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Alone
04:00
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Feels like my life's in disarray
I get down on my knees and try to pray
I feel so lost
So many questions, so little time
Feels like I'm going out of my mind
I'm confused
I don't want you to see me cry
Don't want you to look into my eyes
I'm scared
Unprepared
I wanna do it alone
Handle it all by myself
I try to pretend I don't need anyone
that I'm just fine
I don't wanna show vulnerability
to tell you how much you mean to me
I can't care
You're so unaware
I bite my nails in frustration
Pace back and forth, wait for the phone to ring
But I can't give in
Only one chance though it's come so close
It's seems so far away and hopeless
I'm just scared, feels so unprepared
I wanna run and hide
Deny that I have these feelings inside
I'm just scared
Feel so unprepared
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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I'm crying but you just ignore my tears as they fall to the ground
I'm dying but you just close the door and you crush my hands
I'm crawling, trying to stand, attempting to plant my feet on the ground
And you see me trying to break free and you pushed me back on my knees
You've caged me, ripped my heart in two I'm trying to get up - escape from you
You breaked me, stepped on my soul, I'm trying to get lose - regain my whole
And you tainted me but I let you
and you slaved me I let you
and you burned me I've never been so down
No more I say (I'll be better off this way)
I was prying into your mind trying to understand your ways
I was lying to myself pretending to live in heaven when it was hell
I fell down, got kicked on the floor when I tried to walk out your door
And you saw me begging at your knees but you had a way to make me not want to free
You tainted me
You slaved me
You burned me
You tainted me
You slaved me
You burned me
No more
No more
No more
No more
I'm better off this way
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Why (Acoustic Version)
05:31
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Why do we pretend to understand even when we can't hear the words?
Why do we try to heal wounds through revenge instead of crying out our tears?
Why do we fear the unknown and persecute the misunderstood?
Why do our words fail to come when we try to speak our minds?
I try but I'm afraid
So many questions without answers
I try to run away
And I climb up to the sky and search deep within my heart
Yet the answer I know is right before my eyes
Why? Just Because Why?
Why are we so afraid to die, but never even try to live?
And why does it always seem that the bad wins over the good?
Why can't we get satisfaction? We always focus on the negative
Why can't we solve things through peace? Cause we're scared of silence
I try but I'm afraid
So many questions without answers
I try to run away
And I climb up to the sky and search deep within my heart
Yet the answer I know is right before my eyes
Why? Just Because Why?
Why are the rich and beautiful in power?
Why do we raise ourselves by lowering others?
Why do we never find value in simple things?
And why is 16 so sweet?
Why do we never follow our gut instincts? We let others decide our fate
Why is it that when you are rushing? It's when you're always late
Why when we look into one's eyes we want to kiss them?
Why do we say maybe every time we really mean yes?
Why? Just Because Why?
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Infliction/Affliction
03:54
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No safehouse for me
No freefall for you
No escape for me
I can't be unglued
No saviour today
Destruction's everywhere
It sickens my taste
You're so unaware
It's all about power
It's all about fame
It's the lust of life
This tainted way
You have all the control
And I shy to your throne
You crushed them all
And I cry alone
You're my infliction
I'm your affliction
You're my addiction
I'm your disease
You twisted my heart
You're my one escape
I hated your ways
but fell victim to that hate
I needed you there
You let me fall to my knees
You murdered my soul
And I become your disease
I thought we were through but you pushed back again
I lost all my senses, you killed my defense
It all over now, let it fade away
I entered your world and you've gone astray
No safehouse for me
No freefall for you
No escape for me
I can't be unglued
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004
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Save You
02:50
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You tried to see
you're blinded by your own eyes
You tried to be
you're stopped by your own mind
And I want you to be happy
Cause I love you my dear
And I can't help unless you want it
You've got to
You put yourself in agony
By fighting between your heart and your head
You make the little things catastrophes
You're so far down on yourself you're seeing red
Set yourself free
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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La La Love
04:14
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You say I'm what you love
who you wanna hold at night
and kiss until the next sunrise
You say I'm your everything
Want me to wear your promise ring
And keep you in my heart
forever
I say too many times
have I walked down this line
And been so misused
Had my heart ripped in two
But when you look into my eyes
I get a feeling I've never felt inside
that lets me know it'll be alright
and tells me so that this is right
And I say I love you (and you say you love me)
And I say I love you (and you say you love me)
You say I'm your perfect one
when I'm with you, it's always fun
And when I am gone, I still feel nearby
You say you need me by your side
To be sure to keep you in line
Even though I know you'll always be true
There's no other quite like you
I feel the same when you're around
It scares me to say 'I love you' outloud
And I know that this must be true
Cause you feel the same way that I do
And even though I've been hurt before
I know I won't fight that same war
Cause my heart and head agree
You're the perfect boy for me
I say you're what I love
Who I wanna hold at night
And kiss until the next sunrise
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Be With You
03:30
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Close your eyes
Don't let this dream end
Close your mind
Nothing can touch us here
I don't wanna
I try not to realize this is not true
I can't let it
I wanna feel this – what it's like to be with you
Why can't you see
how great this would be?
