Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass,
Electric Guitar | Matt Chamberlain – Drums,
Percussion | Joel Shearer – Electric Guitar,
Acoustic Guitar | Patrick Warren – Keyboards
in fairness I was an easy sell
though i’m embarrassed
to admit it to myself
and the worst part is
you know it all too well
so don’t take advantage
of my transparent shell, no
but I think you know what I need
impossible as it may seem
and I think it’s easy to see
I am awake, it’s getting late
i’m in no state to be alone now
yeah i’m alone now
come light the fire in my room
I think i’m losing all control now
I don’t even know how
but i’m in your rip tide
and now i’m inside out
i’m in the corner of the street cafe
and my heart is warmer
since I heard from you today
like a shallow creek I am gleaming
no chance of keeping any secrets
have I lost enough security yet?
chorus
I tried to hide it, I can’t deny it
now i’m inside out
say you love me, yeah all or nothing, oh
now i’m inside out
I am awake, it’s getting late
i’m in no state to be alone now
yeah i’m alone now
come light the fire in my room
I think i’m losing all control now
I don’t even know how
chorus
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass,
Drum Programming, Additional Electric Guitars,
Keyboards | Abe Laboriel, Jr. – Drums
Daphne Chen – Violin, Viola
so you see you’ve got me
back again for more
and it seems your song
is in my head this is war
mystery how I could feel you
breathe me I was sure
you would keep every promise,
you would keep every word
well I tried to put your stories in line
but nothing adds up right
for every 99 times
you looked me in the eye
you looked me in the eye
and swore you weren’t lying
I was so blind
I never saw the signs
i’m getting out tonight
and you’re not invited
it’s a shame that you
left me hanging like you did
it was brave but it was much more foolish,
don’t you think? don’t you think?
cause you know I wont be satisfied
until you realize
chorus
well these things are oh so typical
but these things are unforgivable
i’m gone and you’re invisible now
don’t let me catch you following
don’t ask cause i’m not offering
you’ve caused enough of my suffering oh
chorus x2
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass, Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass, Percussion,
Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards | Abe Laboriel, Jr. – Drums Keyboards | Matt Chamberlain – Drums | Joel Shearer – Electric
Joel Shearer – Electric Guitar | Patrick Warren – Piano Guitar | Patrick Warren – Piano, Keyboards
Daphne Chen – Violin, Viola
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again
put me up on a pedestal I’ve got something hanging over my head
I’ve got nowhere to go but down I was laying on your shoulder, perfectly content
you expect the impossible until you told me all over again
and it’s too much to carry around
I ain’t got no sob story to write
well you tell me i’m beautiful but just like everyone else i’m living this life
it feels empty and I don’t know why and you don’t need to win me over
but it seems that you’re searching me and there ain’t no other side
for something you’re not gonna find to shelter me from, I’ll belong where I decide
i’m not your anchor but you say we don’t mess around
so don’t hold on you’ve got no freedom to come down
i’m not the answer we don’t take angels from the sky
you’ve got me wrong oh no we don’t mess around
i’m not your savior you’re meant to be among the clouds
save your energy cause you’re an angel
to find out who you are but that’s a lie
who you are without me
well I suppose you think i’m so flattered to hear
wide awake lying next to you that i’m the whisper conscience in your ear
being careful to get the words right and that’s exactly the reason that I’ll never fit in here
see it hurts me to tell you this well nothing’s ever that black and white, my dear
but it kills me to keep it inside
chorus
and I’m in love with the present tense
i’m not your angel, darling
making plans is overrated to me
i’m not your angel, darling
and I don’t speak in guarantees
I am never gonna be
or at least not the kind that you need
i’m not your angel, darling
chorus i’m not your angel, darling
well I still believe in I am never gonna be
happy endings we don’t mess around
but this just isn’t you’ve got no freedom to come down
where I wanna spend mine we don’t take angels from the sky
I’ll be leaving we don’t mess around
now I’ve said it you’re meant to be among the clouds
chorus cause you’re an angel
but that’s a lie
i’m not a mirror
look inside yourself
i’m not a hero
you know to well
i’m not your savior
save your energy
to find out who you are
who you are without me
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass, Elec- Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass, Kate Voegele – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar | Mike Elizondo – Bass,
tric Guitar | Brian MacLeod – Drums, Percussion Drum Programming, Acoustic Guitar Acoustic Guitar | Aaron Sterling - Drums | Jamie Muhoberac - Piano,
Jamie Muhoberac - Piano, Keyboards Abe Laboriel, Jr. – Drums Keyboards | Strings Arranged By Eric Gorfain | Eric Gorfain – Violin
Joel Shearer – Electric Guitar Amy Wickman – Violin | Leah Katz – Viola | Matt Cooker – Cello
well i’m going
Patrick Warren – Piano, Keyboards
home baby
downhearted and hoping a little tough love what’cha doing today, what are you doing later?
