Eve Selis
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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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