Jenni Alpert
 
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Unreleased 2010
you will come back
   sweet talk
     heaven
       stupid
          now you know
            i'll be gone

you will come back
through those tears I see your eyes
and all the beauty you have inside
but its days like these you can’t remember
cuz the pain you keep wont let you love her

but I know, you will come back
you will come back to me
i know, you will come back
you will come back to me
i know, I know, for you it won’t be easy
but you will come back, you will come back
you will come back to me

little child locked outside
no one to hold her when she cried
now you’d rather run instead of feel
so now you’re gone and I’m left here

i can’t breath without you
can’t you see
cuz I can’t be without you
you belong with me . . .

sweet talk
all the things I wanted
were right here in front of me
to many times I walked the line, hopin
but things don’t come so easily

but you …..you ground me
no matter what’s goin on
and you, you found me
now all my bad days are gone

sweet talk to me
and tell me things
like you love me
and you’re never gonna let me down

and I’ll sweet talk to you
and tell you true
i need you
your love is why my is love is all around

so now I’m givin you my permission
to bring your fire to this ice and make it melt
cuz I realize it was really my omission
that I don’t need anybody else

but you …..you ground me
no matter what’s goin on
and you, you found me
now all my bad days are gone

sweet talk to me
and tell me things
like you love me
and you’re never gonna let me down

and I'll sweet talk to you
tell you true
i need you,
your love is why my love is all around
ohhh

i'm so glad
that you found me

sweet talk to me
and tell me things
like you love me
cuz I know you’ll never let me down

and I'll sweet talk to you
tell you true
i need you,
your love is why my love is all around
ohhh

heaven
sitting in my car
trying to remember
all the things you said to me
sitting next to me
spending our whole lives making up for what our parents
try to get over it
embrace the taste in my mouth so bitter

heaven is a place I'm running from
don't know what's real don't think I'll heal don't want to do what I should
heaven is a place I'm running from
don't know what's real don't think I’ll heal don't want to be good for you

embrace the silence but I want you there empty and screaming
never know what it feels to love while receiving
traces of wasted on my face, drunk and I'm drowning in your wisdom
why didn't I listen now I'm caught in memories of you

heaven is a place I'm running from
don't know what's real don't think I'll heal don't want to do what i should
heaven is a place I'm running from
don't know what's real don't think I'll heal don't want to be good for you

stupid
you think you’re smart you’re so smart
you think you’re smart, you’re so smart
you think you’re smart, you’re so smart stupid

holdin on to what he’s got
thinkin that he knows the lot of it
then he realizes he don’t know shit
the truth is relative the truth is relative

then why not give it all away
never mind what you’ll pay for it
come on now
have a little faith

everybody’s playin games
playin games without shame yeah
everybody’s got their way
the truth is relative the truth is relative

everybody’s got their pain
shining through the needless gain of it
but it’s all right, it’s all right
is it alright with you

you never know when the match’ll burn out
you’ll never know when you’ll learn how
just leap across because you yearn for it
it’s all an open book book no words inside
it’s all an open book book to rewrite
each time you take a look look you forget why
so you look to someone else
instead of lookin at your self

now you know
the hand of god at your finger tips
oh the glory of what you thought you knew
now you know that what you've learned, you learned the hard way

the hand of god at your savoy lips
oh what you thought you would do
but now you know that what you've learned
you learned the hard way

you cross the line a thousand times
then made up your mind
you chose to decide
and now you're cryin
for all you never thought you'd choose
for all you never thought you'd loose

the hand of god inside your dreams
oh the mess of what you've seen
but now you know what you've learned
you learned the hard way

you think you know what's best
until you see the mess you've created
and understated, just to get by

you cross the line a thousand times
then made up your mind
you chose to decide
and now you're cryin
for all you never thought you'd choose
for all you never thought you'd loose

i'll be gone
you say that you love me
but you gotta play dirty
you say that you want me
but words are only skin deep baby
you say you’ll move mountains
but there oceans between us
you say that you counting
the ways to teach me how to swim

well babe, I got my vest on
and maybe I’m not wrong

make me wanna be in your arms
show me that to love you means now and forever
or the sun’ll come up and I’ll be gone
whoa whoa whoa oh oh oh oh….

