Category: Resilience - LINDSAY WHITE

LYRICS

People often ask where they can find lyrics, so I compiled 10+ years worth of songs into one location! I even included some of the tunes I consider to be hot garbage clunkers, just for the fun of documenting the journey. If you'd like to support my songwriting, please download my music on iTunes, add songs to your Spotify Playlists, subscribe to my Youtube channel, and/or purchase physical copies of CDs wherever possible. These contributions help me sustain my career as an independent artist.

Roses Are Dead

2/14/2021

1. Ii’ve been thinking ‘bout roses
one of nature’s designs
how they don’t stick their noses
in the business of dying
what I suppose is
when they fall from the vine
they’re just making room
for more things to bloom
when it’s their time

if roses are dead
and people die too
don’t worry your head
they’re just something new
the petals will shed i
t’s just what they do
only to wither
so they can deliver
life back to you

i’ve been thinking ‘bout thorns
how they’re sharp in your hands
how they give off a warning
how they state their demands
and the opinion i’m forming
i hope you understand
that pain’s just a part
of healing your heart
it’s all going to plan

Crickets

9/5/2020

Lyrics:
1. i've cried onto a casket
i've seen the scenes and seasons change
i've spread my share of ashes
over the ocean and down the drain
i spilled on you my secrets
i drew upon you all my dreams
each night listening to crickets
sing their song til morning

CH:
ooooh...

2. mother nature's coming at me
speeding down a westbound track
hanging out a boxcar swinging
a slow motion baseball bat
my highest hopes for you just showed up
crashing the party of my guard
and i know whatever goes up
is coming down, baby, twice as hard

CH

3. i'm angry at my worst
i'm struggling at my best
to find words to fit this verse
for what's happening in my chest
of course i should have seen this coming
i should have never picked your name
like a River, life keeps running
washing away what never came

CH

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Lemonade

5/13/2020

1. i lose i lose
i get it i lose
Anything i love
i know enough to tell ya
i’m gonna lose it
i’m gonna lose it
i bruise i bruise
i’ve sensitive skin
it pinches like a peach
each time that you touch me
you bruise it
you bruise it

CH
look at all this lemonade i made babe
out of every lemon i’ve been given
take a picture of me diving in the pitcher
aint it funny how drowning looks like swimming
ain’t it funny how dying looks like living

2. i cry i cry
you know that i cry
my eyes never dry
heart heavy with sighs
i’m crying
i try i try but i can
barely get by
slowed to a crawl
get up and fall, i’m never flying
but i keep tryin

CH x2

Money Stacks and Body Bags

4/18/2020

1. we're shitting bricks
we're spitting mad
we're restless and exhausted
we're grateful but so sad
you worship money
cash is your church
and your god's the easter bunny
if rent's due on the first

CH
you're corrupt just look at the destruction
you never gave a fuck about us
don't you come back no more
hit the road jack
put your money stacks
in the body bags
don't ya come back no more

2. i post my privileged protest
from the unemployment line
do you like my brand new soapbox
i got it on amazon prime
contagious convenience
continuous corporate news
freedom turns to greed cause
if you're poor or your brown
you don't get to choose

CH

br.
maybe it's too late and
we got it cause we asked for it
baby here's your hell in a
trump-branded casket
or maybe we are right on time
with fresh air to breathe
and we'll build something much better
if you just fucking leave

CH

Let Love Lead the Way

1/11/2019

1. we are the women
we have the power
to come together
to save the day
mothers before us
sisters beside us
daughters to guide us
let love lead the way

let love lead the way (let love lead the way)

2. we are the women
we make our own choices
we lift up our voices
we are not afraid
mothers before us
sisters beside us
daughters to guide us
let love lead the way

let love lead the way (let love lead the way)

3. we are the women
all colors of skin and
we will be voting on election day
mothers before us
sisters beside us
daughters to guide us
let love lead the way

let love lead the way (let love lead the way)

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Red Today

11/11/2018

red today, i’m seeing red today

i’m seeing red today
not in an angry way
red like a cross that saves on disastrous days
or a heart that loves in fantastic ways
read like the cartoons when you’re searching for laughter
red like a curtain that falls from the rafters
at the end of a play, we all make our way off the stage

and i don’t pretend to be certain
but i’m pretty sure that curtain will rise again
it’s just a matter of when

but I’m seeing red today...

