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Songs About Books

by Jenna Clare

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1.
You don't know my name You don't know my face The more things you know the more You'll be disgraced I was born and raised for Better things I was made to be so Lovely But even after all I've done I'm dead and gone, I'm dead and gone Help me, help me I can feel the madness, cut me free Save me, save me Shield me from the things I've seen I was laughing and crying Screaming and dying And now I can see your eyes You always wore the best disguise They don't know I'm here They don't know my fear The more things they know the more They'll disappear I am just a Teenage girl Born to kill, born to Change the world But even after all I've done I'm dead and gone, I'm dead and gone Chorus My blood is boiling My head is spinning Is this my end or A new beginning Wherever you are Wherever you go You have my heart You took my soul
2.
Half Love 05:11
When i first saw you I was a ghost When I first held you I was alone I never knew What love could do On the outside Before I met you I was chained Slave to things I couldn’t name I never saw What’s going on On the inside Now I’m half here, half gone Trying hard to be strong But I’m half love and half loss Fighting for what is gone I’ve got the world in my hand but no where to stand The night’s burning blue I don’t know what to do I’m living in an ever night Lost under a never sky You’re still by my side Just like always Now I’m sure that we were made Made for sorrow, made for pain You never knew What I would do On the outside We will find it, we will fight We will be together in time You never saw What I’d become On the inside CHORUS What are we getting into? Where are we gonna go? Save the world from the outside Take me to that place you know We’re going into Into the still blue Please take me with you Wherever you go
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Dangerous 04:06
They never tell you that pleasure is pain That death conquers life and life is a game I found out the hard way that time never stops Who knew that my sanity was such a high cost I see how they stare and stay at arm’s length They thing I’m a monster enveloped in strength But what they don’t notice, the thing they don’t see I’m sad and pathetic, I’ll never be free So don’t underestimate me I could be a savior, an angel I could be a traitor, a killer I’m dangerous, A thief in the night I steal what you prize most, Your smile and your life Don’t trust me Cause I’m dangerous I don’t want to cripple, I don’t want to kill I just want to hold you, but time won’t stand still You’d think that a monster would need someone else A kind of companion as cruel as itself I know he’s all wrong and I don’t want to care But he makes so much sense and he’s always been there I guess it just fits that he’s a poisonous seed Deep in my heart I can see he’s like me Don’t underestimate me I could be a savior, an angel I could be a traitor, a killer I’m dangerous, A thief in the night I steal what you prize most, Your smile and your life Don’t trust me Cause I’m dangerous Loneliness is an old friend He creeps up still and silent He sits by your side, he squeezes you tight But deep down in side you know he’s not right Who I am is a monster He says that I could have power He says I can rule, he says I can kill But deep down inside I know I never will
4.
There's a story bout a boy who raised the ocean A girl with long blonde hair and deep devotion And they aren't that old They aren't that strong But they did their best to move the earth, held off the monsters for so long They travelled far and crossed the country Clashed with gods and fought the pawns of a great war He's just a boy She's just a girl But together they will battle strong and win back this old earth Now they see it I know you Will try to Fix everything Do anything But I want you To try to Remember me And all we've seen I'll love you until you die But the gods know it's just you and I The boy can never understand his feelings The girl just runs away when she's thrown aside They always try But it's never right Soon they'll find what's hiding in plain sight They found the thief and crossed the sea of monsters Faced the curse and fought a battle against the odds But now it's time To face his time The boy and girl must fight to keep gods alive Now he sees her I know you Will try to Fix everything Do anything But I want you To try to Remember me And all we've seen I'll love you until you die But the gods know it's just you and I The time has come The war is won But he has a choice, he can't turn back She stood right there Her soul stood bare He made a choice, she always cared I know you Will try to Be everything My anything But I want you To try to Remember me And all we've seen I'll love you until you die But the gods know it's just you and I There's a story about two kids who saved Olympus They fell in love and kissed beneath the sea
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Burned 03:45
The darkest minds never fade from the lives we touch and put to shame but i know you and i know it’s true you see my face but you turn away where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on we all pull through we all have to i see my face i can’t be saved the colors blend and soon we’ll end the world will burn they never learn where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on we should’ve made him die on the goddamn floor at least we got the things that he was searching for all the other children, all the other kids rotting underground while he breathes us in now we have the answer, now we have the cure it doesn’t make it perfect but we tied the score all of us are victims, all of us are cursed but leave it to the kids to believe the worst where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on
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The One 03:47
How did we end up here Broken down walls and I think that I've fallen for you And you've always stuck up for me Keeping me safe when I thought that I'd have to go away Scars running up and down Tying you to the ground But I will win this I will always be the one We'll always have to run Away from the past You gave me everything Now just the diamond ring Is standing ahead on our path And we can't go back Time it goes on like snowflakes Every second flutters past with each one more Different than the last Now I can see you as you are Reaching for me when I can't even see What you're fighting Scars running up and down Dragging you to the ground But I will win this All I ask All I want Is for your past Not to haunt you All you need All you see Is a brand new queen That's what I could be for you
7.
