LYRICS

TOMBOY

01/

Tomboy

(Emily Kopp/Maia Sharp)

I’m the only girl here not wearing a dress

They’re all Audrey and Grace, I’m doing my best

People I know, they glide through the party

People I don’t, they’re staring at me

Whispers carry they’re trying to guess

A neighbor told my mother once “what a nice young man”

I was mowing the meridian in my t-shirt tan

Just like that my streak is broken, days with no embarrassing moments

Grown up whispers, nobody understands

Tomboy

Not really this or that

Somewhere in the middle of it

Tomboy

Is it still just a phase when she stays

A tomboy

A fight broke out last night and nobody won

Who I am and who I think I should be, we decided we’re done

I don’t want a war with my body

The roles and the rules put too much on me

Whispers to myself carry the most

Tomboy

Not really this or that

Somewhere in the middle of it

Tomboy

Is it still just a phase when she stays

A tomboy

If I tried to look like Grace and Audrey

No one would know me

I wouldn’t know me

Who would that be anyway

Tomboy

Not really this or that

Somewhere in the middle of it

Tomboy

Is it still just a phase when she stays

A tomboy

When she stays a tomboy

Eric Darken: percussion, Teddie Collinz: beatbox, Will Honaker: bass, Maia: guitars, keyboards, synths, BG vocals & additional percussion

02/

Counterintuition

(Maia Sharp)

I want to name it, hold it tight

I want to own it outright

Like everything that comes and goes is my decision

You wake up and fly away

‘Cause I’m yelling “please stay!”

Might be time I get to know my counterintuition

My counterintuition

Not easy to believe in

Map the way and go another

Want the one and take the other

The new leader of the mission

My counterintuition

I want to fill up with emptiness

Feel warmer undressed

Let the armor and the guard

Get recommissioned

When nothing makes sense at all

I’m looking across the wall

Wondering what my chances are

If I join the opposition

My counterintuition

Not easy to believe in

Map the way and go another

Want the one and take the other

The new leader of the mission

My counterintuition

I’m not gonna yell and I’m not gonna tell you

To care any more than the not at all you do now

I’m gonna catch a wave of that cold, still water rising

My counterintuition

It ain’t easy to believe in

Oh, counterintuition

Help me fall in love again

Eric Darken: percussion, Will Honaker: bass and rubber bridge acoustic, Rod McGaha: flugelhorn & trumpet, Maia: guitars, keyboards, synths & BG vocals

03/

Is That What Love Does

(Maia Sharp / Emily West)

The blinds are off the windows

So you can see inside

Years worth of shadows

Running from the light

The shelves that held the burden

Of who I used to be

Are empty, clean and open

Making room for me

What I want to say, what I want to sing

I feel like changing everything

Is that what love does

Same house, same street, same skin, same town

Same troubled world spinning around

But nothing’s like it was

Is that what love does

There’s something in the making

In the breaking down of walls

I wanna rise to the occasion

Of letting them fall

Painting and peeling every shade of blue

When all it really needed was a coat of you

Is that what love does

Same house, same street, same skin, same town

Same troubled world spinning around

But nothing’s like it was

Is that what love does

Either way I’m out of breath

Overjoyed or scared to death

Is that what love does

Eric Darken: percussion, Sarah Holbrook: violins, Maia: guitars, keyboards, synths, soprano saxes & BG vocals

04/

Only Lucky

(Maia Sharp)

I try to be there when I say I will

But that ain’t happening tonight

Caught on the one highway, I’m still

In a snake of brake lights

Fed up, put out ‘til it’s my turn to pass

Slowly rolling by the metal and glass

I was tired, I was hungry

Now I’m only feeling lucky

Somebody just lost somebody

We tried to be all we need from this life

But when I looked in the mirror

It got harder and harder to see a good wife

It was a breakdown year

Free and falling in the great unknown

Brought back by the red and blue lights and the orange cones

I’d been leaning into lonely

Now I’m only feeling lucky

Somebody just lost somebody

I’m no good at going nowhere

I become someone I don’t care for

It takes the sound of a siren

To keep my idling engine from sparking a war

The reel of white dashes will start up again

When it does, remind me to remember when

I was only feeling lucky

When I was only feeling lucky

Only feeling lucky

Eric Darken: percussion, Teddie Collinz: beatbox, Will Honaker: bass, Randy Sharp: steel guitar, Sarah Holbrook: violins, The Only Luckies Backyard Choir: BG Vocals, Maia: guitars, keyboards, synths & additional BG vocals

05/

Edge of the Weatherline

(May Erlewine/Maia Sharp)

I never thought much of nostalgia

But I’m a sucker for an 80’s song

One that can’t be about you

That piece of the sky is almost gone

Here between the shadow and the shine

On the edge of the weatherline

It’s been a long stretch of highway

And a storm I thought would never end

With the rain coming sideways

It was hard to see from so far in

What do I keep, what do I leave behind

At the edge of the weatherline

On the edge of the weatherline

The grey is pressing up against the blue

And for a breath I let the both of them be true

Passing through getting you off my mind

On the edge of the weatherline

I’ve never thought much of nostalgia

I’m putting on an 80’s song

Nothing about it’s about you

That piece of sky is almost gone

I can’t hold on to what was never mine

On the edge of the weatherline

Eric Darken: percussion, Will Honaker: bass, May Erlewine: BG vocals, Rod McGaha: flugelhorn, Maia: guitars, keyboards, synths, tenor sax & additional BG vocals

