MOTHER’S KNIFE - FULL ALBUM LYRICS 

LUNAR 
I’m gonna feel a little bit of this woman’s scorn 
You’re gonna wake up in the morning to a world 
that’s a little bit lonelier 

When the light pulls back off a sunlit face 
I’m gonna close my eyes into a world 
that’s a little bit lonelier 
that’s a little bit lonelier 

Come back to the States, Come back to where your heart sings 
Come back to the lake that you never visit anyway 

Come find me tonight 
I’m seeking a friend to watch the skies 
Oh come find me tonight 
I could already see myself singing 

Come back 
Come back 
Come back 

ANIMUS 
She turns back in a straight line 
She turns back in a straight line - to bind herself to you 
She has your voice, you have hers 
You have weakness, she has nerve - bind yourself to her 

They say be a good loser but I don’t know how 
I’ll be alone in the end, I need a lover right now 
Try my hand I’m lost and reaching for you        
Somehow………..unlikely as it seems 

Something’s hidden in the blind 
You are restless, you must find - a woman hanging on a limb 
You nearly kissed me in my dream 
Your face held close, I could see - you were him 

They say be a good loser but I don’t know how 
I’ll be alone in the end, I need a lover right now 
Try my hand I’m lost and reaching for you        
Somehow………..unlikely as it seems 

You have reason, you have a hard drive, you have an emptiness 
I have plenty, I have the part of you that you have missed 
I have secrets, I have a pinpoint, and I have a mother’s knife 
For cutting away what you have loved and what sucks you dry 
What leaves you dry 

and in the nervous silence I have found 
anima, animus - staring each other down 
staring each other down 
anima, animus - staring each other down 
staring each other down 

They say be a good loser but I don’t know how 
I’ll be alone in the end, I need a lover right now 
try my hand I’m lost and reaching for you 
try my hand I’m lost and reaching for you 
try my hand I’m lost and reaching for you       
somehow………..unlikely as it seems 

anima, animus 
you & me 

PRESERVED 
Driving in a dayless dawn 
the mind collapses in song 
there’s a lifting in my heart, a turning toward the start of a long road and view 
there’s a figuring it out, a smile and a pout, a leaning into 

you and I were made as lovers 
a wind, a sail 
you and I were made as lovers 
you look me in the eyes 

Standing on a storied shore 
There is nothing I would have liked to tell you more 
there was something in your eyes, something in your smile, something that I came to define 
as a longing to be near, a longing yet a fear of the other and divine 

you and I were made as lovers 
a wind, a sail 
you and I were made as lovers 
you look me in the eyes 

you’re a light along the boundless trail, and now 
you’re my light along this boundless trail 

MAKE ME 
I don’t think about you all the time 
Just when I want to smile 
I don’t think about you day and night 
Just when I want to feel good inside 
And like I’m new 

And oh, you do, you make me 
you make me, do I make you? 

I might miss you when you’re not around 
I prefer it when you’re found 
so don’t get lost, don’t get lost 
we’ve got a lot of knowing to do 
come see this through 

And oh, you do, you make me 
you make me, do I make you? 

Let’s meet at the place 
Cobblestones on the ground 
a smile on your face 
Lets meet at the place 
somewhere black & white 
where we can embrace 

There’s a freckle on your wrist where a kiss should be 
there’s a heaving in my chest where your hands should be 

And oh, you do, you make me 
you make me, do I make you? 
I can’t help it that you do 
do I make you? 

HERE & REAL 
He saw it all unfurl 
in the bath, in the rain, the damp hair of a girl 
she pulled up flowers from the earth and smiled 
I remember, they smiled, they smiled 

That boy is here 
This girl is real 

She saw the twilight turn 
In the snow, in the leaves, the memory of how to burn 
Hand holds hand through thick and thin 
a friend will never leave you like a lover 
I’ll never leave you like a lover, like a lover 

That boy is here 
This girl is real 

Winter light so small 
Winter light so small 
What do you think you met me for? 
You get one more chance but it’s the 
last chance in a sorry string 
so buck up now and love me like a 
blonde boy should 

KISS COMPLETE 
You can’t relax           
And the feeling lingers         
You wear your heart on your sleeve and your anxiety on your fingers 
On your fingers 

You lay in bed, eating trail mix and chocolate 
Haven’t finished a book in weeks I’d say 
You’re in a rut, kid 
It’s a very old rut, kid 

You know it’s yours for the taking 
If you could just stop heartbreaking 
Baby it’s wrong, it’s wrong, it’s wrong 
And you know why                           
Oh, you know why 

