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Ukulele Love Songs

by Empty Disco

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1.
Tandem Bike 03:13
2.
Oh, Scarlett 03:06
Oh Scarlett (Lyrics) Refrain: Scarlett oh scarlett You've led me on too long I don't dare say I don't care so I'll just sing my song (repeat twice in later verses) The day that I first laid my eyes on Your convincing smile My heart it walked right out my chest and stayed with yours a while I didn't say a paragraph before you looked at me My heart it stopped but before long you had looked away He was handsome He was just a little shorter, he was younger he was miserable and just a little poorer but you loved him, you loved this man to shame You looked at him, then back to me, and it was not the same. REFRAIN I asked my girl to marry me I asked her like a man A diamond ring down on one knee she nodded, said "good plan" I knew she loved me just enough to sign her life away Oh scarlett, oh scarlett why'd you agree to stay When he-- when he was all you wanted why me-- why do you have to haunt me scarlett we-- we could have had it made, but I was yours and you were his and that was how it stayed REFRAIN I never knew how heartbreak felt untill I married you Some part of me thought it would be like heart gorilla glue It didn't mean like anything that he couldn't be yours too Oh Scarlett he was Melanie's and she was his wife don't you see? Oh Scarlett he was Melanie's and she just wasn't you. I woke up every morning with a horror in my chest When I say I woke up darling you never let me rest Scarlett we were both trying, I know you tried your best But you never tried to forget him so--- I forget the rest... REFRAIN It's a feeling like fire, fires that you can't escape Or how you feel when you come home to yellow caution tape Scarlett I put that fire out, I put my heart away---- It hurt too much to keep around; I'm filled to brim with gray Full of ashes-- And then you came a knockin'-- got your senses Knocked into you too late I'd waited-- I'd waited for years oh scarlett I just didn't care oh scarlett why'd you make me wait. I just don't give a damn oh scarlett your love came too late. Scarlett oh scarlett You led me on too long I don't dare say I don't care I love you enough to write you a song Scarlett oh scarlett What you did was wrong, but I can't say that I don't care There's a little love somewhere Scarlett treat me right this time Heaven I'll meet you there Scarlett treat me right this time Heaven I'll meet you there.
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First Year 03:16
I was in love and you were understood how could that be anything but good I knew all your beauty marks and knew all your flaws how did I end up between two jaws? Now I'm a ghost the ghost who haunts her your mouth was warm but you're not a monster Now I'm a hypocrite all grown up now you are the tea leaves in my tea cup. oooh-- now I understand, stepping back from those old plans fresh off a trip polaroids still faded Hard sweet amber, I'm still jaded. I can see the world it's a cool new place but it's quiet and cold here in outer space. oooohhhhhhh You can call me doctor, you can call me captain looking through the glass in real time action Came to see the meteor streak through past and I left foggy breath on the window glass. Clouds like Judy sings like candy Princess stories come in handy Astronauts and firefighters were so cool But the cold war and factories invented school oooooh-- now I understand, but I love spreadsheets and holding hands fingers are gloves or a globe on a t-shirt big happy smiles make my face hurt. ooooohhhhhh Sometimes I'd ask when I'd feel lost Were those things really a part of me I like spreadsheets tallying costs But I'll ask that to the amber trees. Boxes boxes numbers numbers/ I sure missed those as a plumber I saw houses kitchen sinks/ I met real people and they made me think. ooooh--- gather round the table space station thanksgiving are we able Those bad feelings were our fathers' fight We are new people in brand new daylight Smile eat and let things go we were all a little wrong and we'll keep being so. ooooohhhhh There are feelings there is knowledge I learned a lot in my first year of college I get intense and I get stuck and my grades are mostly google and good luck. I thought I knew you cover and back but I always skipped the chapter with the shark attack Now I can name it, Carcharodon but my sharks need wrinkles from now on. Slow slow moonwalks, waking up to dawn drinking tea and taking breaths and remembering I'm wrong. Slow morning walks wet grass lawn-- I don't wonder anymore where I've gone. Slow slow growing, waking up alone drinking tea and taking walks and knowing that I'm wrong.
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"This is not about pets" G, D7 -- F, ~Dm7, C There was a girl with fingers like bird bones whose eyelashes made my heart beat in time with her legs running round in big circles, with the dark circles under her eyes And I built her a nest in the crook of my neck and I just wanted her to be mine. She would flutter her wings as I'm watching She would catch every other big breeze But the girl was as light as her feathers Her feathers as blue as the sea oh oh She flew away from me. I watched her fly far away from my rowboat, just struggling to stay afloat, Took in a big breath and I grimaced and said I said I told you so oh oh I said I told you so. There was a girl I met on the savannah, I was trying to capture a tree, We traded our names I said I like your mane and we both said we liked the light breeze oh we both said we liked the light breeze Her coat was like gold longiflora, her smile would twinkle my eyes I gave her a pat then kept stroking her back just as soft as the clouds in the sky oh oh as soft as the clouds in the sky she said hey, let's find out what's next so I buried my face where her chin meets her neck and the air filled my lungs like the cleanest I'd breathed smelled like hay, like clean clothes and pumpkin spice tea like those roses I got her while she was asleep and it filled up all the pockets in me everyone breathe in Sometimes I'm surprised by the look in her eyes like she likes what she sees even though she's inside and I'm always amazed when I see what she's kept Cause this isn't about who you keep as your pets oh this isn't about having pets. I'm not sure what I am or with whom I will live The phrase spirit animal's appropriative I've kissed tigers and sharks and I once had a rabbit but I think y'all are more than my metaphor, but I'll smile at her and we'll roar.

about

For the last year, I’ve been planning an album.

It was going to be called First Year. It was going to be a summary of my first year at university. My best album ever. One I actually made to be the very best it could possibly be. It was going to be nine songs. They were gonna have beautiful percussion and banjo and viola and ukulele and guitar tracks. Lots of bluegrassy-harmonies. I was going to have ten different musician friends of mine listen and give me feedback. I had a list of volunteers. I was ready to make my Masterpiece.

For about a year I have had all of the songs written. Some of them recorded. Ready to be made into Perfect Art.

Look, I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to do something voluntarily that was piled high with that many expectations, but I just wans’t up to my (imagined) Herculean task. So I sat and stared at it. And waited.

Life happened. I worked and played and learned. I stared at it some more. It went from a memo on my desk to a memo in my drawer to a pile of stuff in a box in the corner. One that’s been sitting there so long you stop even seeing it.

I write songs that I feel. And as I kept glancing into the corner where all of this Potential was sitting, I grew up. I am not the same person I was a year ago. I am not the person who wrote these songs. I am not the person who looked at this ALMOST finished album and went— yeah, that’s me. Right there.

That album doesn’t look like me anymore. I don’t want to finish it anymore. I didn’t know what to do with the songs though. Some of them were really nice.

So fast forward to tonight about midnight. I was sitting at my laptop and thinking about this when I realized that half of them are love songs. (Some of them are pretty sad love songs, be warned!)

So here is my surprise, romantic, love-themed EP for Valentine’s Day. It’s five songs long, but one of them is just a live version of the other. I didn’t do anything but put up what I had. It should almost be called a demo.

I’m writing more songs, always writing more songs, but I’ll just let them become what they become this time.

I hope you like the music.

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released February 14, 2014

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