LYRICS

RECKLESS THOUGHTS

01/

She’ll Let Herself Out

(Dean Fields/Maia Sharp)

If it’s a pain, if it’s a problem

It won’t be hers anymore

She isn’t waiting to be excused

Or for you to walk her to the door

Keeping it in, tamping it down

A meaningless, misguided mission

It’s a matter of time ‘til it don’t matter at all

If anybody gave permission

She’ll let herself out

The gate to the cages that she’s been living in

Now that she realized

They lock from the inside

She’ll never be something she’s not, not again

She’ll let herself out, she’ll let herself out

Digging in the dirt

She tapped into an underground river

Let it rise and baptize

Now she don’t need anyone to forgive her

She was making up reasons to fall in line

Til she made up her own unsatisfied mind

CHORUS

Gracious as hell

She’ll wish you well and then

She’ll let herself out

The gate to the cages that she’s been living in

Now that she realized

They lock from the inside

She’ll never be something she’s not, not again

She’ll let herself out, she’ll let herself out

drums/loop: Ross McReynolds, bass/acoustic baritone guitar: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, percussion: Eric Darken, bg vocal: Shelly Fairchild, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, Mellotron, vocals: Maia

02/

Old Dreams

(Maia Sharp/Garrison Starr)

I’m tired of those old dreams

I’m not even dreaming anymore

That was the old me

She didn’t know what she was living for

I built that city when the ground was still shifting

It’s time to say good bye to something I ain’t missing

Old dreams

You paint yourself a picture

Before you could know what the colors are

How big is the sky, what’s the shape of the stars

I’m waking up to something

Finally settling into my skin

And I’m never going back again

CHORUS

When I close my eyes

I don’t see what I used to see

I’m just not the same as I used to be

When the ghosts tell stories

They get all nostalgic for the way it was

I’m sick of it getting to me like it does

I’m tired of those old dreams

I’m not even dreaming anymore

That was the old me

She didn’t know what she was living for

I built that city when the ground was still shifting

It’s time to say good bye to something I ain’t missing

Old dreams

drums: Ross McReynolds, bass/acoustic baritone guitar/Mellotron: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, bg vocal: Shelly Fairchild, Wurlitzer/piano/Mellotron/percussion/vocals:

03/

On A Good Day

(Kim Richey/Maia Sharp)

On a good day she don’t mind the rain

When you ask her, she says “I can’t complain”

On a good day she don’t miss you much

On a good day

When she wants you she don’t come undone

She might go there but she can stop at one

And she wants to but she don’t pick up the phone

When she wants you

But, there are days it’s harder not to

Bring you up in conversation

All the ways you still exhaust her

Move in steady slow rotation with the good days

On a good day she don’t second guess

When you ask her she’ll say it’s for the best

And she’ll almost believe herself

On a good day

When she slides back into what went wrong

She might go there but she don’t stay too long

In the rewind, she knows better than that

There are days it’s harder not to

Bring you up in conversation

All the ways you still exhaust her

Move in steady slow rotation

They come to visit and spend the night

Throw shadows in the candlelight

But on a good day she don’t mind the rain

When you ask her, she says “I can’t complain”

It’s a good day

drums/percussion: Ross McReynolds, bass: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, cellos: Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, acoustic guitars/Mellotron/Wurlitzer/vocals: Maia

04/

California

(Peter Groenwald/Maia Sharp/Garrison Starr)

I don’t know where I would be without you

With me in my dreams when I was young

Everything I needed to hold on to

To be someone

The other side of you was an ocean

I never even tried to understand

Nothing that I wanted was waiting beyond you

I was in your hands

California

You were always good to me

I never thought that I would leave you

California

A winter storm that nobody predicted

Reckless thoughts and broken hearts collide

I found some other part of me and I could only see it

From the other side

CHORUS

You did everything you could and nothing that you shouldn’t have

California

You were always good to me

Never thought that I would leave you

California

You were always good to me

I never thought that I would leave you

California

electric guitars/Dulcitone/synth bass: Joshua Grange, strings: The Accidentals (violins/violas: Sav Buist, cellos: Katie Larson), acoustic guitar/bg vocal: Garrison Starr, piano: Peter Groenwald, acoustic guitars/Wurlitzer/vocals: Maia

05/

Kind

(Dean Fields/Maia Sharp/Mindy Smith)

You can put your faith in a pipedream

Jalapeno peppers in your ice cream

You can wear the colors of another team

None of that matters to me

Go on, drive your Maserati in the slow lane

Catch a tidal wave in a hurricane

You got 27 letters in your last name

Doesn’t make a difference to me

My kind of people are kind people

My kind of people are kind

If you got a good heart

That’s a good start

If you want to be a friend of mine

Rich or broke, drink or smoke, to me it’s all Pepsi/Coke

Whatever floats your boat is fine

My kind of people are kind people

My kind of people are kind

You can part your hair like a palm tree

Have your meat and 3 or your chickpeas

Get yourself stung saving honeybees

Call who you call when you fall on your knees

CHORUS

Some follow the rules

Some break ‘em for fun

My kind of people, we only got one

My kind of people are kind

If you got a good heart

That’s a good start

If you want to be a friend of mine

Rich or broke, drink or smoke, to me it’s all Pepsi/Coke

Whatever floats your boat is fine

My kind of people are kind people

My kind of people are kind

drums/percussion: Ross McReynolds, bass: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, bg vocal: Mindy Smith, acoustic guitars/B3/vocals: Maia

06/

Too Far Now

(Mando Saenz/Maia Sharp)

