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Full Of Gentle

by Katie Dill

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1.
(1 2 3 4!) your eyes really gleam when you look at me, but, honey, hold it in! save that shine for me, or the sun will be jealous of your grin. i am suffering, holding onto string, but i'll be patient, dear. soon the wind will bring my new favorite thing: soon YOU will be here! keep secrets till the leak gets too big to patch, the weakest our knees get is where this hatched. won't it be so fine when your hand and mine have some company? fingers intertwined, swinging them in kind between you and me. eyes will sparkle so, poetry will flow, but it gets better yet: everyone will know, one heart high one low, singing a duet! keep secrets till the leak gets too big to patch, the weakest our knees get is where this hatched, keep secrets till the leak gets too big to patch, the weakest our knees get is where this hatched.
2.
The Matinee 02:51
a powder blue suitcase and two coral colored shoes, i'm sorry, baby, but this place will simply never do. i'm catchin' the matinee i said i'd see with you, and then i'm catchin' a train, and i won't be back soon. my mother always told me to settle down, my sisters all have nice houses in nice towns, oh, but picket fences seem to hold me in, and i've got wings, baby, so why stay imprisoned? i cannot be broken. i cannot be broken in. my feathers must ruffle, my feathers must ruffle in the wind, in the wind...
3.
Lightening 03:21
4.
i once lived to see the lakes and ponds become a sea. i once lived to build a mountain top from many hills i blocked out the sun with only one finger on my left hand i spent years awake countin' the grains of white sand i have seen ten thousand days youngest sun and boldest waves i have dreamt ten thousand nights soar in sea and drown in flight though the time was vast i crossed it fast meltin' the lake down soon i have to go i'll settle down into the ground oh where are you now the wondrous love i never found? oh i thought by now we'd be in arms we'd be in arms... i have seen ten thousand days boldest sun and youngest waves i have dreamt ten thousand nights soar in air and drown in flight
5.
Jelly Bones 02:58
i'd stare for hours at the green in your eyes i'd stare forever and i'd still be surprised by all the colors that hide in your face and all the sweetness that my heart will never taste you're not mine you're not my own i am not, am not much to want i'll never be, never be much to see i only have, only have what i've got i only love, only love what can't be... i'd die of weakness, i'd die of jelly bones if you were seated beside me all alone oh just to have you, so simple and so sound, has proven harder than flyin' off the ground you're not mine you're not my own i am not, am not much to want i'll never be, never be much to see i only have, only have what i've got i only love, only love what can't be ee ee eee eeeee eeee da dum da dum dum dum da dum dum dum da dum dum dum dum
6.
i followed your first true love home after your sad prom night, your last big fight, your rose laid on her floor she had a style and a hard smile to resist i sat beside you in the rain on the street where you should've kissed ooh, this is just the beauty of love, it's hardly just, but it's all you have. i watched as your best friend was lowered down somewhere deep, i caught six tears on each side of your face before they touched your cheek and i stood there as your trembling hand opened up your last goodbye to a casket your rose placed on the top ooh this is just the beauty of love, it's hardly just, but it's all you have ooh this is just the beauty of love, it's hardly just but it's all you have. i wept into your mother's champaigne last June the bright faces of all the people that came lit the room a sweet love song played as you kissed and the families clapped your new bride looked lovely in white your rose laid on her lap ooh this is just the beauty of love, it's hardly just but it's all you have ooh this is just the beauty of love, it's hardly just but it's all you have.
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Pearl Diver! 02:28
i want to be a pearl diver are you a pearl diver? i am not a pearl diver but i am a quick learner. i want to date a pearl diver we would have lots of fun together he'd find a really nice one for me make it a ring and we'd get married da da dum da da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum da da dum da da dum dum dum our children would be pearl divers they'd all be on their best behavior you can't fight when you're under water even with your annoying brother (i want to be a!) pearl diver (are you a?) pearl diver (i am not a) pearl diver (but i am a) quick learner, quick learner da da dum da da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum da da dum da da dum dum dum da da dum da da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum da da dum da da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum!
8.
keep your safe distance from me, keep your kids away from the sea, keep your mouth away from disease, keep your faith upon its knees. keep your face tilted toward the sky, keep your eyes shielded from the light, keep your place in the waiting line, keep your mind from the devil's night. keep your sons in their silent heads, keep your daughters in their stead, keep your sheets upon your bed, keep your memory of the dead. keep me just behind the other things you find, in the back of your mind, keep me blind, keep me just behind the other things you find, in the back of your mind, keep me blind. ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
9.
last week one night when i was not home, for i worked late that night, alone, my darling wife shot our only son, she shot herself, now they are both gone. my trouble's wide and my trouble is high, that babe, he had such holy blue eyes, no color i had ever seen, my ma's were brown and my sister's were green. my wife, her eyes were awfully dark, i know not what color my father's are, he left my ma when we were just kids, i know not where that unholy man is. well i will live for thirty years more, to finally die on a bar room floor, having drunk the days and dreamt the nights of my darlin' wife and that little boy's eyes.
10.
Ugly 04:38
