LYRICS

EVIL IN THE WATER
©2020 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

Don’t go down to the well, my Child
Keep a wary and watchful eye
Don’t go down to the well, my Child
Beware of what may be inside

‘Cause there’s evil in the Water
And there’s no fighting this tide
Oh there’s evil in the Water
And you could never stay dry

Don’t go down to the well, my Child
Oh you - you could never stay dry

So don’t go down - don’t go down
Don’t go down - don’t go down
Don’t go down - don’t go down

Cause you - you could never stay dry
Oh you - you could never stay dry
Oh you - you could never stay dry

ASHES
©2018 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

We were ashes - Embers pulled from a dying flame
Only stories in the stillness - Smoke adrift together in the wind

These broken shards of memory - recall our slow descent
Succumb to fear and fury - Still adrift together in the wind

We are the ashes
Ashes to ashes

You taught me how to fight - Fight off all my demons
To this day I’m fighting - Fighting with myself
I have the will - I can wear me down
Down enough to see where I’ve been
Where I won’t go again

We are the ashes
Ashes to ashes
We are the ashes
Ashes to ashes

CLEAN BREAKS
©2019 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

I don’t know about you, but my sky’s on fire
And the earth is dead it’s splitting right between us
I think I got you hooked on me
Hanging on each word and I can tell you what I mean

Embers of lovers’ flame still burn you
If you get too close it’ll take you
And I can’t bring myself... to close the door behind me

Clean breaks are better in the long run
They’re prettier on paper but, they’ll break us all
No matter how we try to sever the ties
That bind us together - we’re still bound together

But you’re running from your shadow
You’re still running from a life you never chose
And I would never blame you
Oh I’ve done the same

Hell! I’ve done the same damn thing keepin’ on too long
Down the same ol’ road we should have been running from
Now you can’t just take my hand or Babe we’ll keep on
Falling to pieces
All those missing pieces

I’ll do my best not to let you down
I’ll do my best not to let you down
But we’re falling to pieces
All those missing pieces
All over again

We’re fallin’ to pieces all over again

TETHERED
©2019 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

You called me Baby
You called it sweet
Your arms around me like the mid-summer heat

You called me Darlin'
Your voice so sweet
To be tethered forever is what you wished we would be

'Cause with your hand locked in mine
We’d make it through
Though the years may be unkind
I promise you
I'd remain by your side
If you wanted me to

You called me Baby
Your voice so sweet
Alone I wondered if your promises would keep

You called me Darlin'
Your whisper sweet
“Not to worry, my Lovely” is what you whisper to me

'Cause with your hand locked in mine
We’d make it through
Though the years may be unkind
I promise you
I'll remain by your side
If you wanted me to

'Cause with your hand locked in mine
We’d make it through
Though the years may be unkind
I promise you
I'll remain by your side
If you wanted me to
If you wanted me to
If you wanted me to
If you wanted me too
If you wanted me too

THE RUNAROUND
© 2019 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

Can’t take back my words unsaid
When truth escapes in a stolen breath
Silence grows as you pass my way
But you don’t know and I won’t say

That I wish you would chase me down
Hold me close and make me know
I was worth the time and worth the pain
The runaround, the pushing down
Our life-long game

Would you return or turn aside
For futures known or lost in the night?
Or would you sail to the farthest moon
To bring me back the heart I’ve thrown?

I wish you would chase me down
Hold me close and make me know
I was worth the time and worth the pain
The runaround, the pushing down
Our life-long game

Oh, the games we play
Oh, the games we play
Oh, the games we play
Oh, the games we’ve played

Still I wish you would chase me down
Hold me close and make me know
I was worth your time and worth the pain
The runaround, the pushing down
Our life-long game
The runaround, the pushing down
Our life-long game

BETTER MAN
© 2019 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

I’ve been screamin’ screamin’
At the top of my lungs
Oh I swear if you would stop runnin’ you might stop hidin’ too
Can’t you see how your words fall like honey
From the blessed mouth you use
To kiss all those curses you toss at me around this room

Don’t I deserve a better man than you?
In the heat of the moment I swear that it’s true
Come morning I’ll wake up and find that we’re through
Cause Darlin’ I know I deserve a better man than you

I’ve been screamin’ screamin’
Screamin’ far too long
Oh I swear if you would stop hiddin’ you might stop runnin’ too
Tell me boy what-choo got going on inside that caged heart of yours
I can’t cure what’s been broken, but Lord knows
I’d try if I knew
Which got me thinkin’

Don’t I deserve a better man than you?
In the heat of the moment I swear that it’s true
Come morning I’ll wake up and find that we’re through
Cause Darlin’ I know I deserve a better man than you
Oh yes, Darlin’ I know I deserve a better man than you

LAZY
© 2019 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

Who do you think we’re kiddin
When we say we’ve been living like this
When we’ve been living like this?
Who do you think we’re lyin’ to
Who do you think we’ve been lyin’ to - when we say
We’re Ooo Okay?

