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Eve Selis

Eve Selis

Fearless Heart
Maybe all of us are searching for some golden mean 
One bright answer written softly in the sky 
Is this life a perfect tragedy we all have dreamed 
Or is the darkness just a canvas for the light 

If I had a fearless heart love would be so easy 
As simple as a kiss as brave and broken as the truth 
I’d let go with abandon all the armor I once needed 
If I had a fearless heart I’d give this heart to you 


One day I’ll embrace the weakness that has caged my soul 
I’ll surrender to the grace and freely fall 
I will trust you and forgiveness will be our last hope 
When at last we both believe the sacred call 

REPEAT CHORUS

Fearless heart I know you want to be unbound 
Fearless heart I’ll wait for you until love echoes through the clouds 

And love will be so easy 
As simple as a kiss as brave and broken as the truth 
I’d let go with abandon all the armor I once needed 
If I had a fearless heart I’d give this heart to you 

Dark Sky Blue
​Where was the world 
The day you needed someone 
To be by your side 
And help you make it through 
Would a smile or a touch or a prayer 
Have made any difference 
To give you some hope  
And turn your dark sky blue 

I would have taken your place 
Done anything just to find you 
How did your life get so hard 
Right and wrong got confused 
Didn’t you know just how much 
All of us loved and adored you 
Now what will it take  
To turn your dark sky blue 


You left us here  
Without a single answer 
To pick up the pieces of  
Your broken point of view 
Now we’ve got to go on  
With the empty hole you left us 
And fill it with light 
To turn your dark sky blue 

REPEAT CHORUS 
(Solo) 

Didn’t you know just how much 
All of us loved and adored you 
What will it take  
To turn your dark sky blue 
What will it take  
To turn your dark sky blue 
Monster
​
You stood on the ledge  
You knew you would fall 
So tangled with rage and fear 
What made you believe  
Your choices would let you escape 
You traded your soul for our tears 
The monster wins again  
Don’t you know it’s not your friend 

It lies and it steals  
And it tears you down and makes you think it’s real 
It breaks and it blames 
Cause it knows you’re too afraid to change 
Yeah but now you’ll never be the same 

When did you decide 
To hurt all of us for your pain 
The stain on the floor remains 
They’ll say that you are 
The monster that ruined the world 
So I tucked your heart away  
In the wake of broken lives  
The monster cannot hide 

It takes and it creeps  
And it whispers wicked thoughts and schemes 
It rips and it tears 
It convinces you to take the dare  
It claws and it screams 

And it wakes you from your sleepless dreams 
It’s your choice you're it’s slave 
You bear the scars of its relentless chains 
Don’t you know you wrapped us all in chains 

(Solo) 

Don’t you know you wrapped us all in chains 
Now none of us will be the same 
Grace
​I didn’t know how much I needed you 
Never knew that you were there 
Every choice that brought me to my knees 
Made me find you everywhere 

Ooh ooh ooh My soul cries 
Ooh ooh Open my eyes 

Oh oh oh Grace how can the darkness be light 
Oh oh oh Grace losing is winning the fight  
As I lay down my will and the whole world is still 
And I wake up to all that is true 
Love is that you 
Oh grace you always knew 


Every dream that I surrendered 
Was a stone you rolled away 
I was sailing in the sunshine 
Now I’m dancing in the rain 

In ashes you found beauty 
In fear you offer faith 

REPEAT CHORUS

(Solo) 

REPEAT CHORUS

Grace, Grace, Grace
Love Only Knows
If I could turn back time I might change everything or nothing at all 
Sorrow has a way of carving out a place for all the tears that fall 
But I’m ready to release the pain I’ve carried 
I’m not drowning any more 
I see the light I see the day  
I see life like I never have before 

Cause the question is the answer 
And the answer is the reason I keep chasing down forever everyday 
Somehow it’s in not knowing where the river might be going  
That keeps life full of mystery and grace  
Even the wind never knows where it’s gonna blow 
Love only knows 


My heart can’t tell the difference anymore between the angels and the clouds 
And these beautiful and broken wings have made it through another storm somehow 
I may never understand it but my darkness   
Is the pathway to my peace 
It’s in laying down my need to have the answers 
That my soul is finally free 

REPEAT CHORUS

(Solo) 

Even the wind never knows where it’s gonna blow 
Feeling the goodness in every step of the path I chose 
Maybe I’m home maybe I’ve still got miles to go 
Love only knows (2x) 
I Still Believe in You
​In the distant roar of thunder 
We can see the passing storm 
And we turn and stare in wonder 
Tattered and worn 

In the shadows and the darkness 
Was a light that would not fade 
Even in the coldest hour 
Love finds a way 

After all the rain is gone 
After all the cryin’s through 
After all the roads we’ve travelled on 
I still believe in you 

