Stand Still, Look Pretty

Lanzamiento: Mayo 23, 2006

Disquera: Maverick Records / Warner Bros Nashville

Grabado: oct 12, '04 - jul 28, '05

Género: Country

Duración: 44' 37''

• Producido por John Leventhal; Co-producido por Rick Depoli
  
• (*) Producido por John Shanks y Michelle Branch
  
• (**) Producido por Paul Worley
  
• Debutó en el #14 @ U.S.Billboard 200.
  
• En Septiembre del '06 fue certificado Disco de Oro

Track Listing

1. Leave The Pieces *
   
2. Way Back Home
   
3. The Good Kind
   
4. Tennessee
   
5. My, Oh My **
   
6. Stand Still, Look Pretty
   
7. Cigarettes
   
8. Hard To Love You
   
9. Lay Me Down
   
10. One More Girl
    
11. Rain
    
12. Crazy People

1. leave the Pieces
   --- jennifer hanson, billy austin ----------
   
   You're not sure that you love me
   but you're not sure enough to let me go
   baby it ain't fair you know
   to just keep me hanging around
   
   You say you don't wanna hurt me
   don't wanna see my tears
   so why are you still standing here
   just watching me drown?
   
   --- coro ----------
   And it's alright, yeah I'll be fine
   don't worry 'bout this heart of mine
   just take your love and hit the road
   there's nothing you can do or say
   you're gonna break my heart anyway
   so just leave the pieces when you go
   
   You can drag out this heartache
   baby you can make it quick
   really get it over with it
   and just let me move on
   
   Don't concern yourself
   with this mess you've left for me
   I can clean it up you see
   just as long as you're gone
   
   You're not making up your mind
   is killing me and wasting time
   I need so much more than that
   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
   
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2. way back home
   --- michelle branch, jessica harp ----------
   
   Somewhere in the country
   there's a place
   where nobody knows your name
   
   When I'm feeling lonely
   there's a train
   that helps me run away
   
   --- coro ----------
   I know my mother
   she always told me
   the road would get cold
   I never listened
   always forgettin’
   the way back home
   
   Somewhere in the city
   there's a face
   that makes it hard to stay
   
   He never listened to me
   when I'd say
   that things would never change
   
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3. the good kind
   --- michelle branch, jessica harp ----------
   
   Do you want to run away together?
   I would say it was your best line ever
   too bad I fell for it
   
   And I walked alone
   waiting for you to come along
   take my tortured heart by the hand
   and write me off
   
   --- coro ----------
   Do you know I cry
   do you know I die
   do you know I cry
   and it's not the good kind
   
   You forced me to become strong
   when I just craved being weak
   
   And you think you know
   and I would like to think so
   but do you know that when you go
   I fall apart
   
   I'm tired of hiding
   behind these lying eyes
   I'm tired of this smile
   that even I don't recognize
   
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4. tennesse
   --- jessica harp ----------
   
   I never had all the answers
   I never had enough time
   But I sure had all the reasons
   why you weren't what I wanted to find
   
   I never laid all my cards out
   you just wanted to play
   The king he waited on my doorstep
   while the joker and me went on our way
   
   --- coro ----------
   Maybe I was much too selfish
   but baby you're still on my mind
   Now I'm grown and all alone
   and wishing I was with you tonight
   'Cause I can guarantee
   things are sweeter in Tennessee
   
   These days everything is all business
   never in one place for too long
   And there's no lack of arms around me
   but I still wonder if somewhere I went wrong
   
   And I'd wish on every star in the
   Southern sky
   for that man and our life
   if I did not think that
   
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5. my, oh my
   --- michelle branch, jessica harp, wayne kirkpatrick, josh leo ----------
   
   This concrete road used to just be dirt
   we'd drive out here after work
   every Friday night when I was eighteen
   
   This parking lot, used to be a field
   I parked here in my Oldsmobile
   long before the Sonic and the Walgreens
   
   Not no more
   not no more
   
   --- coro ----------
   My, oh my
   Look how the time flies
   look how the world changes in the blink of an eye
   My, oh my
   Look how the years have flown
   turning around before you know it
   ups and gone
   Oh my, oh my, oh my
   
   Times have changed and so have I
   I once was young and starry-eyed
   Now I have these bittersweet memories
   
   Songs were long and gas was cheap
   no cell phones and water was free
   Daddy paid and I never had to worry
   
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6. stand still, look pretty
   --- michelle branch, jessica harp ----------
   
   I want to paint my face
   and Pretend that I am someone else
   Sometimes I get so fed up
   I don't even want to look at myself
   
   But people have problems that are worse than mine
   I don't want you to think I'm complaining all the time
   And I hate the way you look at me and I have to say
   I wish I could start over
   
   --- coro ----------
   I am slowly falling apart
   I wish you'd take a walk in my shoes for a start
   You might think it's easy being me
   you just stand still, look pretty
   
