Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips, by Bittersweet Machines

Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips

by Bittersweet Machines

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1.	Great Escape 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Quietly scheming behind those eyes All that she needed was the perfect line To make a break and leave it all behind Packing up secrets A suitcase life The backseat dreaming of a west coast drive She could almost see it all Someday she is gonna be a star Up in lights with a yellow guitar And all the world will know her name But tonight she makes a great escape There’s gotta be something better than this Praying to someone she ain’t sure exists But she can almost make herself believe And all the nights lying awake One spotlight and a faraway stage And all the world will call her name But tonight she makes a great escape And there is something beautiful about risking it all And the chance that she could fall Made her want to carry on Someday she is gonna be a star Up in lights with a yellow guitar And all the world will know her name But tonight she makes a great escape Great escape (faraway)
2.	Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips 03:34	lyrics	buy track
Think you came alone Didn’t you? Appearing out of the thin air Like a comet lighting up the atmosphere In the blink of an eye you were on me Turning everything around Like a slow motion movie with the sound I remember you that night Underneath the neon light When the photographs are fading From the walls inside my head I’ll remember the girl with the bee-stung lips Shimmer on the sea A memory spinning like a ferris wheel Cotton candy Sweet enough to taste and feel All the stars in the sky they were shining Company for satellites Looking down on the evening for you and I I remember you that night Underneath the neon light When the photographs are fading From the walls inside my head I’ll remember the girl with the bee-stung lips I don’t often think about you When I do it makes me smile Wonder if you think of me too Every once in awhile I remember you that night Underneath the neon light When the photographs are fading From the walls inside my head I’ll remember the girl with the bee-stung lips The girl with the bee-stung lips The girl with the bee-stung lips
3.	More Than Ever 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Looking at me over your shoulder I never knew til it was over Where are the words when i need them the most? There are mistakes that are worth making Promises made better off breaking Given away and now forsaken You know And I can see echoes of what we used to be And it’s worth fighting for I need you now I need you now More than ever I will admit I am not perfect Broken under the surface But I’m sure no one could love you more Sometimes I fall away deep inside myself When I should be with you I need you now I need you now More than ever More than ever And I always knew you were the better one So did you Looking at me over your shoulder I never knew til it was over I need you now I need you now More than ever More than ever More than ever
4.	The Way Back Home 03:45	lyrics	buy track
Leave a window cracked just enough And I'll come crawling through We could watch the sun choke away Trading glances at the moon until the final blow Crazy that we fall deeper into something bigger Something so strong Did you know? Did you know? Crazy after all Never thought I'd be given something so strong Did you know? Did you know you're the way back home? Leave a light turned on So that I can find my way back home tonight Crazy that we fall deeper into something bigger Something so strong Did you know? Did you know? Crazy after all Never thought I'd be given something so strong Did you know? Did you know you're the way back home? You're the way back home Even if it all falls back down We could have it all right now Crazy that we fall deeper into something bigger Something so strong Did you know? Did you know? Crazy after all Never thought I'd be given something so strong Did you know? Did you know you're the way back home? You're the way back home You're the way back home You're the way back home
5.	Sleepwalking 03:37	lyrics	buy track
How’d I get here? I don’t know There are spaces in between that aren’t clear A beautiful day So why do I feel like I could easily just disappear Wonder if I am broken inside Don’t want to sleepwalk through my life Day after day it’s always the same Am I sleepwalking? All around me the world goes by Faster than a speeding satellite And I’m trying to wake up I’m trying to wake up Wonder if I am broken inside Don’t want to sleepwalk through my life Day after day I’m falling from grace Am I sleepwalking? Sleepwalking Time will wait you out Time will wear you down How’d i get here? I don’t know Wonder if I am broken inside Don’t want to sleepwalk through my life Day after day it’s always the same Am I sleepwalking? Sleepwalking Sleepwalking Sleepwalking
6.	The Life I Used to Know 03:51	lyrics	buy track
I gotta get my life moving ahead I'm leaving the past in the past And I don't want to see those ghosts again Is that really too much to ask? I'm walking away and I'm striking a match I never knew how it could feel Walking away from everything Leave it behind I'm not turning back I'm setting fire to everything In the life I used to know Everybody ends up with mistakes But some of us needed to learn I could either hold on to the pain Or burn down the old universe I'm walking away and I'm letting it burn I never knew how it could feel Walking away from everything Leave it behind I'm not turning back I'm setting fire to everything In the life I used to know Some things I cannot forget The love, the pain, the great regret Of all the things I should have said But my life goes on Feeling fire on my back Bridges I burned down are bathing in ash I never knew how it could feel Walking away from everything Leave it behind I'm not turning back I'm setting fire to everything In the life I used to know I'm setting fire to everything I'm setting fire to everything In the life I used to know
7.	Skyscraper 03:55	lyrics	buy track
Sometimes it just takes a spark and everything ignites Fill my lungs with the confidence to step into the light For once in my life And I stretch my hands to the sun like a skyscraper Standing just where I belong like a skyscraper There are moments When it feels like everything has been broken And I know it's on me to fix it up I gotta be moving on before I'm gone And I stretch my hands to the sun like a skyscraper Standing just where I belong like a skyscraper I am ready to take it on I stretch my hands to the sun like a skyscraper Standing just where I belong like a skyscraper I am ready to take it on Skyscraper I am ready to take it on I stretch my hands to the sun I stretch my hands to the sun
8.	Falling in Slow Motion 03:55	lyrics	buy track
Did I get unbroken? Did I ever put it back together? For the last time I need to know Every word unspoken Is a siren calling through the weather Like a lifeline I'll never throw A subtle shift in focus Could change a lifetime in a moment And send me off to better days Can I count on it now? The shining light across a great divide There are clouds all around Gathering so quickly in my mind Lately I feel like I'm falling in slow motion Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow motion Can I count on it now? The shining light across a great divide There are clouds all around Gathering so quickly in my mind Can I count on it now? The shining light across a great divide There are clouds all around Gathering so quickly in my mind Gotta get myself back to the light Lately I feel like I'm falling in slow motion Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow motion Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow Falling in Falling in slow Falling in slow motion
9.	Signal Fire 03:25	lyrics	buy track
I could feel the winter creeping in Coming thru the cracks beneath my skin And you were burning like a signal fire I feel something coming over me I feel something coming over me And crazy as it seems I think you would agree You feel it too I believe in something more than love I'm aware belief is not enough But there's an energy that surrounds you I feel something coming over me I feel something coming over me And crazy as it seems I think you would agree You feel it too Stand there for me So I can see Set the whole night on fire Fire! I feel something coming over me I feel something coming over me And crazy as it seems I think you would agree You feel it too
10.	Faces I Will Never See Again 03:51	lyrics	buy track
The city's alive Like fireflies dancing round the streets tonight It's all in the air Everywhere Even the cold is welcome here tonight And all the places I remember And all the strangers I will never forget And all the spaces come together And all the faces I will never see again Every breath drawls me in Deeper still until we're one And all of the lives I pass by so randomly Mean so much tonight And all the places I remember And all the strangers I will never forget And all the spaces come together And all the faces I will never see again The city's alive like fireflies And all the places I remember And all the strangers I will never forget And all the spaces come together And all the faces I will never see again All the faces I will never see again All the faces I will never see again