i’m close never hurt nobody I don’t know my way through a maze of gray skyscrapers
to some new beginning never saw this coming, but i’m willing to learn
I know this side of me
I know where you’re goin’ if you want me to I’ll stay just where I am
there’s a reason for everything but I promise just to follow when I land
that comes and goes with your sugar-laced talkin’
and it wasn’t too hard to see and you can take my word for that
but so many people are looking to me cause you are my manhattan from the sky
to be strong and to fight you think you got me
right where you want me you look so neat and tidy when i’m way up high
but i’m just surviving but I know your streets are lined with a fine mess inside
and I may be weak but i’m never defeated you think you got the whole story
I think that a proper fair warning and I wanna come down and walk around your mind
and I’ll keep believing
in clouds with that sweet silver lining might serve you well daisies
so i’m here to tell you once upon an old daydream that’s what you gave me
most days out on the corner of Broadway and 48th street
I try it’s not too late
to do yourself a favor on a rainy afternoon
my best to put on a brave face
but inside and walk away I could start discovering your world
my bones are cold and my heart breaks though I know that’s never been your nature and I would make a damn good city girl
but all the while by the way things would start to bloom, i’m sure
something’s keeping me safe you’ve put yourself in danger cause you’re chorus
and alive playing with my heart
playing with my heart I know you want me to see, don’t lie to me
but so many people are looking to me you’re playing with my heart so why you gotta go be so shy to me?
to be strong and to fight I ain’t buying the false anxiety
but i’m just surviving every good girl’s got a real good reason let your fortress fold
and I may be weak but i’m never defeated to believe in breaking what is it gonna take to get you there?
and I’ll keep believing all the rules sometimes if fear was money you’d be a millionaire
in clouds with that sweet silver lining and I’m that girl baby you’re that reason all alone in a leather swivel chair
and your scheming counting stacks of gold
and I won’t give up like this has caused me to cross the line
I will be given strength chorus x2
now that I’ve found it you lie but i’m a pretty good liar
nothing can take that away you chose a game I can play better
you’re bright, oh but baby i’m clever
chorus x2 so you might as well
let me tell you
chorus
for heavens sake what are you thinking baby?
you won’t catch what you’ve been chasing
trust me when I say I can keep you running
but i’m not coming oh I won’t come around
chorus
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass,
Acoustic Guitar | Matt Chamberlain – Drums,
Percussion | Joel Shearer – Electric Guitar
Patrick Warren – Piano, Keyboards
how many times have you used that line?
did you replace the last two dozen names with mine?
is ‘I love you baby’ second nature by now?
cause it sounds awful rehearsed
when the words leave your mouth
I don’t know why but it seems
that i’m not the first to have heard this speech
is this a routine you just repeat?
cause I don’t mean to presume
that you don’t love me like you say you do but
you’re gonna have to prove that you’re true
and you’re not just talkin’ smooth
your performance deserves an academy award
and it’s a double edged sword cause I sure feel adored
but just between us i’d rather see you slip up
don’t you know that it’s those
less than perfect words I can’t get enough of
maybe I’m outta my head
but i’m telling you baby that I’ve been misled
so if the record’s off well could you get it set?
I don’t mean to presume
that you don’t love me like you say you do but
you’re gonna have to prove that you’re true
and you’re not just talkin’ smooth
well you’ve proven your charm is a crime
oh and ooooh why don’t you see
the harm in relying on this disguise
you’re losing me with every little wink of the eye
the end of my rope is slipping out of my hold
so if you’re clever you’d better do some damage control
I don’t know why but it seems
you’ve made a game of making a fool outta me
and I did not sign up to be
your tongue-in-cheek, hey oh yeah
I don’t mean to presume
that you don’t love me like you say you do but
you’re gonna have to prove that you’re true
and you’re not just talkin’ smooth
oh can you prove you’re not just talkin’ smooth
Kate Voegele – Vocals
Mike Elizondo – Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Brian MacLeod – Drums, Percussion
Jamie Muhoberac – Piano | Strings Arranged
By Eric Gorfain | Eric Gorfain – Violin
Daphne Chen – Violin | Leah Katz – Viola
Richard Dodd - Cello
this road is anything but simple
twisted like a riddle
I’ve seen high and I’ve seen low
so loud, the voices of all my doubts
telling me to give up
to pack up and leave town
but even so I had to believe
impossible means nothing to me
so can you lift me up?
