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Little Tiny Secrets

by BettySoo

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Counting down the hours till my final heart failure For the dream I can't catch but still am running after Stretching out for the last stretch of a drive Away from the prison cell of what’s become of my life I can barely see the traces of who I thought By this time I’d have grown up to be I can almost feel the different air of freedom Coming over me Two hands on the wheel I can’t believe how free it feels To drive and drive for hours just to sing my songs And then to another bed That stinks of bleach and dirty mattresses Trysts gone wrong, I'm all alone in another big city I am driving just before the sun comes up I am listening to hours of static on the radio I am running after, chasing this elusive dream I can barely see the traces of who I thought By this time I’d have grown up to be I can almost taste the different air of freedom Coming over me
2.
New Color 04:02
Every day at 6 am, that same voice comes to me With news of yesterday, new things I’ve done wrong And I wonder as I stumble to wash my face Why the same face keeps coming The same face keeps rising up to greet me It’s a new color I’m, I’m putting on myself It’s a new pair of shoes I’ve got down on my feet It’s a new way to walk and I’ll walk out of that door But will it bring me a new me? I keep telling myself that I am not the same 10 years ago I was so lost 10 years ago I had no name I’m no longer in the shelter Of a fist and hiding shame But I don’t feel one step closer To the person I pretend to be It’s a new color I’m, I’m putting on myself It’s a new pair of shoes I’ve got down on my feet It’s a new way to walk and I’ll walk out of that door Let me stop and take a breath Upon the steps of this house called regret And try to leave it behind me Yeah I’ll stop and take a breath Upon the steps of this house called Regret And I’ll leave it behind It’s a new color I’m, I’m putting on myself It’s a new pair of shoes I’ve got down on my feet It’s a new way to walk and I’ll walk out of that door But will it bring me a new me?
3.
Stay 02:48
This is a song about floating disaster A mother without her child The memory of little fingers Clutching to someone familiar left behind This is a song about lives unremembered When the ocean swallowed Everyone who knew the faces Unnumbered graces My last breath crowded by water Rushing in before I can say what I’d say That you are my very life That I’d love you for life If I could stay This is a song about houses drowning And that picture of you that got washed away I wish I could remember all the old days And the way that you smiled at me From the frame This is a song about how I wish Living was easy as a choice Make the right decision, put the blade aside Wake up in the morning for one more day My last breath crowded by water Rushing in before I can say what I’d say That you are my very life That I’d love you for life If I could stay
4.
If there was song of the story of us It wouldn’t have a refrain There’d be a hundred verses And never the same line Coming back around again I’d play it and you would understand it And give it just the right name If there was a song of the story of us It would feel new with every word And everyone would think I was crazy for saying It’s the best song I ever heard And there would never be another That I would prefer If there was a song of the story of us It would be easy to sing It would shout to the world That what makes us the happiest Are usually the silliest things And maybe no one else would get it But that wouldn’t mean a thing
5.
Secrets 02:56
I never wanted to fall in love I thought alone was the life for me Never longed for another to fulfill my fantasy I never thought I was lonely But you appeared and changed that completely I gave my tender heart to you You said you'd be forever true But then you took my tiny heart and ran Now I've got secrets you'd like to know Secrets you can't live without I know things you're dying to know Secrets you know nothing about Did that coffee taste a little strange The day you came over to arrange The division of our property? I might have been a bit surprised When you said you'd take the house and car But surely even I wouldn't go that far I got secrets you'd like to know Secrets you can't live without I know things you're dying to know Little tiny secrets you know nothing about Oh I've got secrets you probably need to know Secrets you won't live without But don't wait for me to tell you what they are Until our cash is safely stored Inside my private bank account What a strange disaster That's something a new car shouldn't do I paced the floor just waiting to hear If you'd pull through Yeah I got secrets you probably need to know Secrets you won't live without I know things you're just dying to know Secrets you know nothing about
6.
Revival 04:08
The rich they’re giving to the poor The hungry ain’t starving no more People acting what they say they believe Not just words that fall to the street Power shows more sympathy than greed No more the woman in strife No husband beating his wife No child left hungry and alone No running away on her own Every family a warm home Is this revival? Waking them up from the dead Is this revival? Is this what the Son of man did? Well hallelujah then give me revival For the lost and for the need And hallelujah bring revival For the broken things in me Oh hallelujah it’ll take revival Cause I am weak and I’m just one Revival, hallelujah, come
7.
If You Fall 03:40
