"I play the piano and sing love songs"

by Shannon Curtis

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Piano and vocal album -- live takes -- no smoke and mirrors -- raw and personal.

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released 16 March 2010
All songs written by Shannon Curtis.
Produced and mixed by Jamie Hill.

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Keyboards, drum machines, and love songs …

What happens when a girl who grew up singing Amy Grant ... more songs into her hairbrush teams up with a guy who raised himself on New Order? They make the dreamy, penetrating songs that have emerged for the upcoming album by LA-based dreampop artist Shannon Curtis, as helmed by her producer/mixer husband Jamie Hill. less

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Track Name: I'm Ruined
I'm ruined for anyone but you, dear
'Cause what you've been doin' to my heart is nuclear
Don't know who I'm foolin'
Thinkin' I could ever beat the best I've ever had
I'm ruined, but it's not so bad

I'm broken and I'm burning
You were my point of no return
I haven't the strength to fight this yearning for just one more turn
Don't let me burn

I'm ruined for anyone but you, dear
'Cause what you've been doin' to my heart is nuclear
Don't know who I'm foolin'
Thinkin' I could ever beat the best I've ever had
I'm ruined, but it's not so bad

A perfectly good girl can be destroyed
With just one well-placed kiss from one bad boy

I'm ruined for anyone but you, dear
'Cause what you've been doin' to my heart is nuclear
Don't know who I'm foolin'
Thinkin' I could ever beat the best I've ever had
I'm ruined, but it's not so bad
Track Name: Leave You Behind
“Leave You Behind”
words and music by Shannon Curtis

You flew me to Mars
Where you wooed me with stars
Then you laughed at the sense of such flight
Always changing your mind
Sends me crashing down from on high
Landing hard onto the truth I've denied

Oh it's high time I get you off my mind
It's high time I leave you behind

Your magic on me is like no trick I've seen
'Cause blind eyes can find the true in too good
Sawing my whole heart in half
You practice your vanishing act
Taking off the same way that I never could

But it's high time I get you off my mind
It's high time I leave you behind

I gave you a season to stand up straight
And give me a reason to stay
You sang me your same old tune,
"Baby, I'll get there very soon"
But, honey, never is too long to wait

If I had a dime for all of the times
your memory sweeps through my head
I could buy comfort in some other man
'Cause I hate to admit I'll be sad
That never again will you be sweetening my bed.

Oh it's high time I get you off my mind
It's high time I leave you behind
It's hight time I leave you behind
Track Name: Before the Sun
"Before the Sun"
words and music by Shannon Curtis

Dreams and limbs entangled in a heap of perfect peace
Hope's awake while fear is fast asleep
But morning is a thief

So before the sun crawls in through the shades
Before we remember how to be afraid
Before it gets too hard to believe
Lay here with me
Before we count up what this will cost
Before the present to the past is lost
And all that's left is a faint memory
Lay here with me

Enemies take what we need and sell well-worn lies
I'm my own worst of these, I can't say why
'Cause we'll leave this room, say goodbye too soon
Watch another chance go by

So before the sun crawls in through the shades
Before we remember how to be afraid
Before it gets too hard to believe
Lay here with me
Before we count up what this will cost
Before the present to the past is lost
And all that's left is a faint memory
Lay here with me

Space and time have conspired to bring us something good
Could be right so why don't you and I
walk the wire this time?

So before the sun crawls in through the shades
Before we remember how to be afraid
Before it gets too hard to believe
Lay here with me
Before we count up what this will cost
Before the present to the past is lost
And all that's left is a faint memory
Lay here with me
Stay here with me
Lay here with me
Track Name: Don't Call Me
“Don't Call Me”
words and music by Shannon Curtis

Don't call me when you're lonely
Don't call me when you're blue
If you call me when you're brokenhearted
Then I'm not the girl for you
Don't ask me to come over
when you can't sleep at night
I'm not looking for a good time
I'm looking for the love of my life

Don't use my number when all of your friends are out of town
I'm not one to be impressed by your attention
when there's no one else around
And even if you're bored out of your ever-loving mind
I'm not looking for just one night
I'm looking for the love of my life

So I don't want to hear from you when you've been drinking
Or otherwise not thinking very straight
So I hope this message really sinks in
'Cause darlin' you have much too much at stake
If the first time you use these seven digits
it's for any reason less than to by true
There won't be a second call
So, careful how you make your move

Don't call me when you've struck out
with some other gal you've had your eye one
'Cause this is not a shoulder to cry on
But this is a hand to have and hold
Pick up that phone, dear, and I'll be the ride of your life
Go ahead and get me on the line
When you're looking for a love for all time
Go ahead and get me on the line
When you're looking for the love of your life
Track Name: Lay Me Down
“Lay Me Down”
words and music by Shannon Curtis

Although the world is coming to and end, I don’t think there’s been a lovelier night
Walking slowly with you hand in hand, it’s hard imagining we won’t be alright
And if we never see the morn again, I will join the dead without a fight
If you lay me down
Lay me down

Never has the saying “now or never” been about the ending of time
But here we are the in the eleventh hour, finally somehow we’re giving up pride
Looking back from here is not allowed, and since tomorrow can’t be found in real life
Won’t you lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down tonight

