the northbound EP

by carlee hendrix & the whole earth catalog

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about

these songs are all about getting your heart broken and writing love letters to the universe and getaways and coming home and sleeping on your rooftop all summer.

i hope you like them.

credits

released 31 January 2010
this ep was recorded at galt line studios in burbank, CA. dan piscina was kind enough to do all the engineering/mixing/mastering/etc. ignacio caniza played drums and glockenspiel and other little things and joe eccles played electric guitar and piano.

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tags: acoustic folk singer songwriter female vocals folk pop fun!

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Track Name: holes
i'm gonna build my heart a home
i'm gonna seal it air-tight
there will be no cracks for your old feelings to seep through late at night
no doors for you to knock on when you're having a bad day
and no windows to crawl out of when something better comes your way
so if i let you in , you have to promise me you'll stay
you can make me your scratch paper
just please don't throw me away

i happened upon a time machine
it read, "LOVE IS WHAT YOU LET IT BE"
so i picked it up and threw it to the see

and i turned myself into a tree
and learned sometimes it takes a setting free
so thank you, love, for letting me

and sure my head's stuck in a cloud
but me, i'm never coming down
and nobody can make me

i'm gonna build my heart a home
i'm gonna seal it air-tight
there will be no cracks for your old feelings to seep through late at night
no doors for you to knock on when you're having a bad day
and no windows to crawl out of when something better comes your way
and i will never let you in again
cause god knows you can't sit still
so drink up , boy
you've got a lot of holes to fill
Track Name: scratch paper
you pulled up your anchor and sailed away
and you're so far now , i can't even see you
but if the boy i knew is still out there
can you tell him to write me?
we've got some catching up to do

thought i saw you a couple weeks ago
but i'm not sure if that was you or some old ghost
i don't know where you were running
but i'll be waiting when you feel like running back to me

you're just a bridge i wish i could burn
you're just a lesson i'll never learn
Track Name: in winter
colors howl beneath my dreams
and all the words in my head turn to binary
you took my arms, and i'm scared i might not get them back

i wake up early and i drink the sun like coffee
i stare straight through all the ghosts that used to haunt me
i say, "hey, not today,"
today i'll just laugh

and all the places you know from when you were a kid
well they seem smaller and stranger than they ever did
and the people you used to come home to
are now just strangers you're not sure you ever knew

you were perfect in the winter, everything looks better hidden in the snow
we were in love with january and what we didn't know
but our mystery is melting with the springtime
and you were born to change your mind

so i'll take my place in the back of your brain
and eat at all your insides until you go insane
and in a couple of weeks, you'll be calling me again
i'd like to hear you say that you don't love me then

the places we went to when we were both kids
they seem far less exciting than they ever did
i've been homesick for a place that i can't ever seem to find
until i do, i paint my own blue skies

you took my arms
you can keep them, as a lesson learned
Track Name: alaska
falling in love on a telephone wire
it's not too easy here without your smile
and i sure miss you , but i've been okay
i'm just counting down the days

how's the weather? i hope you're keeping warm
i miss you more with every thunderstorm
let me tell you, it's just not the same
without you here to chase the rain away

he said, "the mountains are calling my name
maybe you'll find yourself here with me someday"

i play the tape you made me every day
and i love you more with every radiowave
i get so tired of all these city lights
wish i were there in the mountains with you tonight

he said, "the mountains are calling my name
maybe you'll find yourself here with me someday"
you could be a million miles away
& i would love you , all the same
Track Name: northbound
passing trains keep me awake
and the sunrise sings my eyes to sleep
i write letters from my rooftop
and the constellations carry me

we climbed a tree into the clouds
you know my heart was always northbound
time did a little standing still
in the light that found your windowsill

i'm in love with the stars
and how they always seem to find us from where they are
and so we counted all the colors in the sky
and watched our bones align

we jumped a fence to outerspace
and all the planets came out to play
and every morning, time stands still
in the light that finds my windowsill