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Fossil of Girl

by Sarah Donner

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1.
The Pilot 03:18
If I could fly away in my own airplane I’d plot a course to where you are And land it at your gate If I had a train I’d lay track night and day The line would lead straight to you And that’s where it would stay And if I had a ship I’d sail it to your port Your current’s strong and I belong On your rocky shore But waves that could lead you home Just wear down the sand from stone I know you’ll see one day All the things in my way So I’m afraid of heights, I never earned a pilot’s license And I missed that train, I don’t know when the next one’s coming in I won’t learn to swim, the water’s deep but I just wade in Up to my knees I won’t go far if I can’t see my feet But waves that could lead you home Just wear down the sand from stone I know you’ll see one day All the things in my way Break it to me now If there’s a map then I will make it Get up off the ground If I have to I’ll hitchhike But you are smart and brave You could find a way to save this Your telepathic brain Can see that I’m the one who’s struggling Look down from your great height See how I’m climbing? But waves that could lead you home Just wear down the sand from stone I know you’ll see one day All the things in my way
2.
All My Guns (free) 03:46
All My Guns Cross the border from Pennsyltucky Make a home in New Jersey I’m just hoping someone will See through me I’m a hunter I’m a straight shot Between me and you I’m all I’ve got Still I hide behind the forestock Aimed at your heart I would give up all my guns If you would give me all your love Spill the bullets on the floor I won’t need them anymore In the crosshair I can see you You know I’m there, You barely move You’re so stunning Oh where you running to? I would give up all my guns If you would give me all your love Spill the bullets on the floor I won’t need them anymore And the rocks that you climb I am there just behind you And the streams that you ford I was there just before you I would give up all my guns If you would give me all your love Spill the bullets on the floor I won’t need them anymore
3.
Knocks on a Door It started with knocks on a door In the borough of Brooklyn at night It started with what you could see What would be was way out of sight You knitted a hat for this boy Which he lost to the tracks of a train He slept on a couch in your house While you went to your bedroom and prayed You wrote him a song from your heart But it faltered with too many words He wrote one for girls in his dreams and It fell down with too many chords And he's all over quiet places that used to be yours. They were yours. The coffee and tea won't suffice For the niceties you'll never see There's no guarantee that your mind Won't bend with the reality And he's all over quiet places that used to be yours. They were yours. You wait It's gonna get better I know it gets better And he's all over quiet places that used to be yours. They were yours. And he's all over quiet places that used to be yours. They were yours. And he's all over quiet places that used to be yours. They were yours.
4.
Treeline (free) 02:37
TREELINE In my backyard I have boxes I have spices and parked cars In your backyard you have mountains You have highway you see the stars But I don't see stars from my backyard oh but I believe that they are there If you see one would you wish on it for me here Eyes on the treeline Feet in the sand These things surround me and I can't breathe in, But you won't see me in the valley On your mountain you have branded an initial monogram In my window I have neon not much brighter, but draws me in If I don't make it to the summit would you send someone down? Call for backup if I can't make it up on my own Eyes on the treeline Feet in the sand These things surround me and I can't breathe in, But you won't see me in the valley Eyes on the treeline Feet in the sand These things surround me and I can't breathe in, But you won't see me in the valley
5.
Decade 04:05
You wrote up on survival and the best way to run You fell upon your own sword to show off all the blood And no one else can carry you away No one else can make a better day but you I’m turning on a decade and waking in a sweat I see the bed that I made and the mess I made of it And no one else can carry me away No one else can make a better day but me I don’t see well through the grey You are reading books again I should hold my tongue You don’t know what you’ve done I’ve nightmares on my shoulders but I don’t need your help Because I am the oldest I can do it by myself And no one else can carry me away No one else The preaching and the polling, emails laced with politics If Jesus had the Internet, he wouldn’t forward me that shit And no one else could carry him away No one else could make a better day Gone like gospel truths we wrote on Cardboard in the rain Impressive rhetoric we stick on Things we cannot save So scratch your name on something sacred See how long it lasts Years will pass, and time erases Memory I have I don’t see well through the grey You are reading books again I should hold my tongue You don’t know what you’ve done
