Sunday, January 10, 2010
Shannon McNally - Now that I know
Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along
Midweek morning time I wake up next to you
With your head on my pillow and your arms around me,
Oh baby it's so warm
Still I lay here thinking about the way I thought it would be
But all my planning aside
Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along
And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to
You follow me and I'll follow you
Yes I'll follow you
Still I lay here thinking 'bout the way I used to be
And man baby with you I've come a long way
Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along
And it's all a trick till you figure it out
I couldn't hear myself thinking till I started to shout
Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along
Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along
Shannon McNally: Pale Moon
Oh I'd like to find myself trapped in some desert town with you
just me and you
my long black hair waving in the dry wind
me waving at you my lover from some ancient balcony
but like a thirsty vision I see you and you're gone
where could you have run to?
come back, come back, come back
but you're gone to California
and it's just my fate making me blue
why else would I see you today?
But I'm not in some desert town and you're not there with me
I'm underground in NYC
the city of perpetual motion, the city that never sleeps
that's alright I wasn't tired anyways
I was so close to getting clear
thought I had nothing to fear
you'd be on a plane and you'd be gone
and it would be done
there are eighteen million people in this town
I spent the day just bumming around
just to bump into you on Third Avenue.
It's a pale moon, burning sun
when will I see my only one
Pale moon, burning sun
when will I see my only one?
I think it's unbelievable,
I think it's incredible,
it's magical, it's tragic.
but I know we'll meet again someday
we'll be very far away
I'll know you and you'll know me
and we're gonna both agree
that we belong together
we belong together
we belong together
It's a pale moon, burning sun
when will I see my only one
Pale moon, burning sun
when will I see my only one?
Shannon McNally - Down And Dirty
Come on in through my screen door
Tell me all of your cares
I'm here to lend my ears
Where have you been lately, haven't seen you much around here
You've been hiding out in the shade
Your skin is all gone to grey
Did you eat today when are you coming home to stay?
CHORUS
Don't you know I love you when you're down and dirty
Don't you know I love you when you're clean
If you could see what I see, you'd see a boy who thinks that sad is all he is
You've been looking around without your vision
Hearing things without listening suffering but feeling no real kind of pain
And you know I'd like to help but if I let you ride for free
You'd only drag me down into the cheap, cheap seats
CHORUS
Don't you know I love you when you're down and dirty
Don't you know I love you when you're clean
You've got this thing against living with the best
but you sure like to visit it don't you?
When the streets get too cold, when you're feeling weary and old
When your chances for survival are looking oh so slim
When all of a sudden you want to live to be 80, maybe 90, maybe 110
CHORUS
Don't you know I love you when you're down and dirty
Don't you know I love you when you're clean
I know that everything ain't always what it seems to be
Shannon McNally - "Bohemian Wedding Prayer"
Shannon McNally: A new blues-rock singer updating sounds old and Gritty
"Don't you know that I love you when you're down and dirty," sings Shannon McNally on her hook-filled debt, Jukebox Sparrows (Capitol). Her predilection for grit and rawness is obvious: The 27-year-old Long Island native sings with bluesy abandon and displays a fervent love of the live band dynamics of classic rock. "I wanted lots of real drums," she says. "I was adamant about not having any computer sounds on there. I didn't want it to be categorizable, but I did want to make pop music." And she succeeds, with songs that draw on the past--gutsy soul, southern rock and '70s AM radio--while somehow sounding contemporary. If this isn't what pop music sounds like in 2002, it should.
McNally is not worried about her glamour undercutting her rootsy authenticity. "I look at Dolly Parton," she says. "Here's a woman who had it all and used it all. There's this idea that I wouldn't be taken seriously if my picture is too pretty. But I figure whoever is going to get my music is going to get it, no matter how I look."
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