The forgiveness left us standing 
Humbled by the silent strength 
And we cast away the weakness 
Love will not break 

REPEAT CHORUS

After all the roads we’ve travelled on 
I still believe in you 
Lisa Sanders and Brown Sugar

Lisa Sanders

Tell Me Daddy
Tell me about your ways daddy
Are you dangerous
Tell me about those hats you’re wearing
Do they change when you’re with us
Where you go, I’m not able to follow
When you go to that place
In your eyes, there’s a dark shade of blue

Tell me why you’re drinking daddy
Does it make you feel alive
Why do you cry daddy
When you think no one’s around
You are here, then you’re gone tomorrow
When you come home there’s a 12 o’clock shadow
For you, nothing better than being alone

You’ve got the world on your shoulders
So have a drink or two
There’s nothing wrong with surviving
But who takes care of you


Show me how to smile daddy
Am I tough enough
What is love daddy
I have bad nights of my own
What’s this thing that keeps us hollow
We’re late for life so why bother
The sorrow will swallow us whole

REPEAT CHORUS

Tell me about your ways…
That's How I Feel About You
I woke up in the middle of the night, 
looked over at you, and you make me smile 
I love you and you love me 
That’s the way it’s supposed to be 

Comet streaking across the sky 
Strawberry cream and apple pie 
Ocean water splashing over my feet 
The moon hanging High 
That’s how I feel about you 

I find joy in the company of you 
little things make me care about you 
Even when we’re sad or blue 
There’s a silver lining 

Surrendering to the summer’s day 
Laughing all our cares away 
Sippin wine in the sweet sunshine
 I love to see you dance 
Thats how I feel about you
Thats How I Feel About You 

Time goes on and years roll by and still 
my heart, belongs to you 

Comet streaking across the sky 
Strawberry cream and apple pie 
Ocean water splashing over my feet 
the moon hanging high 

Surrendering to the summers day 
Laughing all our cares away 
Sippin wine in the sweet sunshine 
I love to see you dance 
That’s how I feel about you
That’s how I feel about you ​
Butterflies
Seventeen years old, my last year in highschool, 
I'm racing round the track
I was feeling pretty good, I was making my best time when I felt a crash
And as I'm going down, I see your face in the crowd

And I don't care
about the time its not going anywhere
When you're around
How about those butterflies, we never talk about
but by the way, you look good, in your jeans, 
How did you know?

We go off to college and I'm doing fine, 
cause you're my best friend,
 I study hard, I play hard, 
oops, I'm drunk again
And you hold back my hair, so I don't mess up my clothes

And I don't care, 
cause you're touching me, everywhere, 
and you touch my heart, 
And how about those stars we see, we never talk about 
but by the way, your smile help me pass the bar, 
How did you know?

I'm all grown up, I'm doing real fine, 
walking on 5th avenue, 
I'm thinking of you, I'm smiling about you, 
Oops I bump into you
And you look at me, electricity, 

You say you don't care
Cause you're not going anywhere, without me there 
and how about all those years we'll spend. 
Now we'll talk about those smiling faces, butterflies, electrifying, starry-eyed LOooooveee ... 
How bout those butterflies, How bout those starry eyes, 
How bout those those years we'll spend 
And now we know…
Easy Street
No one wants to hear about my trials and woes 
how come in revelation about this person I become 
always a word going around being the burden 
doing the hurting 
People have told me I was the last one to know 
Somehow some way I got mixed up in which way to go 
I was trying to be what I  thought I should be 
Just act normal, wasn't normal 

So I got to tell you 
I was losing myself down on Easy Street 
Walking around 
Playing in self denial, I was flirting


Loving somebody isn't always in black and white 
Walking a straight line is an impossible life 
Don't fool around 
Running underground being discovered 
Pulling off the covers 
Coming out in a light of day when all I want to do 
Is pull down the shades and be straight for you 
To not be a fake 
Living day to day wasn't working 
Nothing was working

REPEAT CHORUS

Sometimes I think it's better if I just free myself 
Freeing others even though they don't know why I go 
Breaking hearts
Blowing apart folks who didn't mistreat me 
Wasn't a secret 
No one said it was going to be easy you know 
Talking about things people don't want to know 
Coming out all over town can be painful to others 

REPEAT CHORUS X2
…Isn't easy wasn't easy
That's How I Know
​Oh the pictures you paint in my mind with your smile
Like the twinkle in your eye when you wink at me, or tell me, 
I light up your life
No doubts cast on me as to where I stand, 
No shadows lurking here, no dark clouds over my head

That's how I know, every little thing in my world is alright
Its alright its alright
That's how I know, everything little thing in my world is alright


When I feel insecurities rush in on me
I quickly hold on to you and know there's no finer thing