6.
Summer Home 02:51
SUMMER HOME My summer home stands on its own Nothing sinks in to my summer skin I just don’t know how much more I can bend The hinges are hopeless and rusted again It just takes a light rain and water rushes in You come inside throw windows wide Open and then show me the night The moon sits politely and sets back her fears And waning so bright she is cold, but she’s clear I hold on so tightly, but light still disappears You are so strong It’s you I can build on You patch these walls Fill them so I don’t fall I’ll make a path of stone Only stone will last My summer home stands on its own
7.
SIGNS OF LIFE You’re the mother to many You catch all the children who fall You will give without getting And carry the ones who can’t walk And the seasons they press on We know there is nothing to fear When the fog clouds your reason Encroaching on your frontier Cold fronts keep you down and grounded Do you know how much I love you? The clock cries you plug in your box of light I know how it gets when the sun won’t shine But I’ll send the Spring ‘cross northern skies I’ll wake you up when I see signs of life Traits that run in a family Learning to work their way out Past the last generation Dissolve when you let the rain Pour down, pour down, pour down The clock cries you plug in your box of light I know how it gets when the sun won’t shine But I’ll send the Spring ‘cross northern skies I’ll wake you up when I see signs of life It’s wick like wood, green inside Time to seek, not to hide You’ll make it over the great divide
8.
Bitches You Can Steal My Shit I was visiting the zoo Watching tigers, lions, and pumas In their cages, behind bars You were scoping out my car Plotting out your pounce You broke in and then you checked out Bitches you can steal my shit But I will get over it You can’t have a piece of my soul You can steal my credit cards But it will not get you far No, you can’t steal my rock and roll Take a look at what you got IDs, tampons, dental floss Spare keys, loose change, all my cash How the hell will I pay for gas? And what kind of man Puts his fist through a minivan Bitches you can steal my shit But I will get over it You can’t have a piece of my soul You can steal my credit cards But it will not get you far No, you can’t steal my rock and roll And the tragic thing you tossed My discontinued Max Factor lip gloss Bitches you can steal my shit But I will get over it You can’t have a piece of my soul You can steal my credit cards But it will not get you far No, you can’t steal my rock and roll
9.
The Crane Song You exit the stage Step down to meet me face to face I enter the scene Eighteen years and just one dream Spotlights fade rewrite the script With lines you said Foreign words you spoke I tried to repeat Lessons that you taught I could never teach Time’s not wasted if we find our own song to sing You follow behind In quarter time march down the center aisle Do you get tired Of beats that pulse counting off The flight of larks you train to sing Now they disembark Well paved roads are harder than I thought they might be But you said you learn from opportunity I’m not waiting on fortune to favour me When I get where I want to go In the back of my mind I know There’s a seed inside you sowed
10.
Your Love Is My Drug by Ke$ha Maybe I need some rehab Or maybe just need some sleep I got a sick obsession I'm seeing it in my dreams I'm looking down every alley I'm making those desperate calls I'm staying up all night, hoping, hitting my head against the wall What you got boy, is hard to find I think about it all the time I’m all strung out my heart is fried I just cant get you off my mind Because your love your love your love is my drug Your love your love your love Won’t listen to any advice Momma’s telling me I should think twice But look to my own devices, I’m addicted it’s a crisis My friends think I’ve gone crazy My judgment’s getting kinda hazy My steaze is gonna be affected if I keep it up like a love sick crack head What you got boy, is hard to find I think about it all the time I’m all strung out my heart is fried I just cant get you off my mind Because your love your love your love is my drug Your love your love your love I don’t care what people say The rush is worth the price I pay I get so high when you’re with me But crash and crave you when you leave So I got a question Do you wanna have a slumber party in my basement? Do I make your heart beat like an 808 drum Is my love your drug?
