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Ill​-​Defined Lines

by Holly McGarry

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1.
Typewriter 03:23
Each fall of the typewriter keys Was a beat of your heart And each stain of ink on the page Was a map leading me along But the only way to keep you with me Was to gather up all the bittersweet moments and put them into my songs The thread from my sleeve Where I once wore my heart Is unraveling me cause it tied tight To your ribcage and dragging me around And the only way to keep you with me Was to stitch together all the memories and wear them around But don’t worry babe, I’m not too unhappy I’m just thinking I’ve got great self control when I’m not drinking and I’m not alone So don’t worry babe I wont make the first move unless you want me to And I’ll bury my heart deep down in the ground and see what grows, if anything at all Cause it’s all for you, for you, for you for now Yeah it’s all for you, for you, for you, for now
2.
Your Ghost 03:40
I don’t want to go but I cant stay here anymore, anymore And I never meant you any harm But you went and stole my heart So I broke yours Now I’m trying to do right but I cant let go of your ghost, 3x So say what you need to say The cost was just too high to pay I cant stay here So roam where you want to roam Some day we’ll both find a home But it wont be ours Now I’m trying to do right but I can’t let go of your ghost, 3x
3.
Blue eyes cut like bayonet blades Blood poured out from the wounds we’d made Old scars don’t always fade I carved out a home, you carved in your name And lover the guilt remains breathing down my neck, running through my days If I could take it all back would you want to forget me? if we board that plane bound for the pearly gates would you claim me? Eros from younger days lie broken now in a shallow grave held you from my fingertips when the music stopped I lost my grip traced all the steps we’d made when the ink ran out I lost my way if I could take it all back would you want to forget me? When we board that plane bound for the pearly gates will you claim me?
4.
Baby please lay me down in the soil Where I can sleep for a little while Cause I’ve been running so long that my skin’s turned to ash, my heart’s made of coal, my soul’s made of glass I’d like to grow again Into something worth having I’ve been watching the night as it crashes in waves pulling me under, cleansing my soul in its own way and the moon looks fine from where I lay, a bottle in my hands, no one left to prey from the bottom of a well, is this heaven or hell? Cause my days are haunted by my nights And all I’m asking you for is a light to see by A light to see by I’m tired of chasing shadows around Through the dark allies of this tired town On the sleepy west coast But every time I try to go my eyes spill over Like the muddy shores of this swollen river That I call home someday I’ll shatter that mirror in my soul let all the shards reflect the golden rays of the sun then time would loose it’s hold on me, I’d be free of how the world perceives They’d let me be, let me grow again into something worth having
5.
I’ll pick up the pieces when you fall apart And I’ll patch you up after every spar Cause you know in love and war Someone’s bound to get hurt But when it’s all said and done We’ll all be sleeping in the dirt So I won’t cry over every broken heart Cause tomorrow’s always there for me Even if you’re not So you build up the nest and honey I’ll play house and I’ll be standing right here when it all falls down cause a house of cards can’t stand if it’s built on moving parts and I wont cry over every false start cause tomorrow’s always there for me even if you’re not you may be Mr. Right Now but what I need is a man who’ll stick around and tomorrow’s always there for me even if you’re not so when I’m out there on the road honey let me be cause all I really want right now is to be free and I may come back to you someday we’ll just have to wait and see and tomorrow’s always there for you when I’m gone I may be Mrs. Right Now But what you need Is a gal who’ll settle down Tomorrow’s always there for you When I’m gone Tomorrow’s always there for me Even if you’re not Yeah tomorrow will still be there Long after we’re done
6.
Meet me at the bottom of this well Or meet me at the bottom of this bottle And I hope like hell there aint no one up there To hear my thoughts Never felt so alive or near death It’s all in my head I don’t see what you see in me Just blurs and ill-defined lines Like time The tie that binds us here Stay awake a little while longer Cause I always want to remember you this way but don’t look in my eyes they’ll only turn your heart to stone, like mine but I’m still aching for that one kiss that’ll lay you to rest in my heart it’s all in my head
