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In the Shallows

by Nicole Andrews

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1.
is this what you really want from me nothing but delicacy nothing but cute and sexy I am not made out of those nasty things sugar and spice to sing poison my head when you explain how I’m not mainstream compliment to me intended an insult I am not waiting for approval you think you’ve got me pegged well I feel the same just looking your direction this is what it’s like to wake up on the other side with nothing to hide this is what it’s like just another female vocalist waiting to die tried my hand at making pretty things something to show your friends something that was pretend I am not made out of those nasty things I prefer angst to bling pointing at everything I am not mainstream I don’t intend to be you think it’s an insult that I don’t need your approval make some extra money become the girl you are hoping I could never be this is what it’s like to wake up on the other side with nothing to hide this is what it’s like just another female vocalist waiting to die this is what it’s like just another angry girl at the end of her time
2.
this city haunts me try to get out too many broken hearts live here bad memories line me strengthen my bones this place I still call my home kept from your evening I’m running look who sacrificed everything it is my pleasure to be alone pretending concealing eliminating rearranging I don’t live here anymore too many faces remind me of what I wish I could leave behind me all of those faces once my old friends no harm was meant but I’m running kept from your evening I’m running look who sacrificed everything it is my pleasure to be alone pretending concealing eliminating rearranging I don’t live here anymore practicing freedom spoiled the run controlled happiness will cure me emptied my weekend broken again yes, but I’m too busy running kept from your evening I’m running look who sacrificed everything it is my pleasure to be alone pretending concealing eliminating rearranging pretending practicing my freedom draining imitating I don’t live here anymore
3.
pixelated roses courtesy in vain gave them to my mother now she feels the same and I owe her what she gave to me and I forgive her for what she could not be bring to me my lover all your promises oceans of forever endless crevasses and I owe it what you gave to me and I felt it when you turned away and I owe pixelated roses courtesy in vain left you in the ashes carved up my whole name fix you I forgive you but I’m never quite the same and I owe you better run you better hide because it’s here inside you better run from me never quite what it seems
4.
Whisper 05:01
hearts open wide colder inside hotels July and I’m gone dark days again left wondering “where did this begin” you say you whisper I’ll begin again kept to yourself hard not to tell you were always there for me hard days to come felt over and done you and me we’re the chosen ones you whisper I’ll begin again you say don’t run away I tried but was buried alive I tried to change you whisper I’ll begin again back to the start hearts drift apart open-ended wedding bells hold me again hearts don’t pretend kept you where I’d do no wrong too many divides helpless in your eyes just what have we become you whisper I’ll begin again you say don’t run away I tried but was buried alive I tried to change you whisper I’ll begin again you whisper I’ll begin again Again Again Again
5.
This Heart 03:37
this life won’t let me go away this heart won’t saturate me I’ve been here mending these wounds and I’ve been following you and you haven’t noticed your heart your heart your heart this house won’t crumble at your feet this light won’t penetrate me please, God don’t let her leave me don’t give up now you’re going over don’t give up now your four leaf clover your heart your heart your heart this life won’t let me go away don’t give up now you’re going over don’t give up now your four leaf clover don’t give up now sister
6.
Happiness 03:56
until the sun breaks down your sky until the clouds that never lie we walk away heart open wide relearn to live with different eyes believe in love believe in fear believe in hate cause it’s all here the things you do the things you break will only add to this earthquake and in the end I will meet you meet you all the way my dearest friend I really need you to meet me all the way cause I’m holding out for happiness today until the sun can shine a path until the clouds give us a chance lets move away cover our tracks relearn to live with our past got carried away with myself got caught in the trap that we built pulled of my wings from my back carried the weight in the scratch and in the end I will meet you meet you all the way my dearest friend I really need you to meet me all the way cause I’m holding out for happiness today cause I watched you turn back along the way
7.
carry the motives in your ear aren’t you the gladdest in the town you run you run you ran away and left me dry aren’t you the person that I think a change of grace and at my feet escape me invade me you are the secret that I keep campaign the forest for the trees aren’t you the poison that I fear you run you ran away and left me here and yes, the walls will fall down the brightest stars will fade out corrosion happening in sound deafen the system that’s laid out goodnight sweetheart
8.
It's You 03:32
you know that love surrounds you you’d be the only one hot baby to fruition surprised you’re flammable condition of the bone embodies all you know find comfort in the dirt come back you’re beautiful and darling it’s you you bask and bleach the bone I hope you’re capable lost body in the earth no frame death becomes her and darling it’s you hot baby to fruition I hope it’s comfortable
9.
Good Girl 06:47
pray to your kind of man on your knees in a back bend again going in gone to find my lost twin traveling through my dark side again traveling get in the fire is warm promise me you will leave when I’m done promising choices of time out of mind pretend that this blood is wine traveling come with your weapons could you expect this I’ve been a good girl I still regret this hey prey to your kind of man servicing God and all his victims wash away traces of you on my skin pretend that it’s what life has given wash away come with your weapons could you expect this I’ve been a good girl I still regret this
10.
everything you do worshipped in your gloom I keep you at a distance the poison in your veins now echos in your name and I wanted you to know that I hate you and I hate you cold hearted beast so lonely in your cage I keep you at a distance and everything you do it’s broken cause of you haunted and alone and every night I bet you lie awake talking to yourself again well, calm yourself for goodness sakes it’s hard to pretend when you know that I hate you and I hate you cold hearted beast so lonely in your cage I keep you at a distance and everything you do it’s broken cause of you haunted and alone and just because you think you know doesn’t mean shit tonight hello baby you’re on your own start to pretend cause you know that we hate you and I really do too cold hearted beast so lonely in your cage I keep you at a distance and everything you do it’s broken cause of you haunted and alone and cold hearted beast so lonely and diseased I keep you at a distance and everything you do it’s broken cause of you haunted and alone and cold hearted beast so lonely in your cage I keep you at a distance and everything you do it’s broken cause of you I wanted you to know I wanted you to know
11.
Time 05:48
time alone time alone again I got my old ways I got my new ways sitting here just breaking apart I can’t imagine my life’s precision open to you opened my heart a girl knows her secrets well some alone would do you well I got my old ways I got my new ways lifting me out of the dark our situation a strangled nation bring me babe back to the start keep it on the back side of time I’m just glad I’m alive this is the bad side of me nobody said prepared you are free not this time I got my old ways I got my new ways hold me dear I’m breaking apart I’ve got this vision our lives collision carefully pulling apart and who knows what secrets will come suppose we’re last to learn keep it on the back side of time I’m just glad I’m alive this is the bad side of me nobody said prepared you are free not this time I got my old ways I got my new ways help me dear I’m breaking apart a bright transition a composition suddenly back at the start and who knows when the end will come that secret sounds too sudden keep it on the back side of time I’m just glad I’m alive this is the bad side of me nobody said prepared you are free not this time I know let go let go “Come inside” he said I know time alone time alone again

