All songs from "Visible" in alpha order
(Annie Moscow)
April 13, 2011
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Angels Angels Angels
(Annie Moscow)
April 07, 2007
About angels were true
So imagine my surprise when I stumbled
Into a whole field of you
Angels Angels Angels
Forgive me if I stare
But now I see you everywhere
I see you everywhere
I never thought this tired soul
Could feel this kind of love
But you’ve touched in me a trust that’s just
Unheard of
You comfort me
And urge me on
You light a faith I thought was gone
Angels Angels Angels
Now I see you everywhere
I see you everywhere
And it feels like a radiant sun
And you feel like a warm sea
And I feel like a thousand mothers
Are lifting me
Angels Angels Angels
Forgive me if I stare
But now I see you everywhere
I can see you everywhere
I see you everywhere
Come On Annie
(Annie Moscow)
April 10, 2007
Come on out and play
There’s a whole world waiting for you
Right this way
You got nothing to lose So put on your dancing shoes
And get down Annie get down
Come on Annie girl
Don’t be shy
There’s a big sun shining
Way Up in the sky
So kick off your blues and put on your dancing shoes and
Get down Annie get down
Now it’s too bad
I know you’re too sad
From tryin’ so hard
But nothin’s gained from
All your pain
So just turn it all around
Come on now Annie
Come on out and play
Kick up your heels and make hay
Till the cows come runnin’ back your way - c’mon
Get down Annie get down
No Nothing’s gained
From sitting around
No hearts are broken
‘Cause you’re not in town So
Turn off the TV
And turn it around
I said turn it all around
Turn it all around and
Come on Annie
Come on out and play
The sun won’t wait one more day
You got nothing to lose
So put on your dancing shoes and
Come on Annie
Girl don’t be shy
There’s a big sun shinin’
Way up in the sky
So kick off your blues
Say good-bye
Good-bye
Get down Annie get down
Get down Annie get down
Get down Annie get down down dah-own
Get down Annie get down down down down
Get down Annie
Get down
House of Cards
(Annie Moscow)
April 07, 2007
Hair on the bathroom floor
Pieces of me
That I can’t hold anymore
Dust on my windowpane
Mold on the shower door
Can’t keep this picture
Perfect anymore
It feels like falling
It feels like falling
It feels like falling
It feels like
Everything you taught me
Was a lie
I built my castle to your specifications
I built my castle on stilts in California
This house of cards
It will fall before dawning
It feels like falling
It feels like falling
It feels like falling through an open abyss
Falling down
Your embrace
Sustains me
The mem’ry of your skin
Gives me the strength to go in to
This house of cards
It will fall before the dawning
Invisible
(Annie Moscow)
April 01, 2007
I stumbled onto Main Street
Feeling so inconsequential
I could blend into the wood
Felt like no one could see me but they obviously could
Walked into a store and I
Fumbled through my purse
And the change fell all around me
Spinning circles on the wood - followed by
Tissue parts and candy hearts
The pieces of my life I felt like
No one could see me but they obviously could
I feel so invisible today
I feel so invisible
I feel so invisible today
So invisible
I know why the duck lady quacks
She walks down the street and goes quack quack quack
It’s ‘cause nobody can see her
She knows nobody can see her
On the city streets where the duck lady quacks
We laugh at her behind her back
As she falls into another crack
I feel so invisible today
So invisible
I feel so invisible today
I feel so invisible
I feel so invisible today
So invisible
I feel so invisible today
I feel so invisible
Make Believe
(Annie Moscow)
April 07, 2009
I always could create those worlds much larger than myself
Well you can turn off the electric trains
I’m closing down this store
I don’t wanna play make believe anymore
Well the wind blows in funny ways
And who’s to say what’s right
And hey - you never know what lies behind a door
But I’ve stayed too long in Fantasyland so I’m
Getting off this flight
I don’t wanna play make-believe anymore
What will you do when I stop trying
Will you notice me
Will you care
What will you do when I stop believing there’s a chance
Were you ever
Aware
Well I thought you’d be my savior
Yeah I thought you’d be my knight
You’d come riding through the forest
And make everything all right
But children cling to the darndest things and I
Held on so tight
And I don’t wanna play make believe
I don’t wanna play make believe
I don’t wanna play make believe
I don’t wanna play make believe anymore
Michael from Mountains
(Annie Moscow)
April 01, 2007
Michael wakes you up with sweets
He takes you up streets and the rain comes down
Sidewalk markets locked up tight
Like umbrellas bright on a grey background
There’s oil on the puddles in taffeta patterns that run down the drain
In colored arrangements that Michael will change
With a stick that he found
Michael from mountains
Go where you will go to
Know that I will know you
Someday I will know you very well
Michael leads you to a park
He sings and it’s dark and the clouds roll by
Yellow slickers up on swings
Like puppets on strings hanging in the sky
