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Somebody Say Something

by rioghnach

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avlmc RĂ­oghnach's music has lingered with me for years and had sunk deep into my skin. I love it all dearly. Favorite track: OH.
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ava k this album is very special to me. i don't know where i'd be without it. Favorite track: AK.
Andrei Ng
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Andrei Ng This album reminds me of home; cascading piano notes, warm and inviting vocals that have my spine shivering, all make me reminisce about North American landscapes - whether it be the city or the hinterland - in all four seasons. Favorite track: AZ (live).
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Brudar I'm a fan. Sensitive lyrics dosed with self-awareness and strength, amazing voice and piano lines, just leaves you hoping for her that she finds what she's looking for instead of all the near misses that inspired her songs. Favorite track: NC.
Alex Claman
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Alex Claman In some ways this is an album-size version of Sufjan Stevens' 50 States project, propelled throughout by Robinson's lovely vocals. Favorite track: OH.
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genisage Not what I was expecting after hearing Thus Spoke Carly Rae but I love it. Favorite track: DE.
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1.
FL 03:33
3 AM last night, I couldn't help but hear your voice Never wanted anything more than to change that choice I made And I'm so sorry, but I hope you're well Hope you're happy, but baby, I'm in hell I crawled back home to Florida The shining seas and seasick breeze just hurt me more Did the pillow whisper out your name, or was it just the voice inside my head reminding me that I will never be the same? Still trying to make sense of all the scars on my right hand Months now since I left you, try to understand I walked out 'cause I let you down Packed up my shame and left this town I crawled back home to Florida The shining seas and seasick breeze just hurt me more Did the pillow whisper out your name, or was it just the voice inside my head reminding me that I will never be the same? I guess someday I'll finish waiting for the sight of you to fade And I'll be satisfied with dreams about the promises we made Haven't slept in weeks, my thoughts are crying out your rain Regret, I can't forget, and it is driving me insane I crawled back home to Florida The sunlit streets and heat just made me miss you more Did the pillow whisper out your name, or was it just the voice inside my head reminding me of how you used to hold me when I knew that nothing else could be the same? I crawled back home to Florida Right now I swear to God I couldn't miss you more Did the pillow whisper out your name, or was it just the voice inside my head reminding me that I will never be the same?
2.
OH 03:40
I asked you, oh why, oh why Thinking of Ohio, I bleed out time Thunder and lightning, Closing signs I miss what was mine Look through the blinds from safe in my bed, Pull all these covers up over my head We were chasing warning signs Why, Ohio, why? Call up the age, I taste it from here You'd kiss me like whiskey and burn off the tears We were singing out parallel lies Why, Ohio, why? I asked you while drunk on wine if you thought that this was by God's design You said you didn't know, but I knew it was right up to the night I went and let you go Now I know why, oh why thinking of Ohio, I lose my mind green eyes and snow falling, deep slow chimes I miss you all the time
3.
ME 04:23
Take the ax up and split the boards We were made out of steel and stone There are emeralds buried in our throne Tear them out, they were always yours Bury the marks that his beauty made, beat your voice back until it retreats Water fills up cracked and empty streets We have all seen better days Crown your king with a halo of gasoline Envied by all but the stubborn and vain Dry your eyes, get up, there's nothing waiting here Don't cry out or you'll disappear I did and I lost myself in Maine Eat up the country, devour the road there is more here than nothing at all Comforts wither, never seemed so small Sometimes there's no one sharing the load Laud your king with a scepter electric, now burn him to ashes and lick up the stain Dry your eyes, get up, there's nothing waiting here Don't cry out or you'll disappear I did and I lost myself in Maine Try goodbye Can you look yourself in the eye? Robe your king with the skin of the ocean and swallow the swords that might carve out the pain Dry your eyes, get up, there's nothing waiting here Don't cry out or you'll disappear So drive away, coward, and never face the fear and denial will always reign He got me lost deep in Maine Lost and alone, here in Maine
4.