06/

Asking for a Friend featuring Terri Clark

(Terri Clark/Maia Sharp)

What do you do when your unhappy hour

Starts a little earlier each day

Who do you call when the one who used to answer

Is no longer just a touch away

Where do you go when the road you know comes to an end

Asking for a friend

Do you keep saying that you got it all together

Or let on, you’re not as strong as you want to be

How do you know when to fight or surrender

To stand behind your wall or let them see

And how do you get out if you set aside the pride that got you in

Asking for a friend

She’s not so good at reaching out for help

It’s gonna take a little more than herself this time

Do you know how to ride out the thunder

And see the reason for the rain

Maybe it’d feel like she’s no longer drowning

If she found a silver lining in the pain

And maybe that day she’ll get tired of going on the way she’s been

Asking for a friend

Eric Darken: percussion, Will Honaker: bass, Randy Sharp: Electric and acoustic 12-string guitars, Terri Clark: vocals, Maia: acoustic guitar, baritone electric guitar & synths

07/

Better Story

featuring Matthew Perryman Jones

(Matthew Perryman Jones/Maia Sharp)

I push the pen across the page until the truth comes out

It’s a certain kind of faith when I don’t know what it’s about

But I keep pushing anyway and if I find something to say

That’s worth a damn

I get a little closer to who I am

I want to write a better story

And I’m not gonna wait another year

The lines are getting deeper with what no one could’ve told me

What I would see from here in the changing light

I just want to write a better story

So much unnecessary fiction of my own design

Giving way too much attention to what was never mine

And the life that I’d been living was in need of a revision

That’s worth a damn

Something closer to who I am

I want to write a better story

And I’m not gonna wait another year

The lines are getting deeper with what no one could’ve told me

What I would see from here in the changing light

I just want to write a better story

What it means and doesn’t mean

The bold and in between

Something wasn’t ringing true anymore

I’ll know it when I have it

All the drafts there in the basket

And the few I threw so desperately they landed on the floor

They’re all making for a better story

I want to write a better story

And I’m not gonna wait another year

The lines are getting deeper with what no one could’ve told me

What I would see from here in the changing light

I just want to write a better story

Eric Darken: percussion, Will Honaker: bass, Joshua Grange: electric guitar, Matthew Perryman Jones: Vocal, Maia: acoustic guitars, keyboards & synths

08/

A Fool in Love Again featuring Fancy Hagood & Emily West

(Maia Sharp / Emily West)

Past the point of no return

There’s no unlearning what I’ve learned

In my head I’m making up stories

That I’m too smart and strong to be lonely

What I wouldn’t give to be a fool in love again

Following my heart into a fire

Carried on a wave and unafraid of falling in

Drowning out the truth with my desire

I’d drop everything if I knew where and when

I could be a fool in love again

To be swept away in my reverie

Every word poetry, every note a symphony

Am I chasing or waiting

Am I flickering or fading

I can’t imagine running breathless down the street

In the rain to catch the one I’ve been dreaming of

From where I’m standing so firmly on my feet

I just want to be undone like a fool in love

What I wouldn’t give to be a fool in love again

Following my heart into a fire

Carried on a wave and unafraid of falling in

Drowning out the truth with my desire

I’d drop everything, just tell me where and when

And I will be a fool, I will be a fool

I will be a fool in love again

Eric Darken: percussion, Will Honaker: bass, rubber bridge acoustic & Mellotron, Sarah Holbrook: violins, Fancy Hagood: BG vocal, Emily West: BG vocal, Maia: acoustic guitars, piano & synths

09/

Any Other Way featuring Sarah & Shannon

(Sarah Holbrook/Shannon LaBrie/Maia Sharp)

Nobody survives a good conversation

Nobody survives a good song

Whoever you were before the transformation

Is gone

Gone

I wouldn’t want it any other way

Nobody survives the hold of another

Nobody survives a real love

No going back to before together

As you were, as I was

And if I don’t find all the answers

It won’t matter who’s to blame

I’ll just roll into forever

Knowing I’ll never be the same

And I wouldn’t want it any other way

I wouldn’t want it any other way

I think of the stars that line the sidewalk

Back in my foregone hometown

Where you can go walking in the sun

But you can’t help but look down

And on that shiny, dirty mile

Between La Brea and Gower Street

I think it’s safe to say you’ll never

See my name beneath your feet

And I wouldn’t want it any other way

I wouldn’t want it any other way

Will Honaker: Mellotron vibes, Sarah Holbrook: BG vocal & violins, Shannon LaBrie: BG vocal & pianos, Maia: acoustic guitars, Mellotron accordion, synths & percussion

10/

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For featuring Garrison Starr

(Paul David Hewson / Adam Clayton / Larry Mullen / Dave Evans)

I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in the fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes I'm still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosened chains
Carried the cross of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

Vanessa Freebairn-Smith: cellos, Garrison Starr: BG vocals, Maia: Acoustic guitars, piano & synths