They’ll splash home to suppers in wallpaper kitchens
Their mothers will scold
But Michael will hold you to keep away the cold
Till the sidewalks are dry
Michael from mountains
Go where you will go to
Know that I will know you
Someday I will know you very well
Someday I will know you very well
Michael leads you up a stair
He needs you to care and you know you do
Cats come crying to the key
And dry you will be in a towel or two
There’s rain on the window there’s sun on the painting that smiles on the wall
You want to know all but his mountains have called so you never do
Michael from mountains
Go where you will go to
Know that I will know you
Someday I will know you very well
Someday I will know you very well
Shangri-La
(Annie Moscow)
April 10, 2007
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I want more than the pretense of understanding
Then you turn around and roll your eyes at me
When I’m just trying to talk to you
Just trying to talk to you
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La - Shangri La
I want more than this house of pent-up people that come and go
I want more place where everybody’s nice and then - nothing
I want more than this house filled with noise from the TV that’s on all the time
Broadcasting sport scores and noise and dysfunctional people
Doing dysfunctional things to each other
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La - Shangri La
We went to the city on a holiday
Where the ocean shines
Like an emerald
And the cliffs drop
And the seals play And the rich shop
Then you led me through
The pretty hotel
Where the rich people stayed
You said Isn’t it wonderful
All the tile was inlaid
Then everybody walked and
Nobody talked
And everybody shopped and
Nobody talked
And everybody gawked and
Everybody ate their ice cream
You said Maybe one day
We could live right here
In this jewel of the nation
I said Maybe one day
I would chuck this all
Just for a little conversation
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La
I wanna live in Shangri La - Shangri La
Through a Clouded Lens
(Annie Moscow)
April 07, 2007
Raised in a cage that was all they could see
Then when they got older they couldn’t relate
Horizontally
Now I’m not saying you haven’t changed
I’m not saying that we can’t be friends
I’m just saying I see the world
Through a clouded lens
I see the tears behind every joy
I feel the taunts behind my back
I see the tiger behind every door
Just waiting to attack
I’m not saying I haven’t changed
I’m not saying that we can’t be friends
I’m just saying I see the world
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Some people call me a pessimist
Some people call me a hypochondriac
Behind every door I see a
Tiger waiting to attack
Now I’m not saying things haven’t changed
I’m not that saying we can’t be friends
I’m just saying I see the world
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
Through a clouded lens
You Can't Go Home Again
(Annie Moscow)
April 07, 2007
My brother - he’s been back to Plainfield to see the house we grew up in
My grandma moved across the world when she was still quite young
She found a life of freedom but she lost her mother tongue
And we’ve tried so hard to fit right in
We’ve joined your clubs and changed our names
My mother’s proud of her straight blond hair
My father’s proud of his golf game
And I’m just trying to find my way
Looking for the old familiar
Trying to find the place where my Soul fits in
But everyone knows you can’t go home again
Can’t go back to Russia
Can’t go back to China
Can’t go back to Hungary
Can’t go back to New Jersey
Can’t go back to Poland
Can’t go back to Viet Nam
Can’t go back to Mexico
Can’t go back to Sarajevo
Can’t Yonkers
Can’t go back to Thailand
Can’t go back to Africa
Can’t go back to South America
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
I had a dream they were dropping bombs on the firecracker hotel
And in my dream they were dropping bombs on the firecracker hotel
And the rooms lit up like little tiny candles on a birthday cake
But I was the lucky one
I got away
I got away
Dorothy I envy you
Lend me your red shoes I’ll fly
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
Can’t go home again
You Were Never There
(Annie Moscow)
September 16, 2009
Ah - the things we do to each other
All the weight I put on you
All my dreams and expectations
You were never there
All along
Must’ve been my Imagination
I carried a phantom all my life
I carried a phantom
My own creation
You were never there
All along All along
You were never there
All along All along
You were never there all along
Must’ve been my Imagination
I see the pictures and in your eyes
So distant
I see the pictures and in my eyes
So much longing
Now at last the blind frustration
Opens up to realization
The tired cross I tried to bear
Is melting in the open air
You were never there
All along - all along
You were never there
All along – all along
You Won't See Me
(Annie Moscow)
April 13, 2011
When I call you up
you're line's engaged
I have had enough
So act your age
We have lost the time
That was so hard to find
And I will lose my mind
If you won't see me