7.
Undertaker 01:40
You are looking for a lover But darling it ain’t me You want someone to give your heat to But I’m the undertaker You think I’m hanging on a line But darling it ain’t true I’ll just pull you right down with me And we’ll sink into the blue Darling you’d like me to pick you fresh flowers each day but the only petals that I will collect are white lilies to put on your grave you’d like a silly little song with lots of pretty little lies to set your heat asunder but I’ll just send it 6 feet under cause you are looking for a lover baby it ain’t me you want someone to give your heart to but I’m the undertaker undertaker of love
8.
Not an End 01:34
I know that I have already lost I know the plans we made cannot come true But there is not a single day that’s past Where I have not been missing you So take me back to where it all began Back to where all the world was new And I will state a simple prayer for us And keep my heart forever true to you So when the wind is whispering your name My reply will always be the same And in darkness we will meet again For death is not an end No death is no an end Not an end
9.
I think I’ve come undone Unraveling fast, frayed edges and seams Would you try to fix me up, Tie up loose ends, make me whole again With patches and threads of old memories? How far they seem The pathways of our lives take us up and down like the needle and thread But a hole still remains Where you took out my patchwork quilt heart So now would you try to fix me up, Tie up loose ends, make me whole again With patches and threads of old memories? How far they seem How far they seem to me now I think I’ve come undone Unraveling fast, frayed edges and seams
10.
When I was just a boy I knelt down beside your coffin And when I saw your face, Fair and pale I kissed your cheek Anatoly Moskvin Wandering the graveyards Searching for a love he just can’t find Your lovely bones Lying there in the grave Sang out my name, “wont you come save me?” he dressed them all in bright colors round home, a grim tableau of what once were real living girls I never could resist the stories down below the tombstones so don’t fret my dear I’ll dress you up in colors red and gold Tell me everything, You life, your loves, your losses Don’t want to be alone anymore 29 fair maids could never make up for the one he lost people they just don’t understand that you were more than just china dolls when they finally capture him a bag of bones across his back among the dark and faded epitaphs 29 dead maids would never make up for the life he lost to the graves
11.
Wonder Why 05:26
you always wonder why I never want to spend the night You always wonder why I never hold you tight It’s not the way that you love me, Just please say good-bye Yeah just say good-bye I aint one to fight But I aint gonna let you Run my life You try to hold me down When all I want to do is run What good is life If you can’t have a little fun? So don’t try to win my heart Cause it aint yours to own, No, it’s mine alone Well I aint one to fight But I aint gonna let you Run my life So don’t write me poems And don’t sing me songs boy I wasn’t put here darling Just to be your toy Every rose has got her thorns Well I’ve got mine And you’re out of time I aint one to fight But I aint gonna let you Run my life
12.
My Dear 02:14
Well I know that I’ve done wrong But this whiskey’s strong, the moon is full And I’m only thinking of you So I’ll draw your lips Imagine what you’d say To this world we built but can never be When the shadow comes to call me I’ll say Good-night my dear I’ll see you in my dreams Cause I know that I’ve done wrong But I let you go and now I’ve got to make it on my own You’re better off this way

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Produced and recorded by Justin Landis

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released July 10, 2012

Vocals & Guitar: Holly McGarry
Bass, Guitar & Harmonies: Justin Landis
Bass: Jen Landis
Banjo: Erin Brannigan
Percussion & Laughter: Cadie Archer
Accordion, Percussion and Speech on Undertaker: Zach Hagadone
Banjo on Wonder Why: Josh Hedlund

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Holly McGarry Boston, Massachusetts

Imagine a young folk artist with the depth of Nina Simone. Transport the storytelling talent of Dylan to a North Idaho town. Holly presents the dichotomy of a calm exterior with unbounded passion for music, a newly-minted adult with a lifetime of experiences able to lace her lyrics with profound insights, sharing her love, loss, and life through a simple six strings. ... more

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