NC 03:24
looking up and the gray light shines like someone's eyes looking to the horizon i couldn't tell you that yours were diamonds seven years ago the sun cleared up the foggy highways and all I could think was keep those eyes on mine, and don't you ever let me go, go, go, go. and i feel so carolina blue i feel so carolina blue seven years and i still wonder is there someone i'll rely on like i rely on all these memories of you and in this asheville summer i still think of getting high on fumes of your perfume in wilmington in '92 and i feel so carolina blue and i feel so carolina blue someone asked me for a light i struck a match, lit up the night and it burned the whole dawn through and left me with a thousand thoughts of you carolina blue and in those appalachian autumns, in the winston winters the wind is carrying the voice that breaks me into splinters from halfway across the world, whichever distant city's holding you the sky is crashing, falling, drowning me in carolina blue and i feel so carolina blue and i feel so carolina blue someone asked me for a light i struck a match lit up the night and it burned my whole life through and left me with a thousand thoughts of you carolina blue
5.
NY 03:30
Got on a train and I saw a woman She held a locket in her palm, I saw A pair of girls just holding hands Wonder if they think nobody else could understand Cause I have been every person in this city Wondering if I'm alone And we must open up our doors New York, I'm yours New York, I'm yours I saw an old man play a sonata down in the subway, no one stopped, and what could he do? I saw a child sobbing and screaming everyone around seemed like they might start crying too But I have been every person in this city Wondering if I'm alone And we must open up our doors New York, I'm yours New York, I'm yours Don't blink, the neon signs are lanterns in the mines And what a blinding sight, each other's sunlight I saw a boy who gave me a smile, looked like he hadn't done it in a while I stopped and I wondered How many others are aching for a voice that is not their own But I have been every person in this city Wondering if I'm alone And we must open up our doors New York, I'm yours We must open up our doors New York I'm yours When did we learn to let each other go? A country of islands miles away, we're scattered like the snow And did we forget while learning how to hide that we come from stars and stars are always shining but it burns so bright when we collide we collide And there are some days that I still miss you But mostly I just look around and smile because the world is waiting, and it ain't fading, strange for me to think about the lonely girl I was Cause I have been every person in this city never feeling quite full-grown But we are not on our own no, we are not alone Looking up, oh my heart it soars New York, I'm yours New York, I'm yours
6.
WA 04:02
Cold hands Something's wrong with my heart, I swear I'm doing headstands My world's turned upside-down since you're standing there It's been so long since I've seen you, don't know what my memory turned you into but it ain't that, it ain't that, it ain't that And there you are, the only one I wanted back And what can I say besides hello? And what can I do besides let you in and breathe out slow? Three feet between us feels like a mile and damn, it hurts to see you smile In Washington, you grew up twice In Washington, a heart's a different price I try to remember all the angry thoughts I had but I want you too bad I want you too bad I pour a cup of coffee, we sit and stare, examine faces, I meet your eyes but it's hard to bear because you're just the same, but somehow new and still we match, just like we always used to A million words we could've said a million ways Life moves right along, so take it in, don't waste the days So many years I spent on fixing up a broken heart And here we are And here we are -- Heading back to the start In Washington, I hear the heartbeat that I missed In Washington, I close my eyes, remember how we kissed In Washington, please take my hand In Washington, you'll understand You say you'll never let me go again I say I missed you, my best friend You say that you think it's God's design In Washington, our love's divine (repeat & fade)
7.
AZ (live) 04:46
I've never done this before, Slipping out of the track of this record player Careful with the needle, baby -- Some things are sharper than others Never had faith in superstition Anyway, I need this umbrella Can't you see, it's raining over my bed You said, Trust me Trust me with everything you need to say, it must be, must be the love you never gave away So here, dear Here You can cut me open, break me apart, take the hope in this little heart But then you gotta make me a promise to put me together again Oh, you said, way out west in Arizona, Trust me Trust me with everything you need to say, it must be, must be the love you never gave away So here, dear Here You can cut me open, break me apart, take the hope in this little heart But then you gotta make me a promise to put me together again I'm not fragile, I'm not broken Baby, I just leave too much unspoken You know, honesty was easier when I didn't think my dreams could come true I've never done this before but I'm in love with you, with you, with you, you, you.
