Emily O'Halloran

Music


Morphine And Cupcakes

2011

TRACK LISTING

  • Kindness

    Is it the same moon?
    Watching over you
    I shed another skin
    Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
    But I didn’t

    Far reaching stars
    Blinded in the grass
    By pickup lines and gin
    Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
    But I didn’t

    If you walk in the rain
    You might just get wet
    If you lose something
    In time you’ll forget
    You’ll forget

    Something to be said for bravery
    Instead of just following your feet
    You sway and you bend
    Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
    But I didn’t

    State of disrepair
    We laid in night after night
    Knives could cut the air
    Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
    But I didn’t

    The town may be changed
    But you can’t change the well
    Looking for a substitute
    In this hell that we create
    Histrionic bells

    So I bow down
    Down and out
    Pack my bags to Zen
    Could’ve turned to you with kindness again
    But I didn’t

  • Nashville

    I’ve been waiting, waiting for so long
    So long for something to give
    Tapping my fingers on the table
    And trying to find the will to live

    I’m a long way from the gutter
    But it’s still on my mind
    Sometimes your heart just settles on things
    When beauty is hard to define

    Maybe Nashville is where it’s at
    Need a boy in a cowboy hat
    Knows how to sing with blood on his hands
    When I’m down he don’t turn his back
    I’ve been to California, I’ve been to New York
    But I’m thinking Nashville’s where it’s at
    Gonna find me a Dave Rawlings like Gillian did
    And when he plays he’s gonna play cool as a cat

    Spring comes around again and again
    And the birds don’t seem to pay this price
    Still smoking cigarettes, lookin out at the Chelsea Hotel
    Cut my wrists not once but twice

    You’re the only war I believed in fightin for
    But your battle was so hard to win
    You don’t believe in playin fair
    You have her at home, me in the wings

    I’m your sin, I’m your prayer
    You buckle your pants, and you kiss my hair
    I’d make you tea if you cared
    But you believe the press, you think your rare

    Maybe Nashville is where it’s at
    Need a boy in a cowboy hat
    Knows how to sing with blood on his hands
    When I’m down he don’t turn his back
    I’ve been to California, I’ve been to New York
    But I’m thinking Nashville’s where it’s at
    Gonna find me a Dave Rawlings like Gillian did
    And when he plays he’s gonna play cool as a cat

  • Crying When It Hurts

    It’s a one way street and
    You say you’re alright
    You got it down this time
    Your workin nights and he’s
    Cleaned his act up
    Playin pedal steel for a band

    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    And you know its gonna hurt

    You know he loves you
    It’s the way he calls your name
    The way he holds your hand
    It’s the blue of his eyes
    And the red of his fight
    Way he flickers and burns on stage

    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    And you know its gonna hurt

    Gold leaves fall and you
    Tie your hair up
    Fill the tank with gas
    And the roses help
    And you wear your lipstick
    Go see the medicine man

    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    Don’t come cryin when it hurts
    And you know its gonna hurt

    And it’s just for Monday
    And we’ll sleep on Tuesday
    It’ll be easier by then
    And they call you reckless
    And you call it bad nerves
    Careless generations

  • Gate Opener

    What are you the gate opener
    Key bearer or what?
    With your drama, your discourse
    Talking up the nothing that you got
    Man, you can keep him for you
    You deserve each other, baby I’m through

    Glory days, your trials
    An all your clippings
    Genius on your arm
    Man, who you think your kidding?
    But you can keep him for you
    You deserve each other, baby I’m through

    Conductor of his harem
    All his girls
    With your feuds, ya weak fists
    The sick web that you curl
    Man I don’t want to know about it
    Tell it to each other if you can stand it

    There you are every time
    I come back to town
    Nothings changed, look!
    You’re still around
    Tryin to save your own face
    Crawlin into him, like a moth to the flame

    Cry on my shoulder
    And say you’re gonna save him
    But you’re his only problem
    He needs to lose you as a limb
    But he can keep you for his
    Been going on for so long now, what is just is

  • The Young And The Dead

    Time is on your side
    And I’m on the other
    You say she comes from a bad home
    Yeah don’t we all know that one?
    But if you gotta go, than babe you gotta go
    Let me lay here, take your arrows and your bows

    Spend your time picking cotton
    Singing bout girls not forgotten
    But I’m not a line in a song
    Yeah I’m not something for you to do wrong
    So if you’re looking for a thrill, there’s the lights on the hill
    Babe I got nothing left to spill

    Tonight the lights are blue
    I lay between St Vincent’s and you
    You’re all curls and crooked teeth
    Yeah and she lays beneath
    What you forgot to mention, say, “Babe I got good intentions”
    And I’m a sucker for a look alike

    So take your greyhound bus
    With the downtrodden tunes you strum
    Yeah baby it’s alright
    Yeah I’ve walked many a line
    You’re just another dead end
    Another throw on a sharp bend
    And the dead can keep me company tonight

