Kate Evans: Music/Lyrics

I Save Everything-piano demo

(Kate Evans)

April 16, 2005

I save everything--phone messages, magazines
Scraps of paper, stray dogs, all manner of things i might need later
But i don’t know if i can save you
I don’t know if i can save myself

I save everything--old lunch pails, postcards that i never mailed
Dead flowers she gave me when i opened my mouth to sing
But i don’t know if i can save you
I don’t know if i can save myself

All this ballast can’t hold me
The wind wants to blow me
And you hold tight to my hand and tell me ‘Stay’
But you need to try to save yourself
Even though i want to help
I need for you to let me walk away

I save everything--teddy bears, locks of my old lovers’ hair
Baby teeth, old report cards, collars from a long-dead dog
But i don’t know if i can save you
I don’t know if i can save myself

All this ballast can’t hold me
The wind wants to blow me
And you hold tight to my hand and tell me ‘Stay’
But you need to try to save yourself
Even though i want to help
I need for you to let me walk away

Maybe happiness is the warm sun
Maybe happiness is a warm gun
Maybe happiness is in your chance to escape
Maybe happiness is in yourself
Maybe you won’t find it in someone else
Maybe happiness is not trying to save...

Everything... it’s kinda sad, to wish for good times never had
A hope for a rebirth
I still have hope, for what it’s worth
But i don’t know if i can save you
I don’t know if i can save myself

All this ballast can’t hold me
The wind wants to blow me
And you hold tight to my hand and tell me ‘Stay’
But you need to try to save yourself
Even though i want to help
I need for you to let me fly away

copyright 2004 kate evans, all rights reserved.