8.
VA 03:47
Do you remember the moment you fell out of love? One morning in Virginia with the sky white above, Something in the smell of the frost made you feel you'd gotten lost made you think, This is it, this is it. You waited so long to stop feeling suffocated, but you left it unstated, and now you're looking back on the life that you thought you'd have and nothing has ever seemed so far away You knew what this was coming to Who could blame you for words you had to say? Do you remember the moment you left me behind? You told me not to follow you, you said it was time. What could I do but watch you go, just wishing I could say, "no"? I can't get rid of that moment It stares out from the shelf. Me, I'm writing stupid love songs and I'm hating myself. And all the small, insidious things the shower curtain's stained rings the kettle how it sings, how it sings. I find myself still waiting slowly asphyxiating something in this house is fading Now I'm looking back on the life that I thought we'd have and nothing has ever seemed so far away I try so goddamn hard these days not to blame you for words that you had to say, words you had to say.
9.
AK 05:42
I met a boy who looked like the face of surrender You know what I asked him? I said I said, boy, you got something inside of those eyes that's alive? He said, I gave it up, gave it all up long ago, And I know only that there's just too much to know, And you live until living just feels like the dead. You got all these nightmares reined in at your stables, Got knives in the kitchen and marks on the tables, And they're all just wrapped up inside of your head And you'll ride out the nightmares, you'll bare all the arms And you'll bandage your cuts and they'll sound the alarms. Cause you live until living just feels like the dead. You think about dying a lot and it's strange All you hear about home is the home on the range while you're there in Alaska locked up at home, going deranged Though they tell you that normal is some sort of cure, but honest to God you're not sure? And honest to God, don't you care what they said. Cause you're here and you know it's a blessing to breathe, To share all your maladies with the bereaved, to laugh like two years past you wouldn't have even believed. And you rip all those monsters right out of your head And you clear them away out from under the bed And your hands feel icy and heavy as lead While I'm reading that story you told me you read about living until we all feel like the dead There are days that you spend, you look back on the morning, it feels a million miles away There are days that you waste, don't you wish you could slip back and cradle them, keep them all locked up and safe? There are mornings and nights that I've missed more than you, that I've missed like a thought that's just starting to burn And for all that it's worth and for all that I've loved you I've still got a few things I just won't return I'll be there to hold you until all the altars are black and the rivers have died in their beds But I'm living in something, and God only knows that I can't let it all waste away in my head You look at me, look at me, tell me it's fine, and if so then it's fine for my own peace of mind But if something is broken then wind all my clocks up, 'cause every mistake is just me running right out of time. You know that I'm parched, God, I feel so dry, and I'm choking on questions like who, what, and why while people around me are struggling just to get by, And they've told me that normal is some sort of curse they say it could always be worse but honest to God, I don't care what they said. 'Cause I'm here in the summer, it's humid as hell, and winter's determined to kill me as well, and if I just died up here, God even knows who they'd tell And I sang with a hope that they'd read every note, if you look you can see all the words that I wrote on my heart, in this ocean, wrapped up in your coat I was hopelessly trying to keep it afloat and trying to live, though i feel like the dead. and dear God, it's just everywhere sometimes, you know? more vast and more dark than you thought it could grow that disease always lying beside you in bed. and i'll try, fuck, i'll try, 'til the sweet bitter end that the both of us always saw coming, and then i'll sleep, because living just feels like the dead. I met a boy who looked like the face of surrender You know what I asked him? I said Boy you got something inside of those eyes that's alive? He said I gave it up, gave it all up long ago, And I know only that there's just too much to know, And you live until living just feels like the dead. But I don't want to lose it all But I don't want to lose it all And you said -- And you said --
10.
