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California
03:40
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You're so funny
You're so funny
I can hear you all the way, clear across the country
You never if you're behaving
You're your mother's favorite baby
But your father don't know quite what to do with you, boy
Did you get what you came for?
Did you get what you wanted?
Put a ring on her finger, and she might give you a daughter
Will it fix all of the problems you've had since you were in college And you haven't figured out what to do with them yet?
It's the right thing
Listen to your heart sing
Listen to the feeling
Listen to it beating, it's pleading Listen to your pain
Listen to what your mama says So, you do what you gotta
And you take what you want to
But you better leave me You better leave me with California California
You're so stupid
I think you're so stupid
Did you think that the whole world is tryin' to bring you to your ruins? You can dress it in disguises
But there should be no surprises
When there will always come a time you've got to deal with it
I put everything you gave me
In a cardboard box
Drive it to the corner of the neighborhood thrift shop If it's from you, I don't want it
But some lucky sucker coming in this week
Will find some really good shit
It's the right thing
To listen to your heart sing
I listen to the freeway
The sound of you leaving
It's freeing
Listen to me soar
I'm not afraid of you anymore So you do what you gotta
And you take what you want to
But you better leave me You better leave me with California California
It's always been the right thing To listen to my heart sing Listen to the freeway
Listen to me speeding
It's freeing
Listen, I am sure
Not listening to you anymore So you do what you gotta
And you take what you want to
But you better leave me You better leave me with California California
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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2. |
I Want To Be Loved
03:31
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Things are taking off
I watch the summer as it melts in my cup
I watch the boys and girls put on their makeup I watch the ocean as it's drinking the sun
I find myself with a little problem
I point my finger and it just looks like a gun
What do I say to make them stay instead of turn and run? I don't want to be alone, I just want to hold someone
I want to be loved
I just want to be loved I want to be loved
I want to be
I want to be
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
So glad I caught up with you
Boy, I've been chasing you around like a ghost
You felt my presence all tied up with a bow
Oh please understand me I'm just trying to get close
I find myself with a little issue
I hold out my hands and they just look like a noose
What do I say to make you stay, instead of turn me loose? I just want to give in, I just want to be with you
I want to be loved
I just want to be loved I want to be loved
I want to be
I want to be
Do I ask, do I ask?
I just want your love Do I ask too much?
Can't you see our pretty future, boy?
Can't I take you home and make you mine? What if I told you I thought you was the one? What if I told you I would die trying?
I find myself with a little problem
I point my finger and it just looks like a gun
Are you going to turn around, are you going to run? I just want to give in, I just want to give up
I want to be loved
I just want to be loved I want to be loved
I want to be
I want to be
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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3. |
Magical Thinking
03:57
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I'm stomping through the shadows Crashing through the shallow Screaming like an arrow
You are counting up excuses
And don't like what my truth is Or how I use it
But I'd go door to door
To find what I believe in I'd keep searching
To show you that I mean it Flying or crawling Climbing from the ashes But I'll keep walking
No matter what the path is
Set foot at the pinnacle
Feeling indestructible
I stand in the middle of everything Soak it all in as if I were invincible I can do anything
You know I've been practicing
I'm ready for faltering, stumbling Trying again and keeping it visible
I got my magical, magical thinking
You tell me that it's uphill
But you can't keep my heart still Don't care if the blood spills
I just want to pay my dues
I don't care about the bruises
But I'd search across the earth To find what I believe in
I'd keep hunting
To show you that I mean it Flying or falling
I'll be brushing off the ashes I'll keep walking
No matter what the path is
Set foot at the pinnacle Feeling indestructible
I stand in the middle of everything Soak it all in, as if I were invincible I can do anything
Oh how I've been practicing
I'm ready for faltering, stumbling Trying again until it is visible
I got my magical, magical thinking
Ooh Ooh
But I'd go door to door
To find what I believe in I'd keep searching
To show you that I mean it Flying or falling
I'll be brushing off the ashes I'll keep walking
No matter what the path is
Set foot at the pinnacle
Feeling indestructible
I stand in the middle of everything Soak it all in, as if I were invincible I can do anything
You know I've been practicing
I'm ready for faltering, stumbling Trying again keeping it visible The pinnacle
Feeling indestructible
I stand in the middle of everything Soak it all in, as if I were invincible I can do anything
You know I've been practicing
I'm ready for faltering, stumbling Trying again keeping it visible
I got my magical, magical thinking
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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4. |
They Gonna Talk
03:00
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I wanna start a rumor and I gotta start it quick
Like you're kissin in the kitchen, watch you lickin' your lips Singing to my choir
Light that fire at both ends of the wick
You believe it if I say it, got you tight in my fist
Starts with something little, but the whispers make it hot You'd think that it might fizzle, but momentum is hard to stop Just a little joy inside that poison and you just want a drop You'd buy it if sell it, it don't matter what cost
I think a little crooked, but I talk a little straight
I think you'd better listen, because you got something at stake And they gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
And they keep talking until they've got something to say
You like to tell your secrets?
Come in and close the door
I can brag about my knowledge every time that I get bored What's it like, the hike up there to my floor?
Like getting you to follow every time I blow the horn?