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released February 28, 2015

All songs written and produced by Nicole Andrews
With the support of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa
© 2015 Nicole Andrews Music
www.NicoleAndrewsMusic.com

Recorded and mixed at Surgery Studios, Wellington New Zealand
Steinway Piano Recordings at The New Zealand School of Music
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Lee Prebble
Piano Engineer: Thomas Voyce
Mastered at Munki Studios by Mike Gibson

Piano, Vocals, Harpsichord and Organ: Nicole Andrews
Guitar (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 10): Daniel Ryland
Ebow Guitar (Track 9): David Long
Bass: Andrew Bain
Drums: Lance Philip
Cello: Margaret Guldborg
Viola: Christiaan van der Zee
Violin: Konstanze Artmann
String Arrangements (Track 3): Reuben Bradley
String Arrangements (Tracks 6, 10, 11): Nicole Andrews
This Heart Programming: Nicole Andrews
Goodnight Sweetheart Programming and Production: Thomas Voyce

Photography: Brett Stanley
Graphic Design: Ceire Hopley
Logo Design: Jaya Gibson

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Nicole Andrews Wellington, New Zealand

Nicole Andrews is a self-taught pianist and electronic artist from Portland Oregon, now based in New Zealand. Her sophomore album, A Stranger, it is a collection of 11 melancholic songs centred around industrial beats, eerie synths and raw confessional lyrics. With echoes of Bjork, Goldfrapp and Massive Attack, the result is a gritty and dark album.

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