PLEASE DON’T LET ME DOWN

OLIVER TREE

SONGWRITERS: DAVID PRAMIK; ETHAN SNORECK & OLIVER TREE NICKELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: UGLY IS BEAUTIFUL

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2020

 

      Oliver Tree Nickell(born June 29, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, rapper, comedian, and filmmaker from Santa Cruz, California. He signed to Atlantic Records in 2017, after his song "When I'm Down" became popular

          Ugly Is Beautiful is the debut studio album by Oliver Tree. It was originally scheduled for release on March 27, 2020 and then delayed to June 12, 2020 through Atlantic Records, before being delayed again and released on July 17, 2020. In addition to Tree himself, the album features production from Andrew Goldstein, David Pramik, Marshmello, NVDES, Rogét Chahayed, Stint, and frequent collaborator Whethan, among others. The album debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top Rock Albums chart.

Please, don't let me down

Please, don't let me down

You better come around

 

You save yourself

I'll save myself this time around

You save yourself

I'll save you too next time around

I'm not around, I haven't been here for a while

You know I'll never be back now

 

Please, don't let me down

Please, don't let me down

You better come around

I'll come around

 

It's the same old shit

I'm getting sick of it

It's still the same old shit

Stop putting up with it

 

Somehow I've seen

You someone else

Somehow I've seen

You turned into someone else

 

Please, don't let me down

Please, don't let me down

You better come around

I'll come around.

DAYDREAMER

AURORA

SONGWRITERS: AURORA AKSNES & PETER WADE

COUNTRY: NORWAY

ALBUM: A DIFFERENT KIND OF HUMAN(STEP 2)

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: ART POP

YEAR: 2021

 

   Aurora Aksnes(born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as Aurora (stylized in uppercase), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Stavanger, Aurora released her debut EP, Running with the Wolves, in 2015, through Decca Records. Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away". Aurora released her debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, in 2016. In 2018, she released her second extended play, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1), followed by her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2).

          A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) is the second studio album by Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer Aurora. It was released on 7 June 2019 through Decca Records and Glassnote Records. It succeeds the album's first and previous chapter Infections of a Different Kind(Step 1), which was released in September 2018. It has been categorized to be and art pop, electropop, and pop concept album, tackling themes of ecological crisis that "aim at society's self-centred capitalistic apathy."

White, silicon eyes, watching storms, sitting quiet

Reading books in the heat of city lights

Bored, everyone's bored

When I'm restless, put me under the night life stars

And I will feel grounded

 

I know I'm just a girl

But can I change lives?

If I am nothing, if I am trying, I think I can

I step on broken glass, and dream of soft clouds

When feelings are heavy they become all we are

 

And we become night time dreamers

And street walkers, small talkers

When we should be daydreamers

And moonwalkers and dream talkers

And we become night time dreamers

Street walkers, small talkers

When we should be daydreamers

And moonwalkers and dream talkers

In real life

 

The quiet lust belongs to all of us

And drives us closer into the madness

Of the world, of a girl

(And it suits me just fine)

'Cause everyone dies, and nobody loves

And somebody dies right now

I hear the quiet, sweet music that no one sings

 

And we become night time dreamers

Street walkers and small talkers

When we should be daydreamers

And moonwalkers and dream talkers

And we become night time dreamers

Street walkers, small talkers

When we should be daydreamers

And moonwalkers and dream talkers

In real life

 

All I ever know is what I dream about when I'm sober

Never turn away from love

Before the love, you have me sober

All I ever know is what I dream about when I'm sober

Never turn away from love

Before the love, you have me sober

Nothing can die while we are here

Nothing can die while we are here

Nothing can die while we are here

Nothing can die while we are here

 

Then we become night time dreamers

Street walkers and small talkers

When we should be daydreamers

And moonwalkers and dream talkers

And we become night time dreamers

Street walkers, small talkers

 

When we should be daydreamers

(Nothing can die while we are here)

When we should be daydreamers

(Nothing can die while, nothing can die)

Daydreamers.

ALL I WANT

KODALINE

SONGWRITERS: JAMES FLANNIGAN; MARK PRENDERGAST; STEPHEN GARRIGAN & VINCENT MAY

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: IN A PERFECT WORLD

LABEL: B-UNIQUE

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2012

 

       Kodaline(/ˈkoʊdəlaɪn/)are an Irish rock band. Originally known as 21 Demands, the band adopted their current name in 2012 to coincide with the changing of their music. The group comprises Steve Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Vincent May and Jason Boland.

       Garrigan and Prendergast grew up in Swords, Dublin, and have known each other since childhood. May and Garrigan attended Colaiste Choilm CBS, Swords, where they participated in battles of the bands. Boland joined the group in 2012. They have released four albums: In a Perfect World(2013), Coming Up for Air(2015), and Politics of Living (2018). Their fourth studio album, One Day at a Time, was released on 12 June 2020.

       "All I Want" is a song by Dublin-based alternative rock quartet Kodaline taken from their 2013 album In a Perfect World. It was released as the fourth single from the album topping at number 15 in the Irish Singles Chart. It also charted on the UK Singles Chart reaching #67.

All I want is nothing more

To hear you knocking at my door

'Cause if I could see your face once more

I could die a happy man I'm sure

 

But if you loved me

Why'd you leave me?

 

Take my body

Take my body

All I want is

And all I need is

To find somebody

I'll find somebody

Like you, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

You

Like you

 

But if you loved me

Why'd you leave me?

 

Take my body

Take my body

All I want is

And all I need is

To find somebody

I'll find somebody

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

 

All I want is

And all I need is

To find somebody

I'll find somebody

Like you, oh, oh!

STRANGERS

CITY AND COLOUR

SONGWRITER: DALLAS GREEN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: A PILL FOR LONELINESS

LABEL: STILL RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE

YEAR: 2019

 

     Dallas Michael John Albert Green(born September 29, 1980) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who records under the name City and Colour. He is also known for his contributions as a singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. In 2005, he debuted his first full-length album, Sometimes, which achieved platinum certification in 2006. City and Colour began performing in small intimate venues between Alexisonfire tours. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt uneasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green".

          "Strangers" is a single released by Canadian artist City and Colour on 21 June 2019, the second single released from A Pill for Loneliness. Dallas Green has said of the track in a statement “You’ll never really understand what it’s like to be inside someone else’s brain or heart. So, we need to appreciate the differences. If we do, maybe we can live better with one another.”

          The music video was released on 8 August 2019, co-directed by Chris Verene and Michael Maxxis, who Green had previously collaborated with on Alexisonfire's video for Familiar Drugs.

Don't wake me when this is over

Just let me drift amidst my dreams

I need to regain composure

And right now my heart is still and asleep

I refuse to believe

That we've become so obsolete

Don't wake me when this is over

'Cause I need to find the time lost in between

 

If we get back (Get back)

To loving each other (Loving each other)

Can we get back (Get back)

To learning how to live?

We are strangers in this land

With so much left to discover

Can we get back

To learning how to live?

 

We look to the heavens above

For advice on our lives

Searching for God at the bottoms of bottles

And in strangers' eyes

We're living in desperation

Drowning in medication

Lost in the folly of our age

 

If we get back (Get back)

To loving each other (Loving each other)

Can we get back (Get back)

To learning how to live?

We are strangers in this land

With so much left to discover

Can we get back

To learning how to live?

 

We are strangers in this land

We are strangers in this land.