The New York No Stars
Lyrics and Liners page
All lyrics by Meghan Wolf
Superpower
When I get hungry
Then I get weak
When he gets tired
He fast asleep
And he’s running in his sleep
Running away from me
Running in his sleep
Running away from me
We exit quickly
We take the street
We’re full of empty
We’re fast asleep
And we’re running in our sleep
Things that we can’t see
Get crushed underneath
Everything about to fly apart at all times
Everything about me spinning smaller inside
Everything about to split apart at the seams
Nothing underneath my steps but the blood in my feet
What are still sleepwalking towards and
Why are we still running away
Who if not the superpower
Should be powering some change
We’re too busy with our races (/faces)
To face anything with grace
When we wish we had done something
It will be too much too late
Less Happiness
While sadness writes itself on my face
It takes your place
No mistaking nothing
I can’t hide what is not there to take
Not enough space to hold all the nothing
While hunger carves itself in my flesh
They place their bets
And the world waits crouching
Now behind the right to be unleft
Take a guess
Run they’re begun pouncing
And I feel your pain
Flowing right through my veins
I don’t want you to come back again
I’ve been bitten over and over again
By the flower in my hand
That you’ve given to me
Well and I would put it down
But then I wouldn’t have friend
So shocking sweet
Souvenir
Memory meets reality almost didn’t make the drive
Greasy with insecurity biting back my kitchen breath
So much to see so fast too much to be at last
Covering the years with sand
You taste like
Past tense
Turn me into a souvenir
I was your
Last chance
To find some happiness here
Fingers read my skin like braile I can’t be touched
Cannot see when I’m seen and you see too much
Old strangers stretch naked across expectation
Brazen gaze beneath a tent of dark
You taste like
Past tense
Turn me into a souvenir
I was your
Last chance
To find some happiness here
He knew me
Looked for me
With no name
Or face in mind
Something bright
Among the stones
Hidden reason
To come home.
Waiting
I am the walls that you come home to
All I can do is watch myself wait for you
I am enclosing what surrounds you
I guard your being like the blood in my veins
And I am just waiting to be seen
Use your eyes and you might miss me
The buzz can only hold the blinding for so long
You let them make their beds and lie there playing dead
I let the demon in because I’m so alone
The company is good for business in my head
And I am just waiting to be seen
Use your eyes and you might miss me
Ive got nothing left to say to me
‘Cause I am still waiting to be seen
use your eyes and you might miss me
Too Hard
I think I know now what I must do
The problem lies not with me but with me with you
Still I guess I stay just in case
I only need it after I’ve thrown it away
And it’s always too hard
Its always too late
And its always to big to move myself
I don’t know why I thought I would change
I don’t know why when I always stay the same
This time is no different I can see
I used to be impressed with nothing but me
But it’s always too hard
Its always too late
And its always to big to move myself
Under the Under
Under the under waiting to lie down
Under an other
Barely a woman trading her girlhood for a room with no walls to hold in the heat
She’s lost and found and lost again between the fallen
Scraped by the street bed of concrete it is her pillow it is her meat.
You can’t save her but you can taste her you can’t keep her but you can have her
Barely a woman trading girlhood for a room with no walls to hold in the heat
You can’t save her but you can taste her in the dirt that swallows the rain
You can’t keep her but you can have her in the dirt that swallowed what came out of you
So you could feel free.
Do you feel free?
Do you feel?
She’s lost and found and lost again she’s lost and found between the fallen
You can’t keep her but you can have her anyway you like again and again
Until you can feel free
You can feel free
Under the under
She is found
She’s lost between the fallen
Found
And she’s finally free
Left In Between
Its time to raise the shade and take your hands back from within me
Our time to make the trade and sift through what’s been left in between
This stopping and the next stopping of what we must do to
Get to what is the best the things that only you and I do
Now I know how it feels to be home
In your skin
In the light against my open eyes
Not blind to how were made I know which spaces to place you in
You’re paper in my frame and this is when the painting begins
Too much is not enough I want no ending to what’s begun
When I fall under your touch I love you infinity plus one
Now I know how it feels to be home
In you skin
In the light against my open eyes
Gusto Bravado
Get yourself up
Put your clothes on
Make your own bed
Wash your face
Ask your mother
For some money
To buy candy
Tastes like living
This is the last time you’ll get it from me
Things are gonna change while you’re asleep
This is the last time you’ll get it for free
A bigger you hides underneath you
Get your hopes up
Put your ropes on
Make a good face
Wash your hands
Ask somebody
For an answer
See the smiling
Come to nothing
This is the last time I do it for free
Something’s gonna change just wait and see
This is the last one you’re getting from me
Things are gonna change or it will kill me
Go on take it just cause its free
Things are gonna change or it will kill me
Anthem
Wait ‘till you can see their eyes
Till you can see the light
Slowly receed
Wait ‘till you can see the time
Flashing in the sky
Dropping to its knees
Come on let it in
Be happy
Move by being still
Everything else will
Become between
Stay until its until
And you know you will
Slow eventually
Come on let it in
Be happy
You can let it in
Believe me
You can
Sense of Wellbeing
I love life a little less today
My face painted in a sneer
Unleashing everything I say
Not letting anything come near
I know how it feels
To crush the silence with a scream
Ending where we start
Escaping only when alseep
Is this what everybody fears
Is this how everybody feels
I love you a little less today
Your face wrinkled with fear
As you say what you’re supposed to say
Not spoken so much as spilled
You know how it feels
To crack the space behind your eyes
Steal as much as death
Escaping never knowing why
This is what everybody fears
This is what everybody feeds
This is how everybody feels
This is what everybody needs
I know how it feels
To stare unblinking at the light
See the darkness there
Give up with barely a fight
Everything is real
Everything that’s in your mind
Under every stone
Finding what you think you’ll find
This is what everybody needs
This is what everybody fears
You know what everybody knows
You grow how everybody grows
I love how everybody loves
I hate what everybody hates
I give what everybody gives
I take when everybody takes
I love me a little less today
My face wrinkled with fear
I can’t do anything to save
What I’m determined to kill
I know how it feels
To crush the silence with a scream
Ending where we start
Escaping only when asleeph
Spider Sitting
Sitting in a puddle of post-ecstasy smiles
Shrouded in a corner she is still
Surrounded by eyes
Feet pounding above running to and from the love
That, senseless, flies
Passing for a passerby a watching being lies
In waiting
A spider still
In a houseful of flies
Quiet crouching on her web of wasteful care
That stretches wide
From the ceiling
To the wall
Catching all the words
Not said yet as they fall
Flying against inevitable decay
Circling sending each closer
To becoming prey
Buzzing is blaming her stillness their eyes
Million-pinned glares
From the ceiling
To the wall
Watching every move
She doesn’t make at all
The Playground
In the playground fenced in and feared, I
Wish I could disappear with my tears
Into the sandbox buried abandoned there
The faces staring and sneered
They always appear out of nowhere
And then retreat leaving the leaving there
And all I can see is leaving, leaving
A phone call empty and weird
Why would you go there when you could be here
The answer serving to confirm my fears
And your eyes look right past my love
I wish that somehow I could be above it all
But I know that in truth I’m better off beside it.
