It Happens Like That
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
I run out of love
It happens like that
There’s nothing to say
It just goes away…
You say the wrong words
You take the wrong turn
On the road to my heart
It happens like that.
You smile the wrong smile
You wear the wrong style
You fail to see
You chose the wrong key.
You tell the wrong tales
You miss the details
We frequently spat
It happens like that.
What happens to love,
where does it go when it’s gone?
What happened to us,
the “us” we loved?
I remember the days
We were both in a daze
We were happy, it’s true
Love was new.
There were trips and champagne,
Gone were all sorts of pain
But it’s different today
It’s all gone away…
I ran out of love.
It happens like that.
Last Night
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
Last night when the sky was clear
Last night when you held me tight
I saw worries disappear
I was filled with dazzling light.
Last night when the stars were dancing
List’ning to a lullaby
I gasped seeing such a beauty
Was it dream or simply you and I...
Wake me up with kisses
Wake me up with love
With beautiful embraces
And a tender touch
Tell me that you love me
Tell me you’ll be here
Even when the clouds
Appear to stay,
Tell me that you love me
Tell me you’ll be here
Even when the clouds
Are here to stay.
Last night when the stars were smiling
Watching how you hold me tight
Last night love was so enticing
I hope it stays that way until I die.
Razor's Edge
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
I am exhausted, I am confused
All of my talents have been misused
I am a nuisance, I am a sham.
I am compulsive, I am deplete
My charms and my promise are now obsolete
I am so brittle, I’m an eggshell.
I am on a razor’s edge
Each day it’s my life I hedge
I am coming down with the rain
Making puddles of pain.
I am on a curvy road
I am on a slippery slope
I am speeding through the ice
It’s the end, I roll the dice.
“How are you feeling?” “Where are you from?”
Simple questions enerve me
Good folks don’t deserve me
I am a nuisance, I’m an eggshell.
I am on a razor’s edge
Each day it’s my life I hedge
I am coming down with the rain
Making puddles of pain.
I am on a curvy road
I am on a slippery slope
I am speeding through the ice
It’s the end, I roll the dice.
Cloudy (With a Chance of Rain)
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
How can you predict the weather
Always changing like my mood
Co-dependent on you and your love
Co-dependent on your smile.
When you’re near it’s always sunshine
When you’re far it’s stormy skies
When you don’t let me be in your world
When you’re absent, like tonight...
I’m feeling lonely
I’m feeling chilly
I’m feeling cloudy
With a chance of rain...
Have you heard about the weather
Always changing like my mood
Co-dependent on you and your love
Co-dependent on your smile.
Easy to Forget
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
It seemed so good when I dreamed it
It seemed so perfect in my mind
But then I saw the light, the fool I was
Cause I already had the thing I dreamt about.
It was so easy to forget
Easy to forget
The thing I lost by waking up
It was so easy to forget
Easy to forget
What I lost by waking up.
Does it happen to you,
Do you ever get up and just wander why…
Why do dreams so incredible, tenable
Turn out so trivial when you wake up?
It was so, it was so easy to forget.
Don't Know Why
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
Every day my trouble starts anew
Every night I wonder what to do
Every time I try my fears to defy
I fail and I don’t know why
Every day I worry to extreme
Every night I have a simple dream...
I dream I’m floating in the sky
And then you come along and teach me how to fly
Can we really make it happen, baby?
Can you please say “yes” and not just “maybe”?
Why is it that every time my love is very near
All the trouble and the fear, they simply disappear
Why is it when trouble’s here I’m always searching for your eyes?
Can you tell me why I seem so strong when I appear
But the truth is that inside I’m always full of fear...
How does worry find me, dear? Can I just tell it “goodbye”?
I don’t know why...
Every day my trouble starts anew
Every night I wonder what to do
Every time I try my fears to defy
I fail and I don’t know why
Why is it that every time my love is very near
All my troubles and my fear they simply disappear
Why is it when trouble’s here I’m always searching for your eyes?
Can you tell me why I seem so strong when I appear
But the truth is that inside I’m always full of fear
How does worry find me, dear, why can’t I tell it “goodbye”...
I don’t know why.
Grey Season
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
The leaves fell down, the trees, all brown
Like skinny monsters staring
The raindrops splash and my hopes crash,
They’re ending.
When the pale sky never goes away
It brings such gloom...How can one enjoy the day?
When the rain blurs all the lines
How can I not lose my way?
It’s the grey season
And for no reason
I think I’ll cry
All I do is sit and sigh...
It’s the grey season
Must be the reason
The sun, so shy,
Left and didn’t say “goodbye”...
All the rain in the pale sky
That’s here to stay...Maybe I should go way
All the gloom, pending doom, all the grey...
Will there be another day?
It’s the grey season
And for no reason
I think I’ll cry
All I do it sit and sigh
It’s the grey season
Must be the reason
The sun, so shy,
Left, and didn’t say “goodbye”.
It’s so grey,
How can I not lose my way...
Disclosure
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
You haven’t called in a while
And I don’t want to impose
My always steady desire
To know how it goes.
You wait for good things to happen
Before you reach for the phone
But sometimes in life nothing happens
That’s just how it goes.
I know what it’s like to not win
I know what it’s like to not be proud of yourself
I know what it’s like to not sleep at night.
Now that you’ve heard my disclosure
Now that you’ve seen for yourself
My little heart’s own exposure
Just pick up the phone, don’t cry all alone.
I know what it’s like to not win
I know what it’s like to not be proud of yourself
I know what it’s like to not sleep at night.
I know what it’s like to wait for your dreams
I know what it’s like to push yourself to extremes
I know what it’s like...
to dream, to hope,
to lose, to cope,
to fall, to fail,
to try again, try again...
I know what it’s like to keep chasing a dream.
Must Be Love
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
I feel like an angry bird
I feel I could simply burst
I’m mad, I’m mad at you...
I know anger goes away
I know I will always stay
I know you’re trying
And yet, I’m crying...
Must be love, must be love that makes me stay
Must be love, must be love that melts my tears away.
It must be love, must be love that never let me stray
Must be love, must be love that keeps my fears at bay
It must be love...
We love our shared place
But get in each other’s face
I crave having little space
But then I just miss your face.
Someone said, love will mess up your head
Someone said, if you love you are mad...
Well, I’m mad.
Must be love, that makes a fool of me each day
Must be love, must be love, that always makes me stay.
It must be love, must be love that keeps my fears at bay
Must be love, must be love, must be love that melts my tears away...
It must be love.
Love, what else but love
That makes a fool of me each day
What else but love
That always makes me stay
It must be love.
Liquid Rage
Music and Lyrics by Katherine Kostoff
Everyone wants a piece of me
C’est la vie, so I let it be
I was nice, I was sweet as honey
I was good as a good girl can be
I was coy, I was prim
Always gentle to him,
I was kind, I was fare
Well-bred and debonair…
I was bullied and kicked,
Ridiculed and tricked.
I trusted and gave, loved and forgave
But one after one they broke my heart -
And it won’t repair -
My goodness is gone, it’s turned into that:
My liquid rage, pouring down like lava
My liquid rage, like tsunami from the sea
My liquid rage, like a shot of absinthe
My liquid rage, burning all in me.