1. |
Cinderella
03:45
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Getting intimate in my mind
Till my face is turning blue
Getting intimate in my mind
I fit perfectly in that shoe
Getting intimate in my mind
Which of these voices is true
Getting intimate in my mind
I forget what I’m here to do
Getting intimate in my mind
But I know I’ve got something to prove
Getting intimate in my mind
All I wanna do is screw
Oh I wish I could fall fast asleep
I am trying so hard to keep
From thinking of you
Push at me and pick on me
And spit on me and laugh at me
And lie to me and never be the one
Who sees me through and listens to
What’s really true when I am blue and
Please let me keep that shoe
Size eight and a half
And while you're at it
Help me laugh
Again and Again
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2. |
Devil You Do
05:28
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It’s better the devil you do
Than the one you don’t
I’ve been waiting for years and years
But I’m still lost at home
That’ll do he says
That’ll do
It’s better the devil you do
I try and I try to do
something good
Because I feel like it not because
somebody said I should
That won’t do, he says
That won’t do
It’s better the devil you do
Oh….
It takes one poor soul
Worse off than you
To make you feel better
To make you not feel so blue
Give me my due he says
And you can have yours too
It’s better the devil you do
Oh….
Do it, do it
Why not do it
I’m gonna do it
But I shouldn’t do it
I’m gonna do it anyway
No you can't stop me
I gonna do it
Do it
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3. |
California
03:46
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Minerva look over and let down your hair
Athena tell us the name of the bear
Where did you come from before you were here
and made this state of stars
With your hills of gold and your trees so red
Where all of the good people fled
To leave behind everything that was dead
And I’ve just come and I don’t know where I’ve been
But I look and I taste and I smell of the sin
And I’m trying to get back to the place where the thing did begin
Do you remember the day we met
And how you told me to play the coquette
I shut my mouth i didn’t say a thing about the big brass ring
that would change everything, everything….
I wouldn’t go back to anything close to that
No I wouldn’t go back to anything possibly close to that
No, I just let it go, yeah I let it go
Yeah you should too, you should just let it go
It feels so good
Let it go go go go go
I'm gonna let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Minerva look over and let down your hair
Athena tell us the name of the bear
Where did you come from before you were here
and made this state of stars
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4. |
Left Alone
05:47
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Where's the love that's made to fill my heart?
Where's the one from whom I'll never part?
First they hurt me, then desert me
I'm left alone, all alone
There's no house that I can call my home
There's no place from which I'll never roam
Town or city, it's a pity
I'm left alone, all alone
Seek and find they always say
But up to now it's not that way
Maybe fate has let him pass me by
Or perhaps we'll meet before I die
Hearts will open, but until then
I'm left alone, all alone
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5. |
Metropolitan
05:00
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I want to pose for you
want to lie on your bed
Holding ripe fruit
In my hand
Don’t I look pretty
Don’t I look fine
Don’t you wish
You were mine
My flesh lights the room
Vitamin D skin
My eyes are blue
And they’re looking
At you………
These lips can’t be
Held in a frame
So baby kiss me again
Let’s have more in ecstasy
In a tapestry, in a stroke
Or two………
I loved you once and
Again I will try
While we wait
For the paint to dry
Don’t I look pretty
Don’t I look fine
Don’t you wish
You were mine
Don’t I look pretty
Don’t I look fine
Don’t you wish
You were mine
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6. |
The Morrigan
04:22
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It came down to the washer at the ford
She said it was death we were all moving toward
So l lay down
I laid it all down for you
The crow she is trying to find a trick
To help us get out of all of this quick
But she won’t come down
She’s still wearing that crown for you
So we just sit and wait
Anticipate
When we’ll be flying up to the moon
We might get there by June
So get back people, go on, get back
Use your head so you can head off the attack
Of the thing that won’t stop coming
Til everything and everyone stops humming
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7. |
Roots Go Down
04:23
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Roots go down
All the way down
This is not how I thought it’d be
I thought everyone was just like me
I thought everybody was free
Why wouldn’t I
All the things in the lost and found
Came from the souls who were gagged and bound
Then buried deep beneath the ground
Can you say their names
Apples don’t fall far from the tree
Everybody down on your knees
Serve and protect people just like me
The truth is hard but so plain to see
We’re drowning in mass bigotry
From sea to shining sea
La la la la la la
When times are hard
We fight or flee
But we gotta comes to terms
With what we’ve come to be
Apples don’t fall far from the tree
Everybody down on your knees
I said apples don’t fall far from the tree
Everybody down on your knees
I thank this song that come through me
My eyes are white to this history
Put an end to this legacy
Why wouldn’t I
When the roots go down
All the way down
Go down
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8. |
Drive-In
03:47
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I shoulda told you
That I could only eat
One piece of toast in one day
I wanted to eat up
All that you could cook me
But my belly it can’t work that way
You’re a real good man
And I’m a little girl who's going astray
I’ll get dressed up
And meet you for dinner
And walk in like some femme fatale
I’ll impress you with stories
Of men who’ve left me
Including that mean one named Al
And while you’re eating I might
Ask for a bite when I know that’s not right
Won’t you please
feed me something semi-sweet
Won’t you strip off my knee-hi socks
and sugarcoat my feet
Take a peek at my thighs and say
‘Baby, I don’t see no cellulite’
Oh can’t we fog up the windows
And do something really discreet
And won’t you leave me as breathless
And spent as a triathlete
If I take off my mask
Then you will know
That I am no superhero
Do you promise not to turn me in
Cuz I am looking for a boy
With a big back seat at the Drive-In
And he plays a mean violin
At the Drive-In
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9. |
I Don't Remember Me
06:16
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I did not do what you told me to
You never felt the way that I do
You are not who I thought you’d be
I don’t remember me
I don’t remember me
Do you remember all your friends
And all your enemies, all around you
Whisperin in your ear, I know,
I know what’s right for you
And I know you can do things
that nobody else can do
But do you believe in you
Do you remember you
Follow directions, follow advice
Follow the rules, and be sure you look real nice
Do you remember what it was you did
That sent you to the corner of the room
Where nobody’s looking at you
Nobody’s listening to you
How can you believe in you
Do you remember you
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Julia Francis Seattle, Washington
Julia Francis is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Her music is deeply rooted in the blues legacies of women like Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Billie Holiday among others. KBCS describes her voice as “howling, blistering…like Bessie Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe colliding with Slick, Joplin and Tedeschi.” ... more
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