Liz Durrett Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
( Official Label )

Prior to 2005, it had been nearly a decade since Liz Durrett had completed her last album. That work, which was shelved by Durrett for nine years as she took a self imposed musical exile, eventually saw the light of day in early 2005 when it was released on Athens, GA Warm Electronic Recordings. Originally recorded as a demo in an effort to obtain a record deal, the collection of songs entitled ‘Husk’ proved to be strong enough in its own right and quickly obtained widespread critical acclaim for it’s ‘stark loveliness’ (Washington Post) and it’s ‘threadbare sonic tapestry’ (Splendid Magazine) as well as drawing complimentary comparisons to the works of Chan Marshall (Cat Power) and Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star).

No doubt, Durrett’s upbringing had an intense effect on her interest in music. Growing up in the sleepy southern town of Rome, GA, she’s quick to credit much of her musical inspiration to the lifeline that her legendary uncle, Vic Chesnutt, threw her in the midst of a turbulent youth. It was Chesnutt, she says, who gave her a guitar at 16 and jokingly told her to “write mean songs about your parents”. Chesnutt’s intuition was dead on, as soon after, not only was Durrett writing her own material, Chesnutt was also employing her to perform on his tours and several of his own recordings, from his 1992 epic album, ‘West of Rome’ to his most recent release, “Ghetto Bells”.

On January 24 of 2006, Liz Durrett’s second album, “The Mezzanine” will be released by Warm Electronic Recordings. In contrast to her previous work, “The Mezzanine” is a surprisingly hi-fi affair. Gone are the hissing ghosts and unsure echoes that once haunted and obscured her recordings. And while producer and occasional performer Vic Chesnutt still adds his trademark, artfully ramshackle recording techniques and veteran engineer Andy Baker (Macha, Japancakes, Glands) attends to the more traditional sonic details, they wisely let Durrett steer the album this time around. It’s her voice and guitar that are the focus here. And that’s important, because Durrett performs with more energy, determination and flat out rawness than she ever has before. From the curiously up-tempo “Cup On The Counter” to the visceral lament of “Marlene”, Durrett covers a lot of ground within the album’s eleven songs.

So where has Liz Durrett been the last nine years of this musical exile? Perhaps the answer is in the music itself as she sings “I never understood before, I never wanted the floor, but now I’m in the throes of it”. ” Possessing the quiet vehemence of an approaching storm, “The Mezzanine” proves that Liz Durrett has a voice that will be heard for many years to come.

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Navigate your life plan
And radiate with all you have
Lie down in your head
Let loose your life thread

Let it slip right out of hand
Let it slip right
Let it slip right out of hand
Let it slip right

And she knew her timeline
And she tugged on her life vine
And her soft mind spoke its prose
And her words clench as she floats

And she slipped right out of hand
And she slipped right
She slipped right out of hand
She slipped right

Husk

There’s a gulf at the edge of the yard
And the husk of a shed and a garden
It’s the virus that swells in the grass
It’s the ration that stays with the water

There’s a boy with his back to the porch
There’s a root in a jar on the floor
It’s the field that is tied to his ankle
It’s the fodder that sticks to the table

There’s the ghost of a beast in the woods
And the trace of a shell in the dirt
It’s the path to the place where he lay
It’s the look of a crow on the grave

Not so long ago
In a common hole
Quick development
Of a slow exchange
And among this breed
Rattled by the speed
Came an out of place appeal

God send me a blaze
God send me a blaze
God set me ablaze

With the lines cut
In a greedy way
There’s a low reply
To a loud decay
So the bug comes
And it hollows all
Til the light shifts
And the room calls

God send me a blaze
God send me a blaze
God set me ablaze

Lull

I thought today was the end
It felt like a drug
I had to slam myself and stare
Hypnotic one
Why must it always be that one day can change the rest
That stricken feeling is so short-lived
And only the throb is left

He sang “she’s running out again”
Thunder in the sun
All at once it’s on you and it’s gone
Virtual and done
You never know what the power of a particle will cost
I can see that the death of this is my most colossal loss

Paralyzing as a vision ethereal
All alone and awe-struck
In the downpour and the lull
It bore an accidental resemblance to my life
It was celestial speech
Promise prophesied

Captive

I am a captive
To myself to no one else
We walk hand in hand
Through dark hallways with no end

I sit in his corner
With my hands bound and my eyes closed
His voice is just a whisper
But it cuts deep into my soul

