Alana Davis

Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster,
I am 32 flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
'Cause someday you're going to get hungry and
eat all of the words that you just said
I am what I am, I am 32 flavors and then some
God help you if you are an ugly Course too
pretty is also your doom
'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for
the prettiest girl in the room
God help you if you are a phoenix and
you dare to rise up from ash
A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past
I am what I am, I am 32 flavors and then some
I'm taking my chances as they come
I am 32 flavors and then some,
I'm nobody but I am someone, someone...
I'd never try to give my life meaning by demeaning you
And I would like to state for the record...
I did everything that I could do
I am beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
'Cause someday you're going to be starving
and eating all the words that you just said That you said
I am what I am, I am what I am I am 32 flavors and then some
I'm taking my chances as they come I am 32 flavors and then some
I'm looking for truth and there is none
I'm 32 flavors and then some
I'll never forget where I came from I'm 32 flavors and then some
I'm nobody but I am someone I'm 32 flavors and then some
I'm taking my chances as they come I'm 32 flavors and then some
Looking for truth and there is none

There's a bleeder in my kitchen and he's pouring on the floor
There's a killer in my hallway, and he's scratching at my door
I think I might have heard some screaming
I might have heard somebody cry
Now I wonder am I dreaming or is my mind telling me a lie
Well I can't run any further and I can't hide anymore
And I think there's been a murder up on the ground floor
There's a boa in my bathroom and he's coiling in my sink
He wants my cats I think
Paranoia in my house and I'm balanced on the brink
And I can't run any further and I can't hide anymore
'Cause I think there's been a murder up on the ground floor
I'm living in a basement flat in a quiet part of town
I bet you wonder where my head is at when I'm imagining all these sounds
I'd check it out but I'm glued to my chair
I can't make it to the door
I could be bugging but I'd gladly swear
I just heard a body hit the floor
And I can't run any further
I can't hide, I can't hide anymore
And I think there's been a murder up above me on the ground
On the ground floor

I'm having a notion
It's a strange, the strangest emotion
I'm all wrapped up with my head in the clouds
The sweet child thinks he doesn't deserve me but I'm not that proud
I'd walk for miles to see that handsome face
To be with you baby I'd go anyplace
So you say that you ain't go money, well I don't care
'Cause I'm so in love with you honey
What I got I'll share
Take me by the hand, help me move my mountains aside
Help me understand that love is stronger than..
It'll serve you longer than pride
Now father lend me your strength
I know you think I'm weak but I'm not ashamed
'Cause I'm in love and I'll tell you it's real
I may be young but I know what I feel
So you think he's gonna up and leave me...I disagree
He said that he'd give up the world just to please me and care for me, he'll
Take me by the hand, help me move my mountains aside
Help me understand that love is stronger than...
It'll serve you longer than pride
When I first looked in his eyes I felt this chemistry
And much to my surprise here's a man full of beauty and free of greed
And I'll stand by him 'cause he's all that I need
The sweet child thinks he doesn't deserve me but I'm not that proud
said it once but I don't think he heard me so I'll say it out loud...

Little boy wishes he wasn't small
He'd give his turtle to be six feet tall
He's got photos of Shaq and Ewing up on his wall
And he'd try a jump shot but he's afraid he'll down
Little girl wants to fall in love
Dressed like her mother in white evening gloves
She pretends, tells her friends she's got somewhere to go
They don't ask where so they'll never know she feels
With a shorter past there's a greater hurry
Let the moment last, there's no need to worry
We should be living for today or tomorrow anyway
And don't ask for the world on a plate 'cause you just might get it
Don't ever say it's too late, you know you'll regret it because
Just when you think you're sure, your life can change right before your eyes
A mother's thinking of her little boy
Left home at sixteen back in '84
He's got a dog named Lucy says she's all that he needs
Lucy knows better she hears all his dreams
When you search yourself, when you get down to it
If you know yourself, you know you'll get through it
So start living for today or tomorrow anyway
And don't ask for the world on a plate 'cause you just might get it
Don'r ever it's too late you know you'll regret it because
Just when you're sure your life can change right before your eyes
With a shorter past there's a greater hurry
Don't grow too fast there's no need to worry
Start living for today or tomorrow anyway...
Just when you're sure your life can change right before your eyes
Right before your eyes

