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You Did Everything Right

by Ellery

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1.
What I Need 04:01
You said we should fight how this is Going, going nowhere Darling, being here feels just like Breathing, breathing cold air Hollywood and magazine There's one, there's one good ending And you could give me everything But you could never give me What I need, I need, I need, I need I was only trying to find A way out, a way through this mess You said it's as long and wide As my own, my forgiveness that I need, I need, I need, I need You said years from now we'll both be Softly, softly sleeping And I'll have some defining dream And wake up, wake up breathing What I need, I need, I need, I need
2.
Lay your head down dear There's no sorrow here Only time for letting go And room for landing light as snow The gentle daylight fading slow My murmur soft and whisper low So lay your head down So lay your head down Lay your head down dear There's no sorrow here Only time for starry skies And room for long and languid sighs A gentle dream to close your eyes A night to fall, a moon to rise So lay your head down So lay your head down Lay your head down dear There's no sorrow here Only time for falling in And room for shadows dark and dim A gentle song to soft begin Your breathing out, your breathing in So lay your head down So lay your head down
3.
It always felt the same Like a shadow Like a black cold in your veins He took the best years In a nightmare He was right there in everything - The demon in your dreams CHORUS But you did, you did You did everything right Yeah, you did, you did You did everything right It became in him Like a spell Left a thin shell on his frame He said love doesn't leave -- Is love a kind lie? Is love a blind eye on your pain? Cause your love won't make him change CHORUS What's wrong, what's right? Will you lay down your life? Go on, hold tight But don't you lay down and die This is not your fight You can't always make things right You already tried You did everything right Yeah, You did, you did CHORUS
4.
Darling, don't be frightened There are beacons in your bones And when they shine it's warm and light Like summer days back home You're worried that you might be Left as dull and dark as stone But if you are, then darling, What a wonder to have shone Darling, don't be frightened There are skies under your skin In a wide array of white and gray On wild winter winds And every still and silent night they pray That day will come again But if it won't then darling Something else will soon begin Darling, don't be frightened There's a sea down in your soul As deep as earth is wide, As soft and kind as earth is old Such an ocean, when it finds you Well it might swallow you whole But if it does, then darling What a lovely way to go If it does then darling What a lovely way to go
5.
After 04:38
Say a prayer for all these stones Maybe you'll turn them into bread To feed the feeling you're alone To feed the questions in your head Leave a light on in the dark Maybe you'll guide somebody in Someone to tell you who you are Someone to carry who you've been CHORUS Cause it's so lonely after It's so lonely after Hang a sign above the door Maybe you'll answer all their fears That you're not who you were before That you were never really here CHORUS Sing a song out into space Maybe you'll soothe yourself to sleep And dream you've never been afraid And dream you've finally found some peace CHORUS

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"Ellery’s latest offering, 'You Did Everything Right' (November 2008), is something of a provisional work, a demo-cum-EP that was not originally conceived as a stand-alone product. In that sense it is less a coherent project than a collection of songs.
(Their most ambitious project to date - a new album helmed by Grammy-winning producer Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams) - is due for an early 2010 release.)

"The new songs conjure an eclectic and skillful admixture of melodic pop-folk piano. There’s a little Sarah McLachlan here and Over The Rhine too; the sound is familiar but it’s undeniable there is some freshness to these songs. This is probably Ellery’s most mature work to date, which might go without saying but not all of us are graced by Time in the same dignified way. There is a grown-up sensuality here, more caress than climax, more subtlety than outright seduction. These songs come to us unfolding slowly, languid and bittersweet, like old friends. We’ve moved beyond the fresh earnestness of 'Song for Lovers' or the precocious wide-eyed wonder of 'Long Coat On,' which is not to diminish where those earlier offerings found us — or left us.

"But there is something almost approaching angst here, something more self-aware and less innocent. What we haven’t left, and never want to leave, is Ellery’s uncanny ability to conjure a whole life in a four-minute pop song, or weave a melody out of what would for others would be just an ostinato. Ellery’s songs have never been pretentious but these are more relaxed and surefooted. They have nothing to prove, and much to offer. They are generous, like lovers.

"Of course, there are things that give me pause: the curiously lo-fi toms and guitar sounds on 'After,' or the constant dangerous negotiation between distinctiveness and diction in Tasha’s vocals. Any use of chimes skirts the edge of cliche, and it’s hard not to fall on the other side.

"But there are other moments that make any liabilities utterly forgiveable. These are small touches — the delightfully jangly tambourine on 'What I Need.' And the Rhodes. Dear Lord, the Rhodes — is that real? (Don’t tell me.) The consistently artful and understated drumming. The use of ambience, of space, of delicate textures and evocative soundscapes. 'After''s plaintive harmonies (and it’s good to hear Justin’s voice). Proof that the electric guitar can sound good clean (or mostly so).

"Or this:

Darling, don’t be frightened
There are skies under your skin
In a wide array of white and gray
On wild winter winds.

"There’s a moment in the title track where the bottom drops out and Tasha is left suspended over almost nothing, vulnerable and naked, which she faces without flinching. And as the song unfolds from that moment, do we actually hear Tasha let her voice crack?

"God, that’s fetching."

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released November 3, 2008

Drums, percussion, loops by Joshua Seurkamp
Everything else by Ellery
Recorded by Brian Stritenberger
Additional recording by Justin Golden
Mixed by Justin golden
Mastered by Richard Dodd, richarddodd.com
Photos, design by Roman Titus, romantitus.com
All Songs by Tasha & Justin Golden ©2008 Set Adrift Music (ASCAP)
www.ellerymusic.com

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Ellery Louisville, Kentucky

Ellery’s intimate, lush-pop songs are heard in feature films, TV dramas (ABC, SHOWTIME, FOX, NETFLIX), and taken them across the globe over years of touring. The band writes and records between research, mixing projects, and indulging two black cats. Ellery makes loud louds and quiet quiets. ... more

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