrysalis sent me to work with. I wrote this about the same time as Orchid. I was just a fragile wreck, unknowingly going through pretty bad PTSD. Anyway.. this song came out after I had a breakdown in the studio and the producer left me alone for an hour to try get it together. It’s about my general confusion and my weariness of the music industry in general. This song means alot to me. I am putting it on the next record.

The Saddest Song..

I am so lost

People say all kinds of things they don’t mean

I’m just trying to find out what to believe in.

So tell me that I’m alright

And I’ll tell you I’m not alright

And these things are so hard to hear

When I’m just trying not to fall off the edge.. of the world..

I can’t go on.

People say all kinds of things that they don’t mean.

I’m just trying to find what to believe in.

Tell me that I’m alright

And I’ll tell you that I’m not alright

And these things are so hard to hear

When I’m just trying not to fall off the edge

Just trying not to fall off the edge… of the world…

oh..

Get Out of My Heart -

just a very sad time - but a good song came out of it. I only took this because I didn’t have my tape recorder. So this really is live writing. I was making it up. I’m glad I got it on film.

I’m putting this on one of the next records.

oh no, i can’t be back here.. suffering for another fool’s lying heart

I’ve been too good, to be made to feel so hollow..

I thought you were the one I could believe

I thought you were the one I could believe in.

But you Say Nothing when you know I’m breaking down

you Say Nothing, and really it says it all.

So baby Get Out, Get Out, Get Out of My Heart.

oh you, so selfish, only sorry ‘cause I caught you in the act.

And I’ve been too good to be made to feel so hollow.

I thought you were the one I could believe in

I thought you were the one I could believe

But you Say Nothing, when you know I’m breaking down

you Say Nothing, and really it says it all

So Get Out, Get Out, Get Out of My Heart..

I’m Yours.

a live performance at a friends house in 2008.

this song is gonna be on the new record. :)

Some people say I shouldn’t want you

Some people say, but baby I do

Everybody here has got something to sell you

but, I don’t

So, i’ll say outright

I’m yours tonight.

If you’d like

I’m yours.

People talk all kinds of shit

But that doesn’t mean that we aren’t IT.

I’m made an art of my denying

things that only you make me feel

and baby I will always love you

even if you don’t come through tonight

So say outright,

I’m yours tonight

Oh, if you like,

I’m yours.

Some people say I shouldn’t need you

Some people don’t, but baby I do

Everybody here’s got something to tell you

But I don’t

So say outright,

I’m yours tonight.

If you like,

I’m yours.

You walk in

the air ignites

no one makes me burn so bright

I’ve made an art of my denying things that only you make me feel

but, baby I will always love you even if you don’t come through tonight

Say outright,

I’m yours tonight.

If you like

I’m yours.

oh Say Outright..

I’m yours.

If you like,

I’m yours.

Spark Lightning Demo

I am so glad someone has this! I lost this demo. If someone has a higher fidelity version of it will they submit it here? you can submit by clicking in the bottom right corner of this page. Anyway thankyou to “lipdistortion” on youtube for posting this.

It’s a demo I did with Dan Burns in 2004. This song will end up on a future record for sure.

To take it off is like a drug

but of you,

the gathered weight makes a lighter heart.

and just to speak of this spark and lightning

from a shattered heart

it takes courage

to let you enter

to see into my dark

I won’t fear love.

I give it up

I am drunk

you stop the drag to turn the light

here’s a valentine

my secret parts

just for you

the gathered weight makes a lighter heart

and just to speak of this

Spark and Lightning

from a shattered heart

it takes courage

to let you enter

to see into my dark

I won’t fear love.

Grab my hand,

let’s jump off

to stretch a flash of sudden want

to give you to the curve i flaunt

and just to speak of this

Spark and Lightning

from a shattered heart

it takes courage to let you enter

to see into my dark

I won’t fear love.

Senora

here is a video Justin Coloma and I made one night when we were bored with these little toy cameras.

She says she feels

the death beneath her eyes

Says she’s tired of faking the smiles

As the monsters lurk beneath her skirts

the monsters lurk beneath her skirts

but she closes her eyes

Hey, wait, we’re losing precious time

So much left to say

Hey, wait, we’re losing precious time

So much left to say

It’s so hard from day to day

the nightmares never end

So could you send me a lullaby

The monsters lurk beneath her skirts

she says she’s fine

The monsters lurk beneath her skirts

But she closes her eyes

and says it’s sick to watch it chip away

She tries to hope it will all be okay

Hey, wait, we’re losing precious time

So much left to say

Hey, wait, we’re losing precious time

So much left to say

It’s so hard from day to day

the nightmare never end

So could you send me a lullaby

While my anxious mind ticks away and terrifies me

Could you tell me am I cracking up

I can’t stop the shakes..

It’s so hard from day to day

the nightmares never end.

So could you send me a lullaby….

There is a alt mix of this on Lip Distortion on itunes.

Fuck you I’m beautiful

This was a video made by DemonMoonKid -

I originally had fans submit their own videos that were supposed to be edited into a video but that never got finished. I dunno why. Ask Justin. :)

I’m learning to edit now so maybe I’ll finish it myself. But I loved this one.

You were my star

I never wondered

I know who you are

It’s afternoon

I’m ready for bed - ready to exist again

In the drug of a dream

All my friends say

Fuck him, you’re beautiful

All my friends say

oh all my friends say

ya, well anyway, ya.. anyway

‘cuz I’m tired and I’m crossed and I’m hollow and unfriendly

You bastard

I loved you I loved you I loved you

Now all my friends say

Oh, all my friends say

Fuck him, You’re beautiful

And then my mind says

then my mind says

Fuck him, You’re beautiful

But it’s unconvincing

my heart must have earplugs (haha)

‘cause I’m bleeding and bleeding

You’re the one I am needing

the drug of a dream

takes me over

the drug of a dream

last night we were flying through an ocean

danced in the waves

it was amazing, it was amazing, it was amazing

I smashed my alarm clock against the wall

I smashed it, smashed it, smashed it, smashed it

All I have to say, all I have to say

Is fuck today, ‘cause he was beautiful

All I have to say, oh all I have to say

Is fuck today, ‘cause he was beautiful

With his hair bending in the waves..

hair bending….

with his hair bending in the waves..

oh… oh…..

Someone - 2007 video

I am going to release this song on my next record. :) But this was shortly after I wrote it. I met Justin a few months earlier. :) It’s about Hope.

Everyone hurts

Everyone cries

Everyone feels the pain and doubt of a lie

Don’t give up your hope

Don’t give up your hope that there’s

Someone

Someone to love you

Someone to hold you when it’s dark

Someone

Someone who loves you

Someone to stay when things are hard

They’ll say

You’re not alone.

The jaded world corrodes belief

What started out so strong brought to its knees

But don’t give up your hope

Don’t give the hope that there is

Someone

Someone who loves you

Someone to hold you when it’s dark

Someone

Someone who needs you

Someone to stay when things are hard.

They’ll say you’re not alone

You’re not alone

You are not alone

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