    Say you’re up for the challenge
    But there’s a gutless undercurrent
    Night plays like a violin,
    You wear me like a ribbon
    I’m gonna be sad to see you go
    I’m not as tough as I’d like to show
    Baby you can go yeah you can go

  • Sorry

    I was the one, you said I treated you bad
    Said you couldn’t be with someone so sad
    And every time you came to me
    Every time you tried to call a truce
    I had both hands up, wasn’t putting them down

    I can put on a brave face for the masses
    Tears are like a storm cloud, threatens then it passes
    Everyone had something to say
    Everyone and their two cents
    Look at all of them, shooting off in the backroom

    Could I say sorry
    Would you hear me out?
    I got gypsy eyes
    But a vicious, a vicious heart

    Everyone wants their own little piece of you
    I just wanted you to take me in the afternoon
    Do whatever you wanted
    Sail me like a wave
    Just don’t go, always walkin with your back turned

    Sarcasm has got me through before
    Dry muttering will probably get me there again
    I just want you to know
    You’re the one I never forgot
    But it looks like, she’s feeding you well

    Could I say sorry
    Would you hear me out?
    I got gypsy eyes
    But a vicious, a vicious heart

    So go back, they will all take you
    Seek your applause among those who will not cut you loose
    Those who need a flamethrower
    A celebrity mascot
    They will all render you right

    I would’ve said sorry
    But I didn’t know where to find you
    You know you, yeh you
    You could’ve said sorry too

  • Free Man

    You say you wanna be a freeman
    Well baby that’s good for you
    Its something else for me now
    Never felt the need to rise above

    I will go it alone
    Head out on my own
    Lean against this wall
    Smoke my cigarettes
    Like they do in the movies
    Like they do in the movies

    So I meet you at the Laundromat
    Where we watch the same things go round and round
    Read yesterdays newspapers
    Make peace with what we’ve left behind

    I will go it alone
    Head out on my own
    Lean against this wall
    Smoke my cigarettes
    Like they do in the movies
    Like they do in the movies

    You never were a sure bet
    Always one line ahead
    A win on you never good to gauge on
    My tear streaked vegas

    You say you wanna be a freeman
    Get them shackles off your back
    Freedom aint all its cracked up to be
    Baby I coulda told you that

    I will go it alone
    Head out on my own
    Lean against this wall
    Smoke my cigarettes
    Like they do in the movies
    Like they do in the movies

  • Glory and Gunpowder

    She was two steps into a habit
    She’d been there before
    He had one foot in Mexico
    And the other out the door
    They were both lookin for someone to even the score
    When they met that glory an gunpowder cleaned the floor

    He was used to movin round
    Payin cash for girls
    She never knew the difference
    Between morning and a loaded gun
    They were both lookin for an accomplice on the run
    If you mix that glory with a little gunpowder man you could shoot the sun

    He’d been married once
    Now he was just playin his cards
    He said no fallin in love
    She said Mister, I’m good at that
    He was lookin for a lover, lookin for a friend
    She said you be glory, I got the powder, shot him the best smile she had

    He’s hard to pin down
    Got that fire, got that charm
    She spends her days givin up
    And starting again
    She was lookin for a sailor, lookin to be saved
    Mix that glory with a little gunpowder, got yourself a real nice taste

    The Dragon and the Snake
    And all their Gemini talk
    Its all spoons of Mercury
    And nights of vicious words
    He says baby, come over here, let me hear you sing
    She says Glory, Hallelujah, ya shot right through me

  • Billy
  • Hallelujah

    Can’t tell if you really love me
    Or if you’re just passing through town
    You can take anything you want
    Pack it up or set it down

    You don’t have to love me
    Don’t have to do what you say
    I don’t need no flowers
    No promises in the hay

    But if I die tomorrow
    Stamp your bare feet on the ground
    Ask the trees to hold me
    Lay me down, lay me down

    Sing hallelujah
    Hallelujah,
    Hallelujah
    Are we gonna make it through?

    You don’t have to love me
    Just be with me through the night
    When morning shows her ravaged face
    I’ll try to be alright

    But if I die tomorrow
    Stamp your bare feet on the ground
    Ask the trees to hold me
    Lay me down. Lay me down

    And sing hallelujah
    Hallelujah,
    Hallelujah
    Am I gonna make it through?

  • Morphine And Cupcakes

    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
    Its only powder, its only sugar
    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert

    Find the ground to dig your hole if that’s what serves you
    Find the ground to dig your hole if that’s what serves you
    Its only the sunrise, its only the dawn of a new day
    Find the ground to dig you hole if that’s what serves you

    Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy
    Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy
    You’re a heavy load, but ill take the blame
    Tell me the reasons that your right if that’s what makes you happy

    Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom
    Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom
    Its only a red light, its only a white line
    Take the car and drive all night if that’s your idea of freedom

    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert
    Its only powder, its only sugar
    Morphine and cupcakes for breakfast and desert