When did love
When did love
When did love become so damn lazy?
When did love?
When did love - start makin’ us think
Ah, we’ve got it easy

I’ve got your number
I’ve got your beatin’
Heart in my hand
and I just can’t - let it go
Oh, tell me now, Baby
What we gonna do,
Now that we keep - hittin’ repeat
Every time we’re in the bedroom

When did love
When did love
When did love become so damn lazy?
When did love?
When did love - start makin’ us think
Ah, we’ve got it easy

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
Oooooo ooooo oooo

When did love
When did love
When did love become so damn lazy?
When did love?
When did love - start makin’ us think
Ah, we’ve got it easy
Oh, we got it easy

WE’RE PRETENDING
©2017 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

I can’t pretend it’s not
I’ve seen you do it, I’ve seen you do it
A time or two
You can’t pretend it’s not
Cause you’ve been watchin’ me do it,
You been watchin, watchin’ me do it

This is how the stories go
Either you can fight through it
Or you’ll just undo it

Honey, what are we are fightin’ for?
We’ve been through with this for so long
What we been fightin’ for?
When I know you watch me do it - When you know I watch you do it every day

You can’t pretend it’s not
I’ve seen you do it, I’ve seen you do it a time or two
You can’t pretend it’s not
Cause you’ve been watchin’ me do it,
You’ve been watchin’, watchin’ me do it

This is how the stories go
We just keep runnin ‘round
Runnin ‘round - Runnin’ around
We’re just watchin’ each other, we ain’t fightin’ no more
Oh Baby, we’re pretendin’
Oh Baby, we’re pretendin’
We’re pretendin’ it’s not

But we been through with the fightin’
And we been through with the runnin’
Still we’re watchin’ each other
Watchin’ each other - Watchin’ each other
Just pretendin’ we’re livin’
Oh Baby, we’re pretendin
We’re pretendin’ we’re livin’
Oh Baby, we’re pretendin’

WASTED
© 2019 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

Seems the difference is gone
Between truth and the lies
And you’ve been whisperin’ in my ears now half of my life
When I was so sweet
And innocent once
I felt the walls close in and my dreams fadin’ out
No matter how long it’s been, I keep coming back to this

And now I’m wasted
Over my wastin’
All my sweetest years lovin’ you

I’ve spent hours
Just walking alone
Through the streets that you and I, we used to know
Now I don’t see you
Even now that I’m home
But I swear, I still feel your shadow every place that I go

And now I’m wasted
Over my wastin’
All my sweetest years lovin’ you

Oh yes, I'm wasted on you
Oh, I stay wasted on you

THE TIDES
© 2011 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

I can taste you all over again
With the touch of my hand I draw
A detailed outline of your skin
What have I to do with these days
When all they recall is your face?

Can you feel? Can you wander through with me
To the ending of us?
We both will pass this day again

Can you remember a dream of me?
Circles we’re drawing on the water’s edge...
And I can take all that you do
If you can breathe in every bit of me

Can you feel? Can you wander through with me
To the ending of us?
We both will pass this day again

Telling broken tales of a lover’s missing past
Oh, sweet Love, we will again
We will know this life
We both will know this life again

FIRE FUELING FIRE
©2019 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

I think that I would leave
If I could only find the door
I think that I would speak
If I could only tell the story

I think that I would mend
And never feel this way again
If I could see the wound
But I can only think of you - burning a hole straight through me
And I can only speak to you - through these age-old memories

Do you remember - Do you remember?
Do you remember - we were fire fueling fire
Do you remember - Do you remember
When we were fire fueling fire?

You said you’d fight for me
Until your dying breath
You said you’d give anything
To pull me up from these depths
You promised you would hold me
That you would go where I go
But I don’t even know where I am

But I can only think of you - burning a hole straight through me
And I can only speak to you - through these age-old memories
Do you remember - Do you remember?
Do you remember - we were fire fueling fire
Do you remember - Do you remember
When we were fire fueling fire?

