Summer Demo 2006 - The Love Songs

 

Color Me In - classic love song. Think Frank Sinatra meets Fiona Apple.

You Found Me - contemporary acoustic ballad reminiscent of Dar Williams and Sarah McLachlan.

Concrete - bossa nova elegy to anti-urban love. It's Astrid Gilberto meets Jewel.

All songs (c) 2006 Elisa Korenne / Edgy and Elegant Music (ASCAP). All tracks produced by David Patterson.

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Color Me In
You Found Me
Concrete

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Lyrics


Color Me In

You’re a phrase full of blanks
A novel in shorthand
I understand
I could fill in your blanks

I’m an outline in pen
Nothing colored within
I’m a barely sketched hint
You could color me in

You be my missing colors
I’ll be your missing words
If you color me, I’ll color you too
I’ll fill you in, if you fill me in too

We’ll fill in your blanks
No need to say thanks
Just take my hand
As we fill in your blanks

We’ll color me in
Eyes, hair, and skin
Then we’ll see what’s within
When we color me in

You be my missing colors
I’ll be your missing words
If you color me, I’ll color you too
I’ll fill you in, if you fill me in too

You Found Me

 I’m no hunter
I have no hunter’s skill
I can’t track a quarry
I always shrink from the kill
You are a wanderer
You never stand still
I couldn’t have found you if I tried to
You only come at will

I tried to find you
Couldn’t find a thing
When I stopped looking
You found me, yeah, you found me

I’m no fisherman
I have no taste for the brine
I cast clumsily and wildly
I always tangle the line
You are a wild creature
You slide from sea to plain
You take comfort in the open
What made you crawl into my cave

I tried to find you
Couldn’t find a thing
When I stopped looking
You found me, yeah, you found me

I’m no mountain climber
My limbs are too weak
I’m scared of high places
I always stumble where it’s steep
You are a changeling
I can never remember your face
You come when I’m not looking
And wrap me up in your embrace

I tried to find you
Couldn’t find a thing
When I stopped looking
You found me, yeah, you found me

Concrete

Concrete walkways to concrete cells
Concrete edges to our hollow shells
Concrete wrapped around my feet
Concrete

Concrete scepter, concrete crown
I wish I knew how not to drown
In my concrete boat on a concrete sea
I’m a concrete refugee

I’m not looking for something so hard and fast
Or looking to stay just to make it last
I’m looking for someone to walk with me
On the concrete waters of the concrete sea

Concrete mold around my soul
Too hardened to move, or too scared to let go
Concrete boots, concrete gloves,
Concrete dividers between our love

It’s the concrete sound of a concrete heart
Buried to hide its concrete scars
Concrete wagons circling empty rooms
Concrete drums beating concrete tattoos

[CHORUS]

Concrete ruffles on concrete beds
Concrete muffles what they may have said
Concrete shingles on a concrete roof
Concrete makes us fireproof

Concrete tempest on a rock hard sea
Concrete cementing you and me
Concrete glistening from too much rain
Concrete leads me home again

[CHORUS]