about

This was a tough album to write and record. I was dealing with a little bit of writer's block so the process of developing songs was difficult. I felt like I was climbing up hill and trudging through hip deep mud just to come up with anything. The songs on this album were the rare bursts of light that produced something positive. There are some really cool moments on this record but it was definitely an album in transition. I recorded it in 4 different studios and my vocal engineer from the first 2 albums (Saul Johnson) moved to the other side of the country in the early stages of the recording for this album. So when I listen to the album it can sometimes give me the feeling of being slightly disconnected. My producer (Mark McKee) and I were also experimenting with different production styles ranging from electronic dance music to Americana to indie pop to the spaces in between. We were both having fun with what we were creating but I think we were a little unsure; trying to figure out what we wanted the developing Bittersweet Machines sound to be going forward. It doesn’t feel quite as cohesive as the first two Bittersweet Machines albums but that also might make it a bit more of a diverse experience - it all depends on your perspective. Music is subjective after all. So it was a difficult, transitional and slightly flawed album with some really nice moments but ultimately very important that we worked through this period to keep the project moving.

credits

released May 21, 2016

All songs written by Matt Mocharnuk
Produced by Mark McKee
Banjo on "Faces I Will Never See Again" by Daniel Cook
Backing Vocals on "The Way Back Home" by Mike Garrigan
Album artwork by Laura Jane Harding of Laura Jane Photography
To view more of Laura's photography go to:
www.facebook.com/LJPhotography21

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Bittersweet Machines Greensboro, North Carolina

Bittersweet Machines is Matt Mocharnuk

2022 - Edge of the Nocturne Sea
2020 - Disco Volante
2019 - The Stars & Ground
2018 - No Bad Horizon
2016 - Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
2014 - Momentary Lights
2012 - Solituda

Bonus:
-Stripped of Starlight [acoustic]
-The Wendy Birds: Everybody OK? [rarities]
-And Diamond Stars Shine Glitter Bright [EP]
-Seraphina [single]
-Stumbling with Grace [single] ... more

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