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Holes

by Sara Jelley

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1.
Sing 03:09
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I just want to sing (ooh ooh ooh) I know you all can hear me Is it loud enough for you Here's what is in my heart I am giving it all to you ooh its all I ever wanted Making music from my heart I’m taking down the walls that blocked me from the start chorus bridge: Fear is chasing me Up this mountain, so steep so high I will stand and sing from the edge I have all I need to fly and my voice will shine out reaching straight into your soul it stirs up something deep inside and honey that's my goal
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Can't Fix Anybody 03:43
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Can’t Fix Anybody © Sara Jelley - 2020 Everybody’s got that one old friend You know the one i’m talking about The one that doesn’t want to hang around But doesn’t like to feel left out Back and forth and back and forth again Like a carnival ride Complaining, raising hell but never gone Just cannot decide CHORUS: Somebody should Just slap ‘em good Anything you say Never will sway All your solutions Put ‘em back on the shelf cause You can’t fix anybody but yourself The one that lives inside of his head And thinks that he’s the best He never stops talking just to make himself laugh Never gives it a rest The one that lives with some unwritten rules To feel she’s good enough She doesn’t trust anyone And never lets go, how does she Juggle all that stuff? CHORUS BRIDGE: Lean in to the points that are sharp Others will always show you just where they are In time you’ll see, just as clear as a bell You can’t fix anybody but yourself You ever wonder why these few people Come into our lives They knead you, poke you, do stupid shit That you would never do, right? They get right up in your face And never listen to what you say Guess what? They are just you Inside a different mask that day CHORUS: Somebody should Just slap you good Anything they say Never will sway All their solutions Put ‘em back on the shelf cause You can’t change anybody no You can’t help anybody no You can’t fix anybody but yourself
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Holes 04:40
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I do not need to wait for you I do not need you to call I do not need to miss you Or catch you when you fall I do not want to rely on you I don't feel incomplete I love the feeling of loving you And hearing the sound of your feet. B: You do not leave a hole in me Though I know emptiness You will not fill the kind of hole That hangs below my chest. A: I know that when you show yourself I see your holes as well It fills me up to think that I Could have your magic spell. I feel as though I matter I’m one hundred percent human but you say you love me so much I forget I am not golden B: And the minute I’m alone And faced with my own faults Off-stage, applause has ended Nothing left to fill the vault. C: I reach inside and feel around For any speck or crumb Try singing my own praises But I’m tired, empty, dumb A: I do not need to wait for you But I’m all out of gas You are the last chance station On the way to Sunday Mass I do not need you to call But I’m leaking from my exhaust Yeah my heart has its own damn leak And my fuel’s always getting lost C: I do not need to miss you Or catch you when you fall But it feels so good when my cups not empty, Even with just a little Even if for no time at all
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Alice 03:48
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That first step through the mirror its a doozy C6 G A D I never know how far I’m gonna fall C6 G D I’m gonna have to drink some bitter potion C6 G D E If I want to be the queen of it all C6 G D At home I was uncomfortable but safe C6GAD I learned my lessons well but hated every day / Down C6GD here I don’t know anything and that’s ok C6GDE Cause I just grew twice my size in a day C6GD CDGA I am Alice in a Wonderland CDG The rabbit’s hole, well it took me down CDGA I am admitting I was wrong and CAD 2.CACG All the things I knew were upside down Caterpillars love to give advice C6GAD He tells me what I’m saying don’t feel right C6GD Even at the party where time stands still C6GDE There's still judgment from the seat to my right C6GD Each flower has a bark and a bite C6GAD Every dog has its day but a darker night C6GD Each knight in shining armor is his own worst enemy C6GDE Cheshire cat and me, we‘re just cra-zy C6GD Bridge: Bar chords, Single pick all strings F Esus4 **Maybe I was wrong, no I definitely was Ab/Eb G This door somehow grew to fit me through F Esus4 Maybe I can grow, every time I close my eyes Ab/Eb Bb C/E And Let myself believe what can’t be true. CDGA I am Alice in a Wonderland CDG Stepped into myself and turned around CDGA I am admitting I was wrong and CAD 2.CACG All the things I knew were upside down In this new world I don’t know who I am C6GAD I could be just a pawn or a queen C6GD Maybe who I am is mine to choose now C6GDE Because “Life, what is it but a dream?” C6GD CHORUS (strum up on last G)
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Suddenly 04:54
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Suddenly I have eyes to see How wrong am I? Don’t you tell a lie I am waiting patiently waiting will you forgive me? Open your eyes to me, I am here please look at me CHORUS: You may never know that I love you but I have to go You showed me You’re already gone now I am waiting for the dawn Suddenly Suddenly We shone so brightly, but Lights can fade so suddenly I waited reverently I waited on bended knee Funny how unhappy happened not so suddenly CHORUS I was your prisoner, but now I am smarter I was for you to walk upon but it still hurts though you are gone CHORUS
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What You Get 03:15
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What you see is what you get Tale as old as fire You can see a rose with thorns or fabric on a wire Chorus: When you see me what do you get? Give me space to choose the rose in me may smell as sweet and you've got nothing to lose Good only hangs around with its friends mercy, forgiveness and faith Happy is only a sad moment gone and I put the smile on your face Chorus What you say is what they hear So take care with your voice sing your songs of love and grace they are the easy choice Bridge: Why the struggle, why the strife? I've got a hold of you Please remember this is my life You've got to hold me too As long as we draw our own bridge over Love will be holding us two Verse What you see is what you get heard it all before if what you get comes from your heart there will always be more and you've got nothing to lose
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Lay Down Easy 04:41
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If I tell you to close your eyes would you do it for me? If I ask you to lay down would you do it for me? If I ask you to be still would you do it for me? If I ask you to lay down would you lay down easy? If I needed some love would you save some for me? If I needed some touch would you just hold me? If I needed music would you sing to me? Would you come with me and lay down easy? bridge: So many nights turning around in our beds in our beds in our beds So many worries spinning around in our heads in our heads in our heads Just can't relax we get ourselves stressed so stressed so stressed It never will stop it never will stop unless unless unless we try to lay down we try to be still its time to rest baby its time to lay down easy There is nothing to fear so Lay down easy I will always be here so Breathe easy Will you always be here for me baby Would you remind me to Lay down easy
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No Comfort 03:47
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Looking for comfort where there's only greed short-haired girls long-haired boys, everybody in between but nobody is who I want them to be they give no comfort to me B A:there's no comfort in a perfect life no love on a pedestal no happiness in your garbage can no comfort in a plan bridge: C: there's no angel that comes down from heaven no yellow brick road along your way no amount of ice cream will answer your prayers just like there's no comfort anyway A:Reading the written history of my life, pages left empty for songs I always meant to write I thought I needed someone to make my heart expand but there's no comfort in a man B A:Now I sit and ask myself why I cry after a day of anxious tears Sorrow comes from the same place comfort also lies: in my own heart, all these years. A:I decide to give in if I have to live in this every day life of fear... I decide to be happy right here.
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New Era 02:56
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C F G I reach my hand out to feel the rain F G Your hand reaches out to mine C F G I never needed someone to claim F C You came to help me shine CHORUS G F D And its a new era We’re learning how to do it right this time G F C Its a new era for the rest of our lives Did you know that I’m not perfect CFG I’m gonna say something wrong FG Did you know you’re not perfect either CFG But our challenges will make us strong FC Am C All through the pages of my history F D All of the hearts I met that weren’t for me B (4322) C I didn’t know if you were real, you see B Am D Now what I want is right in front of me CHORUS I reach for a brush to paint my life CFG Your hand reaches out to mine FG I never needed another eye CFG But your palette compliments *mine* F*G* CHORUS Repeat: For the rest of our lives (x2)
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Stay Right Here 04:18
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Will I ever stop searching for you ever stop wondering where you are and will I ever feel the same as I did when you were here and will I ever get to be with you again and feel at home again, that loved again, i'd never have to wander so I will chorus: G Stay right Em here cause its the Am7 best place i've found so D G far, and I will stay right Em here, cause its the Am7 closest thing to you i've felt D G its been so long, what else can I do? You may be far away you may be close, you may be just around the corner waiting for me to give up and go, go on with my real life just let go of all the lies, you never wanted me to feel like i'm not good enough bridge: Am7 D G Em I sing a song that I once knew cause it reminds me of the G things you used to teach me about Em how to feel how to talk Am7 D how to play how to sing G and as I sing it now all I know is I know how because you knew that this is how I say the things that my heart needs to G Em Am7 D say, say, say, say and I will chorus this is all I've got songs about what I have not because I cant stop feeling that what I have not is what a home should be, but I have warmth and love a simple kind of feeling of a simple kind of destiny that tells me to stop searching so I can chorus Am7 what else can I do? D G What else can I do?
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Bittersweet 02:10
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Bittersweet Tonic and bitter Sweet and slow-moving You lift me up Tasting Your soul With just my eyes You tempt me Just a taste Has got to be Enough now Distract me Bittersweet Tonic and bitter Sweet and slow-moving You fill me up