I never thought I would Meet someone like you Find someone like you Love someone like you I always thought I was Destined for darkness Running from nightmares Drowning in sadness But you found me in my dreams Comic books and faded jeans Mixed-up tapes and movie scenes Touching hearts and touching skin All I want is to let you in But you don’t know me And you don’t believe That I love you Yes I love you Infinitely I never thought you could Set me free Grab the keys Help me leave I always thought you were Practically perfect But under the surface you’re Dramatically different You found me through your dreams Comic books and faded jeans Mixed-up tapes and movie scenes Touching hearts and touching skin All I want is to let you in But you don’t know me And you don’t believe That I love you Yes I love you Infinitely I’d drive through the dark just to get you to dawn I’d run to the park if it meant you weren’t gone No matter the days No matter the miles We’ll stay just the same And we’ll cry and we’ll smile
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Wherever you go I will follow Whenever you die I will die, too And there will I be buried And there will I be left I chose you for strength You’re my armor Forever the same With love like a brother And you will never waver And I will never leave Oh parabatai You’re the sun in my night sky I’ll save you from demons Inside and out The angel do so to me I’ll save you you’ll save me And now only death can part You will always hold my heart You know what to say Without saying anything And you keep me sane Grounded through everything And we will stay together And we can never part Oh parabatai You’re the sun in my night sky I’ll save you from demons Inside and out The angel do so to me I’ll save you you’ll save me And now only death can part You will always hold my heart You saw me in black You loved me through white You held me through red And gave me my sight Whenever we’re touched By gold and by love I hope that we stay As we are All I can say All that I know If you left me today I wouldn’t know where to go So don’t go
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Be Brave 03:29
Be brave they said And hold on until the end Your demons are coming But you just keeping running Far away I know it’s hard To find yourself covered in scars You faced your fears before But they’re coming back for more We are strong we are brave We are everything they’re not We will fight we will try We won’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww We’re never letting go You’re so afraid You hold the vial and turn away Don’t lose yourself She only wanted you to leave this hell Behind You are strong you are brave You are everything they’re not You will fight you will try You can’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww You’re never letting go We can be mended We mend each other We can be mended We mend each other And the world starts again And I see myself instead Standing where she was Before she left I’d take her place and die I wouldn’t be the one to cry But sometimes you just have to live And deal with it We are strong we are brave We are everything they’re not We will fight we will try We won’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww We’re never letting go
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They say we’re a dying breed but we aren’t We’re not going nowhere right now Yeah we got everything we need All’s well with the golden trio and now We can hold our breath when the kids go out Yeah we got everything we need Everything we neeeeeeed Looking back to that first year when we said It would never end, we were wasting time And wasting daylight We never thought the time would come when we We would see the end of Harry But we got everything we need Remember Fred, Remember Tonks Remember all the fighting ones Remember this, Remember me Remember Harry Everyone says it’s over but The story’s just begun So get a little closer And listen up We’re the lucky ones Someday when we’re old and turning gray We’ll find our books and we’ll fly away To magic school And I swear even when you think it’s done You’ll hear his name like the time he won Harry Potter The war is won Lucky ones
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Shark 03:54
I met a shark who Dreamed he was a man He was just a boy But he always had a plan I let him in because He brought me back to life But what is life when You always have to fight Fight to stand, fight to breathe Fight to love the things you see You don’t know loneliness Until you’ve had the opposite I held you in my soul and You know everything inside of it It’s me And you And there’s nothing they can do A couple months And I was all alone I never had a shot but I knew I had to go I found a way To save my broken soul I met a boy and he Told me where to go You don’t know loneliness Until you’ve had the opposite I held you in my soul and You know everything inside of it It’s meeeeeeee And you And there’s nothing They can do I’m still breath-ing I’m still alive He’s not leav-ing We will survive
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Smoke & Bone 04:27
There is power in you Hope always stays true Because wishes are false And even angels can fall And love’s a luxury But it’s embedded in me It’s like the air that we breathe And the earth that we see And you are my gravity You are my infinity Your soul sings its song to me Once upon a time An angel saved my life And fell for a devil like me Once upon a time The angel he was dying Yet I leaned over and smiled Still we search for peace The chord that strikes in harmony The life that we live is a dream But it’s better than nothing I am made up of stars But they don’t know who they are I wish that they would just leave So I could fin’lly be free Cause I was innocence once A girl with feathers and love But now my life’s opened up And nothing else is enough This is my gravity This is my destiny And nothing’s gonna stop me Once upon a time An angel saved my life And fell for a devil like me Once upon a time The world split in two And now I don’t even know you Still we search for peace The chord that strikes in harmony The life that we live is a dream But it’s better than nothing But it was brave It was rare It was love so extreme That nothing could compare I was born of smoke and bone You were born of heaven I was named for all the hope That’s keeping life together And I know that hope is magic This is my gravity This is my destiny And nothing’s gonna stop me Once upon a time An angel saved my life And fell for a devil like me Once upon a time I hid away my life And made monsters to send through the sky Still we search for peace The chord that strikes in harmony The life that we live is a dream But it’s better than nothing