No night could last this long
No daylight could reach this song
He cannot free me now
He’s not a man
He’s just a shadow

I am a captive to no end

BC

Jesus is coming and I’m in a crib
Gainesville is ugly, the landscape is grim
Everything I say won’t leave my mouth
Everything I say comes crawling out

Jesus is coming and I’m in a pinch
He takes the back road, the natives are thick
Everything I do sits on my lap
Every time I move I fall right back

Jesus is coming and I’m under wraps
Martyr for dinner, but I want a snack
Everything I need is on my plate
Everything I want is getting strange

Slip

This breath that i’ve taken
Is it yours, is it mine
This life that i’ve given
Is it yours, is it mine
And as i slip so quickly
I leave it all behind
This growing desolation
Fills me up inside
It’s not you, it’s not me
It’s not me, no but it’s not you

This face that you’re making
Is it yours, is it mine
This dream that i’ve broken
Was it yours, it’s not mine
My voice calls for salvation
Dying all the time
You search but you can’t find me
I’m nowhere to find
I’m not me, i’m not you
I’m not you, no but i’m not me

This death that i’m living
Is it yours, is it mine
This soul you weren’t saving
Was it yours, was it mine
And now as i watch you
From the other side
Who is this life you’re living
Now that i’ve lost mine
Is it you, it’s not me
Is it you, it’s not me
Is it you, it’s not me

Net

Catcher ways
Backyard buzz
You are drifting like i wish i was
Hungry net
One to be pinned

That old deft hand
Washboard skin
You are under wood
You are so not, so not what you should
You are under wood
So not, so not what you should

Magic house
Mystic closet
She is lovely like the starlet
Magnet girl
Outward and in
They all see her as more than them

You are in a spin
You are so not, so not what you’ve been
You are in a spin
So not, so not what you’ve been

You there

You there
You might be everything i need from there
You there
Your mouth said everything i needed to hear
I planted my foot in the ditch when you looked
I did what i could but not what it took

You there
I must look like everything i’m not from there
You there
I know it seems better the longer you stare
You stand right here and i’ll be back
With just what you want and just what i lack

You there
You can do this better by yourself from there
You there
It just keeps getting farther from here to there
You moved your head from your hand when i looked
We did what we could but not what it took

Knives At The Wall

You did it
Finally
They almost asked it of you
Didn’t they

And they took it
Finally
Did you want them to

Well their backs are on us now
So let’s throw all the knives at the wall
When we throw all the knives at the wall
There will be no stopping
There will be no stopping

All The Spokes

All the spokes are bent
We weren’t even in the road
I’ll collect the evidence all the way home

It’s safe in here
I know, I know, I know
But this is not the only battlefield

On the long way home
On the long way home
On the long way home
We’re alone

All the spokes are bent
We weren’t even in the road
I’ll collect the evidence all the way home

It’s safe in here
I know, I know, I know
But this is not the only battlefield

On the long way home
On the long way home
On the long way home
We’re alone

Cup on the Counter

The cup on the counter leaves a circular stain
The rut from the tire is deep in the clay
The flat of the grass where a body was laid
The contents of pockets all strewn on a table

Why try to lie to me
I’m not a child I know what I’ve seen
Why try to lie to me
I’m not a child I know what I’ve seen

The fray of the fabric, the edge of the chair
The hard to reach places, the things you put there
Ashes on cinders long after the flames
The rain on the road leaves a beautiful haze

Why try to lie to me
I’m not a child I know what I’ve seen
Why try to lie to me
I’m not a child I know what I’ve seen

The Mezzanine

In the yard
Small things beat you down
Till you could not leave the house

Take your leverage when you can
Take the beast by the hand

They will always be
In the mezzanine
In the mezzanine

They will always be
In the mezzanine
In the mezzanine

Creepyaskudzu

Creepy as kudzu
Hides what it chokes
Is it not beautiful
Though morose

You took a bed
And then gutted your host
But not hiding for long
But not hiding for long
But not hiding for long
But not hiding
For long

Heavy as horseshoes* thrown on a lawn
Muscle remembers them when they’re gone
Just as I can’t let this one go
And it won’t be thrown, it won’t be thrown

(Horse shoes is a game where one tosses horse shoes at a stake in the ground.)

Marlene

Just like we failed marlene
Left her with arms gaping
Like two wild birds
Entangled in string
Like we failed oh Marlene
Like we failed oh Marlene

Passed your brother on a street
Gathering money from machines
And there at his feet
Lay every little reason
He keeps going
He keeps going

Well, oh well.

