samples of lyrics...copyright lisa talev 1995-2004

'sweet distraction'2003
i've got a lot of pain, but i won't talk about it to you now. you've got a pretty face, i'd say a sweet distraction; wondering - wondering what you would feel like to me. don't ask me how the time goes. you know, i won't remember. so obsessed with what i feel that i forget to think. you've got a pretty face, but i won't talk about it. wondering how i could be as stoic as a stone. and there's a lot of things i'd hoped we would know by now. silence the critic in my head, there's a time and place for everything. memory's what you think about it, and i am sure we are only here now to create the moment that's at hand. i'd like to do it backwards--to get to know your soul before i even think to ask you for your name. and there's a lot of things i'd hoped we would never understand. i'll be as stoic as a stone, there's a time and place for everything...silence the critic in my head, there's a time and place for everything. silence the critic in my head...

'3 steps down' 2003
(some lyrics edited after recording. these are updated ones)
the three steps down, down i go. the three steps in the whole [sic]...the dawn was breaking in my mind, though not yet in the sky. i closed my eyes and opened my perception. i was sinking into the ground again. soft and white like the rising sun. in the dawn's haze, all is gray but the dawn, was breaking in my mind. it's a slow climb, passing time with you. a sweet crime, bending time with you. it's a slow climb, passing time with you. it's a sweet crime, bending time with you. slippery down, down i go. so slippery down, down we go. dawn was breaking in my mind, though not yet in the sky. close my eyes, open my perception. in the dawn's haze, all is gray but the dawn, it's breaking in my mind. slippery down, down.

'keep quiet' 2004.
can you see me? my little hands are shaking. there's a knot somewhere in my throat, trying to silence me. i have read more now between the words than to the letter; trying to please you by all that i will not say. yeah, i keep quiet, i sing my songs just for myself. i keep quiet, sing my songs to myself... cause i've been told, i've been told, i shouldn't listen, i shouldn't care. and i don't want to be another one to trade my life in and sell my soul to the road. so i keep quiet, i sing my songs just for myself. yeah, i keep quiet, sing my songs to myself. but now my breath is weak and i'm just a face in the crowd, as i stand by to watch your fame. but i've been told, i've been told i shouldn't listen-shouldn't listen, i shouldn't care. i shouldn't listen. i shouldn't care.

'crashing down' 2001.
tell me we don't have to go back to the darkness again. tell me that the light will come crashing down into my skin. stretching my soul like a bow across the strings of decadence and denial. are you lost in your blood again? tell me we don't have to go back and start over again. tell me that the light will come crashing down into my skin, tell me. perception in tangles unravels me like a thread, till you look like a stranger again, my friend. i've been stretching my soul like a bow across the strings of decadence and denial. i am lost in your blood again, and you look like a stranger, my friend. tell me-tell me, that the light will come crashing down into my skin.

'endless rain' 2003.
lucid dream, how long ago did you bury me? i remember you, deep inside, like a silent pain...like falling rain. if i lay my body down at your feet, what good would ever come to me? move through me, the wind will carry the grains of sand. time, they say, in turn will come to end all things. like falling rain. if i lay my body down at your feet, what good would ever come to me? drenching the soil like rain falling for you, what good could ever come again? flood these streets till i am whole again. flood these streets till i am whole again, ah... move through me, release the grip of memory. light is the day behind the skies of an endless rain. falling for you. falling for you. falling for you. falling for you.

'when it's over' 2004
i've been thinking too much. i've been listening wrong. i've been thinking too much. lock down, shut out the sounds around...thinking, thinking, what if i threw it all away? and opened up the cage that's in my head? you'll see, it will be alright when it's over, love. you just breathe and i entertain a flood of feeling [that] rushes in my blood, clouding up my mind. what if i threw it all away? and opened up the cage that's in my head? you'll see, it will be alright when it's over, love. looking up at my hands, an ocean of the unknown. you'll see, it will be alright when it's over, love. you'll see, it will be alright when it's over.

'tool' 2003
i thought i had found a quiet space of our own love. a silent prayer, a deep meditation of coming home to your love. but what is this? i try to call it by different names, but the pieces won't fit. the perfect puzzle's your beautiful body and somebody else's mind...heart and mind. how can you say you're falling in love when there's no connection? don't try to say you're falling in love. you've given me nothing. our conversations flow much better with no words at all. leave our personalities down by the door, and rest in each other's arms...so don't try to say you're falling in love. there's no connection. don't even say you're falling in love. you've given me nothing to dream of. you've given me nothing... i thought i had found a quiet space of our own.... how can you say? don't even say...