and turn the ashes into flames
cause I have overcome
more than words will ever say
and I’ve been given hope
that there’s a light on up the hall
and that a day will come when the fight is won
and I think that day has just begun
somewhere, everybody starts there
counting on a small prayer
lost in a nightmare
but i’m here and suddenly it’s so clear
the struggle through the long years
it taught me to outrun my fears
and everything that’s worth having
comes with trials worth withstanding
chorus
oh lift me up, oh lift me up, oh lift me up
oh lift me up, oh lift me up, oh lift me up
down and out is overrated
I need to be elevated
looking up is not enough
I would rather rise above
chorus
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Mike Elizondo – Bass, Kate Voegele - Vocals | Joel Shearer – Acoustic Guitar
Keyboards | Abe Laboriel, Jr. - Drums | Joel Strings Arranged by Patrick Warren | Richard Dodd - Cello
Shearer – Guitars | Patrick Warren - Keyboards
the city sleeps
been here before so silently
revolving door wish I could say the same for me
we’re caught up and I don’t know what for but I’ve got this dead ended street
anymore to keep searching
we had the best for a tunnel underneath the bitter truth
and nothing less or a bridge invisible I won’t fall through
but the second we fell out of step
you up and left and I don’t know how much I can keep
letting you unravel me
this is so you this is what you do cause the more you learn the more we share
you’d rather make do than make a move we were worlds apart and you see
what’ll it take now how do I make it was so much easier to be
this matter enough to you? cause now I know what we can’t have and it’s so unfair
say you’re a mess I never meant
say it’s a shame most of those pretty words I said
why can’t you at least pretend? but I wanted you to think I did
say I should leave cause telling you all this makes no difference
you’re over me it’s useless
say something, say anything
anything cause those who get to know our hearts the most
say anything they always seem to be the ones we’ll never hold
please chorus
what happened to can’t you see it’s destroying me?
the plans we made I can’t stand the closeness
and that contagious smile upon your face? but don’t you dare go avoiding me
it’s all begun to fade it kills me and yet it keeps me going
you used to be chorus
so careful with me
making sure that we would always be
each other’s missing piece
well we can still save
these tattered pages
what do you say we
start over baby?
this is our chance
and you’re all I have
don’t let me slip through your hands
chorus
you know I miss you, you know I wish you
missed me too, baby tell me you do
chorus
Patrick Warren - Piano | Kate Voegele – Vocals Kate Voegele – Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
so the story goes on down when I run out of second chances pretty girls, they have it easy
the less traveled road you give me that look living the strawberry kiwi life, ah
It’s a variation on and you’re off the hook and me, I just fill up on coffee
the one I was told because you’re mine and let the caffeine do the talking, ah
and although it’s not the same forever and almost always
it’s awful close, yeah i’ll always miss you and i’ll always wish you’d been mine
and I’m fine
in an ordinary fairy tale land just love me when you can if i was an english teacher
there’s a promise of a perfect happy end and I’ll wait patiently i probably could get you to dance with me
and I imagine having just short of that I’ll wake up every day cause robert frost is in your wallet
is better than nothing just hoping that you still care the road less whatever you call it, ah
so you’ll be mine oh, what am I still doing here? i’ll always miss you and i’ll always wish you’d been mine
forever and almost always oh, it’s all becoming so clear
and I’ll be fine and love I’m afraid
you’ll be mine that after tonight
just love me when you can forever and almost always
and I’ll wait patiently there won’t be a way
it ain’t right to just love me when you can to see you
I’ll wake up every day I won’t wait patiently
just hoping that you still care but just for the sake
or wake up everyday of our storyline
in the corner of my mind I know too well just hoping that you’ll still care I’ll wait a day to break
oh that surely even I deserve the best the bad news
but instead of leaving forever and almost always
I just put the issue to bed no it ain’t right so i’ll buy myself a cheap apartment
and outta my head to just love me when you can, baby and I’ll buy my heart a secret compartment ah, yeah

oh and just when I believe ain’t gonna wait patiently and when your memory starts to surface
you’ve changed for good I won’t wake up everday i’ll toast to mistakes made on purpose yeah, oh