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Of the Moon 04:39
Running through space like comet in flight A child of the moon who was hid by the night I was just a princess Hiding from my queen I don’t remember a life lived before Before I was changed and my head had a door Now I’m just a robot Hiding from the world Tell me I am weak and I’ll stand up tall Tell me to leave and I’ll stay through it all I am the moon in its majesty I am the sun and I harbor its heat And soon you will run from me, Princess Selene Wires upon wires, run through my skin Silver and gold hides the mess from within I am just a robot Hiding from myself No body cares and no body believes I’m still a girl and I still have dreams I am more than a robot I’m done with hiding out I’m more than this body I’m more than this steel I’m more that a girl that Needs time to heal And now I embrace The forgotten face And now I can see Who I am Child of the moon it’s time to go home Back to the place that’s calling your soul You should be the queen
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They call me killer They call me snake They call me anything and everything that has a bad name Someday I wish they’d change I wish they thought about the words I say and not how I’m made I’m running faster Everyday Now I’m learning how to fight and how to make it someday I’ll go with you While I can Cause right now you’re the only thing that’s making life make sense I may be a carrier I may be a bitch I may think that I’m okay But the truth it can be flipped No matter what I say No matter what I do The never-ending data it will overwhelm you If there’s a killer inside It’s gonna come outside too I may be lethal I never checked You never see inside yourself until you’ve been wrecked Somehow I will survive I’ll jump the fence and find some friends and maybe live my life CHORUS They don’t care about me They don’t think they’re wrong So let’s try to show them We are standing strong They don’t care about us They don’t know they’re right Now we get to show them Who’s living on the other side
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I count them on my fingers Before I go to bed I find them in the thoughts That cloud inside my head The names of every person The names of every friend The people they have slaughtered for The crown upon their heads No one dares oppose them The Lannisters, the lions Too scared they might come clawing Clawing out their eyes But one day I’ll avenge them One day I’ll be free I’m saving up my energy So they’ll remember me I know that I am just one but I know that the war’s only just begun And I’m fighting for the lost ones I’m fighting for the dead I’m fighting for my family And all the things they said Because of all the things I know The Lannisters always pay their debts I’m quiet as a shadow Quick as a snake I’m calm as still water My hands never shake I know that fear cuts deeper than The swiftest of swords So I’ll keep on believing that My life won’t be short CHORUS But winter is coming like a double-edged sword And the northern winds are blowing it’s something you can’t afford So I will be strong I’ll keep moving on And I’ll fight for what is lost CHORUS And you owe me You owe me A mother a brother a sister a friend A wolf and A father and who I was then And I don’t know where I’m going But I do know where this ends I’ll fight for the lost ones And cut off your head
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Stay/Go 05:13
I can't feel my toes There's blood smears on the road But somehow I'm still standing here I'm moving towards the sound Is that me still on the ground? How am I standing here? God how am I standing here? The volume is rising I am still fighting But something just doesn't seem right I see people crying Am I living or dying I can't find my way out of here This is the story Of love and defeat The words of a boy and a girl and The way that their body parts meet Because life's like a song And I'll play it as long as My heart continues to beat If I stay or I go The one thing I know is Nothing but love could keep Me Here Now I see myself Through the eyes of everyone else They don't see me standing here Oh to leave would be easy To give up this feeling But I am still standing here God why am I standing here? This is the story Of love and defeat The words of a boy and a girl and The way that their body parts meet Because life's like a song And I'll play it as long as My heart continues to beat If I stay or I go The one thing I know is Nothing but love could keep Me Here Dying may be the easiest thing Breathe your soul out, breathe new dreams in But in this old world the angels still sing This life may be hard but it's worth everything It's worth all the heartache The blood and the tears It's worth getting broken And mending for years It's worth waking up It's worth waking up I'm waking myself cause the battle Is won This is the story Of love and relief The thoughts of a broken girl and The way that death and life meets Cause life's like a song I'll play it as long as My heart continues to beat Now I will stay The one thing I'll say is Nothing but love could keep Me Here
17.
