1. Eye for an Eye

3. Blue Eyes

 

Eye for an Eye

Heaven in November, my spirits are out of tune
I’ll move on tomorrow
Every time I say it, I’m put on repeat
You’ve heard this song before
What are you waiting for, no one will hold your hand
The root of this reform’s inside my head

Try as I might, try as I might, no one helps me out.

Everyone’s hiding a demon
Everyone calls it something new
Me, I’m hiding the reason that I ever went after you

I’m ready to feel the swelling lump inside my throat
Familiar pain is missing
What will it take for my strength to take over?
Maybe a proverbial ass-kicking
I’m doing it, I can’t believe I’m doing it right for once
There’s no pain, but is there pain to come

Everyone’s hiding a demon
Maybe I’ll waken my sleeping beast
Ask him, what are the reasons that I go where I’m wanted least

Eye for an eye
I’m going blind
Maybe I’ll try the things that you tried


Who’s That Girl

You never thought she’d be quite this way around you
Or did you underneath?
You’re not helpless in what you call the situation
And you’re smiling in your sleep

Since the morning that you left me for dead,
I never wanted you more
But now I know that you haven’t changed
You love her being on her own

Who’s that girl in your life?
Why’s she standing there, making you smile?
She’s not your type, I was your type
Why’s she wasting her time?

Her every word sounds like hell when you try listening
It’s a new and ugly place to be
And when you try to picture her from years ago
It’s a new and ugly face

From the start when you met her and you fell in like
You thought you had her pegged
But you figured out that you were wrong
She’s the mess inside your head

Who’s that girl that you’re with?
Why’s she standing there, shooting the shit?
She’s out of line, tell her you’re mine
Why’s she wasting her time?


Blue Eyes

It’s been this way in later months
Never a second thought
Though I swore I was doing right
All else just screamed and fought

Recent findings came my way
Those later months are getting old
I’m learning to look for more
I deserve no less than gold

Blue Eyes, they stare at me
Boldly I’ll return the view
Blue Eyes, won’t you gaze at me with the vision I have of you

There’s no shortcuts allowed in life
Gonna get there when it comes
Til then I gotta use what I got
Rediscover the meaning of fun

Let me tell you my findings
Stop me from making the same mistake please
Right now, cause right now there are so many fish in the sea


Firelight

Firelight, driving home to you tonight
I discovered you long ago, in the middle of my dark and lonely door
Was you, Firelight

Had I known that you’d be so into me
I’d have bet even more than my life
And I’d have even more to say than this

She’s got a prettier face than most I guess
But I still got all that you need
Better moves than most I guess
But I still got all that you need

After dark, when my devilish friends depart
Let’s retreat to long ago, uncover the mossy rug that grows
On you, Firelight

Won’t blow out your flame in a million years
You keep me constantly awake
Secure, awake to what’s the root of it all
It’s you, my firelight

No matter how hard I try, I won’t be all that you need
Oh my God, all I want is to be all that you need
Maybe if I close my eyes, you won’t be what I need
All I ever think about is how you’re all that I need
Maybe if I close my eyes, you won’t be what I need
Oh my God, all I want is to be all that you need

Firelight, driving home to you tonight.


Whisper

The slippery lady is back for tonight
She puts a blindfold on my sore eyes
Whispers softly that soon you’ll be mine
And so I think of you.

You take my drink away and let me taste yours
Whisper my questions once at a time
That lady and you push my back to the door
But I’ll just think of you

Whisper the words that I want to hear
Your lies slip into me and my mind
Turn your back away and think that I’m fine
But I’ll just think of you

Then you just slam that door in my face
Don’t say sorry, you committed no crime
The slippery lady leaves me blindfold undone
And so I think of you

My mind cradles you for hours
But when I’ll need you I must stand in line
No more a question of what I’m denied
I never wanted you

Slippery lady when we meet again
I wanna tell her there’ll be no next time
Try and come get me with your claws in my pride
Fight me until you’re through


Ends of the Earth

My heart folds out to scraps and dust
You’re unshaken still
Your still waters won’t tremble like my seas
Whose vessels are struggling for you to be near to me

Your grace as you hold me, unmatched by them
But you’ll think nothing of it again

So I’ll stand here waiting, no time is too long
Until you give me my worth
I’ll go with you where you can’t see me there
I’ll follow you ‘til the ends of the earth

When you cry out for help, should I lend you a hand
I won’t expect you in return
I’ll take you as you’ll give me, though I’ll long for more
Just see you through your troubles, stay still all alone

Anxious and ashamed that I’ll lose you
Makes me feel I’m nothing without you

Until you give me my worth
I’ll go with you where you can’t see me there
I’ll follow you ‘til the ends, I’ll follow you ‘til the ends of the earth

It’s You

Am I good enough to be your playmate, he asked
I felt a twinge of guilt
Did I act like I was better, knowing well my words could kill
He was pacified to see me leap into his laughter every day
I never acted from a hiding tree ‘til I heard my body say

It’s you. Take off your shoes and stay
It’s you that I want, can I face you the next day
I’ll see the doubt that’s in your eyes wash away like sheets of rain
When I tell you, It’s you.

Am I strong enough to hold a lesser man
So with me he can stand
Am I vain enough to call him lesser, like I’m so much more the man
I close my eyes, I see one face with a silver dollar sign
Why is my heart not loud enough, I keep listening to my mind

When I’m alone with him, it’s a dead giveaway
My voice lights up like a starved nightingale

Am I wise enough to hear the others
When they say I’m wrong
Could I be so selfish to prefer this empty longing
What’s wrong with him?
What the hell’s wrong with me?


Taste of You

Fourteen days since I last heard from you
Who can say that you’re there?
Anticipation of an accident path
God only knows if you care

Even though I know you see,
It’s not the whole story

Walk it fast and foolishly
Soon you’ll know where to spend your time
Don’t make my old mistakes, babe it’s the long way,
The wrong way to go.
Still I say that I miss the simple taste of you

The doors are closed since I last heard from you.
It won’t eradicate my fear
After five, after ten when you’re gone
What can I do to dry your tears

Now you know that you don’t see
Still you won’t listen to me

Walk it fast and foolishly
Soon you’ll know where to spend your time
Don’t make my old mistakes, babe it’s the long way,
The wrong way to go.
Still I say that I miss the simple taste of you


Empty Casket

You say you don’t need them, you like your independence
You mock their closeness like admitting that you’re jealous
You’re not as strong as that
Not the loner you’d like them to see

So your life is not an empty casket
But I’ll be with you every step of the way
Hold it close in your arms, wake up
It’ll weigh you down and blow you away

It’s not enough to say hi to the others at the store
The uncharted land holds more at half past four
Go there with them
You needn’t sit by yourself ‘til it’s dead

Your distant relatives know less than she can
She’s asking you to give her a chance

And I’ll be with you every step of the way
Hold it close in your arms, wake up
It’ll weigh you down and blow you away


Not on Your Life

Think I’m the same little girl you once knew
That I have no way of changing my style
That I’m still fighting the Gods with no clue
And I’m telling you, not on your life, my friend

I’ve moved on and I’ve moved up
And I can’t wait ‘til you see me now
I’m breathless, breathless and still

I know my world has spun me around
But I still walk the same
Have I lost it
Have I lost my senses
Not on your life, my friend

Never afraid to speak my mind
But it was snarled in cobwebs around you
Though I may say I’ve forgotten my past
The truth is, not on your life, my friend

And I’ll still want you
You know I still will want you
But this time will I fail
Not on your life my friend

 

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