well you go and prove me wrong just hoping that you still care i’ll always miss you and i’ll always wish you’d been mine
just like I knew you would it takes an idealist to know one
and me and you we’ve had that going for us, yeah
and we the dreamers chase forever
so at least in that we’ll be together oh
i guess
well i’ll always miss you and i’ll always wish you’d been mine
yeah I’ll always miss you and I’ll always wish you’d been mine
Kate Voegele – Vocals | Will Voegele – Acoustic Guitar
God has truly blessed me with so many wonderful people in my life who Executive Producer: Mark Schwahn
have helped and inspired me in so many ways. A HUGE thank you to…
Produced by Mike Elizondo
Dad (my biggest inspiration and the only reason I get to make records Recorded and Mixed by Adam Hawkins
at all), Mom (who I look up to more than anyone), Courbs (who gets me Recorded and Mixed at Phantom Studios,
better than anyone on the planet) Grandma Lahey (who always has the Westlake Village, CA
best advice and helped me pick the album cover), my grandparents and Brent Arrowood – Assistant Engineer
Jolie Levine – Project Coordinator
family for being my best friends and my biggest fans. | Debbie Wilson,
Doug Shaw and Louie Bandak for their incredible hard work and belief in * “We the Dreamers” and
this project. | Jimmy Iovine, Luke Wood, Brenda Romano, Dyana Kass, “Playing With My Heart (Acoustic)”
Laura Hess, Ianthe Zevos, Stephanie Hsu, Candace Berry, Jeanne Venton, Recorded and Mixed by Will Voegele
Kam Sangha, Alex Black and everyone at Interscope Records for making Recorded and Mixed at Communikate
this possible. | J Scavo, Tom Anderson, and the rest of the MySpace Music Studios, Cleveland, OH
Records team for their continued dedication to this project. Mike Elizondo
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound,
for believing in the songs, bringing them to life, and encouraging me
New York, NY
as an artist. | Adam Hawkins, Brent Arrowood, and all the incredibly
talented musicians who played on this record. All songs written by Kate Voegele and
Everyone at One Tree Hill, with special thanks to Mark Schwahn and Joe published by CommuniKate Music (ASCAP) except:
“Say Anything” written by Kate Voegele and William
Davola for their passion for music, immense support and for inspiring me James (Bleu) McAuley III/ Published by CommuniKate
in an epic way. | Special thanks to the One Tree Hill cast and crew for Music (ASCAP)/Kohaw Music obo Seriously You Call This
their welcoming friendship and incredible hard work. Music (ASCAP) C/O The Bicycle Music Company
Brian Manning, JBeau Lewis, Seth Cummings and everyone at CAA.
“Who You Are Without Me” written by Kate Voegele,
David Levin and Michelle Taylor | Michael Moses and BWR | Elliott Lindy Robbins and Daniel John Muckala/Published by
Groffman & Gillian Bar, Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP CommuniKate Music (ASCAP)/Hey Kiddo Music (ASCAP)
Jon Pikus, Thom Trumbo, Alissa Razansky, Michael Pizzuto, Paige and Wintergone Music (ASCAP). All rights administered
worldwide by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing
Parsons, Bennett Kaufman, Lindy Robbins, Dan Muckala, Bleu, Dave
Bassett, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven “Playing With My Heart” written by
University of Phoenix for their unbelievable support and giving me the Kate Voegele and Dave Bassett/Published by
opportunity to continue my education. CommuniKate Music (ASCAP)/Two of Everything
Music (ASCAP)/WB Music Corp (ASCAP). All rights
My amazingly talented band- Sam Getz, Mark Tobik, Bob “BB” Matthews, on behalf of itself and Two of Everything Music
and Brett Lindemann for being the big brothers I never had. Also special administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
thanks to Dave “Cash” Witalis, Paul Babikian, Chris Miranda and Quinn
Holderman for their tremendous work ethic and contribution to the tour. A&R: Louie Bandak
Management: Debbie Wilson & Doug Shaw,
All of my best friends and loved ones who can make me laugh Wilspro Management
uncontrollably, finish my sentences and make anything and everything Legal: Elliott Groffman & Gillian Bar,
better. You guys are AMAZING! Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP
Booking: Brian Manning, Jbeau Lewis/CAA
All of my incredible fans for their remarkable support, love, and
appreciation for the music. You guys are the best inspiration and give Photographer: Brian Bowen Smith
the music such an amazing sense of purpose. I could never thank you all Art Direction & Design: Varnish Studio Inc
enough for how much your connection to this music has touched me.
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tell a story. This record is dedicated to my grandfather, Donald P. Lahey,
who was unquestionably my biggest fan and the world’s best storyteller.