High Horse

9/27/2018

Verse: Bm (F#) G // A Bm A G
Chorus: D A Bm G // A Bm G A

why you trying so hard to rein me in?
you whistle when i trot, but not when i’m galloping
is it getting out of hand, am i getting too wild?
is it a shame i’m so untamed, so unbridled?

i climbed up on my high horse
cause it wasn’t safe to come down
but i kinda miss the feeling
of my feet running on the ground
i don’t have no remorse
cause now i've got a better view
i’ll gladly dismount
when i can start counting on you
until you stop hurting me,
i’ve been saddled with a burden you see
that’s the only reason why
i climbed up on my high horse

you think i’m chomping at the bit
i’m just trying to help you out
you’re trying to throw me off
trying to kick me in the mouth
you wish i would just stay in the stable
laying in the hay
you don’t want no trouble
long as i’m not in the way

Time is on the Way

8/24/2018

is the weight of the world wreaking its havoc
is the state of affairs so scary it hurts
is that venomous voice in your head automatic
just letting you have it
making you feel like dirt

baby you're the damn grand canyon
baby you're a big great lake
you got that majesty, that beauty you can see from outer space
all those tall sequoias
they didn't grow in just one day
you know a landmark kind of life takes time
and time is on the way
time is on the way
carving marvels out of clay
yeah time is on the way

is the hardest part of your day in the morning
turn on your phone, feel alone, and lament
does the pressure you feel steal your breath without warning
feel that furrowed brow forming
making you feel irrelevant

baby you're the damn grand canyon
baby you're a big great lake
you got that majesty, that beauty you can see from outer space
all those tall sequoias they didn't grow in just one day
you know a landmark kind of life takes time
and time is on the way time is on the way
carving marvels out of clay
yeah time is on the way
time is on the way
coming round to save the day
so slow down, let it pave the way
yeah time is on the way

Some Man, Some God, Some War

1/14/2018

she is dried out like the desert
she is famished, all but vanished by design
and her hide out is her cactus heart
her own hand grenade, a barricade of spines

the sands of time repeating
she’s seen suffering before
her future takes a beating for
some man, some god, some war

she is minding her own business
steadfastly building castles of sand
when she is blinded by a raging son
who demolishes and calls it all his land

those poor holy rolling soldiers’ plights
they can’t live without their virgins and whores
to lift their strengths and spirits to fight for
some man, some god, some war

we are sucking out the venom
of poisonous scorpions and snakes
we are bucking this ecosystem
til our mother’s deserts are our daughter’s lakes

oh, wondrous, thunderous women
together too loud to ignore
no more curtsies at the mercy of
some man, some God, some war

Don't Want

12/2/2017

Verse: E G#m F#m B
Chorus: E G#m A B // Cm B A Am

i don’t want to pay a publicist to like me
i don’t want to ask a journalist to write nice things about me
i don’t want to beg my friends to come to my next show
i don’t want to paste my stupid face on stupid clothes

i just want to write a song that saves the world or pays my rent
when chasing your dreams turns to chasing your tail
you start asking yourself where the hell all the time went

i don’t want to shake a hand and fake my admiration
i don’t want to stoke or fan the flames of my frustration
i don’t want to envy when my friends enjoy successes
or provide for free bits of me just to see who it impresses

i don’t want to be negative i’ll quit my bellyaching
i don’t want to second guess my purpose or decision making
i don’t want the past or future to chase me up a tree
if i stay here in this moment, maybe my dreams might chase me