Shivering Assembly

This shivering assembly
Barely hides our motives
Underneath this pageantry
It’s only getting uglier

Anybody can see

Little Ascendant

Your birth was a mystery
Your life was exposed
They took it and twisted it
And made it their own

Now high on your history
Now drunk on your lore
They’re armed and not listening
And soon at your door

And these words that crawled in their hearts would then rip us apart
And for what?
For what? we’ve been dying to know
For what? we’ve been dying to know
For what? we’ve been dying to know

It’s breaking my heart
This plague on your minds
It’s breaking my heart
This plague on your minds

It’s breaking my heart
This plague on your minds
It’s breaking my heart
This plague on your minds

No Apology

I am standing right here by your baby
We are breathing the same way
I have taken a toll on your gracious
Appetite for holding on

And what, what can i say
What can i offer you
I’m not built that way
I have no apology

I am standing right here
On a dock that you built
I will try not to look at your face
Cause all that is in you
Radiates
And it’s more
It is more than i’ll take

In the Throes

If i could take it all apart and hold it still enough
Then we could see exactly what is keeping this aloft
On spite of all of this incessant circling over us
And even what we love the most calls our ship to the rocks

The pretty way you mutilate the mystery
And hang it up and let the light stab through the flimsy fabric
I never understood before
I never wanted the floor
But now i'm in the throes
Now i'm in the throes
Now i'm in the throes of it

Wake to believe

Round, round goes the clock
My panic sounds like tick-tock
Night, oh night, move on
Your clutch is much too strong

Go ten hungry hawks
Around our heads just as my thoughts
Dive down, down, down, down
I call and call and call them off
Then wake to believe
They’re all inside, inside of me
Each beat of their wings
Is all inside me

Mind, mind let me go
Your prison is all I’ll know
Shroud, oh shroud please fall
Just cover and cloak it all

Go ten hungry hawks
Around our heads just as my thoughts
Dive down, down, down, down
I call and call and call them off
Then wake to believe
They’re all inside, inside of me
Each beat of their wings
Is all inside me
Round, round goes the clock

Wild as them

I looked for your bones in the woods
I looked for your bones in the woods
I looked for your bones or any sign of where you were
I looked for your bones in the woods

Listened for coyotes to stir
Listened for coyotes to stir
I listened for them
To give up what they did
Listened for coyotes to stir

Daydreamed of myself a warrior
Daydreamed of myself a warrior
I daydreamed myself
Wild as them, for your revenge
Daydreamed myself a warrior

I will look for you when I sleep
I will look for you when I sleep
Always look for you
Always want you curled to me
I will look for you when I sleep
Always look for you
Wanting you curled to me
I will look for you when I sleep

In the eaves

How they try to, mothers don’t forget
All those words them daughters said
No they thread, they thread, they thread
Now they hang there, wait there in the eaves
With a grip so tight it leaves
With a grip so tight it leaves

Blacker than the blackest blue these arms
These arms have ever seen
These arms have ever...

Now resigned to, children don’t regret
All those things your words have said
No they fed, they fed, they fed
Now we stand on pillars made of these
Though we sway impossibly
Though we sway impossibly

Catch them as catch can is all we do
So don’t fear our slightest move
So don’t fear our slightest....

We build bridges

We build bridges
Don’t we
Sometimes need a hand

Despite our best laid plans
Don’t we
Sometimes miss what we had

And we struggle
Don’t we
Sometimes lose the reasons

But in the peaceful morning
We can clearly see
Where we’ve been

Oh, and the tide pulls us out, alright
Oh, and the tide pulls us out, alright
Oh, when the tide brings us back
How sweet it is

Lost hiker

I climbed the highest peak
And watched the sky all swathed in pink
You were there and not there too
A canopy of night on you
And thinking only of myself
I turned to go, I turned and left
If only to take it back
If only to take it back
If only to take you back, home

All of them all

Hold up your hands, you’ve got nothing to shield you
This one took all that you had
It’s hard to say who’s been wrestled
Or willingly gave it all, gave it away
And now we’re left stumbling along
We are looking for something or someone to pay
And always assailants evade
Never can turn searchlights their way
But take small solace in this
In everyone a summons awaits
And for some of them briefly and some incompletely
But all of them all of them all
And for some of them briefly and some incompletely
But all of them all of them all
Believe me, time unwinds it
Believe me, time unwinds it

