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i will remember everything

by cathy schumer

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1.
Calvisson 03:34
Limestone walls and a checkerboard floor Fig trees grow by the blue front door I live with you and without you Cypress tall as a castle tower Church bells ring to count the hours I live with you and without you How we waited all day long For you to come along Rosewater tea in the afternoon Hammock sway like a pale cocoon I live with you and without you Raise a paper lantern high Blow the sparks out as they fly Go and take a bath in the cool clear water With a sunflower child and a lavender mother Markets in the morning and the bars at night Gladiator ghosts in a bloody bull fight I live with you and without you Ruby red plum and an apricot Better buy four, one is never enough I live with you and without you How I wandered through this town Trying to track you down
2.
You’re a long way from home And you’re playing in this bar Free beer and dinner and gas money for the car And when nobody’s listening you’re playing to the stars And for the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore. Bare as a forest When the trees lose half their leaves Exposed as a magician with nothing up his sleeve And when no one is listening you take a short reprieve Here’s to the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore A round for the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore Maybe she thinks about you a little bit Sometimes you pray As you kneel before the alter of shot glasses That blur another day It takes all kinds of people To live upon this planet Some are sharp as arrows some attract like magnets And when no one is listening, you try hard to imagine The girl who doesn’t miss you anymore There’s nothing good about it Too sorrowful to sing It’d be like bottling cheap wine to try and write a thing And though you’ve taken pen to paper When no one is listening For the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore For the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore You miss the girl who doesn’t miss you anymore
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Wanderlust 04:44
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Make sure the screen door slams shut as you go And the sheet wrapped around you is tight Fireflies light up the fields down below And the bugs on the porch swings will bite you There’s a meteor shower Tonight the moon’s full And you won’t see nothing but the brightest of stars And you won’t see nothing when you look in her eyes She’s covered up good like the sunlight on Mars You were born in the winter when the world freezes over But everything pores out of you like spring water You can’t keep a secret and you won’t tell a lie It’s as trait that you’ve tried your whole life to deny “Move over baby so I can lay down” You’re not even sure if she wants you around And you don’t want to ask ‘cause you don’t want to know And if you don’t ask her it don’t make it so You were born in the winter when the world freezes over But everything pores down on you like spring water And you can’t keep a secret and you won’t tell a lie And you’d like to see the whole world in her eyes You’d like to see the whole world in her eyes
5.
I will remember everything The way the light fell on the buildings The way my heart would skip a beat When I walked unfamiliar streets Maps falling at my feet I will remember every thought And every postcard that I bought Of every church and every tower, And every staircase that I climbed Out of breath and out of time I will remember every taste that’s on my tongue It’s all so sweet when you are free and you are young When you are free and you are young. I will remember everything My life is like a cubist painting All at once with nothing waiting Nothing locked into its place A smile and a frown can share one space I will remember every word And every sound I ever heard And every rumble and every roar And every blessing and every curse What made things better, made them worse. I will remember every taste that’s on my tongue… I will remember every sign And every time I crossed the line And every time I took a chance And closed my eyes, with open arms, began to dance The stars, they will still shine when I am gone The earth continuing to orbit round the sun When I am just a distant memory to anyone To anyone To anyone
6.
6th st 2nd Avenue A cat and a radio Living in box like a pair of shoes And bars on the window I may be blind but I’ll never be dumb l talk til I can’t explain What to do about me and you And the us that’s in between Words, words are not enough But how was I to know? One word and I came to you One word and you let me go Let me go like a daydream Let me go like a puff of smoke Like a dollar in the hand of a gambling man Betting on his one last hope Yeah, hope’s a thing with feathers Like a little birdy’s wings Like words strung together That say such pretty things 6th street 2nd avenue Cracks on the bathroom wall Indian spread on a double bed Made up on the floor I’ve waited many nights here Playing records, doing lines Thinking about what I’d say to you If I saw you one more time Word, words are not enough But how was I to know? One word and I came to you One word and you let me go
7.