Looking to the sky, wishing for the sun
Lowering the high before the trip's begun
Passing time, acting blind, taking the easy way out
Every day you spend wasting away
You don't care what life's about
But you will one day
You will one day you'll be hurting some day
You will one day
Said you'd be the one, said you'd always be there
But you're caring for none and your promises they drift into the air
Every night you want to start a fight
Trouble's what you are made of
You can't be tied, you can't look inside
Don't want anymore to love
But you will one day
You will one day, you'll be hurting some day
You will one day
But you will one day, you will one day...

You've got your home of the brave and I've got my land of the free
You conform to what society says and I conform to me
Looking for light in the corners getting caught in the spider web
You look at me as if I'm giving a performance when I'm just feeding my head
And you know that I'm doing all right
And I won't explain myself to you just to avoid a right
How I'm living ain't correct but for me it's just right
I'm not completely insane, I'm maybe just a little bit crazy
There's no one to blame, got no shame about game
Don't want nobody to save me
I've got a pair of ruby slippers that I don't wear much anymore
And if I had the nerve I'd click my heels and return
To the wonderland I knew before
I'm waiting to slow boat to China, want to sail away to the sun
I've been searching for myself and I know I'm gonna find her if I break away from everyone
So the way that i act may not fit in
Just because I've got a mind of my own doesn't mean it's a sin
I don't ask you to give up; don't expect me to give in
'Cause I'm not completely insane, I'm maybe just a little bit crazy
there's no one to blame, got no shame about my game
Don't want nobody to save me
Some like to live for the moment taking life into their own hands every day
And if they don't get killed they get so high off the thrill
They could float to heaven anyway
And others want to ave for tomorrow thinking money is security
Well I understand the need but I don't get the greed
And they all seem pretty crazy to me
You can tell by the expression I wear
Though I seem a little strange to you ,I don't really care
I got the freedom to be and there are others like me everywhere...

Each day I say that today
Won't be like yesterday
But it stays this way
Today and every day I pray
That today will feel a different way
But it stays this way

The weight of the world has fallen
And the rubble is at my feet
The voice of a girl is calling
I can hear her but she's buried so deep
All of my truths are broken
They're fragments of love and hate
The words that remain are a token
Of honesty that came too late
Here in the midst of madness
Washed up by the tides of war
Try to resist this sadness
But the pressure is hard to endure

Yet we begin again still playing our games
And everyone's innocent
Just victims of change

Wearing a mask of freedom
And hiding behind a smile
Playing the roll of a leader
Yea pretending for just a while
Everything seems an illusion
Echoing around my brain
Trapped in a vast seclusion
Where the images fall like rain

And we begin again
Still playing our games
And everyone's innocent
Just victims of change
Living in sin again
With no one to blame
And everyone's innocent
Just victims of change

Each day I say that today
Won't be like yesterday
But it stays this way
Today and every day I pray
That today I will feel a different way
But it stays this way
Oh yeah
La la la la la la la la la la
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
La la la la la la la la la yeah

At night as we lay down to sleep I wonder what you'll show me
I think of you and the thoughts that you keep
And I wonder do you know me
Everything that I have is broken in two, everything that I am revolves around you
And you just don't understand what a girl goes through
Everyone believes in something though they give it different name
You can search the world for that one thing but it's all the same
Lay your body down, come and let me bring your body down
Listen to my voice, the only sound
As I lullaby you, lullaby you down
As the moon rides away from the sun she takes all his light and reflects it
I relate them to us just for fun
There's a parallel that's unexpected
Every star in the sky reminds me of you
Twinkling in my eyes the way that you do
And I don't know why I get so blue
Everyday is filled with changes no matter where you go
Living in a world of strangers
So we go for what we know
Lay your body down...
Everyone believes in something but it's all the same
I got you to keep going me going
So I guess I can't complain
Lay you body down...