Not everyone gets a happily ever after Sometimes the world forgets sometimes you need a new chapter But I will spend every breath Thanking you for loving me And I will try to give you my Heart Cause life is real and life it hurts And I don’t want another first I wonder if it’s possible To fall in love all at once You have already saved me And now I know you piece by piece This isn’t me saying yes This is me begging please All I want is you to be honest to me There’s nothing more perfect than what’s standing in front of me And I’m so proud of who you found The person you are now We don’t just love, we don’t just kiss We live Cause life is real and life it hurts And I don’t want another first I wonder if it’s possible To fall in love all at once You have already saved me And now I know you piece by piece This isn’t me saying yes This is me saying please Ugly endings aren’t pretending Cause life is screwed and so are we The sky’s the limit and we can live it We can survive and come out free Not everyone gets a happily ever after But I wanna thank you for giving me the answers Chorus
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We Will Stay 03:59
It's been weeks and It's been months but I still remember you I've been searching High and low but I just can't find you Am I losing your face Am I running away From everything I have Am I going too far Am I losing your heart You're the only thing I have Not even Hera  Could make me forget us You're the better half of me Not even Gaea  Could take you away cause You're stronger than you know So when you grab my hand again Don't let go It's coming back now All the good times And the bad times too When we first met And the last night Before life was new But I'm still searching I'm still working To make my way back to you And I hope I haven't changed too much I hope you're still the same I hope that when our fingers touch We both know what to say And I will say I missed you so And you will never let me go And we will stay And we will stay  Together Forever
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24, 7 times, we count the days go by when everything is possible, still you live and die cause days don’t last forever but he is still my light and nights won’t stay forever we’re staying up for the fight I’ve been searching a long time For something I think I lost Billions of people come and go But I’ve never seen a higher cost And just like that we’re the champions Just like that you’re gone Every damn day it hurts so much But I’m trying to stay strong These are my brave thoughts a million thoughts in my head, i can’t say anything watch him pass, let him go, there is no memory of me tell me there is still good in this broken world tell me there’s still hope for the boys and girls let me scream for everything everything that’s gone wrong maybe we can both return to when we were so young CHORUS footsteps, footsteps, hurried boots running faster now regroup “have we met before?” no, i whisper, he’s confused he keeps searching “i’ve known you” “i’ve met you before” pieces of memories in his eyes pieces of us i can’t disguise broken scattered left to die but i i’m june “i would like to know you and clear the fog away” we can heal, we can try, perhaps there’s such a thing as fate as fate I’ve been searching a long time For something I think I lost Billions of people come and go But I’ve never seen a higher cost And just like that we’re the champions Just like that you’re here Every damn day it hurts so much But the fog is starting to clear These are my brave thoughts
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The Hanging Tree (free) 02:46
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They never tell you that pleasure is pain That death conquers life and life is a game I found out the hard way that time never stops Who knew that my sanity was such a high cost I see how they stare and stay at arm’s length They thing I’m a monster enveloped in strength But what they don’t notice, the thing they don’t see I’m sad and pathetic, I’ll never be free So don’t underestimate me I could be a savior, an angel I could be a traitor, a killer I’m dangerous, A thief in the night I steal what you prize most, Your smile and your life Don’t trust me Cause I’m dangerous I don’t want to cripple, I don’t want to kill I just want to hold you, but time won’t stand still You’d think that a monster would need someone else A kind of companion as cruel as itself I know he’s all wrong and I don’t want to care But he makes so much sense and he’s always been there I guess it just fits that he’s a poisonous seed Deep in my heart I can see he’s like me Don’t underestimate me I could be a savior, an angel I could be a traitor, a killer I’m dangerous, A thief in the night I steal what you prize most, Your smile and your life Don’t trust me Cause I’m dangerous Loneliness is an old friend He creeps up still and silent He sits by your side, he squeezes you tight But deep down in side you know he’s not right Who I am is a monster He says that I could have power He says I can rule, he says I can kill But deep down inside I know I never will
23.
