Some of My Folkish Songs

This is the more happy stuff...I hope you enjoy it!!

Drown In Dreams -- Kat Oliver March 07, 2002

My life is a series of shattered dreams
You told me won't come true
You remind me of myself at some point
From the past illusions true
I've remembered your words
And that burning touch
Upon my skin heated with a blush
You tell me my dreams will never come true
Like Cinderella's coach turning to a pumpkin at the strike of midnight
No dreams really can come true

So I drown in dreams (Don't bother calling for help)
These thoughts so cold
Suffocate in reality
Letting go with its last breath
I drown in dreams

I'm slipping under the surface
With barely a ripple
Did you see me go under (Or did your eyes play tricks on you?)
Ask yourself if you cared
Like a house of horrors
It's all smoke and mirrors baby

So I drown in my broken dreams
That never quite came true
I suffocate in reality (And its harsh illusions)
Cold now like death itself
I drown in dreams
C'Mon in the water's fine
And drown in a sea of broken dreams

(So that wasn't nice...Oops...Heh Heh...^.^;;))

What I Did Over Summer Vacation -- Kat Oliver 2002

I spent my Summer with you
You didn't know who you really were
I'm not sure if you know now
You tainted my Summer with your ideals
Tainted it with your insanity

Instead of carnivals and cotton candy
I was trapped on a neverending tilt a whirl
With flashing lights and the sound of crying children
And the smell of candy apples
My Summer would have never been the same had I not met you
Summer only lasts so long
Yeah it only lasts so long

I don't know what kept me
Maybe your beauty
Hiding a tortured soul
Maybe it was the way
Your eyes begged for help like those lost child ads
I saw when I walked into the post office
To mail another batch of letters
You never wrote back to

Instead of carnivals and cotton candy
I was trapped on a neverending tilt a whirl
With flashing lights and the sound of crying children
And the smell of candy apples
My Summer would have never been the same had I not met you
Summer only lasts so long
Yeah it only lasts so long

I fidgeted at movies
And I know I quit my job
All that mattered was you
And baby, that's just wrong
You spent your Summer
Getting bitched at by your dad
I never liked him
He always made me mad
I wonder if your eyes were that color in person
Or was it just the camera flash
It was a sweet Summer
But all things must end at some time or another

Summer only lasts so long
Yeah it only lasts so long
It only lasts so long...

One of Those Days -- Kat Oliver march 22nd, 2002

A few weeks ago
I had a dream about you
I half expected to see you by my side
When I turned my head
Instead I saw only my jolly rancher green walls
And a drawing I did of a hand
Stretched in a gesture of hopelessness
On a poster that epitomizes everything
Which angst is
I had tangled myself in my sheets
And I heavily considered going back to sleep

My clock was at 12:02 in the afternoon
It runs on batteries
I don't know how it did that to this day
So I woke up thinking I had overslept
On top of eveything else
Turns out it was only 7:02 AM
I knew then that it was gonna be one of those days

One of those days you just can't wait to crawl back into bed
One of those days You keep looking at the clock
Oneof tose days you want time to fast forward
It's just one of those days

I got up and walked across my cold hardwood floor
And drank the orange juice with pulp
Out of the carton half asleep
My mom says pulp is nasty
But I happen to like pulp
At 11:50 my friend came to pick me up
And we went to an event we didn't really want to go to
I knew it was going to be one of those days

Today is just one of those days
I want it to end
So I can go to the grocery store
And buy chunky peanut butter, Nutella, and white bread
I keep forgetting to buy a notebook
So I'm carrying my stuff around
In my beat up Sailor Moon lunchbox
That's lasted since sophomore year
I'm always surprised at what I can fit in that box
Yup, today is just one of those days

I just want the day to end
It's one of those days
I can already tell it's gonna be one of those days

Thrift Shop

'Thrift Shop Exchange' By: Kat Oliver You showed me things I never saw
Like the pixels that made up traffic lights
Small transistions in my life
That would never have been the same were it not for you
You gave me so much
Warmed my thoughts and my soul
Like a cheap electric blanket
I once got at Wal*Mart for $9.95
But it's Wal*Mart, everything there is pretty cheap
Just like you
I loved you more than anything or anyone
I could have ripped my heart out and handed it to you
And it would have never mattered
Nothing mattered to you
Fire can warm you but it can burn you
I know this all too well
Your touch is forever locked in my memory
Like my ABCs
Something I'll never forget
Try as I may
I'll never forget
You knew how I felt
And you ignored it
You gave me everything
You took away from me something I can never get back
Like childhood, like innocence, like virginity
I can never get back what you took from me
Like exchanging a garment at a thrift shop
I wish it were that simple
Nothing mattered to you
Fire can warm you but it can burn you
I know this all too well
Your touch is forever locked in my memory
Like my ABCs
Something I'll never forget
Try as I may
I'll never forget