I remember the long warm December we shared
I can still taste the air
You were open and i was hoping you cared, hoping that you would be there for me
That's the way it was meant to but i guess that your heart was free
Free to take the best part of me and leave a hole where my heart should be
Where it used to be
Days are lonely and nights are only a veil
And the air is so stale
I'm still open but I guess you were hoping we'd fail
So you could sail away from me
And return to your open sea where I guess that you need to be
Where you can wander endlessly
Still you know that your heart was free
And you took the best part part of me
And left a hole where my heart should be
Where you know it should be
You're for me...I'd have sworn that it was my destiny
But I know you were always free
Free to be the best part of me
I'd have loved you endlessly with my heart and soul eternally
A love the way a love should be-ain't that the way a love should be?
You are free, free to give back the heart of me and replace all the misery
Since you took the best part of me And left a hole where my heart should be
Where my heart should be

Another Sunday, another one way road away from home
I keep thinking one day I'm going to wake up far from what I've known
There's a man, he's going to cheat me if he can
He's looking for someone to scam
Here I am with my guts out in my hand, looking for some place to stand
It's hard to hold on to what you're found when what comes around always goes around
Here we go round and around on the outside
Do we know how to hold on with our hands tied?
Another Sunday ,ain't no change in how we're living now
I keep hoping one day maybe Monday will be, will be different somehow
In the end there are lovers, there are friends, there are liars who pretend
They'll cheat you if they can- seems to be their master plan
To leave you with an empty hand
And it's hard to hold on to what you're found when what comes around always goes around
Here we go round and around on the outside
Do we know how to hold on with our hands tied?
Here we go turning around one the inside
Do we know how to hold ..can we survive?
Work for so long and we try to be strong
Time just keeps moving us along
It's hard to be right when everything's wrong
But we've got to keep on...

The laws of reason tend to leave me cold
Ignore every season every season still I grow old...and cold
I've contained my future by holding on to the past
And I blame my teachers for letting me too fast
And I wonder now can i survive between wired awake and half alive
When I can't succeed I can only try to validate each day
And I'm losing though I'm using my best
And I'm choosing to destroy all the rest of yesterday
They'll suck you in with I believe in yous
And let you think it's your gifts that make them choose you
Now I discover the catch about being real
It can make liars out of lovers who can't handle what you feel
And I work so hard just to keep it clean
I do unto others you know what I mean
I got a backstage pass to my next dream that says I'm not alone
And I'm losing though I'm using my best
And I'm choosing to destroy all the rest of yesterday, all the rest of my yesterday

Leaves change from green to red without notes in tune with time that surrounds
I think that's something that you said back a while when you first started coming around
You and I are from different worlds but that gave us more to share
You'd ask me where I wanted to be and I was happy with you just being there
Now I feel we've got some serious talking ahead and I don't want you to get me wrong
It's just we've become kind of a habit to each other and this can't keep going on
Blame it on Me
Over the past few months through no fault of you own
I've grown disenchanted and I've got to go it alone
Seems the natural thing to do 'cause you can't cling to me if I'm not gonna stick with you
Now take a look at what it's all coming down to
You act like I'm leaving you on the shelf but I don't know how else to say it
Life's a game and we all have to play it
So I've got to look out for myself
Blame it on me
All these changes coming on And I'm feeling it so strong
You know they've got to be real
It's hard to explain it baby if i can't tell you how i feel
I've been pushing it aside but i can't sacrifice my pride any longer
I thought it would subside
Something I could hide
But it's only getting stronger
Blame it on me