I never thought I would Meet someone like you Find someone like you Love someone like you I always thought I was Destined for darkness Running from nightmares Drowning in sadness But you found me in my dreams Comic books and faded jeans Mixed-up tapes and movie scenes Touching hearts and touching skin All I want is to let you in But you don’t know me And you don’t believe That I love you Yes I love you Infinitely I never thought you could Set me free Grab the keys Help me leave I always thought you were Practically perfect But under the surface you’re Dramatically different You found me through your dreams Comic books and faded jeans Mixed-up tapes and movie scenes Touching hearts and touching skin All I want is to let you in But you don’t know me And you don’t believe That I love you Yes I love you Infinitely I’d drive through the dark just to get you to dawn I’d run to the park if it meant you weren’t gone No matter the days No matter the miles We’ll stay just the same And we’ll cry and we’ll smile
24.
Be brave they said And hold on until the end Your demons are coming But you just keeping running Far away I know it’s hard To find yourself covered in scars You faced your fears before But they’re coming back for more We are strong we are brave We are everything they’re not We will fight we will try We won’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww We’re never letting go You’re so afraid You hold the vial and turn away Don’t lose yourself She only wanted you to leave this hell Behind You are strong you are brave You are everything they’re not You will fight you will try You can’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww You’re never letting go We can be mended We mend each other We can be mended We mend each other And the world starts again And I see myself instead Standing where she was Before she left I’d take her place and die I wouldn’t be the one to cry But sometimes you just have to live And deal with it We are strong we are brave We are everything they’re not We will fight we will try We won’t be ashamed of life And I knowwwww We’re never letting go
25.
Killer Inside (demo) (free) 03:29
They call me killer They call me snake They call me anything and everything that has a bad name Someday I wish they’d change I wish they thought about the words I say and not how I’m made I’m running faster Everyday Now I’m learning how to fight and how to make it someday I’ll go with you While I can Cause right now you’re the only thing that’s making life make sense I may be a carrier I may be a bitch I may think that I’m okay But the truth it can be flipped No matter what I say No matter what I do The never-ending data it will overwhelm you If there’s a killer inside It’s gonna come outside too I may be lethal I never checked You never see inside yourself until you’ve been wrecked Somehow I will survive I’ll jump the fence and find some friends and maybe live my life CHORUS They don’t care about me They don’t think they’re wrong So let’s try to show them We are standing strong They don’t care about us They don’t know they’re right Now we get to show them Who’s living on the other side
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Burned (demo) (free) 04:39
The darkest minds never fade from the lives we touch and put to shame but i know you and i know it’s true you see my face but you turn away where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on we all pull through we all have to i see my face i can’t be saved the colors blend and soon we’ll end the world will burn they never learn where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on we should’ve made him die on the goddamn floor at least we got the things that he was searching for all the other children, all the other kids rotting underground while he breathes us in now we have the answer, now we have the cure it doesn’t make it perfect but we tied the score all of us are victims, all of us are cursed but leave it to the kids to believe the worst where do we go where do we turn all that’s left are the things we’ve burned i see his face he slipped away now he’s gone but the war is on
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Half Love (demo) (free) 04:35
When i first saw you I was a ghost When I first held you I was alone I never knew What love could do On the outside Before I met you I was chained Slave to things I couldn’t name I never saw What’s going on On the inside Now I’m half here, half gone Trying hard to be strong But I’m half love and half loss Fighting for what is gone I’ve got the world in my hand but no where to stand The night’s burning blue I don’t know what to do I’m living in an ever night Lost under a never sky You’re still by my side Just like always Now I’m sure that we were made Made for sorrow, made for pain You never knew What I would do On the outside We will find it, we will fight We will be together in time You never saw What I’d become On the inside CHORUS What are we getting into? Where are we gonna go?
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When i first saw you I was a ghost When I first held you I was alone I never knew What love could do On the outside Before I met you I was chained Slave to things I couldn’t name I never saw What’s going on On the inside Now I’m half here, half gone Trying hard to be strong But I’m half love and half loss Fighting for what is gone I’ve got the world in my hand but no where to stand The night’s burning blue I don’t know what to do I’m living in an ever night Lost under a never sky You’re still by my side Just like always Now I’m sure that we were made Made for sorrow, made for pain You never knew What I would do On the outside We will find it, we will fight We will be together in time You never saw What I’d become On the inside CHORUS What are we getting into? Where are we gonna go? Save the world from the outside Take me to that place you know We’re going into Into the still blue Please take me with you Wherever you go

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