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Down at the Line

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

 

I’ve just been waiting tables at the same chili parlor

Watching the world turn outside the same old corner windows

The fountain, my bosses, the interesting people don’t know a thing, a thing about me.

The seasons seem to come and go quicker than they used to

Though I’m not old, I’m getting older, wanna savor my time

I have such lofty dreams, don’t wanna let go

Got to go as far as I know I can go

The gift I’ve received will take me there only if I believe.

I wanna play for crowds so big I’ll puke before I get on stage

Wanna sing ‘em my songs all night long…

Down at the Line I have a name tag

I wanna know if I’ll ever see

My name on the marquis, Oooh

My bosses give me so much shit for the tiniest things

One womanizes, one realizes he is coming to the end of his days

In the worst of ways

They built a fountain right across the street some time ago

Now I enjoy watching fountain-goers through the window

It's supposed to represent the artsy, earthy qualities of all these neighbors of mine

What do they dream?  Will they seek and find it in their time?

Refrain

 

Lonely 2 O’clock

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

It’s 2 o’clock, I’m gonna rock all night on the piano

‘Cause now you’re gone and I’m so alone, just wanna write this song

Told ya not to phone, now I’m beggin’ ya please come home

That’s where you belong, right here in my arms

‘Cause anything else just feels so damn wrong

I thought some distance would do us good

But I changed my mind now like ya told me I would



It’s 2:30 now, still haven’t found my precious sanity, I’d rather bleed

Then just maybe I’d finally believe this is happening to me

Darling beggin’ ya please come home

 That’s where you belong, right here in my arms

‘Cause anything else just feels so damn wrong

I’m hoping you still want me back

Baby, like I want you despite all that you lack



It’s 3 and the clock goes tick tock

And I don’t wanna fall asleep lonely, I want you here with me tonight

Why we gotta fight all the damn time?

Yo’ ass betta come home, that’s where you belong, right here in my arms

‘Cause anything else just feels so damn wrong

Lord, please, please send my man home.


All My Time

Music and lyrics by: Patrick Stoutenborough, Cybéle Redman, & Eliot Sloan

 

Cybéle: I hate all the times when you’re gone, always gotta go somewhere

‘Cause being with you makes me just want to always be there

Eliot: Girl, I’m always right here

Cybéle: Seems like it’s never enough, being without you is rough

I daydream my days away, fantasizing about the ways that we play



Both: Ah ah ah all my time could be for you

And ah ah ah all my rhymes I wrote for you

Cybéle: In a simpler life we could live that way

Eliot: Live that way

Both: Soaking up sun with each other eh-eh-everyday

Yeah yeah yeah...

Cybéle: Mm Mm Mmmm



Eliot: Please don’t wake me when you leave, just let me dream

That you’re still lying next to me

Let me believe that you’re still holding on to me, oh can’t you see

How much you mean to me

Both: that you’re the best part of me



Both: Ah- ah- ah- all my time could be for you

And ah- ah- ah- all my rhymes I wrote for you

 And it doesn’t seem right, time flies away

The moment you go I just know I will wish you stayed

Yeah yeah yeah...

Mm Mm Mmmm

 

 

I Am Just Fine

Music and lyrics: Cybéle Redman

I'm finding the reason why suddenly I'm just fine

is because I love myself above everything else I thought was so high

*Mmmmm, I am just fine

 

There are lessons that we all must learn before becoming who we're meant to be

Just when I think I've learned so much life goes and adds it’s little touch

And throws something my way that I can't take

And do you see me breaking down, and do you see me breaking down

And do you see me breaking down?

And do you see me crying now, and do you see me crying now

And do you see me crying now?
 

Refrain

 
When I love I love with all my being and that won't change but now I also love me

This time I know my strengths and weaknesses and I'm alright with those

I also know just what I'm searching for

And I know I'll love again, and I know I'll love again

And I know I'll love again.

And this time I'll love him better, and this time I'll love him better

And this time I'll love him better.