For best or worst, a blessed curse is our fate
Who could have guessed the universe would end up this way?
So this perfect evening we’ll be leaving nothing to waste
Now is when love and history are made

With only minutes, maybe seconds, left, will you press your lips to mine
The beating won’t be held within my chest and all the rest of me is resigned
And though this is the last of all my breaths, it’s the best one of my life
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down
Track Name: Unfinished Business
There you were among all the others
Always friends and almost lovers
My imagination hovers over what if

It comes down to now or never
I won't stick around forever
If you've ever wondered, you'd better come over
'Cause you and I, we have

Some unfinished business to attend to
Some lingering details to work through
And it won't call for talking, so don't bother calling
We're gonna need a one on one
So come here and kiss me
This time, let's get the job done

You know almost all my secrets
Save for this one I've been keeping
Come in closer, I will speak it in your ear
You and I, we have

Some unfinished business to attend to
Some lingering details to work through
And it won't call for talking, so don't bother calling
We're gonna need a one on one
So come here and kiss me
This time, let's get the job done
Track Name: Wasted
“Wasted”

words and music by Shannon Curtis



You are my weakness

Please tell me your secret

And save me a fortune in tears

Cause I can't get enough, you see

Like some kind of junkie

Whose drug all too quickly disappears

Along with three damn years

Oh, I'm empty handed here



But if love was free

Imagine how rich I'd be

Cause I wouldn't have wasted all I had on you

And even though it costs so much

I'm a debtor for one last touch

My good sense is wasted when it comes to you



I've begged and I've borrowed

To bargain sweet sorrow

Cause the ration of sweetness was so sweet, however fleeting

Well, I've learned that you can't live

On a diet of wishes

They're as empty as your words seems

So it's a mystery

How you've got a hold on me


But if love was free

Imagine how rich I'd be

Cause I wouldn't have wasted all I had on you

And even though it costs so much

I'm a debtor for one last touch

My good sense is wasted when it comes to you

Oh, I'm wasted

Oh, I'm wasted

Baby, I'm totally wasted on you
Track Name: Happen Every Day
It happens every day
Someone falls in love
Their wish walks in the doorway
And they can't believe their luck

It happens every day
Someone takes a chance
They trade themselves away for
A wager on romance

But I'm no different than anyone
Kissed by the fragile whim of fortune
This day's no different than any day
The sun's always rising on someone

It happens every day
Lover's hearts are won
And promises are uttered
And two turns into one

But I'm no different than anyone
Kissed by the fickle whim of fortune
This day's no different than any day
The sun's always setting on someone

It happens every day
Someone has a change of heart
Or says what they've been meaning
And wishes break apart
Track Name: I Like To Think
“I Like to Think”
words and music by Shannon Curtis

I like to think you think of me from time to time
And that some of your thoughts are sublime
Like portals onto a world that might have been
I hope that in those dreams you see a smiling face
Where the tears of old are erased
Like I do dream of you now and then

I read your name, it sends a wave of shock through my limbs
I hear a song, a time machine takes me back when
I shake it off, take a breath, like losing you again

I like to think you keep a place hid in your heart
That now and again when it’s dark
You linger on the trace of our time
And though I know the light, it fades, old movies end
Perhaps you rewind now and then
Like I do and think of you sometimes

I read your name, it sends a wave of shock through my limbs
I hear a song, a time machine takes me back when
I shake it off, take a breath, like leaving you again

I like to think you think of me from time to time
And that some of your thoughts are sublime
Like I do think of you sometimes
Well, I do think of you sometimes
Track Name: Boomerangs & Seesaws
“Boomerangs & Seesaws”

words and music by Shannon Curtis



Whatcha doing here at this late hour?

I've put to bed the dreams I'd saved as ours

And I've been sleeping with the porch light off for a while

Well, don't be standing out there, it's freezing cold

But watch your step as you cross this threshold

Cause I recall last April had you sold on goodbye



So I tried

To let go and when I do you come back

Tell me I'm the right girl when the time is wrong

Our love's like boomerangs and seesaws

And I just can't hang on

Leave your shoes and all that you've walked through

At the door, and I'll do the same for you

Maybe then we'll sit and talk till two in the dark

The irony is it's the scene I'd write

Every day in May and June, July

When I still hoped there was a 'you and I' in the stars



It was so hard

To let go and when I do you come back

Tell me I'm the right girl when the time is wrong

Our love's like boomerangs and seesaws

And I just can't hang on
Track Name: Why Don't You Stay?
“Why Don’t You Stay?”
words and music by Shannon Curtis

Why don’t you stay just a little bit longer
Just a little bit closer, ‘til the end of the song
It’s not too late to get something started
Turn the record on over, the night’s plenty long

The clock on the table has stopped, freezing the frame we’re upon
Where now from here, the lines are unclear when I’m in your arms
Hear now the rumble of walls crumbling around my resolve
With logic defied, what might we find between now and dawn?

Why don’t you stay just a little bit longer
Just a little bit closer, ‘til the end of the song

Who knows what one kiss becomes, driven by hearts on the drum
Well, minds can divine what it implies when daylight comes

Why don’t you stay just a little bit longer
Just a little bit closer, ‘til the end of the song
It’s not too late to get something started
Turn the record on over, the night’s plenty long