Get all 8 Kerrin Connolly releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Don't Be Afraid, With My Hands, SAD, creatingishard.wav, New Year (I'm Counting On You), Fly in My Room, Almost, and Playing Terarria.
1. |
Fly in My Room
02:32
|
|||
|
How many open windows scared me
When I could've had fresh air
How many glasses fully empty
'fore I decided not to care
Always the breeze of something bigger
And the taste of something sweet
But never the whole pitcher
Never enough to move me from the same old seat
Lately there's a fly in my room
I never knew they live so long
I just assumed an early doom
Is just what you get
Hitting your head again and again
Off every wall in this old tomb
Expecting them to move
At any rate, I need some sleep
Lately there's a fly in my room
I never knew they live so long
I just assumed an early doom
Is just what you get
Hitting your head again and again
Off every wall in this old tomb
Expecting them to move
At any rate, I need some rest
Is this a test? I am obsessed
Oh, there's a fly above my bed
It's in my head singing its song
I think instead I'd like it dead
It's just what you get
Hitting your head again and again
We're cut from the same web
I bet a far worse trap's been set
No, this ain't over yet
Not over yet
It's not over yet
|
||||
2. |
Giant Falling Anvil
02:56
|
|||
|
What could possibly go wrong? It's only Monday
Pardon me, I'm busy being in my own way
Out of here with no good fortune left to gamble
Knowing me, I'll meet a giant falling anvil
And it'd be just my luck
So when I get crushed
I can say I saw it coming
I can say I saw it coming
Spend the day rehearsing my reactions to you
Pass away in every daydream I am drawn to
Repeat the worst scenario, which would you rather?
Natural or otherwise tragic disaster
So when I get crushed
I can say I saw it coming
I can say I saw it coming
Worry worry worry worry
It won't happen if I worry
Worry worry worry worry
I'll be ready if I worry
I'll be ready if I
And it'd be just my luck
So when I get crushed
Well at least I saw it coming
Well at least I saw it coming
Worry worry worry worry
It won't happen if I worry
Worry worry worry worry
I'll be ready if I worry
I'll be ready if I
|
||||
3. |
Hydra
03:27
|
|||
|
I'm going in blind
With a sword at my side
And a veil across my face
Cause I'm afraid the air out here ain't safe
And this my fabled labor
Well I'm done doing favors
You best watch out behind ya
Kill one two more will find ya
Don't let the struggle define ya
Beware the Hydra
Beware the Hydra
I swear it used to be different
Now i'm burning the torches at both ends
How much more will you ask of me
Cutting off the parts of me well spent
Cauterizing the wounds so they don't mend
How much more will you ask of me
You best watch out behind ya
Kill one two more will find ya
Don't let the struggle define ya
Beware the Hydra
Beware the Hydra
You best watch out behind ya
Kill one the rest will find ya
Don't let the struggle define ya
Beware the Hydra
Beware the Hydra
|
||||
4. |
Don't Be Afraid
02:56
|
|||
|
At some point I got too big for the space under your bed
Biting ankles didn't suit me so I moved to your closet
I know the feeling
I know you're scared 'cause somebody scared me too
Funny, I used to be a lot like you
'Til I turned into something else
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me, oh
Please don't be afraid of me
Don't be afraid of me
I'm trying but I know that look
I learned to love what I had, a troubled little thing trying to claw through the cracks, oh
Fact is that people will hurt you, and it has absolutely nothing to do with you
I know the feeling
Healing over and hardening, sharpening
Sometimes I'm unrecognizable
Like I turned into someone else
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me, oh
Please don't be afraid of me
Don't be afraid of me
I'm trying but I know that look
Living by light through the keyhole
What if I've become the one I've been running from
Open the door to a tiptoe
What's that? I thought your eyes were closed
But you can see me oh god you can see me oh no
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me
Please don't be afraid of me, oh
Please don't be afraid of me
Don't be afraid of me
I'm trying but I know that look
|
||||
5. |
New York
03:08
|
|||
|
She says she loves New York
I mean I guess it's great
If you like mean streets at a high price
Of always being late
I'd like to think
I could compete with that
New York New York
If I could be new york
Or at least new to her
The big ol' apple of her eye
Watching the lights go by
We'd never sleep
'Cause no one ever does
New York New York
I really wish I was
Oh as vast as the city
She'd never know me
Oh at least not completely
But you could tell she loves me
By the way she walks down all my streets
'Cause she knows they're made for her
In the city of dreams
Y'know it's all I ever do
Just to wake up next to you
Would be a god damn dream come true
(Is it the same for you)
Is it the same for you
Oh as vast as the city
She'd never know me
Oh at least not completely
But you could tell she loves me
By the way she walks down all my streets
'Cause she knows they're made for her
She says she loves New York
(She'd never know me)
She says she loves New York
(Not completely)
Look at the way she walks down all my streets
'Cause she knows they're made for her
|
||||
6. |
No. 44
02:59
|
|||
|
Oh the things you can do when you're unaccounted for
I knew it would end like it started, sure as I'd been born
Hey, isn't it somethin', Haley's Comet
Circled back around to keep this old man honest
The brightest lights in life will cast a mighty darkness
I can only hope mine is at the very least thought provoking
A couple of strangers, cloaked in mystery
Two freaks of nature, together in destiny
Something to stifle disappointment
Or maybe just to keep my head from fixing on it
The brightest lights in life will cast a blinding darkness
So give me my glasses, the chapter's finally closing
|
||||
Kerrin Connolly Boston, Massachusetts
If you like Kerrin Connolly, you may also like:
Exposure & Response
by Mo Troper
On “Exposure & Response,” Troper writes the kind of songs that would have filled stadiums in a bygone era.
go to album
Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside
by Nick Lowe
The first new release from Nick Lowe in 5 years includes two originals and two rollicking covers.
go to album
Alex Luciano and drummer Noah Bowman offer charming bedroom pop. Camera Obscura fans, listen up!
go to album
The Convincer (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Nick Lowe
Released in 2001, “The Convincer” is a gentle gem in the Nick Lowe catalog; an anniversary edition provides opportunity for rediscovery.
go to album
Heartfelt indie rock from Philadelphia's Buddie wraps the sincerest of sentiments in big, colorful choruses.
go to album
The Nightmare Gosifur pt 3
by Adrian Sood
In Adrian Snood’s songs, soulful vocals and slow-moving alt-pop swirl together to create something distinctly moving.
go to album
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub produced this lush and hooky collection of pop songs.
go to album