Refrain

*repeat last line

 

 

 

Beatrice

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

I wish that I could call my dog when I’m not at home

‘cause she’d pick up the phone so happy I called

I’d say, “Bea” and she’d wag her tail so excitedly that it’d smack the wall

 and she needn’t speak at all


Beatrice, you have no words to say, but you make my day

 day after day after day after day after day, Mmmm Mmmm

 
And maybe if I’d call my dog when I’m not at home

 she’d agree to stop peein’ and poopin’ on my floor

But then again I think that I would do it too

Especially considering that she has to wait for a lazy girl like me to get off her fat ass,

And take her outside so that she can go out on the nearest strip of grass


Beatrice, one day I’ll buy you a valley where you can run free

Day after day after day after day after day, Mmmm Mmmm

 
Every time I turn down my street coming home she peaks out the window to see if it’s me

And when it is she runs to the door, awaiting my return


Beatrice, you have no words to say, Oh, but you make my day

 day after day after day after day after day, Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm

 

 

 

Medicated America

Music and lyrics: Cybéle Redman

Do you suffer from any of the following symptoms:

Trouble waking, trouble sleeping, nausea, and heavy breathing when in times of anxiety,

Mood swings, not eating, and binge eating too...

We've got a category for you, there is a drug to make you feel like:


Dee day dah doh doo dee day dah doh doo dee day dah Doh doo dee day dah doh doo dee

Day dah doh doo dee day dah doh doo dee day dah doh doo dee day dah doh doo dee  

 
Now there are six year old kids in kindergarten who seem as happy as happy can be

Who would be normal...if there was normal, except in class they are not focusing

Now I remember way back in kindergarten

The teachers always said, "Class pay attention or get a detention!"

They'd never recommend Ritalin

But times they are changing, psychiatrists bankin’

‘Cause you gullible people seem to think that it's wise, but what you don't realize is

OH!  America is medicated, half of our kids have been sedated

Didn't you know that your kid's medication is something kids use to get high in this nation?!

‘Cause it makes them feel like:


Refrain
 

A large percentage of us is taking some prescribed drug

Some of us need them and some abuse

Let me then ask you what kind do YOU use?


Refrain x2

 

 

 

Dojaphene

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

Let me introduce myself my name is Dojaphene

Oh and by the way can you pass that visine?

Think my eyes are a little bloodshot and glazed

Hi how are you today and can I buy a dime?

Feel real good all in due time, just once I get this thing blazed


I wanna be high tonight, oh

Do you wanna get high today, yeah yeah

Maybe we’ll forget our problems and waste away

 
Gee you really aren’t the person that I thought you were

Now that I’m wasted I can see your layers

That’s ok, just pass me that food.

I think I feel a little hungry, I got the munchies

I’ll let my diet slide for today

It doesn’t matter if I stay in this mood


‘Cause I’m so high tonight, oh

Are you feelin’ high too, ooo

Maybe we’ll forget our problems and eat some food

 
Why does everything seem to be an extreme

It's either really funny or really deep

Maybe I just need some more weed

Who here wants to freak with me in the other room?

Don't worry about what our friends will assume

I just gotta fullfill this need


‘Cause I'm so high tonight, oh

Do you wanna get high today, yeah yeah

Maybe we'll forget our problems and get some play

 
Let me introduce myself my name is Dojaphene

And I smoke so much herb I have no memory

All I do now is smoke up and sleep


I wanna be high tonight, oh

Do wanna get high with me, eee

Maybe we'll forget our problems and fall asleep

 

 

 

So Addicted

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

 

How many times have I told myself that? Why can’t I exercise self control?

How many months and years have I tried?  Why does my hope just turn into lies?

So many people just like me have tried to quit, quitting lasts for a little bit

Can’t seem to kick my bad habit, so many people would say, “I told you so”

How can I want this change so badly but I keep myself from having it? Oh God, I’m so addicted!

Somebody save me, turn my weakness into strength

You can only help the willing, that is what they say

I have to save myself, that’s the only way, yeah

 

When will I be safe?  ‘Cause I am way off base

and I am getting so worried about me, the guilt in my head is just driving me crazy

So, when will I be safe?  When will I be safe?

 

How many times have I begged myself?  Why am I so weak?

How much longer ‘til I find my answers?  To whom must I plead?

Part of me feels ready, part of me feels needy,

part of me is sorry, but part of me feels ready

So many days and weeks and months and years have passed, I can’t believe they pass so fast

How much longer can my heart last?  So many warnings everywhere I go


Refrain


One day I’m gonna wake up and try to sing but I won’t be able to because I’ll be coughing

Where do you draw the line between a fool and someone who is self-destructing?

