gold ~ 2018

Taken during a GOLD writing session with the brilliant Kosuke Kasza and Carter Matschulla.

Taken during a GOLD writing session with the brilliant Kosuke Kasza and Carter Matschulla.

GOLD

I got patience I can wait

But you’ve been taking all damn day

I got no more time to waste

You better show up know what you need to say

Fool you know you gotta

Dig in dig in to me

To find all this something inside of me

Set it free and you will see

My love is gold gold gold

There’s no secret to please me

You make it harder than it needs to be

I know you can feel my heat

You better show up know what you mean to me

There’s a lot of good to be found

But you gotta go way deep down

If you’re able to work it out

I can promise you every part of me everyday

Find the strength you need to work through the pain

Come on baby it will be ok

I can promise you every part of me every day


LEAVE HERE WITH ME

Why haven’t we

Left the scene

Im seeing double baby

I think we’re swimming in trouble baby

Find your phone

I’m really itching to go

We’re the only 2 standing baby

That’s enough champagne baby

I see you all night looking at me

So what do I do with you

Ima need you on your knees

You should leave here with me

Look up at me like you believe

You should leave here with me

It’s 3am oh no

Where did everyone go oh no

They musta figured it out baby

Ima show you how baby

It’s going down

Mouth to mouth

Don’t you look at the time baby 

Cause it’s about to fly baby


GHOST

Left me for dead I guess 

Kept your secrets under your bed

You never really loved me like you said

Now you want it you want it 

Stop calling me at 2am

I’ll never call you back

Switchboards done and closed for the evening

And I told you that

Ain’t no operator in the city gonna connect you to me

Leave a message you can’t reach me cause

I’m off the map

Gonna give you the ghost

Uh oh, Uh oh

Gonna give you the ghost

Uh oh, Uh oh

Gonna give you the ghost

Uh oh

Don’t go digging up graves of our history

Uh oh

Got you feeling like its deja vu

You think you touch me but I slip right through

Ain’t nothing supernatural

I’m that good, I’m that good

Don’t mind if I evaporate into thin air

You try and try to bring me back to life


BAD HABIT

I’ve been bad

Done it all

Wrote my number on the bathroom wall


Drink too much

Chain smoke cigarettes

None of those things have killed me yet


I can quit anytime I wanna

I’m in full control

I don’t wanna need ya

But I can’t let you go


I’ve got a problem that I can’t fix

And that problem is you

You’re the only bad habit that I can’t kick

Bad habit bad habit


I found a man that I can’t quit

And I wish it wasn’t true

You’re the only bad habit that I can’t kick

Bad Habit bad habit


Just your hands

On my hips

Feel so high let me get another hit


Dirty love

It’s my favorite drug

Every night I can’t ever get enough


I admit it

Gotta get it

Don’t try and tell me I need to quit it


Got my own mind

And I ain’t blind

You never get as high as the first time



CAN’T GET YOU OFF MY MIND

Well you must be too shy

Not gonna make a move

Well I guess I’m gonna have to be the one to talk to you

Well I don’t mind cause you look that good



I see you outside smoking on a cigarette

Asking you for a light

You say that I should probably quit

Well all my life no one ever spoke the truth



Maybe I’m crazy baby

For thinking this is something true

Maybe I’m crazy baby

But I can’t I can’t I can’t no



I can’t get you off my mind

From the floor up to your green eyes

Haven’t had a man to call mine

In a real real real long time



I can’t get you off my mind

Oh you better hold me tight

Haven’t had a man to call mine

In a real real real long time



I met your cousin before ever even saw your face

He kept saying Arleigh just thing of them holidays

I can’t lie

Sounded too good to be true 




Matter of time

Take a good look at what's standing before you

You know I'm only human

Please don't ask me to do something that I can't do

You know I'm just one woman

But I'm yours I'm yours

Can you say that you're mine

It's only a matter of time




I've been waiting waiting and waiting

For your love to come through

I sit and pray each passing day

For an answer outta you

Because I’m here, I’m here

You must be blind baby

It’s only a matter of time




So won’t you take your time

If it’s all that you need to change your mind





frankie

Frankie's gotta learn to love that man

She thinks he won't ever understand

She gotta figure it out, girl get a plan

If anyone could love her this one can

Girl do you need me to spell it out

Stop building a wall he just gon break it down

I know you want to love him but you don’t know how

You got a man now

You got a rooster in your hen house now

I know you got a mind to shoot him down

Someday somebody's gonna help you out

You got a rooster in your hen house now

Frankie's not afraid to be alone

Letting lonely chill her to the bone

She didn't know she needed it so bad

A man to do what only a man can

Frankie baby let him love you


Let’s go

Dragging your feet through the mud

I’ve waited and waited enough

I’m ready to roll (let’s) get on the road

Baby you’re holding me up

Rumors are running round town

Saying your tying me down

I’m sick of the talk walk the walk

Or maybe I won’t stick around

Tell me what I already know

Tell me that you’re ready to go

So let’s go

I’ve been on my own for too long

You know I’m the one that you want

Don’t press ya luck speed it on up

I know that you love me too much  


PLASTIC PARADISE

My sisters mister tricked her into falling in love

Rye whiskey mixed with coca cola’s never enough

Loose lips sink ships, if you come with a secret better keep it

Don’t roll your soul in holy water just to make up







Living in a plastic paradise

You gotta die to feel alive

Nothing takes the tired from your eyes

Oh shake the pillbox in your mind

Promise me promise me, everything’s alright

In your plastic paradise 







The streetlights beat like heat right down on us from above

Tall palm tree rows down endless roads you’ve never heard of

Paint drips from lips

If you’ve come for a kiss you better need it

Don’t lose your mind trying to find a fix for your love







I’ve rolled that dice

A thousand times

Your perfect life

Your pretty lies




you’re my party

Your body is my dance floor

I wanna spill my drink all over it

Your words are like a smoke machine

I’m in love with the mystery







We don’t need to go out to have a good time

Everything we need is on the inside

Lock the doors and be alone tonight







You’re the pregame half time and the after show

Red carpet rolling deep in the back of the limo ohhhh







You’re all I need to let go

You’re my party

Of all the boys in the world

You’re my party 

Your body is my dance floor

Get Patrick Swayze all over it

Got moves I’ve never seen

The whole world is a champagne room when you’re with me

On set for the “Ghost” video shoot.

On set for the “Ghost” video shoot.