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Daughter of a Lonely Sun

by McKinley Claire

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1.
What made you stutter, stutter? I like it when you mutter, mutter your name Just come a little closer, closer I'll give you another reason to be shy Breathe a little harder, harder I like it when you shudder like that Well, don't be so nervous Don't be so nervous What made you stutter, stutter? I like it when you mutter, mutter your name Just come a little closer, closer I'll you another reason to be shy Breathe a little harder, harder I like it when you shutter like that Well, don't be so nervous Don't be so nervous
2.
Hazy Boy 04:28
A hazy day Clouds rolling through your brain Not a train of thought to echo in the dark Just floating through the conversation Without a hint of hydration For your sub-Saharan soul Your dried up heart of gold Now you're getting plastered on a Sunday night Just hopping bars in hopes you'll start a fight So you can beat on your already beaten brain You can feel something even if it's only pain You would've thought the summer would bring new love But it's all dirty clubs and dead-end part-time jobs Without a sign of validation For all your wasted ruminations You're a heavy kite to fly For someone who's always high Now you're stumbling home like a lost dog on a leash Cause you start these wars in hopes you'll find some peace From all these kids just trying to get stoned You can feel all of the boredom in their bones Now you're getting plastered on a Sunday night Just hopping bars in hopes you'll start a fight So you can beat on your already beaten brain You can feel something even if it's only pain
3.
Does the sun know what it's like to go to bed alone? Oh, she burns so brightly but she'll never meet the one Who will ease all her chaos, be a home away from home. Oh, I wonder if our sun ever feel like just a stone. I hope you keep on burning brightly Even if being special means being lonely Don't you ever change Even if it means you gotta float through cold empty space Does the moon miss the astronauts who marked her as their own She never touched those footprints that stomped across her throne As she moved all the oceans and lit up all our homes Oh I wonder if our moon ever feels like just a stone I hope you keep on burning brightly Even if being special means being lonely Don't you ever change Even if it means you gotta float through cold empty space So don't you ever change Don't you ever change Don't you ever change
4.
Wild Thang 03:06
Woke up feeling like I got a disease Guess that's what happens when the cat is in heat Oh boy, where's my limitations? Oh boy, I've got not concentration I am, I am, I am a wild thing I am, I am, I am a wild thing Oh boy you gotta stop your talking You know I hate it when you spit your ignorance And when you whine and moan So when are you trying to take me home? So when are you trying to take me home? I am, I am, I am a wild thing I am, I am, I am a wild thing
5.
The way she held a cigarette between her teeth The way she'd hug every person who she'd meet The way she drummed her fingers on the steering wheel The way her lips would always make you feel And you will miss the little things Until you become a little thing yourself And you will miss the little things she said You will miss the little things she did in bed The face she'd make when she was pissed at you again The way she'd wait till the last minute to cancel her plans The way she'd make you feel alone in a crowded room The way she left you all too soon And you have become a fragile thing Because you dwell on these little things again and again and again and again And you have become a broken thing Because you miss all the little things, these stupid things
6.
Porcupine 03:35
Crème bruleé kiss on your forehead Curling up inside the garden shed Just like when you were a child And all your feelings were oh so mild But now you are oh so tired And now you are oh so tired And now you are oh so tired Rolling down all of your long sleeves Watching the wolves clean up on the TV Expecting to be just like the movies But now there's no more room for you But now there's no more room for you But now there's no more room for you Your throat is sore from all these goodbyes Maybe your clothes have shrunk down a size Are all of the highs worth all of the lows? Is it worth holding that camera pose? Cause baby, there's nothing wrong with being alone (There'll always be room in my crooked heart for you) Cause baby, there's nothing wrong with being alone (There'll always be room in my crooked heart for you)
7.
Lured 05:01
There goes your heart, it's flying free again It's been cooped up too long with your sensibilities So now you've let it go and savored that sweet release But there's a reason why pretty birds like you always end up in cages Now you're weeping (Swept off my feet) Searching for help from the ceiling (And broke my wings) But there's no one and nothing that's coming (You're the reason for) To get you out of this mess you're in (This mess I'm in) Yeah, he fooled you (Stuck on the ground) Charmed you with his handsome hairdo (With only the sound) Lured you into the bedroom (Of birds trying to sing) And now you're trying to sing all your sorrows away (All their sorrows away) You watch the days pass by from your little slice of life You've stopped answering your friends when they ask if you're alright Maybe the spring will bring back your head again Cause the winter feels more cold when you always end up with a partner who feels like pavement Now you're weeping (Swept off my feet) Searching for help from the ceiling (And broke my wings) But there's no one and nothing that's coming (You're the reason for) To get you out of this mess you're in (This mess I'm in) Yeah, he fooled you (Stuck on the ground) Charmed you with his handsome hairdo (With only the sound) Lured you into the bedroom (Of birds trying to sing) And now you're trying to sing all your sorrows away (All their sorrows away) You'll never fall for it again You'll never fall for it again You'll never fall for it again Now you're weeping (Swept off my feet) Searching for help from the ceiling (And broke my wings) But there's no one and nothing that's coming (You're the reason for) To get you out of this mess you're in (This mess I'm in) Yeah, he fooled you (Stuck on the ground) Charmed you with his handsome hairdo (With only the sound) Lured you into the bedroom (Of birds trying to sing) And now you're trying to sing all your sorrows away (All their sorrows away)
8.
Someone Else 03:00
You used to be as sweet as a freshly-picked nectarine Your raw energy is like a barrel of gasoline But with your head so filled with anger and flames Your heart will burn down till there's nothing but shame Till you're someone else Till you're someone else You wear your hatred prouder than a heart on a velvet sleeve You curse your way through the nights like a possessed priest But you can't help it if your days a bad dream Cause the good times are never quite what they seem So now you're someone else Yeah, you're someone else Yeah, you're someone else Yeah, you're not the same as you were back at 3AM (Yeah, you're someone else) You prowled through the dark streets like a panther entranced (Yeah, you're someone else) You smiled like a proud prince so magnificent (Yeah, you're someone else) You faced me down till I finally got the hint that you're someone else (Yeah, you're someone else) Come find me when you're not someone else Come find me when you're not someone else
9.
Death is on your receipt So who cares 'bout the birds and the bees? Take some advice from me You're life's biggest tragedy And nothing can prepare you for yourself The things you say when you wake from a bad dream And nothing can repair the things you've done The times you hid the times you turned away The times you didn't say what you wanted to say And the things that'll haunt you far in outer space Can't seem to fall asleep Cause you're worried 'bout making your money Take some advice from me This is just a big fever dream And nothing can prepare you for yourself The things you say when you wake from a bad dream And nothing can repair the things you've done The times you hid the times you turned away The times you didn't say what you wanted to say And the things that'll haunt you far in outer space Cause there's a little you in everything you make and there's a little life in every step you take It ain't about the pictures that you take It's about the love you lost and the people who'll never taste How free you are and the plastic things you chase But at least you've got you, and that ain't gonna change And at least there's more booze here than down in the cold grave

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“Daughter of a Lonely Sun” is now available for streaming on all online music services.

Written, produced, and performed by McKinley Claire.

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Watch the “Daughter of a Lonely Sun” music video by Stevan Struckmeyer on Youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_kLa5M5_o

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released March 16, 2019

Huge thank you to Dylan Gladstone for always being my go-to fan; Stevan Struckmeyer for producing the single's music video for the single; Chris Marion and Frank Phelps for contributing the additional instrumental tracks; and Sterling Bindel for the album artwork.

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A girl who plays every damned instrument all by herself.

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