11.
Overrated New Year Christmas coloured morning red bags and silver tags and we’re all glad to be Gathered in the same house Sleeping when it’s cold outside Here we are together glass of red and breaking bread, overfed and feeding The simple conversation Relating with relations awhile an overrated New Year, our promises put on trial Oh come ye faithful, hopeful children No one here is blameless, no one else can take this guilt and burden turn it into Kindness that compels us, someone else could us how to trust Searching for the switches to ignite electrics; it wavers, it flickers and with a flick you unstick the stubborn night The darkness that still lingers You fingers finger for the light Oh come ye faithful, hopeful children No one here is blameless, no one else can take this guilt and burden turn it into Kindness that compels us, someone else could us how to trust Stillness with the sunrise All alone and still unknown your phone won’t be Shattering the silence It’s pricessless this perfect peace And butter on your breakfast can’t replace the things you need Oh come ye faithful, hopeful children No one here is blameless, no one else can take this guilt and burden turn it into Kindness that compels us, someone else could us how to trust
12.
Follow Suit 02:11
Follow Suit You’re an interesting man Never taught to take the hand That is held out to you Palm face up, and You can’t help but take control ‘Cause you buy and sell the souls At a discount ‘cause it’s business baby I can’t follow suit ‘cause I know what’s waiting there A spot next to you in your Aeron swivel chair When there’s not room in the life I take the stairs I worked under you for years Catching words and changing gears I would shift the universe around you But you saw it as your right Riding first class private flights While I sort out all your mundane details I can’t follow suit ‘cause I know what’s waiting there A spot next to you in your Aeron swivel chair When there’s not room in the life I take the stairs Maybe your mother never came To your concerts and your games While your father only loved the bottle So you had to prove your worth With bespoke Italian shirts Made to measure never was an option I can’t follow suit ‘cause I know what’s waiting there A spot next to you in your Aeron swivel chair When there’s not room in the life I take the stairs
13.
No one got what they wanted Justice said “fill out the form with a pen” And in six to eight weeks we will make a decision You can try us again So my bed is a bookmark buried beneath sheets of dry wall And the doors are just holes in the pages I’m guessing until they are gone My radio’s broken I’m hoping to fill up the silence with song ‘Cause my friendships they fade at a rate that’s so slow I feel something is wrong I won’t come to a full stop If you want in then jump on My marketing plan is a man With my name he imports in your ear And a flash on my face on the highway you drive And you can’t help but stare I’ll fuse my bones to plastic I’ll trade my voice for static When you close your eyes I want you to remember I’m a stone wall, a cast of bronze An icon in your mind, I am a pylon, I’m sky high I am a Cylon, Don’t rely on me To save you I won’t come to a full stop If you want in then jump on I’ll fuse my bones to plastic I’ll trade my voice for static
14.
GOING UNDER In a way you’re going under In a way it’s all been done before In a way you lost your thunder In a way it’s a closing of a door In a way you’re breaking even In a way it’s barely making up For the time you wasted drinking From a cup it’s never full enough And I don’t know what frames the pictures in your mind or the walls that you hang behind I hope that you will find a way to paint outside the lines You could say it’s what you live for You could say it’s breathing at it’s best In a way I can’t believe that You would trade in all your thoughts for his And I don’t know what frames the pictures in your mind or the walls that you hang behind I hope that you will find a way to paint outside the lines You already set yourself out to sea You see who told all your secrets to me And I don’t know what frames the pictures in your mind or the walls that you hang behind I hope that you will find a way to paint outside the lines

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released April 17, 2012

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Sarah Donner is an indie folkpop star who has embraced her inner catlady. "The Motherf**cking Pterodactyl Song" which was co- written with The Oatmeal catapulted Sarah into weblebrity status with over two million views on YouTube. After stretching her legs with musical theatre, she picked up a guitar, abandoned her classical roots, and started rocking out (with fantastic breath support). ... more

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