   Sometimes I find myself shaking
   in the middle of the night
   And then it hits me and I can't
   even believe this is my life
   
   But people have problems that are worse than mine
   I don't want you to think I'm complaining all the time
   And I wish that everyone would go and shut their mouths
   I'm not strong enough to deal with it
   
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7. cigarettes
   --- jessica harp ----------
   
   Got my headlights shining
   down an old dirt road
   smoke my cigarettes
   I should quit, I know
   
   The radio’s playing
   old country songs
   Someone's leaving, someone's cheating
   on and on
   
   I think I might like
   the quiet nights
   of this empty life
   
   --- coro ----------
   'Cause someday maybe
   somebody will love me like I need
   And someday I won't have to prove
   'cause somebody will see
   all my worth but until then
   I'll do just fine on my own
   with my cigarettes
   and this old dirt road
   
   See I left another
   good man tonight
   I wonder if he'll miss me
   Lord knows I tried
   
   But I think that maybe
   the thing that I did wrong
   was put up with his bullshit
   for far too long
   
   I ain't gonna sleep
   I ain't gonna dream
   about the things that I used to need
   I ain't gonna cry
   or go on living lies
   I'm just gonna drive
   
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8. hard to love you
   --- michelle branch, john leventhal ----------
   
   Why do they make it hard to love you?
   Why can't they even start to try?
   'Cause now I feel a bridge is burning
   and all the smoke is in my eyes
   
   I realize I never let them know me
   I always wanted to be right
   Took a mistake to really show me
   exactly what they were like
   
   --- coro ----------
   I've been wrong but I've been changing
   I've been wondering what to do
   Here I am alone and waiting
   for you
   
   Why do I try and make them happy?
   Why am I always playing nice?
   It isn't easy trying to tell you
   exactly what's on my mind
   
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9. lay me down
   --- michelle branch, jessica harp, greg wells ----------
   
   You let me in
   'cause after all
   it seemed like the right thing to do
   
   I closed my eyes
   and let you fall
   I wonder what you could possibly know
   about breaking down that I don't
   
   It’s been a while
   since I begged for
   anything but now I want more
   
   --- coro ----------
   So lay me down
   I'm lonely
   You don't understand me
   and you'd never even try to
   anyway
   
   I hear you say
   it's not the same
   I'm sorry
   it's something I just can't explain
   
   So shut your mouth
   and hold me close
   we both know
   it's better than being alone
   
   I don’t mind
   killing time
   as long as I can't see in your eyes
   
   If wanting you's wrong then I'm wrong
   I'll admit it
   Time after time you'll realize
   you don't mean it
   
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10. one more girl
    --- patty griffin ----------
    
    I took off my iron smile
    because I found it weighed me down
    Tomorrow when the world wakes up
    I'll be in another town
    
    You don't know what you want
    but at this moment it could be me
    You move your hand across my knee
    Turn me in to some novelty
    I guess I'm
    
    --- coro ----------
    One more girl on the stage
    just one more ass that got
    stuffed in some jeans
    And it's one more day that you
    don't find true love
    because you don't know
    what it means
    
    Did you ever take the time to
    think about who I might be
    Where I've been, what I'm thinking
    who I loved, what I've seen
    
    Yeah, yeah
    
    I'm one more car out
    on the road that
    you might pass on your way home
    Someone's sister, someone's wife or
    just some bitch who's probably
    got no life yes I'm
    
    One day we'll be a pile of ashes
    for the rest of time it passes
    So take your hand off my knee
    Do you know what it means to be
    
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11. rain
    --- michelle branch ----------
    
    You never give up
    I can't believe anything you say
    and it must be my luck
    'cause no one else gets treated this way
    
    and I wanna know
    what goes on in that head of yours
    Yeah, I wanna know
    'cause I don't think I can take much more
    
    --- coro ----------
    Rain
    you must be sick or something
    I can't take another day
    Rain
    is falling down
    but will the sun come out again?
    
    I never speak up
    I just try and stay out of the way
    But I must have messed up
    'cause that's all that I hear you say
    
    And I wanna know
    What on earth makes you act like this
    Yeah, I wanna know
    'cause I don’t think I can take this shit
    
    Sun come out
    
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12. crazy people
    --- michelle branch, jessica harp ----------
    
    --- coro ----------
    Only crazy people
    fall in love with me
    They come from all over
    to be with me
    Bank robbers and killers
    drunks and drug dealers
    Only crazy people
    fall in love with me
    
    He came from Carolina
    on a west-bound freight train
    He didn't have no ticket
    but he got here the same
    He left a reminder
    with nine months to go
    That's why I killed his wife
    and wrecked up his home
    
    He fled Mississippi
    with me at his side
    a trunk full of money
    and no place to hide
    Well he loved his whiskey
    and his fists loved my face
    so I buried that man
    and they won't find a trace
    
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