make me wanna be there now and for ever
make me wanna be in your arms
show me how to love in your arms
show me that to love you means now and forever
show me how to love in your arms
or the sun’ll come up and I’ll be gone

you say that you feel it
the you can’t get it straight
you say that you need me
then you negotiate
another reason why
so now you got me thinking
and it may be complicated
but it’s not me that’s sinkin

cuz I got my vest on (babe)
and baby I’m not wrong

show me how to love in your arms
show me that to love you means now and forever
show me how to love in your arms
or the sun’ll come up and I’ll be gone

you know the truth
there is nothing I wouldn’t do
so please tell me the truth


No Second Guesses
all we need is love
  simple mood
    untied
      heaven
        tragedy
          breathe in
            release me
              say it ain't over
                with one breath
                  damage done
          fade away
          breakin down
          something beautiful

all we need is love
i don’t know why the world is spinning the world is spinning in her own web
think I’ll cry from all these images swimming in my head
you know it’s time to make a change for all the change we left to chance instead
so take a step now forward to the side now and don’t you mind how to get ahead

all we need is love La la a ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love

don’t you know we’re just people floatin in the same boats
siftin through the same notes to sing our songs
yeah we’re all just people wearin the same coats
lookin for the same roads to move along
becomin our own tvs livin like war movies
hopes and dreams just pages in magazines
believin that we’re happy finger tips from real things
thinking that this is all we need

all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love

it’s a shame we’re all the same but we just don’t know it
looking for familiar things to afraid to let go and
oh I know that there is pain when you look a bit deeper
when you reach on down to the deep of it, the core of it
you’ll notice this is what to live for

all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love
all we need is love La la la ah ah Love

simple mood
it's like finding a simple mood
when I feel a melody capture the inside of me
the feeling that I belong in a different time of day
i’ll follow the hours as they pass by
suddenly I'm caught in the middle of nowhere
where the sun don't shine and the moon don't glow at all
it’s between the break of day and new September dawn
i’ll watch the seasons change even when I don't belong
there's more of me to be apart of this
cycle of evening rains and spinning stars in the sky
i want to loose control to fuel and feed it
but the dawns to weak and I'm to strong to cry
suddenly I'm caught in the middle of nowhere
where the sun don't shine and the moon don't glow at all
it’s between the break of day and new September dawn
i'll watch the seasons change even when I don't belong
suddenly I'm caught in the middle of nowhere
where the sun don't shine and the moon don't glow at all
it’s between the break of day, new September dawn
i'll watch the seasons change even when I don't belong

untied
when spring turns to summer I'm fallin to the ground
i miss my lover but he says needs time to come around
say you've got it all figured out you'll return with style
as I pass the time your sweet caress haunts me all the while

i can't resist you babe
your touch does me just right
and I insist that babe
you take me for a ride
you've got me untied

there's nothin stoppin me, or what I wouldn't do
you’re always so difficult and you play me for a fool
something between us I know you feel it to
in a flood of wine I'm dancing my river runs for you

i can't resist you babe
your touch does me just right
and I insist that babe
you take me for a ride
you've got me untied

i'll tell you sweet darlin
you've got me goin out of my mind
one more taste sweet darlin
you'll have me beggin for one more time

i can't resist you babe
your touch does me just right
and I insist that babe
you take me for a ride
you've got me untied

heaven
see above

tragedy
you say you're sober i say it's over
it's nobody's fault but mine

the cash and the credits are overextended
but at least we've got our own piece of mind

oh the revolution
oh my guillotine

i'm just a tragedy
i'm on a losing streak
no one can save me from myself

i've gotten in to deep
exhausted but i can't sleep
no one can save me from this hell

echo's of promises drift through the curtains
like sun in the afternoon

all of them shadows of time that was wasted
on dreams that were not meant for you

oh the revolution
oh my guillotine

i'm just a tragedy
i'm on a losing streak
no one can save me from myself

i've gotten in to deep
exhausted but i can't sleep
no one can save me from this hell

little birdy on the window
little birdy on the window
sing me your song

little birdy on the window
winter is coming
and it's time to move along

i'm just a tragedy
i'm on a losing streak
no one can save me from myself

i've gotten in to deep
exhausted but i can't sleep
no one can save me from this hell
no one can save me from myself
please save me from myself

breathe In
call me at eight in the morning until I will rise
see that I cannot believe it
it’s all in your mind

you talk your head off till I see you, inside
we argue and argue and fuss and we fight till I know
you’ll come home

so now it is time for a talk and a walk
and you just don’t know if you can handle at all
what I’m saying to you
what I’m saying to you

breathe light inside and and love your self

calling and calling and screaming and wallow inside
what you are cuz you don’t know the farthest thing from you
all you can do is decide and rewind
to the place that wont hard you
so no one can hear
what all the shouting is about
as we let it all out

release me
all the things I gave to you and lost a long the way
we're just light-years behind a dimming sky
all the things I waited for just to hear you say
you’re not leaving her and we must say goodbye

growing older is hard to do but it's painful not to try
i'm as open as you wanted me but to empty now to cry

release me
release me
release me
maybe I'll find home
release me
release me
release me
you never know until you try alone