'waiting for you' 2003
sometimes i go softly into thoughts i know i should keep to myself. drift into dreams thinking of you. i'll be waiting for you, i'll be right here, i'm waiting for you. i won't lie, i am here still thinking of you. tangled and so confused--should i be waiting for you? just say the word and you know, i'll come running into your arms, i'm so tired of dreaming just to kiss you. tell me what i want to hear; tell me what i need you to feel...i'll be waiting for you, i'll be right here, i'm waiting for you.
twisted in thought, like i like you, tangled inside like i'd like to see you. twisted inside, like i like you, just like i'd like to see you. why do i play with my own heart? i lead myself on, tasting your sweet lips in my mind, i can't wait to kiss you. just say the word and you know, i'll come running into your arms, i'm so tired of dreaming just to kiss you. tell me what i want to hear; tell me what i need you to feel...i will wait, i am here still waiting for you. i will wait right here, i'm waiting for you. i am waiting for you. i'll be right here, don't you know, i'm waiting for you.

'pretty bone' 1996/reworked 2002.
saw her so brightly shining underneath the lights. and you were not impressed but i was mesmerized. am i all that you expected? maybe more, maybe more...difficult-difficult-difficult. so sorry to disappoint. but you make me perfect and you know i always will. time will drip its drops to melt away this heavy flesh. bear my witness, tear this thickness off my pretty bones. maybe sometimes that's all i want, and maybe sometimes that's all i need. happy, homely little girl smiling up at you. but just 'cause that's all you can see, that don't mean that it's true. oh, i know you don't want to hear it and i know i never even should have shared it, and i know you never-never-never wanted to know this side of me. i'd take it off. i'd take it off-off-off if i could, oh don't you know i would. saw her so brightly shining underneath the lights. and you were not impressed but i was mesmerized.

'beautiful' 2002. (on "team lisa" EP w/ Cole El-Saleh, prod. by John Barrow)
beautiful-beautiful-beautiful friend, beautiful. i push the door open. slide inside your skin. it's all a dream now, will you let me in?.... the sky is open now, will you let me in? your mind is resting now, underneath your angel-skin....beautiful - absence of all contemplation, playful angels tasting skin. hold me with our eyes wide open, seeking beauty deep within. no expectations weighing heavy on your skin. hold this moment before the day comes marching in....[2 vocal tracks overlapping: no expectations/absence of...] - absence of all contemplation, playful angels tasting skin. hold me with our eyes wide open, seeking beauty deep within. i push the door open, slide inside your skin.

'yellow and gray' 2001.
snapshots will fade into yellow and gray. fragments of lines and time etched in your face. the memories remain as stark as the pain, sharp as the morning splinters of the sun. how can we remain? why is nothing the same? your breath, it crashes down, strong as the waves. beautiful lines of time will take you away. what will they say when the beat drops? echoes in silence, till finally it stops. how can we remain? why is nothing the same? I can’t feel a thing. why is nothing the same? snapshots will fade into yellow and gray. memories the same, bleached out by the sun. i can’t feel a thing; holding on too long. what have we become? oh, i can’t feel a thing...i can’t feel a thing.

'universe' 1999.
looking up to the sky, i am tiny--smaller than a star. speck of dust on a spot of land, the ground we're standing on here and now, knowing this is all we have. the universe... laughing just to think this is our world. they're out there building their tools to understand. conquer and divide the sky, as if we could, here and now. knowing this is all we have. breath to breath, laughing to believe this is our world. looking up to the sky we are weightless, shimmering forms. flesh and mind connect and light filters through our eyes. here and now, knowing this is all we have. the universe...laughing just to see this is our world.

'lay to rest' 1997
oh, this body, woman, girl; breathing, pulsing--tying me to this world. born from the warm darkness and sad song of my mother's womb, into the light now, child is breathing. come into the light now--i stand, blinking. child grow gracefully, show me you're perfect. step in here sweetly with your golden hands. cold fluorescent glow, show you my secret sea of bruises: self-inflicted 'love'. lay my weapons down here beside me. lay my hands and my head and my soul to rest. lay my weapons down here beside me. find a place in my sleep where my soul can rest. words whispered under my skin. the silence hateful, i know too well. blood, come quietly--knock on my pillow. wake the demons and rouse the hunger again. lay my weapons down here beside me. there's no sleep, there's no place my soul can rest. lay my weapons down here beside me. lay my hands and my head and my soul to rest.

'heaviest of dreams'1999.
heavier to dream, life is lighter than it seems, when the world is lost inside of me. maybe i could be everything you’d wished for me, and life would simply cease to frighten me. hold me open to receive. reassure me there is something to believe. what’s reality? love’s the possibility to see the world as it ought to be. hold my hand, we’ll spin till we fall down. we will float untill we drown. heaviest of dreams, love is madder than it seems. and life’s not done confusing me. spinning further—it’s not falling down. we will fly until we hit the ground. we will float until we drown. we will fly until we hit the ground. we will float until we drown. heaviest of dreams, life is lighter than it seems and the world is lost inside of me.

'fall down'1997.
see me standing like an angel: feet don't touch the ground. tall and strong i'm an illusion waiting to fall down. can you feel what is real? can i stand to face the consequences? cannot help but to continue standing, staring down. eyes wide like i'm climbing so high, slip to free-fall down. can you feel what is real? leave me here to face the consequences.