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Escape With Me
05:24
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A little bird told me that you want to hold me again
The sunlight is sinking and my phone is blinking again
Are you calling me?
It's been ages, my pen's filled ten pages again
Since you last held my hand
We're both busy but please won't you give me a chance
Then we can plan
To drive through the night by the stars and the light of the moon
We'll relax and unwind, leave our old lives behind, out of view
Escape with me
Oh, escape with me
Escape with me
Oh, escape with me
You know I'm a dreamer, I play and I scheme and pretend
But this isn't a game
You know I won't kid you, I just want to give you a chance
Then we can plan
To drive through the night by the stars and the light of the moon
We'll relax and unwind, leave our old lives behind, out of view
Escape with me
Oh, escape with me
Escape with me
Oh, escape with me
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Drinking Coffee
04:15
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The coffee at the bottom of my cup is cold and bitter
But I choke it down and hope the hurt gets swallowed on the way.
I keep the cut pressed to my lips even though it's empty
And hold it very still until the trembling goes away
But I don't know why I try to hide these feelings
And I don't know why I try to hide this pain.
'Cause even though you're right across the table from me, darling
I could wail and I could shout
I could let myself cry out
You'd go on drinking coffee and never ask me to explain
You'd go on drinking coffee and never ask me to explain
I often think of packing up a bag and walking out
And never turning back to see if you put up a fight
But our baby boys, they have your eyes and how could Mama tell them,
"Your daddy never treat me wrong but he never treat me right."
So I go on tryin' to hide all these feelings
And I go on tryin' to hide all this pain.
But even though you're right across the table from me, darling
I could wail and I could shout
I could let myself cry out
You'd go drinking coffee and never ask me to explain
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Just Another Person
03:59
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With stillness twixt my lips, I have finally become
Just another person who loves
It's natural, it's bliss, to belong to someone
Just another person who lives
If storms keep blowing down your door
You'd thank the Lord if things are only miserable
And loving might be commonplace
Like breaking bread or saying grace
But some have hungry souls
Everybody
I wanna be like
Everybody wants to be like
Everybody
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Meadowlark
04:10
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It was wrong from the start
We both knew it then
But there were clouds in our eyes
Please believe that we tried
But we couldn't pretend
That the mountains weren't meant to cradle us
And that the starry stars weren't meant to blanket us
And that the bodies keeping our beds warm at home wouldn't mind us
So we both were untrue
But only untrue to you
Because my man back at home
Tells me I'm free to roam
As the meadowlark do
And I know that won't understand
What a meadowlark sees in a man
With a woman who's only a phone call away
That he's lying to
But I was wrong
I was wrong
I was wrong to hurt you and hold you in our lies
But the meadowlark needs to fly
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Tender Hour of Twilight
03:23
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Terrible Alchemy
05:44
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I rambled into town all dressed in black,
With a hitch in my walk
And pale moonlight longing at my back.
I wasted no time getting my heart broke
By a sad young man
With dark eyes and demons of his own.
Ooh…
Terrible Alchemy
Turned my failing hip
To a broken heart,
Terrible Alchemy
Turns a dying light
To a brand new start.
Ooh…
My body’s cracking bones rattled in my ears,
My soul split wide
And out came pouring all my fears:
A tale of a middlun plagued by lonliness and woe.
How long will they suffer
Before death rings and says it’s time to go?
Ooh…
But fairytales have villains black as the crow
And a hero pure of heart
With sword held high to vanquish such a foe.
My life outside the page is a fickle as the sea
Revealed in my reflection
Both hero and villain live in me
Ooh…
Terrible Alchemy
Turned my fairytale
to a painful truth
Terrible Alchemy
Turned my cracking bones
To a fragrant fruit
Terrible Alchemy
Turned my failing hip
To a broken heart,
Terrible Alchemy
Turns a dying light
To a brand new start.
Ooh.
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Addicted
05:53
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Snow twinkles red in front of stoplights overhead
And you forgot your gloves
Well I forgot mine too
Slaving away to keep the moonless nights at bay
I never had much luck
But I had you
But you only call me when the sun goes down
And you need someone
To keep the wolves from nipping at your heels
You only hold me when the wind and snow
Start to rage and blow
But I can't say no
'Cause I'm addicted to the way it feels
I can't say no 'cause I'm addicted
To the way it feels
Calm winter days cast lonely shadows through the haze
And though I waited long
I never heard from you
This morning light brings liquid crystal sacrifice
And though I prayed for warmth
I really needed truth
But you only call me when the sun goes down
And you need someone
To keep the wolves from nipping at your heels
You only hold me when the wind and snow
Start to rage and blow
But I can't say no
'Cause I'm addicted to the way it feels
My worried fingers
They cling to winter
And my broken heart resists the spring
Back toward the dawn
I'm sinful, I'm strong
Why do you mean everything?
Why... do you mean everything?
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Renée Yoxon Montreal, Québec
[they/them]
Non-binary and disabled singer, songwriter, and teacher from Montreal, Canada.
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