about

This album ‘Holes’ is my first full-length album and it features songs from throughout the craziness of my twenties, and includes a couple from the recent years- my thirties. All of my songs are about transformation in some way- lessons learned, relationships realized and ended, other people’s stories that turned into mine, etc. The thread throughout the album is staying with my emotions and getting to the other side instead of running away, no matter how big or small the challenge presented. This is the process of going into a black hole inside of ourselves. We never know how much our lives can change on the other side of the black hole until we go through it.
To sign up on the waitlist for Physical CDs: sarajelleymusic.com/album

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released December 11, 2020

All tracks written and performed by Sara Jelley

Recording and Mixing Engineer,
Co-Producer: David Stoller Whitney
The Root Cellar Studio -Maui, HI

Piano arrangement/performance on tracks 2&7
Sal Godinez
Bass arrangement/performance on tracks 2&7
Marcus Johnson
Trombone arrangement/performance
on tracks 2&3
Henry Arroyo
Strings arrangement/performance
on track 10
Michelle Packman
All photos by
Kelsey Herold
Groovy Awapuhi Photography

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Sara Jelley Haiku Pauwela, Hawaii

Sara Jelley’s original folk-pop songs are the equivalent of sneaking vegetables into comfort food. “Wait a minute... there’s therapy in here!”
Sara is heart-opening, vulnerable and soulful, and takes her audiences on an emotional mini vacation. She uses her theater experience, her pure voice and nourishing charm to entice the listener into her honest, intentional songs. ... more

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