Solo charade, barely backlit by TV
Hanging on tight by a thread
Sailing along on a sea of prescripted solutions for what’s ailing them
Just like a black snake so low in the leaves only shows what it wants to be seen
Just like a black snake so low in the leaves only shows what it wants to be seen
Believe me, time unwinds it
Believe me, time unwinds it

Note for a girl

A long time it’s been and you waited here so strong
Hang on my friend and we’ll row out alone
You know we don’t owe them anything at all
You know you had a lot go wrong
Don’t you give in, don’t you give in

I’ll be here and I’m ready to drive
When you need to clear out that shit they put inside
You know we know how to fight back
And you know they can’t take down what we got
We won’t relent
We won’t relent

You live alone

You live alone, at night, it’s all you can do
Stop leaving, all the leaving’s through
Stop happening, not happening to you
I know this part, I’ll sing with you

I live alone, at night, it’s all I can do
I dream alone right next to you
Stop happening, won’t happen to you
I know this part, I’ll sing with you

I know this heart can be so hard
With no one there to see it through
I know this part can be so hard
But i know this part, I’ll sing with you

We live alone, at night, it’s all we can do
We walk alone right next to you
Stop happening, can’t happen to you
I know this part, I’ll sing with you

I know this heart can be so hard
With no one there to see it through
I know this part can be so hard
But i know this part, I’ll sing with you

Always signs

Tied it up, tried to keep it inside, pushed it down, but it wants to rise
Tied it up, tried to keep it inside, pushed it down, but it wants to rise
Want to know what a body feels, want to know, but we hate, we hate, we hate it
Want to know what a body feels, want to know, but we hate, we hate, we hate it
Now we want to make it stop, want to make it stop, want to make it stop cause we hate, we hate, we hate it
Can’t get a little reprieve, can’t get just a little, a little reprieve
Can’t get a little reprieve, can’t get, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make it
Bottle it up, try to keep it inside, push it down, but it wants to rise
Bottle it up, try to keep it inside, push it down, but it wants to rise
There were always, there were always signs
There were always, there were always, always signs

Not running

Birds lifted away all that we gave them
Now summer’s parade quietly fades on a reel
I pulled down the lights from every last tiny limb
Tucked away signs that we’d been here

Though some may say, to live this way, is hiding
Not hiding, we are unashamed
Or running, not running, we are unafraid

Letters await, reading them late in the day
Eloquent phrase turns my heart in its cage
How can I be so hopeless and then
So full of hope, I might implode with it

Though some may say, to live this way, is hiding
Not hiding, we are unashamed
Or running, not running, we are unafraid

The sea a dream

Tonight the moon is a fingernail
Glowing for you, on a wire, as you set sail
The sea a dream, laid out for you
The sea a dream, laid out for you

Tonight we’ll meet on a silver beach
Dancing we’ll be, under the beam
The sands a dream, laid out for you
The sands a dream, laid out for you

Tonight we’ll leave on gilded wings
Soaring we’ll be o’er limbs and leaves
The winds a dream, laid out for you
The winds a dream, laid out for you

Riding in a car without talking
Swimming out much further than you should
Saying words that had long been forgotten
Packing it up when we're ready to
Leaving now, with no place to be going
Standing up when you didn't think you could
Reading words from a page
Hearing someone play
something that makes your stomache ache

I know everything I love, is gonna leave me
I know everything I love is gonna leave
I know everything I love, has got to leave me
Still I want it, I want it, I want it
Still I want it, I want it, I want it
Still I want it, I want it, I want it

Watching the city out over the water
Holding some small part of history
Walking alone, far from home
Keeping some things for yourself
Seeing what you know, change
Talking on a porch til four a.m
Taking a plane. Hearing someone say
“It’s so good to see you.”