I gave it up fast, though I knew I should pace it 
Now I’m coming on to you but taking 
Second place to a cigarette 
I may have a few regrets 

You know it’s yours for the taking 
If you could just stop heartbreaking 
Baby it’s wrong, it’s wrong, it’s wrong 
And you know why                           
Oh, you know why 

You’re sweet and kind 
You’re plaintive, you’re moody, you’re fretful 
And you’re mine 

You’re a girl on the edge, lonely for some kind of feeling 
Trying to run from the fear that what we had 
We’ll never have again 
Never have again 
Why run from that? Who could ever escape it? 
There’s a living and dying to love 
And rebirth if you can catch it 
Baby let’s catch it 

GOLD 
I’m being hunted down, hunted down 
There is no way to stop the bad dreams 
they are hounding me 

I’m being pulled and pried, open wide 
there is no way to stop the bad dreams
from pouring out of me 

And you can watch me 
see me in my power 
watch me wilt, watch me sour 
And you can try me 
try me on for size 
watch me wither, watch me rise 

I’m being hunted down, hunted down 
There is no way to stop the feelings
pouring out of me 

See me pained and pinned down 
tied to a woman’s cry 
I am not the beautiful girl in black and white 
then you can watch me 
watch me come alive 
see me wet, see me untied 

I’m being pulled and pried, open wide 
there is no way to stop the bad dreams
pouring out of me 

So come on, come on, come on 

Give me something gold    
a song, a shell   
Give me something, give me something gold                  
a song, a shell to protect me 
from the coming trouble 

SWELL 
Eighteen years on a witchhunt 
Twelve years down in a grave 
When the light cracks open 
you’re safe, you’re saved 
you can’t trust the right hand 
you can’t hold the left 
cold, summer heart empties 

ready for the swell, ready for 
ready for the swell, ready for 

Smoke churns into the dark night 
there’s a whisper hidden in my sigh 
sing how the smallest of moments 
can make you sure, can make you breathe, can make you fix your sight 
I’ve been meaning to tell you 
over and again, and again 
send me the smallest of signals 
I’m 

ready for the swell, ready for 
ready for the swell, ready for 

come close 
it’s the only way to find me 
come close 
it’s the only way to find me 
the only way to find me 

BRIGHT 
I was awake through every night 
I would bad dream, and he would write 
I was shamed then held on high 
I was something, I was a queen all right 
A queen all right 
and now I know 
I know what it’s like 

to be bright and then disappear         
to be bright 
and then disappear, disappear 

You were near me from that start 
I couldn’t find you, your soundless heart 
So much time just pissed away 
Shucked and burned out 
day after day after listless day 
and it seems like you know, it seems like you know 
you might know what it’s like 

to be bright and then disappear         
to be bright 
and he makes you disappear, disappear 

You’ll see me coming on like an untold truth 
You’ll see me coming on, cuz I know what it’s like 

To disappear 
To be bright 
And he makes you disappear 
Disappear 

PITY 
You’re pushing papers, pushing far away 
You’re crunching numbers on a life with no pay 
You thought you’d landed, you were sitting pretty 
but girls lose every time, girls in love, what a pity 

What a pity, the girl’s in love 

The truth around here is you’ll never get ahead 
planning dollars and hours until you’re dead 
You look around, you’re filled with quiet fury 
Slack-jawed and wondering where it all went 

You’ve got your skillset and a winning smile 
you heard everyone likes you but you’re in denial 
and you’d be right, it seems there’s no one to play with 
singing songs with yourself on tape, in your parents’ attic 

What a pity, the girl’s in love 

Be calm and be quiet 
be calm and relax 
pull out your pen & your book 
and record the loose facts of your life 
in a song, in a song or two 

What a pity, the girl’s in love 
What a pity the girl’s in love with song 
What a pity, she’s always in love with a song 

UNCOVERED 
I had a bad case of hovering under 
dreaming and longing, a quiet loneliness 
Oh, brooding never got me anywhere 
kindness doesn’t help anyone to care 

Are you waiting to be 
Are you waiting to be 
Uncovered?  Are you? 
Are you? 

I was complicit, controlled by the other 
I was a cold case, even to myself 
Timid and lonely-eyed never helped the slightest bit 
you’re in a man’s world now, try to act like you give a shit 

Are you waiting to be 
Are you waiting to be 
Uncovered?  Are you? 
Are you? 

it’s the biggest fucking waste of time 
it’s the biggest fucking waste of time 
it’s the biggest fucking waste of time 

Are you waiting to be 
Are you waiting to be 
Uncovered? 
Uncovered 
Uncovered 
Uncovered

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