Three legged chair in the kitchen Propped up against the wall I’ve been meaning to fix it forever Placing bets when it’s bound to fall If I were a fence, I’d need mending Some nails and a couple of boards In the places where I creak and I’m bending I can’t remember what I put it up for When I can’t sleep and I’m tired And all the thoughts I have are on fire I should be water The sun’s a coal in the oven This beach is a burning bridge Except by the cold salty water Where the seabirds hungrily dig If I were a wave, I’d be crashing Down on future’s shore Where everything’s there for taking And it slips away once more When I can’t sleep and I’m tired And all the thoughts that I have are on fire I should be water Or at the very least I should be mercury Shiny, taking the shape of everything I ever wanted to be Wanted to be I’m sailing past the Cliff House Stones like spears stand up I’m drunk from rocking back and forth And wine in a paper cup Sometimes I am crew, I am captain I am a wooden wheel A point on the horizon Forever drifting here When I can’t sleep and I’m tired And all the thoughts that I have are on fire I should be water I think I should be water I think I should be water
8.
You can’t make me cry anymore You can’t make me cry anymore Even if you leave me in a wild state of grieving You can’t make me cry anymore You won’t make me wait for you again You won’t make me wait for you again You’re not the only train to clack along - I’ll just board another one You can’t make me wait for you again And I won’t miss you like I used to I’m not gonna miss you like I used to I’ll miss the earth and wind and sky when I kiss this world good-bye But I not gonna miss you like I used to I gave you all I had but you want more I know what love is for I know what love is for I gave you all I had and I so poor I know what love is for I know what love is for You won’t find me chasing around You won’t find me chasing around I’m not your foolish Alice chasing rabbits underground You won’t find me chasing you around You can’t make you cry anymore And you won’t make me miss you like I used to And I won’t be chasing you around I’m deaf and dumb and blind to you This time I mean we’re really through And you can’t make me love you anymore
9.
Cabin 03:20
Dirt road mixed with gravel And a carpet of leaves And a brown bed of nettles Softly under my feet So still I can feel my heart beat in my chest Everything’s dead and dying And I’m the only thing left A wall marks the border And marble runs through the stone Like the blood in my veins Like the white of my bones And the sun is a compass And it points to the west The day’s dead and dying And we’re the only things left Make me something from nothing Make me something that lasts No I can’t do that for you No matter how hard you ask But I’m stuck on you baby like the burrs on my vest Everything’s dead and dying And we’re the only things left That dog’ll follow you anywhere No tag and no name Just a stick and three good legs And a taste for a game Run on home through the milkweed pods Under abandoned nests Everything’s dead and dying And we’re the only thing’s left Autumn is dying And we’re the only things left.
10.
You may have nobody You may think nobody cares Whether you will come or go Or disappear from here Whether you are hunger Or thirsty for the truth Somewhere somebody’s opening A bottle just for you And you’d give anything to find her Anything at all Anything to find her You’d give anything at all Summer browned your outside Fall ripened you within And winter made you long for The sunlight on your skin Spring lifted you gently On her green and leafy back Years tumble by so quickly And you cannot hold them back But you’d give anything to keep her Anything at all Anything to keep her I’d give anything at all Make no bones about it You’ve got the traveling blues If you had a million dollars You’d buy a hundred pairs of shoes To walk the burning desert And climb the highest peaks Circle the equator and wander every street Cause you’d do anything to reach her Anything at all Anything to reach her You’d do anything at all
11.
Waiting on a train Waiting in the rain Checking out the scenery Streaked glass masks the finery I rode horses in Afghanistan We raced in the dust and sand Now I’m a leaf blowing in the wind Trying to fly away from all my sins There’s a radio in my head It’ll be playing until I’m dead The songs are soft and low Sometimes they howl like a tornado I tore the sleeves off my uniform Still I had a forty lb vest on I should be feeling free But there’s a weight hanging over me I got a lot, I got nothing to say Need to think a few things away I once had a family Now no one finds me not even me And there’s a desert inside my skin A burning sun where my heart had been Too hot to let anybody in Too hot for even my own kin Now how’d I get on these dirty streets? And have I had enough to eat? And where’d I get this blanket at my feet? And will I ever feel enough to weep? Cause there’s a movie inside my brain Full of noise and blood But it’s nothing like Hollywood Nothing like Hollywood
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13.
Sarasvate 02:02
Falling through space It’s been a long time since she moved with such grace Can’t discern where the world begins And the reflection of her face Oh to let go She is floating on a cloud above the whole life that she knows And the wonder of small things Bloom like roses in the snow Strolling hand in hand Though she can’t recall his name she is sure he’s her man Let fall through her fingers like a thousand grains of sand

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Guitars & Vocals – Cathy Schumer
Guitar, Mandolin, Keyboard, Arrangements – Raymond Gonzalez
All songs written by Cathy Schumer copyright 2012
Produced by Cathy Schumer & Raymond Gonzalez
Engineered & Mixed by Raymond Gonzalez at Blue Fish Sound
Productions, Gloucester, MA - www.raymondgonzalez.net
Mastered by Toby Mountain at
Northeastern Digital, Southborough, MA

Artwork by Janice La Motta
Cover Design by Ryan Fitzsimmons

Thank you to Geoff Bartley & the Cantab, Tom Bianchi & the Lizard
Lounge Open Mike, all friends, fans & family. Special thanks to
Raymond & Janice for making this project beautiful for ears & eyes.
Dedicated to my parents, June & Art

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released September 17, 2013

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