REPEAT CHORUS


We know need no explanations
With you there's no missed communications
As far as we're concerned, That's How I know
Oh do you squeeze me, Tell me that you love me everyday
Oh do you tease me, bring such laughter to me

And that's how I know every little thing is alright
Its alright its alright

It gets cold out in the world, sometimes
And I can't wait to rush right home
And find you, fast asleep... oh...That's how I know
Come On And Dance
Followed you home
Late in the evening
You went straight for my heart
We talked all night long
At the start of the day
You asked me to stay
I went out of my mind
Stayed all day long

Hold out your hand
And I’ll give you everything I can
I’ll find a way to show you my love everyday
Can I give that to you, let me show it to you
Come on and dance


Pictures of you
I have in my pocket
All day and night
You’re with me always

REPEAT CHORUS

Day and night, you’re with me all of my life
I’ll find a way to show you my love everyday

Can I give that to you, let me show it to you
Come on and dance, come on and dance, come on and dance
Omo Cloud

Omo Cloud

Brutal
You’re hanging by a hair
I soaked the pillow there
It’s nice you finally showed
Admit in you I’m scared
Not going anywhere
But I can’t live this low

You were so brutal
You were so brutal
You were so

Gave facts I couldn’t hear
Over the salty souvenir
Now I’m paying for it
I feel the water past my ears
I’m not allowed to disappear
Now you’re paying for it

You were so brutal
You were so brutal
You were so
You were so brutal
You were so brutal
You were so
Chareening 
​Balancing out on the line that I cast
Over the chasm of unimaginable drafts
Back when I was new
Between the building of me and the mountain of you

You, contentedness
Yes, and me, Chareening

Is it so?
Is it in stone?
Infinite effort and never cross?

Chaffed hands and backs of my knees
Eyes tight and arms swollen
Please, please
Take me from my body
Take me from my body

Contentedness, yes
And me, bleeding

Is it so?
Is it in stone?
Infinite effort and never grow
Sometimes
​Sometimes in the nighttime I remember you
Sometimes in the right light I can picture you
In the dark place only we knew
Where the shadow of me lives within you

Sometimes in the silence I can listen in
Sometimes in your absence I forget the theft
In the quiet place no one could see
Where the tower of you bends down to me

Sometimes in the right light I’m a villain too
Sometimes I don’t mind the things you used to do
Like the hollowing of a tree
Where the power of you lives within me 

Sometimes I case you
Sometimes I hate you
Sometimes I ache for you
For you, wanted fool

I wasn’t just an idiot
I was young
I wasn’t just a video
I was young
Good Intentions
How do you have it? 
Vow to have at it 
With or without
Wearing you out
Warm in your old bed 
Warming your hot head
Plead referee 
Please, will you be 
Fair enough 
For all of my good intentions, 
Aren’t for naught
And where is your intervention? 
Nowhere 
Couldn’t allow it 
Wouldn’t allow it 
On your honor 
Fell in the habit 
Terrible how it 
Controls control 
Care enough to covet conversation 
Not to cut you off, but concentration 
can’t go on when all the talking is attacking
Ultimate Love
It’s not a good sign you’re a liar too
I told him fading in the gloaming blue
Lying on my bad side and I sighed on cue
Not one for feigning if it’s not for you

I had heard about an ultimate love
I would circle the earth by any hysterical means
Just to hear the sound of ultimate love
Just to try to remember its voice for eternity
I would listen to the void of that love
Not telling the differences between what it is and me
I have heard about an ultimate love
I am thinking it isn’t for me

So what of failure do you disbelieve
Nobody’s laughing in the sea of thieves
Supposed siren sinking up your sleeve
Undressing your skin, she’s a lot like me

I have read about an ultimate love
I would circle the moon by every hysterical means
Just to catch a glimpse of ultimate love
Just to try to remember its face for eternity
I would stare into the void of that love
Not notice the differences between what it is and me
I had read about an ultimate love
I’ve determined it isn’t for me

You weren’t supposed to laugh
You weren’t supposed to laugh
I’m no comedian I’m no chameleon
You weren’t supposed to laugh
You weren’t supposed to laugh
The Summer
I thought it out, how to hold it in my mouth
Outside of sound, I would fumble on without
What is allowed, for to warn my lips somehow

I yelled and it echoed, and though I couldn’t make it out
I’d held my tongue between the teetering and solid ground
I’d heard the hurt and had the wherewithal to seek it out
Of dirt, unearth the worst, to cut the root and burn it down

Calling you out didn’t feel like I do now
Telling you off didn’t feel the way I thought
I wasn’t wrong, didn’t feel it after all

It was the summer of a sickness from the inside out
I couldn’t keep it any longer or I’d fucking drown
Nothing’s the matter over mind when you are sinking down
I had to scream it, it would hide if I wasn’t loud

Not scared of your devil, I’m his little girl

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