Where do I draw the line? 

I’m already on year nine, I don’t wanna make it ten, I thought I’d at least stop at five.




Young Ones

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

Young ones fall in love so young,  they don't even know what hit 'em

Before they know it they have a young one

And now it seems they're ready to finish what they've begun



And I know the same thing can happen to anyone, but it didn't happen to me

The girl she slaves away at work every night, the boy he watches his boy

 While he gets high, while he gets high, while he gets high, oh oh oh

 

It's always rocky but they stay together for a while

Not knowing if it's for each other or for their child

But things just keep on worsening

No need to explain, I think you know what I mean


Refrain

 
(3rd verse, LIVE performance only)

But now I have to say that in this game we play it really works both ways

Women can be just as bad as those dead beat dads

You've missed the point if you think this is just some battle of sexes

This is just a story I have come to know so well in my life




Common Sense

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman


Does anybody know what’s happened here?  A natural way of life has disappeared

You can’t drill oil without becoming spoiled, you shouldn’t take a tree without planting a seed

Common sense, people take it slow, you know less than you think you know

What do I know?  I just play in a show, but I’ve learned to keep on learning



Does anybody see what’s happened here?  So many people tired of living in fear

Fear of the man, of the bills, of disease, of the kills

Common sense, people think for yourselves, who cares if you are not on the top shelf

Where there’s a will there’s surely a way, open your eyes, seize the day



Does anybody care what’s happened here?  Maybe we should ALL take a look in the mirror

We would see that we’re all just the same, “humankind,” we share a name, when we stop displacing blame

Only then will we lift our heads from shame, we can lift our heads from shame

Don’t waste time, do not repent

A day’s energy is much better spent preserving this planet, for which we were meant

And that’s all just common sense; yeah it’s all just common sense

At least it is in my head, simple as breaking bread




Song For America

Music and lyrics: Cybéle Redman

 

We all woke up that morning, prepared for a day of working

Seemed like a routine, hum drum day, yeah

Like many others I know, I turned on the “Today Show,” something ‘bout Katie Couric in the morning

makes me know that I’ve another day to endure

On September 11th that wake up call was selective

 We watched the planes strike into all our lives, leaving thousands to die

The rest, fearing danger is nigh



And we all wept for America, all the world wept for America

And we all knew our America would never forget that humbling day when we all wept

 

Visions of buildings crumbling, smoke stacks, and bodies tumbling

Will never leave our minds for a day

A lifetime of wondering what may have been if loved ones weren’t taken

With our beloved towers, the aircrafts, and the Pentagon

But they all, they all fell down with our peace of mind

Humanity was the show, so the day bore many heroes

America held us close, and we all learned to share, I would say God was there

Refrain

  

 

World Keeps Spinnin’

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

 

I keep realizing more and more, how it seems the rich get rich and the poor stay poor

Well I guess I wouldn’t notice much if I was on the right side

But I’ve never been and right now I’m just barely getting by



But, I know that life is a road, sometimes it’s up sometimes it’s down

Keep your chinny-chin-chin up and your feet steady on the ground

Only thing you’re gonna find is that the world keeps spinnin’, the world keeps spinnin’ ‘round, eh

 

One step up, two steps back, that’s the dance for me

Not a choice, more like a curse that won’t set me free

Just when I think I’m steppin’ it up, here comes gravity

Pullin’ me right back down, down to my knees


Refrain

 
Yeah you gotta know that you are in control of your destiny

Don’t let the wind just blow you around the world forever, focus is the key


Refrain

 

 

 

If I Could Whistle

Music and lyrics by: Cybéle Redman

 

Are you listenin'? Can't I have your full attention? Why'd you come here?

I'm all dolled up, I'm here to serenade you, I've been preparing for this moment all my life

I've always dreamed of having audiences, but now I dream of having ones who listen

 

If I could whistle you a tune then maybe I could hush the crowd

It would put me on a cloud if I could only whistle

 

You tell me that the music is too loud, if you were quiet I'd turn it down

I hope I don't seem rude for this expression, don't want you all to get the wrong impression

I know that I am really very lucky, I'm grateful for this opportunity


Refrain


But oh don't you know that it doesn't matter where you go

The grass is always greener on the other side

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