I keep going ‘til I’ve gone too far to turn around

I keep climbing ‘til I’ve gone too high to come down

What I confirm, what I deny, as long as I

Keep going ‘til I’ve gone too far to turn around

To turn around, I’m too far now to turn around

There’s a monster in me who scares away the fear

Then he looks at me, smiles and winks and disappears

What I believe, what I deny, as long as I get here

Too far to turn around

To turn around, I’m too far now, to turn around

What’s gone is gone, good night, good night

So long, so long, sleep tight, sleep tight

With it all riding on a sliver of light

I keep going ‘til I’ve gone too far to turn around

And I don’t feel lost but I’m sure as hell not found

What I defend, what I deny as long as I keep going

‘Til I’ve gone too far to turn around

To turn around, I’m too far now to turn around

drums/percussion: Ross McReynolds, bass/acoustic baritone guitar: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, acoustic guitar/Wurlitzer/piano/CP synth/saxophone/vocals: Maia

07/

Gone Cryin’

(Elizabeth Elkins/Maia Sharp)

Some people go fishing

Some people go driving

Some gaze at the stars in the night

It’s a private decision

Your way of surviving

Have you ever gone cryin’ to get right

Some people start drinking

Some people stop living

And shelter their heart from the light

When you feel like your sinking

There’s a long lost tradition

Have you ever gone cryin’ to get right

When I’m lonely in the shadow of the clouds gathering around

And the storm breaks, I know by now just let it rain down

Let it rain down

We fought til the morning

With hardly a warning

She fell out of love out of spite

Just said she was leaving

And she had her reasons

She had to go cryin’ to get right

Some people go fishing

Some people go driving

Some unfold their wings and take flight

I’ve fished and I’ve driven

Scanned the horizon

I think I’ll go cryin’ tonight

Yeah, think I’ll go cryin’ tonight

I’ll be back with the morning light

Gone cryin’ to get right

drums/percussion: Ross McReynolds, bass/acoustic baritone guitar: Will Honaker, electric guitars/synths: Joshua Grange, piano/acoustic guitars/vocals: Maia

08/

Fallen Angel

(Maia Sharp)

She said honey, don’t fall for a fallen angel

I said, baby you never had wings

But nobody but you could make it look graceful

Don’t change for anything

You got somebody who will come between you and the ground

I’ve been waiting so long for you to come down

I’ve been waiting for you to come down

She said it was just time I turn that corner

I don’t feel like a kid anymore

They show up disguised as each other, chaos and order

And I don’t know what I’m fighting for

I said if you need armor, my arms wrap all the way around

I’ve been waiting so long for you to come down

I’ve been waiting for you to come down

We rise above ourselves every now and then

We taste some higher air and call it born again and again

She said, honey don’t fall for this fallen angel

I said, don’t tell me what to do

If I want to drop to my knees all fuckin’ faithful

Well, it’s really not up to you

Besides, you with a halo is like me with a crown

That ain’t the way we make a joyful sound

I’ve been waiting so long

Whatever comes next I have been affected

I’m not here to get saved anyway

I know if it’s love it don’t look like what you expected

You don’t have to tell me today

She said, I hurt myself looking, it’s time I got found

I’ve been waiting so long for you to come down

I’ve been waiting for you to come down

I’ve been waiting so long for you to come down

I’ve been waiting for you to come down

drums: Ross McReynolds, bass: Will Honaker, baritone electric guitars: Joshua Grange, percussion: Eric Darken, acoustic guitars/Wurlitzer/vocals: Maia

09/

Everything You Need

(Madi Diaz/Anna Schulze/Maia Sharp)

When I need telling you tell me

When I need quiet you go

When I need holding you hold me

When I don’t know what I need, you know

I like me better when you’re looking at me

You see the real when I see the wrong

Any other woman would be celebrating

And you don’t even know what’s going on

You have everything you need to break my heart

I’ve given you everything you need to break my heart

When I need fighting you fight me

Some things are worth the war when you know what you’re fighting for

And you don’t ever remind me

When I say too much, get too mean, slam a couple doors

I want to be the one celebrating

Way too busy appreciating

So caught up in the world you’re creating

I don’t even consider it all could fall apart

You have everything you need to break my heart

I’ve given you everything you need to break my heart

I let you see what no one sees, I let myself believe

You have everything you need to break my heart

I’ve given you everything you need to break my heart

I let you see what no one sees, I let myself believe

First time in forever I let down my guard

Now you have everything you need

Everything you’d ever need to break my heart

piano/Rhodes: Joshua Grange, baritone electric guitars/Mellotron/drums/vocals: Maia

10/

Hell & Back

(Maia Sharp/Amanda Voisard)

Before the sun rises you’re on the miles of red dirt

To find the limits of a scorched earth

Don’t come back late, don’t come back light

Don’t show your scars when you get home tonight

Resilience, it ain’t a given, it’s a gift

And a burden not everyone can lift

Turn the walk into wood, turn the wood into coal

Turn the pain into voices coming straight from your soul

Cutting through the heat

Rising above the stacks

You are singing

On the road to hell and back

You’re a choir with no savior to be found

You can cry or you can sing but you can’t fall down

Every time you wake up and walk out of that gate

You know all too well you’re tempting fate

Cutting through the heat

Rising above the stacks

You are singing

On the road to hell and back

Cutting through the heat

Rising above the stacks

You are singing

On the road to hell and back

What fire has to burn

Whose ground has to crack

So you are singing

On the road home

From hell and back

drums: Ross McReynolds, bass: Will Honaker, electric guitars: Joshua Grange, percussion: Eric Darken, bg vocals: Shelly Fairchild/Wendy Moten/Emily West, acoustic guitars/vocals: Maia