all the things you asked of me I did without defense
i wanted to be better than before
the sky grew darker, and my mind farther from when it all made sense
don't want to wait to loose you anymore

growing older is hard to do but it's painful not to try
i'm as open as you wanted me but to empty now to cry

release me
release me
release me
maybe I'll find home
release me
release me
release me
you never know until you try alone

i might end up where I started from
don’t mind it’s worth the journey home
i’ve waited for so long its time you choose
you say you think we’re meant to be
but it you still love her then set me free
just give me something more to hold on too

release me
release me
release me
maybe I'll come home
release me
release me
release me
you never know until you try alone

say it ain't over
i don't know why you’re on my mind
another night of sleepless calculations
feel oh so high then things don't work out right
in times like these all love needs is a little restoration

when I feel I've had enough
when I feel like giving up
i close my eyes and reach for you
when I feel like times are tough
when I'm out of my good luck
i tell myself, there's nothing time can't do
 
so say it ain't over
say it ain't true
i'll always be your lover cuz my heart can't live without you

say it ain't over
say it ain't true
i wont have no other there's nothin time (i) can't do
to make you see, how good (my) (our) love can be

you put up a good fight by blurin all the lines
hold yourself up high burdened by empty consolations
so you say goodbye that you're not a friend of time's
cuz the pain inside binds your love to resignation

when I feel I've had enough
when I feel like giving up
i close my eyes and reach for you
when I feel like times are tough
when I'm out of my good luck
i tell myself, there's nothing time can't do

with one breath
you think you know but then you don't
you think you see but then you wont
you’ve read between the lines a thousand times

you think sure but then your not
you think its time but then you stop
cuz what you need might not be what you find

till you look inside yourself and listen to the things that tell you
how to trust the feelings that you fear
it takes some time to recognize the truth so clear that lies inside
with one breath you’ll know which one to hear

you think you love but then you give
you think you thought but then you live
the way to change is simply just to do
you think you’re lost but then you breath
you take your time effortlessly
to learn the things that are best for you

so you look inside yourself and listen to the things that tell you
how to trust the feelings that you fear
it takes some time to recognize the truth so clear that lies inside
with one breath you’ll know which one to hear

time to open time to let go
let yourself trust let your self know
you have all the love within that you’ll ever need

the mystery of life is so
to trust yourself you must let go
open up to all the things you fear
it takes some time to recognize the truth so clear that lies inside
with one breath you’ll know which one to hear

damage done
here I am familiar face
a voice that is me too proud to see
the rocks are too heavy
feeling like boulders
push away, pull me close

lay me down teach me to fly (double)
the lonely divide
here's my shell hammer away
i'm not afraid

reflections polished and clean
not at all true, not at all me
child stay wise forget your self
keep it all in and do it again

lay me down teach me to fly
the lonely divide
here's my shell hammer away
i’m not afraid

love is how we heal the damage that is done

fade away
fade away fade
fade away fade
love shine down on me shine down on me
but don't fade away

doesn't anybody notice life in this place
planet doom
wheelin and dealing in pleasures face
planet doom

hold me touch me make me feel again
hold me touch me make it real again

fade away fade
fade away fade
love shine down on me, shine down on me
but don't fade away

protect ourselves polish the pain
planet doom
will anybody ever be naked again
planet doom

hold me touch me make me feel again
hold me touch me make it real again

fade away fade
fade away fade
love shine down on me shine down on me
but don't fade away

breakin down
i'm gonna shower you with goodness
i’m gonna give my love away
cuz you teach me forgiveness
and I love your ways

why complain about what we decide
life goes by to fast
loosing myself finding my face again
in the years that pass

i'm gonna shower you with goodness
i’m gonna give my love away
cuz you teach me forgiveness
and I love your ways

making a difference in loving those around you
making it right for those who hurt
letting things go don't let them get the best of you
knowing what your worth

i’m gonna shower you with goodness
i’m gonna give my love away
cuz you teach me forgiveness
and I love your ways

and I'm breaking down
breaking down
finally breaking down

i'm gonna shower you with goodness
i’m gonna give my love away
cuz you teach me forgiveness
and I love your ways

something beautiful
cloudy eyes and silence
holds the secrets that bind us
seems the memories wont go away
but you try and try anyway

to sing something beautiful to make you whole
sing something beautiful to heal your soul

as we get older
old on tighter to things we can't see
but as I reach out
i hope you hold on to me

and sing something beautiful that makes you whole
and I'll sing something beautiful to heal your soul

and sing something beautiful to make you whole
i'll sing something beautiful to heal your, heal your soul

waits for the muse to sing him through days like these
wake in the morn drive in your car in the traffic
while everyone else is screaming, screaming
wish you were sleeping, sleeping
and the memories that we try to forget
as we regret we re-awake and we're reborn into something new

and we sing something beautiful to make us whole
i will, I will sing something beautiful to heal, heal your soul, your soul......