Let it burn
Let it burn
Oh let it burn

But I can only think of you - burning a hole straight through me
And I can only speak to you - through these age-old memories

Do you remember - Do you remember?
Do you remember - we were fire fueling fire
Do you remember - Do you remember
When we were fire fueling fire?
When we were fire fueling fire

DOWN TO THE RIVER
©2014 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

I went down to the river
To wash away your sins
No amount of that sweet water
Will do my bidding

So I went down to the church house
Prayin’ “Lord help him please!”
No amount of my prayin’ ever did a thing

Oooh Oooh

I pulled you down through the water
Like a stone from the shore
No amount of your drownin’
Would be a gift to the Lord

Cause you’re still a damn fool, ashamed of hisself
With your shadows and demons chasin’ you about

I won’t be your keeper
Oh, Brother of mine
So let’s go down to the river,
Maybe just one more time

Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

RUNAWAY
©2013 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

Got a baby-face but your eyes don’t lie
You’re ninteen, going on forty-five
Just young enough to risk
A little bit of everything you have
To feel alive

But what will people think?
What will people do?

When you’re a runaway renegade
Chasing promises made
You just go - go
And try it on your own

Such sad news, your kids turned out to be
Just like who you used to be
With endless nights of wild rides
Burnin’ through your mind

But what will people think? Tell me
What will people do?

When you’re a runaway renegade
Chasing promises made
You just go - go
And try it on your own
You just go - go try it on your own

AND I CAN’T LET GO
©2015 Hannah Smith, Alissa Abeler

Ain’t no place where I can go
Where Lover you ain’t gone before
You take my hand and lead the way
And pay no mind to names along the street

And I can’t let go
And I can’t let go

You replaced me once with a girl I knew
Her lips as red as a sunset hue
Don’t forget that before those days
The whole world would just fade away

And I can’t let go
And I can’t let go

I watched the winter fall - without you
I’ve heard our stories told - without you
I watched our ending fall - without you
And I finally knew…

I don’t need you
I don’t need you
Don’t forget as you run out the door
I don’t need you

Ain’t no place where I can go
Where Lover, you ain’t gone…

HOLD
©2012 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

Darlin’, would you please hold me?
I can’t make it through
These cold harsh nights alone, you see
The darkness always surrounds me
The darkness always surrounds me

Ooooo ooo ooooo
Ooooo ooo ooooo

The wilderness inside me
Screams for your abiding
But fear has taken hold, you see
Where dormant dreams unfold and breathe
Where dormant dreams unfold and breathe

Ooooo ooo ooooo
Ooooo ooo ooooo

Please take my hand
I swear I can do that
Until the grave calls me
Until the grave brings me home
Brings me home

GOODNIGHT, LOVE
©2011 Hannah Smith and Alissa Abeler

Goodnight Love it’s been a long day
Too many moments I can’t replace
Too many trials I can’t explain
And a load I bare without you in my hand

Goodnight Love, I wish I could explain
But too many struggles in my heart
Too many worries to break down
Down to the core of the river washing us away
But I will remember you

So cover me with sweet love even though I’ll be gone
Remember when the days pass how we used to be
In love, my Love
I will always be yours
I will always be yours

Goodnight Love, tonight’s finally come
Through distance and tears of a weary soul
Though my steps be marred by the way I left
I can’t return, though I wish I could
But I still remember the way home

So cover me with sweet love even though I’ll be gone
Remember when the days pass how we used to be
In love, my Love
I will always be yours

So cover me with sweet love even though I’ll be gone
Remember when the days pass how we used to be
In love, my Love
I will always be yours, I will always be yours
I will always be yours, I will always be yours

COME ON, WEARY BROTHER
©2017 Alissa Abeler and Hannah Smith

You’ve been keepin' - keepin' on
Though the road you’re walking keeps changing
It’s been twistin' around and trippin' you up
And kickin' you when you’ve been down

So come on, weary brother
Find rest from of the sorrows you bear
There are hands to raise your burden
There is time for your heart to mend

You’ve been singin', singin' songs
Of heartache and better days
Of fights un-won, of your mother’s son
And memories laid in their graves

So come on, weary sister
Find rest from of the sorrows you bear
There are hands to raise your burden
There is time for your heart to mend

Sometimes this world feels colder
Than the dead of a winter night
And the hands that pray keep on beggin'
Hoping to feel alive

So come on, weary brother
Find rest from of the sorrows you bear
There are hands to raise your burden
There is time for your heart to mend
Oh, there's time for your heart to mend