If you fall will I be strong enough To help you find your feet to stand? Well that’s the same question I ask myself Every morning when I wake up holding your hand If you were taken from me would find a way Find a way to live on my own? Well that’s the same question I ask myself Every time I’m a long way from home I would learn to fly if it meant I could stay by your side forever And I would swim to distant lands if it meant I would find you when my fingers reached the sand If you couldn’t find anything that made you happy Well, would I change, would I change who I am? Well that’s the same question I ask myself Every time I don’t know where I stand I would learn to fly if it meant I could stay by your side forever And I would swim to distant lands if it meant I would find you when my fingers reached the sand If you fall
8.
Easy Living 02:52
When I was born I came out Fully dressed in springtime green I had a silver spoon right in my pocket And the strongest legs you've ever seen It didn't take long before I learned My words could take down a full-grown man So the lies flew out of my mouth before I knew it And they flew faster than Superman Easy living in the wings of a giving papa Easy riding along in the slow car of my mama Easy finding my way down so many one way streets Easy losing my heart To the first one who'd take it from me Comfort only goes so far When it comes in the shape of a brand new dress Sorry don't mean much When they turn around just to hurt you again Didn't take long before I learned To pretend it never happened and I was fine And as long as I believed it Everyone would follow me in line Some things that come so easy Ain't easy after all Some things that come so cheap Ain't free if you have to fall
9.
The Hard Way 04:06
You’ve got a little fetish And you noticed I’m just your type You’ve been making eyes at me for hours tonight Asking do I maybe wanna stick around And see what could happen with you? So I keep flashing my ring in your face But nothing gets through I’ve been around guys like you plenty times before They go looking for just one thing and I fit the score You’re playing up your references Giving me reasons why You’ll make a quick million And I’ll be happy you’re my guy Maybe you’re not spinning lies, maybe you’re sincere You say I’m pretty and could you buy me another beer Maybe there’s a lot that I could learn if I stay But, honey, not every lesson in life’s Gotta be learned the hard way You’re moving in closer now I have to keep inching away Just to keep my own oxygen And keep your beer breath out of my face You’re telling me you’re on top Of the next big thing for sure And wouldn’t I love to get in on the ground floor I have to keep reminding you That’s my foot and that’s my thigh They’re mine and not yours And my husband’s a jealous guy I might just be skeptical But you’re no godsend to women And if you’re looking to get lucky Then you’re in the wrong pool swimming Maybe you’re not spinning lies, maybe you’re sincere You say I’m pretty and could you buy me another beer Maybe there’s a lot that I could learn if I stay But, honey, not every lesson in life’s Gotta be learned the hard way
10.
Goodbye 02:38
Say goodbye to the end of the story You thought would come with all love's glory Say goodbye to the happy ever end Learn to smile when he says You'll still be friends Say goodbye to the horse and its prince To big castles and the corpse of a witch Say goodbye to your promise of gold Just for doing more than you were told Say hello to this is real life Say hello working for a living Say hello to cleaning your floors And only salesmen knock on your door Say goodbye to getting straight A's You never knew your smarts Would leave you someday Say goodbye to gas in your car Cause twenty bucks won't take you that far Say goodbye to your favorite dress You haven't been that size since God knows when Say goodbye to your diamond ring You lsot the only man who made enough to bring one Say hello to yes, that's really you in your mirror Say hello to driving this car till it does Ain't as romantic as it sounded nine years ago Say hello to mildew in your shower And mom ain't there To power out the stains Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye To sweet desperation Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye To old fashioned denial Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye To my fairy tale other sale Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Hello to me

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BettySoo's second studio album, which met with critical success and was played on over 150 stations nationwide. Includes fan favorites "Secrets," "Goodbye," "Easy Living," "Story of Us," and "Coming Over Me."

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released September 25, 2007

All songs written by BettySoo, (c) 2007 BettySoo / Sweet Papaya Music, BMI. Produced by Stephen Doster and Recorded by James Stevens, EAR Studio, Austin, TX. Mastered by Jim Wilson, Airshow Mastering. BettySoo: vocals, acoustic guitar. Stephen Doster: electric guitar. Todd Wilson: keyboards. Pass Prestridge: bass. Stanley Smith: clarinet and harmonica. Dave Terry: drums and upright bass. Kristine Shafer: cello. Drew Shafer: violin.

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In the past ten years, BettySoo zigzagged her way across the North American and European continents dozens of times. The Austin American-Statesman says BettySoo has "exceptionally well-arranged songs, as easily equal in precision to, say, Patty Griffin or Alison Krauss…a confidence that speaks volumes,” and KUT praises her "beautiful, heart-wrenching songs that are also edgy and unwavering." ... more

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