Pieces
   baltimore 
     heaven
       fallin
         all the nothings
           fade away
             below sea
               untied
                  breakin down
          black crow
          seasons

baltimore
old man river running dry
pebble of desire come kiss my eye
give me reason tell me why
so many people deny

the night grows thin the night grows cold
pack my bags back on the road
some people come some people go
leaving me with there bitter taste of gold

and i hope god is watching
i hope that he can see what we have done
built binary cities to keep from sinking
it's as if the whole country is on the run

yeah old river you can't reply to all my questions
but old river you can rely upon my face
cuz inside these eyes you'll read their stories
a collection of each person's simple grace

and each town seems to push me farther
far from myself I see a different view
and loss of child makes it much harder
people's past makes my future blue

heaven
see above

fallin
don't need to see you don't need to feel you
something's on to us
the power to give is the power to loose
and I'll be receiving

but you say bye to love
hello farewell
wake me up
cuz I'm fallin down down down

on borrowed time let me shine let me fade
how can you sit there amongst my parade laughing laughing
it's the luck of the draw that I should love you away

but you say bye to love
hello farewell
wake me up
cuz I'm fallin down down down

all the nothings
suddenly I'm naked again
in the very same room as my child pen
only now I'm sitting beside the edge
cage blankets innocent wild
only now I'm not so far from that little child

i should believe in something
but something's out of reach
i want to believe in something
more than the nothings we're meant to believe

branded by fear that blinds me to see
that happiness is al l I'm supposed to need
but I'll lie to myself to keep myself free
wondering what's really happening
collecting all the pieces that bring me back to this place
besides this child's cage

and I'm tired of wasting away in this ageless life
the cycles keep spinning me back to the wrong from the right
and I'm desperately seeking the moments of breathing
where everything might seem clearly again

i should believe in something
but something's out of reach
I want to believe in something
more than the nothings we're meant to believe

fade away
see above

below sea
october moon and I'm settling down
waiting for things to come through to me
mind rests in June
world moving in round below sea

and I'm swimming, floating for you
feet dragging the ground
i fear I might drown
in the love that you give
hope that you bring
love that you give that dances with string

december skies drying my eyes
away from the cries of yearning for you
september sun how it begin
burning with fumes that keep running out

and I'm swimming floating for you
feet dragging the ground
i fear I might drown
in the love that you give
hope that you bring
love that you give that dances with string

will forever be imbedded in the words that we say to each other.

untied
see above

breakin down
see above

black crow
black crow in the corner of my sky
silently perching there seemingly unaware that you're my humor
black crow in the corner of my mind
protecting me from protecting myself
revealing your wings of steel

see me standing near I can taste your tears
though you hide them and your beside yourself
don't you know I hear all the words you want to say
timing gets in the way it's better if far you stay
so I won't arm you with fuel to fly away

black crow in the corner of my eye
painting paper planes onto the sky
to fly me where my arms can't reach
where freedom lies beneath if you soar above it

seasons
summer days winter is calling again
i wish you well
fell the air beneath the trees cool summer breeze
just a careless as you can tell
can you feel how careless we can be
can you sense it in the moonlight
can you sense it in the sun
another day of growing older
another season has just begun

Extras
moonshine

moonshine your eyes don't seem to know the love that I've been shaded by
moonshine your tone speaks soft like those left behind
moonshine everything you are bleeds right into me
moonshine my body shivers I'm left with a calm
let's dance in acid rain
pour water in me deep
wet my sorrow
pour water in me deep
rain on my walls and I'll come
showering down to you

moonshine memory glistens my pocket with holes
i'm lost in my mind
moonshine my heart aches of confusion inside, whisk me away
i can only feel you calling me
calling me
i can only feel what's real
i can only feel you calling me
i've got you underneath my skin

simple Mood
see above

untied
see above

lonely bottles
this time you're really going strong
take to this road all out on your own
from the sidelines I watch you write the rules
never mind those who taught you well
so used to riding alone in your hell
but it's amazing what exceptions can do

cuz with me there's no holding back
stop thinking about all the things you might lack
it's all in your mind and I don't have the time to ignore it
life is short but I'm here for the ride
the door is wide open so sweep out your pride
the journey is rough
i'll be by your side
just explore it

lonely you'll find moments in time
where you'll be left with no rhythm or rhyme
but I'll reason you back to where you belong

don't give up cause it's safe for you
the bottle is empty but your heart is too
can't keep on running like a fool
cuz in the end there'll be no one left to break your rules