Why don't you see
how happy we could be?
I (You) love you
I'll (You'll) miss you
I (You) want to be with you
I (You) need to
I feel you
You feel the same for me
You don't wanna
You try not to realize this is true
You won't let it but you feel it
You wanna be with me too
We tried to hide it
Deep inside us
We realized it was true
Cause we let it
And we felt it
You wanna be with me too
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Ambiguity
05:38
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Drove out to our favourite place in the country
Reclined the car seats into their lying position
Turn the lights down low, Turn up the radio
I gave myself to you
Wish I was a virgin, not a slut at age 15
I continued on my path of self discovery
More like the path of self destruction
Went for your best friend
Went to a secret hideaway
Only three words are needed to describe how this story ends
Then I loved you, now I hate you
I loved you, it's all the same
Then I loved you, now I hate you
I loved you, and now I can't even say your name
I never knew the consequences of my actions that night
I felt so empty inside, as though I'd submitted my spirit
Just one night to you, a universe to me
I couldn't see what the truth was
Nothing more than a bet, I was just your pet
No one understood, I kept it deep inside
All the pain that I felt
My world was crashing down
You both laughed at my tears, how could I have been so naive?
I never wanna feel that same misery
Then I loved you, now I hate you
I loved you, it's all the same
Then I loved you, now I hate you
I loved you, and now I can't even say your name
Now they all wonder why I'm so cold hearted
I loved someone once, and never want to love again
I shield myself from it, love seems like such a trap
I was caged, I couldn't fly, I ran away, I wanted to die
I loved me, you just hated me
I loved you, it's all the same
And I loved you, still don't wanna hate you
I loved you, and now I can't even say your name
Then I loved you, you just hated me
I loved you, and it still hurts to hate you
I can't even say your name
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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I hold my breathe
and close my eyes
Hold back the tears from the skies
I love you more than you'll ever know
I stay awake in my bed at night
Stare at the walls and the windows sigh
I can't get you off of my mind
And when you look at me
And when you're kissing me
Oh you make me feel
Love, hate and everything
My blanket's torn
My feelings are bare
You can spell it out in the cold air
How is it that you cannot see what it is you mean to me?
The morning's raw, can't climb out of bed
Don't wanna think about what I just said
I put my heart there on the table
And the moon shone
You saw me clear
In the night sky as I stood bare
You realized I am everything you ever wanted
everything you've ever dreamed of
everything you'll ever ask for
is what you see in me
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Unspoken Words
05:15
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I miss your face
I miss the shadow of my former self
I miss the way you taste
I miss that self-deluded little child I was
I long to feel your touch
I long to feel that rush again
I long to love that much
But I have no sense of it all
I had but one escape
To save myself from you and all this
I had one choice to make
Even though it tore me in two
Those three words I wish I had said
Those three words I never meant to feel
Those three words I tried so hard to deny
(are left unspoken)
I cry so hard
I wish it didn't have to be like this
I fall with my head in my hands, my tears are streaming
but I had to say goodbye
I know it's better this way
even though it hurts so much inside
I know I'll never be the one that you needed
And so wounded is my pride
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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11. |
Untitled
04:03
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I cannot think
I cannot speak
I try so hard to breathe
My mind is thinking crazy thoughts
It feels like you're a disease
You affect me to the core
I wish you'd see me for more
I cannot do this, it's killing me
I cannot sing
It comes out all wrong
My voice is so off-key
I cannot play
My guitar strums along
It is all so wrong to me
I cannot read
every word reminds me of you
I cannot hear music
every song says something about you too
What did I do?
Was it something I didn't do?
Are you listening?
Can you hear me?
I'm dying, dying, dying
Copyright HER Records, SOCAN, SAC 2004.
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Rose Cora Perry London, Ontario
A "one-of-a-kind talent", Perry's vocals have been said to be the "perfect blend of Alanis and Norah Jones" (Kaotic Notes), while her songwriting is full of "raw viseral power, killer hooks and punch-in-the-gut riffs" (Spill Magazine)
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