And all I can see is leaving, you’re leaving me
Its not up to me
This leaving
And no one leaves
Without leaving
me
too bad you can’t see past my face
The one I wear when I wish to disappear
into the many I’m buried abandoned there
and wouldn’t you hate to be
yes wouldn’t you hate to be
and wouldn’t you hate to be me
me
me
Blue and White
She held my hands when she wanted me
Fed me mother’s milk from her eyes
The sky rolled past the words we made
Strung between the blue and white
I played simple, understood
Let her name me a hundred times
Now the words are lost between the days
Only called the names I answer to
She held my hands
When she wanted me
Fed me mother’s milk from her eyes
The sky rolled past
Blue and white
The sky rolled past
I played simple, understood
Let her name me a hundred times
Now the words are lost between the days
Only called the names I answer to
She held my hands
When she wanted me
Fed me mother’s milk from her eyes
The sky rolled past
Blue and white
The sky rolled past
Blue and white
The sky rolled past
Blue and white
The sky rolled past
Blue and
white.
Island Boy
Its kind of crazy that all I see and do
is mine
Its kind of funny that all I wanna be
is fine
Its kind of funny
Its kind of funny that here I am with you, my island boy
And we’re surrounded by all we have to play with, these concrete toys
You ask me my name…I tell you yours
Its kind of crazy remembering a face you’ve never seen before
Its kind of crazy
Its kind of Crazy
Try to think in thought its coming real fast now we better stop or we’re gonna be burning
Burning on the surface
Try to stretch the means invisible only the rest was not ever meant to be ours free
Now its now or never more
Forget the things we made to make us less afraid they’re eating all the love we’re making
Take the love take the love
Of crazies
people every corner asking us for change we hand them quarters but we won’t change
If from my future I could take my former, give it away
there’d be a stranger where I stand before you and she would say
We are all crazy.
Lullaby
Who are you to comfort me?
Never slept more peacefully
Than in your arms
When I wake will you be here?
Close my eyes don’t disappear with lack of light
If I won’t, will you do
The things we need to do
To stay alive?
‘Cause when the sky turns blue
We’ll know we’ve made it through
Another night
I have come to comfort you
Take the cold, turn it into
The warmest heart
When you wake, I will be here
Close your eyes, you have nothing
To fear tonight
If you wish, I will do
The things we need to do
To stay alive
And when the sky turns blue,
We’ll know we’ve made it through
Another night
A Little Peace
I think a little piece of me will miss a little piece of this,
The quiet of the empty street, the peacefulness of emptiness
And when it’s easy to get there, I hope it isn’t hard to find,
The emptiness of peacefulness, while I’m moving all the time
And though the night is dark, the streets are full of light
And it’s a short walk home, but it may take all night to get there
I know the beautiful in me will miss the beautiful in you
The way your eyes would suddenly be able to see right through
The way the thing that carried you, lifted everyone around
The things you didn’t have to say, but said anyway
And though the night is dark, the streets are full of light
And it’s a short walk home, but it may take all night to get there
It’s such a short walk home, but it may take all night to get there
Still moving though I cannot see what’s below or in front of me
My hands too full to feel the way, I couldn’t stop or stay anyway
And though it’s easy to get there, its sometimes very hard to find
How I arrive I couldn’t say, the faith that fuels this one is blind
And though I walk alone, the streets are full of life
And I’m already home, hidden in the night
Yea, you will make it home, but it may take your life to get there
To get there.
The View
When you’re walking around don’t look down if you don’t want to see
What’s next to your face under your loving stuck to your feet..
You won’t understand what you won’t see….
And this feeling is killing me.
This feeling is killing
I’ll bet your love fits like a glove that doesn’t breathe
It’s all in your hands wherever you are whatever you need.
Put me away hide me inside your A to Z where I’ll never find me
And this feeling is killing me
I race to a better you the one I see
It’s all inside it doesn’t want to die I believe
But your living is killing
Smash your face against the place that waits for you
It’s coming down all around now enjoy the view
Hold the pieces of your life and wish for glue
Cause this feeling is killing
This feeling is living
This feeling is killing
You.