IN 03:49
You asked me how to turn things around, but I can't tell you how All I can say is that you're here for now And I don't know where I'm going, couldn't measure out this road, But I'll leave the headlights on So we can both find our way home, so we can make it home Look up now, it's so bright we could drown in so much light, I hate to see you down, oh, my friend Please just take my hand, been through this time and time again I made it out You'll make it through I swear that no one always knows just what to do This world's a crowd, I can't always be around, but a hundred thousand miles away, I'll still be there for you I never did forgive, never gave myself a second chance I lived apologizing in advance Look me in the eye so I won't see you do the same I have changed, and we'll lead each other home yeah, we'll make it home Look up now, it's so bright we could drown in so much light, I hate to see you down, oh, my friend Please just take my hand, been through this time and time again and time again, time again, time again, time again You gotta stop, stop looking for that exit door, you even know, even know what you're asking for? You got a road up ahead that's full of danger and love, you got a heart right here that's always thinking of you When it hurts, just know you're not the only one and at the very least you you got the Indiana sun No, no, no You gotta stop, stop looking for that exit door, you even know, even know what you're asking for? You got a road up ahead that's full of danger and love, you got a heart right here that's always thinking of you When it hurts, just know you're not the only one and at the very least you you got the Indiana sun
11.
DE 04:30
I got a lot of things to say about love, but this is not one of those The heartstrings they told me of You played them, God knows I can look you in the eye, Say I am through with wondering why we spent so long trying to hold on All that wasted time, and now that you're gone I guess I should've seen the signs Read between the lines You never left a heart unbroken, You never left a word unspoken I thought that I was your exception, but what a misconception, I can say 'cause people never change, do they? At the end of the day I'd say that I hate you, but honestly, I just don't have the energy This broken heart feels like a broken bone, but at least it's my own I look up to the sky, realize I'm through with all the wondering why So much time ahead now, Think it's time I said, now Think it's time I said goodbye Cause I should've seen the signs Back when you were mine You never left a word unspoken, You never left a heart unbroken I thought that I was your exception, but what a misconception, I can say 'cause people never change, do they? At the end of the day We met on a Delaware street, walking along to the same kind of beat So bitter So sweet that now the rhythm's incomplete But sometimes you let yourself get led astray and sometimes your heart only gets in the way and sometimes goodbye is just all you can say Sometimes you're all that you got Sometimes you're all that you got Here I am, all that I've got At the end of the day I should've seen the signs Back when you were mine You never left a word unspoken, You never left a heart unbroken I thought that I was your exception, but what a misconception, I can say 'cause people never change, do they? At the end of the day
12.
CA 03:24
Baby, don't you look at me Those eyes could burn a building down And you got better things to do than keep me hanging 'round Sounded like you said goodbye before you said hello I'm getting sick and tired of sitting through the same old show So darling, if you're thinking that I'm so naive, here's the words that you won't believe No, I've been told I should be chasing after love, time after goddamn time But I ain't sold on this love story that they keep trying to sell me over cheap red wine Listen up, baby, I don't want to sit here, watching you throw out a line Sorry but I'm not sorry If life's a love story, Sure as hell ain't yours and mine Baby turn and walk away, you've talked at me for way too long Think you're entitled to my time? You've never been so wrong Hey now, maybe take it easy with those bedroom eyes I don't know what I gotta do to make you realize I'm going home alone at the end of the night and I know that you'll be all right No, I've been told I should be chasing after love, time after goddamn time But I ain't sold on this love story that they keep trying to sell me over cheap red wine Listen up, baby, I don't want to sit here, watching you throw out a line Sorry but I'm not sorry If life's a love story, Sure as hell ain't yours and mine We can't keep waiting for the light to change I'm sick of people putting up with heartache for a story that they'll never find You gotta listen to me, listen to me, listen to me What a waste to see yourself through someone else's eyes No, I've been told I should be chasing after love, time after goddamn time But I ain't sold on this love story that they keep trying to sell me over cheap red wine Listen up, all you boys in California who won't get yourself back in line Sorry but I'm not sorry If life's a love story, Sure as hell ain't yours and mine

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released October 10, 2014

Thanks a million to the brilliantly talented Ally Schmaling for the album photo! It's part of her double-exposure series, "Into Blossom," viewable at allyschmaling.com along with the rest of her work.

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