I know everything I love, is gonna leave me
I know everything I love is gonna leave
I know everything I love, has got to leave me
Still I want it, I want it, I want it
Still I want it, I want it, I want it
Still I want it, I want it, I want it

How can I tell you
That I love you, I love you
But I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that Im always thinking of you
That I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you
But my words just blow away
Just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
And I can't think of right words to say

Wherever I am, I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you
But I look and you're not there
Whoever I'm with
I'm always talking to you
I'm always talking to you
And I'm sad that you can't hear
Sad that you can't hear
It always ends up to one thing, honey
When I look and you're not there

I need to know you
Need to feel my arms around you
Feel my arms around you
Like a sea around a shore
And each night and day I pray
In hope that I might find you
In hope that I might find you
Because hearts can do no more
It always ends up to one thing honey
Still I kneel upon the floor

How can I tell you that I love you
I love you but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you
It always ends up to one thing honey
And I can't think of right words to say

In a manner of speaking I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything by saying nothing

In a manner of speaking I don’t understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
The way I feel about you is beyond words

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won’t do
In this life that we live
We only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrificed

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

November

(Tom Waits cover / Live)

No shadow, no stars
There's no moon and no cars
November

It only believes
In a pile of dead leaves
And a moon
That's the color of bone

No prayers for November
To linger longer
Stick your spoon in the wall
We'll slaughter them all

November
Has tied me to an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November's cold chain

Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November

Tied to the branches
Of a roebuck stag
Left to wave in the timber
Like a buck shot flag

Go away, you rain snout
Go away, blow your brains out
November

Perfect Day

(Lou Reed cover / Live)

Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home

Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
And then later, a movie, too
And then home

Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun

Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good

Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on

You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow

Some say (i got devil)

( live cover of melanie safka )

Some say i've got devil
Some say i've got angel
But i'm just a girl in trouble
I don't think i'm in danger
Don't think i'm in danger
I know i'm not in danger

But some have tried to sell me
All kinds of things to save me from
Hurting like a woman
Crying like a baby
Something like a woman
Crying like a baby
And all the things that i have seen
While i fight me for a part in your dream
While l fight me for this dream
And though i'd like to tell them exactly how i'm feeling
Somehow the music hides it and conceals it
Hides it and conceals it
And oh, the things that i have seen
Can be hidden in the part of my dream
Gonna hide it from my dream

Some say i got devil
Some say i've got angel
But i am just this girl in trouble
I don't think i'm in danger
Don't think i'm in danger
I know i'm not in danger

Somewhere

(With Vic Chesnutt / From West Side Story)

There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere

There's a time for us
Someday there'll time for us
Time together and time to spare
Time to learn, time to care
Someday, somewhere

We'll find a new way of living
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere

There's a place for us
A time and place for us
Hold my hand and we're half way there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow, someday, somewhere

The one I love

( Finest Worksongs, Athens bands play the music of R.E.M )

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire, fire

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire, fire

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love

When they’re in the backrooms (they say it they say it they say it)
On the turnpike (they say it they say it they say it)
In their sunday clothes (they say it they say it they say it)
When the kids are grown (they say it they say it they say it)

But they will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud
They will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud

When they see what they’ve become (they say it they say it they say it)
As they bite their tongues (they say it they say it they say it)
When they look at their sons (they say it they say it they say it)
As they go under the knife (they say it they say it they say it)
When they can no longer blame the wife
In their minds at all times

But they will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud
They will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud

At the convention (they say it they say it they say it)
When the blinds are closed (they say it they say it they say it)
When they send their young to fight (they say it they say it they say it)
In how they draw the lines (they say it they say it they say it)

But they will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud
They will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud
They will never say it out loud, they will never say it out loud

Try (Try To Fall In Love)

(Rick Nelson cover / Easy To Be Free: The Songs Of Rick Nelson LP)

Sometimes everything works out okay
Sometimes it seems to go the other way
But it really don't matter at all
It depends upon how quickly you rise when you fall
If you're sure, you don't stay down too long

Sometimes the music don't come out too well
Sometimes there really isn't much to tell
Nothing's wrong, it's a song you feel
And the moment you thought of it
It must have been real
Or you wouldn't even thought of it

If you try, try
Now it's the key to everything
It's the calling of the wind
It seems to you, it plays to you
When you are down

If you try, try to look above
Up in the clouds and in the sky
That is where the music lies
You can have it
When you fall

You can have it

Her long limbs
His monkey mind
On the sidewalk staring up at a power line
All the details crawl up her spine
Like the spiders on the veil, on the vine

He writes the impasse
She writes the mend
He writes the heart of it
But she writes the end

In her scratchy hand
On the bottom of the riverbed
As one long prelude
For one cruel event
Then she leaves it

Her long fuse
His oversight
All the pauses shaping up to be his life
She ain’t easy
He’s not benign
Every outlet calls her name all the time

He writes the impasse
She writes the mend
He writes the heart of it
But she writes the end

In her scratchy hand
On the bottom of the riverbed
As one long prelude
For one cruel event
Then she leaves it