i am far too clean straight lines and straighter teeth no-thought, simple themes am i runnin' from a dream? wake up and i won't rest until my legs are slender seaweed no i won't stop until my voice cracks like a dry leaf my skin will cover light gray clouds over black seas within my blood'll be the poison green of envy oh, ugly... so ugly. am i gettin' anywhere? burrs and needles in my hair but will my broken feet ever meet the concrete street again eventually and i won't stop until my legs are slender seaweed no i can't rest until my throat is cracked like dry leaves my skin will cover like a gray sky over black seas and within my blood'll be the poison green of envy oh ugly, ugly oh ugly, ugly yes, ugly, ugly, ugly... my mind is made up and i'm takin' my own life, now, into my hands and pushin poetry and pounds out. well fingersfeet are only fingersfeet if you let them be but fingersfeet have always been a great deal more to me oh ugly ugly ugly ugly
11.
Replaced 03:55
remember that day not long ago? all over your face the light shone but i didn't know but i didn't know look forward in time our first kiss more yours than mine what half-bliss that i really missed that i really missed all of this all of this all of this can be replaced can be replaced remember that night not long ago? as if from inside your face glowed and i should've known and i should've known look forward in time our last kiss a pain hard to find such is this and i'll never miss no i'll never miss all of this. all of this all of this can be replaced all of this all of this all of this has been replaced has been replaced.
12.
oh the sun will tell you where to sit on pretty days just like when you were a little kid in the shade and if you feel the world has forgotten your name take comfort, when the birds call you it sounds the same. we forget the spring every year under winter's sting but we are reminded the first day we find it when the sunshine sings. oh come sisters brothers let down your hair we should cover each other with love and care and when the night comes, lets go for a swim waves are crashin' in the darkness, silver on our limbs. we forget the spring each year under winter's sting but we are reminded the first day we find it when the sunshine sings we forget the spring every year under winter's sting but we are reminded the first day we find it when the sunshine sings when the sunshine sings
13.
"katie" such a pretty name a lady that i should've been and maybe on a day yet to come you'll see me for what i really am it's not likely it's not likely johnny's little girl not scrawny like the rest of the world and mommy dressed up in lace and pearl i wanna be like that when i'm older but i won't be but i won't be
14.
the wind was blowin' it took one of my gloves i swear it whispered somethin' about fallin' in love oh if you'd heard it you'd be as certain as i that we'd last forever if we would only try-y-y-y my knee was bleedin' from fallin' down on the street oh, life is fleetin' there's not much that we can keep but i'd take you with me and keep you warm in my heart when the wind is blowin' so much it could break you apar-ar-ar-art and all the worries that you carry, kid they don't have half the weight you thought they did and all the problems that you still foresee they just won't find you if you stick with me so stick with me stick with me stick with me stick with me!
15.
in another hour we'll be home but it's still alright on this moonlit road not another soul around for miles and you've been asleep for a while do you remember when we used to talk so big? and our love was a mysterious thing? well for you still i would drain a sea and you'd burn a forest down for me for me.. in another hour we'll be home but it's still alright if we never make it there even with you sleepin', i don't feel alone nous ne devons jamais le faire nous ne devons jamais le faire
16.
my life is full of soft, full of hard, and full of gentle my life is full of gentle, my life is full of gentle and when i touch, i must make it, i must make it sentimental, cause this body's only rental, this body's only rental. and lonely is what you make it, what you make it, what you make it, and i am sure to make it, yes i am sure to make it, but a smile ain't a smile if you fake it, if you fake it, so pick your risk and take it, so pick your risk and take it. ooh oh oh oh la da da da ooh oh oh oh la da da da and in september summer sits like autumn leaves upon the water, like leaves upon the water, like leaves upon the water but in december breath is short, eyes are cold, and hearts are harder, but ice is still just water, but ice is still just water and on the third in the rain, in the rain, we were swayin', oh swayin', swayin', swayin', oh swayin', swayin', swayin', and there we heard what the rain, what the rain was really sayin': that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in. that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, that they were on their way in, and the rain is warm is heaven, the rain is warm in heaven, and they were on their way in, and they were on their way in.
17.
Windows Open 03:26
all our windows windows are open oh no keepin' out nothin who knows just what will get in, mosquitoes will take all our blood and run. oh and we fly to all the places we've never seen and people pass by, the faces look so green. space is space is a little less far away. and i wonder where my body is, under rooftops, somewhere boring while i'm flying i can see now my home town is burned out but i'm around the tip top of the tip top of the tip top oh oh oh i know ridin' low inside a mosquito. floorboards hidin' our secrets our money and pages of paper, floorboards hidin' our secrets. and the windows close in the winter and my nose hates all the weather inhale exhale inhale exhale hail a cab now sit in the back if the front was open i'd take up that and fly oh fly over the tip top where did i go? out the window where did i go? out the window out the window out the window out the window out the window

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i wrote and recorded this album when i was seventeen, and it's still my favorite

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released December 1, 2006

album art: Stephan Doitschinoff

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Katie Dill

Katie Dill is a musician and comedian living in Philadelphia, PA. Singer/songwriter from the band Mean Lady as well. email thekatiedill@gmail.com

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