You start with something harmless, but the chatter make it hurt You think there's no way possible so you get self-assured
My soul's saved, so it can keep it's worth
It's so safe buried in the dirt
I think a little crooked, but I talk a little straight
And I know they'll listen, ‘cause they got something at stake And they gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
They gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
They gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
And they keep talking until they've got something to say
I think a little crooked, but I talk a little straight
And I think you'd better listen ‘cause I got something at stake And they gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
They gonna talk
They gonna talk about it
They gonna talk
And they keep talking until they've got something to say
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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5. |
Something More
02:54
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You know me very well
You know what I do
You know my madness and my methods
On the table right beside you
Make no mistake
I know you're very brave
But you cannot find a reason that will stop me from trying so hard No matter what you do
You know, I'd do anything in the world for you I'd give you money, kill somebody
If you told me to
But make no mistake
No matter what you say
You still won't have a reason to keep me from fighting You keep on fighting me
I wanna be something more, something more Already felt the pull when I was born Towards what I was made for
What I was made for
There goes everything
That you ever said
You hear the wreckage of my failings
Deep inside your head
But no matter what you do
I'll still seek the truth
And it's giving me a reason so I keep on fighting
I wanna be something more, something more Already felt the pull when I was born Towards what I was made for
What I was made for
They say, "Don't you think it's enough?" "Have you not tried enough?"
"It's more than I thought you would be" They say I should grow out of it
I should "grow up"
"You're not young enough to dream"
I wanna be something more, something more Already felt the pull when I was born Towards what I was made for
It's what I was made for
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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6. |
Carl Sagan
03:37
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I feel the cold and silver moon When I am not asleep at night I have a book on Carl Sagan When I'm awake again
That's too big for my mind
The door is open to my room Hoping that you come inside But time only gets slower The closer
To the end where we say goodbye
Is this what you wanted? Is this what you needed? You finally see it
Floating on a dot of blue
I've come to see I'm not alone
And as I think it over
Like Homer
There's so much that I'll never know
A wind is howling out the truth You're looking at an empty cage I was perching on your shoulder But you got colder
And I am afraid of change
Is this what I wanted?
Is this what I needed?
I think I'm ready for this Is this what I wanted?
Is this what I needed? You finally see it
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you needed?
I think you're ready for this Is this what I wanted?
Is this what I needed?
I finally see it
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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7. |
What Gold Is
04:09
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You smell like a wood fire
Burning in December
When the light is gold and the sun is tired
And climbing slowly through the bones of winter
You cut a tree down in the backyard
And dragged the needles through bedroom Then you push me up against the headboard Though, I never knew I needed rescue
I saved you safely
I think you know this Because you're what gold is Baby, safely
It ain't like me to back down that hard
I guess I never learned my lesson
When the line is blurred, to cross ain’t far Babe, I know you needed my protection
I always took my time
But now that you are waking
Hell, it's never gonna be the same again And I cannot predict the changes
I saved you so safely
And you know this
Because you're what gold is Baby, safely
I keep holding
Because you're what gold is You're what gold is Because you're what gold is Because you're what gold is
Lately faintly fading ever slowly behind
I saved you safely
I think you know this Because you're what gold is Baby, safely
I keep holding
Because you're what gold is I keep holding
You're what gold is
I keep holding
Because you're what gold is Because you're what gold is
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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8. |
I Can Love
03:54
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Everybody tells me to stop
Everybody tells me to go home
I don't know what it is I want to do
I don't know what it is I want to say to you
I can't believe what I want to do, do for you
I want to tell you
I want to tell you I can love
I want to tell you I can love
But don't know how to write a love song
I want everyone to go away
I want everyone just leaving me alone
You're the one I wanted by my side
You're the one, you’re the only one who makes me feel alive
I can't believe what I want to do, do for you
I want to tell you
I want to tell you I can love
I want to tell you I can love
But don't know how to write a love song I can love
I can love
I have this dream Warm blood inside me Your smile exciting Inviting a heartbeat My cold beginnings Feel for the first time Feel for the first time Feel for the first time
I want to tell you
I want to tell you I can love
I want to tell you I can love
But don't know how to write a love song I can love
I can love
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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9. |
Send Hope
03:58
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I've made a lot of mistakes
I've crashed until my heart breaks I've opened up my wide eyes
And share all of my insides
The walls came down
And the guards turned around
And I never made a sound beyond "no"
Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
You know what I am, exactly what I'm made of Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
Now that you know what I'm made of
I've made a lot of mistakes
I've crashed until my heart breaks
I am closing down receptors
I'm not open to the winded lectures
The guard that I put up at the walls when you take them down No, I said I'd never be alone again
Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
You know what I am, exactly what I'm made of Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
Now that you know what I'm made of
How do you sleep, is it deep? Do you dream, is it sweet? Does it seem to be real?
Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
You know what I am, exactly what I'm made of Send hope for us
You know that I'd been looking for love
Send hope for us
Now that you know what I'm made of
©2022 Megan Slankard
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10. |
Oil In The Ocean
04:20
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Do you remember that time when I cut my finger?
So you played the chords and I was the singer, oh
Then there was that time when you couldn't sleep
When a couple of nights turned to uncountable weeks, oh
Like a deer at the end of a barrel, I steadied my breathing Only to be betrayed by my thundering heartbeat
Afraid I would wake you with my affection for living
It filled up my chest to the point of exploding
Do you remember that time when I thought music could heal ya? But you thought I'd sound better if I sang like Ophelia, oh
Where you'd cry out your story, tragic and deceitful
Wrapped tight in your arms, so loving and lethal, oh
You stand at the edge of the world, lost in the Atlantic With the end of the sun spotlighting your shipwreck
All while trapped in a bottle on your grandfather's mantle Where history says you're not done with his battles
Do you remember that time when our wills were broken They split and they spilled out like oil in the ocean
©℗2022 Megan Slankard
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Megan Slankard San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO INDIE-ROCKER Megan Slankard has independently sold over 40,000 copies of her 5 self-released albums and is currently planning to release a new double-EP project fall of 2020. The EPs, co-produced with Producer Alex Wong (Delta Rae), show new sides of Megan, balancing delightfully belligerent rock & roll with lush cinematic soundscapes of orchestral instruments and robot harmonies. ... more
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