The in​.​Joy LP

by Sara Dee

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    The first and original pressing of "The in.Joy LP" in a high quality six-panel cardboard sleeve/case, featuring original and fantastical full color photography, song lyrics, and liner notes. PLUS stickers, SD lyric collector cards, AND a hidden bonus track upon download for the particularly curious... schwing!
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    Who doesn't love getting good old fashioned mail? Support SD and spread the love of music all over the globe with these limited edition "Where's Sara Dee?" postcards.
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Digital booklet available upon download exclusively at Bandcamp.

Lyrics and music by Sara Dee. Recorded at Sea Palace Studios in Palos Verdes, California (mixed and engineered by Joel Geist) and Red Rockets Glare in Los Angeles (engineered by Raymond Richards). Mastered by Rob Beaton.

The in.Joy LP Magicians:
Sara Dee: vocals, acoustic/electric guitar, accordion, ukulele, piano (tracks 7 and 11), glockenspiel, and percussives (4 and 11)
Bryon Holley: drums, cajon, percussives, udu, velcro, tree branches...
Danae Thomason: violin
Steve Aguilar: piano, hammond, wurlitzer
Peter Cho: cajon
Al Kim: bass
Shaun Hague: mandolin, electric/slide guitar
Joel Geist: bass
Jason Buck: bass
Lou Castro: upright
Scott Burns: cello

Special Thanks to Bryon Holley, Ami Kunimura, Nate Weiner, & Sediqa Amed for putting the art in party (track 12) and to Ami and Sean van Dine for loaning fantastical ukes, and to Sharon Nystrom for an incredible accordion.

Listen to additional tracks and live performances at: youtube.com/SaraDeeLive

Stay connected at:
Reverbnation.com/SaraDee
Facebook.com/SaraDeeMusic
Myspace.com/SaraDeeMusic

Official Site: www.SingSaraSing.com

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released 23 May 2010

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tags: pop acoustic folk jazz pop singer-songwriter ukulele Los Angeles

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Straight from the go, Dee makes it clear she’s got pipes. Her vocals on “We Can Be Love” are mostly beautiful, retaining a ... more twang of that rawness she possesses... with a voice strong enough to clean the rust off of nails, she sings songs of life, trial, and hope with a vocal range that runs from beautiful and soft to severe and raw. Pretty meets gritty. Tribulation finds hope. -Dirty Hippie Radio less

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Track Name: Redefined
Key: D minor

V1
Overnight, I’ve been redefined.
A long time coming, it’s time
Scattered pieces from a troubled mind,
Have got to find a new song to live by

V2
I’ve got to close my eyes,
I’ve got to find the source of light that lights me up inside
Break these chains we build in our minds,
I’ve got to find a new song to live, to live by

V3
Oh love look what you’ve become.
Keep it up, lay your bricks one by one
Stop those noises, they cloud your mind,
You’ve got to find a new song to live by
Track Name: We Can Be Love (album single)
Key: Cm

V1
I’ve listened to all the stories.
Oh grandma found it, but mama’s is gone.
I had a little but I lost it,
Wouldn’t it be nice if all the love that died passed on

V2
I’ve got no reason, rhyme or rancour.
One gets eternity, one loses their hand,
I’d like to think I’ve got mine coming,
But love is not a promise, just an extra lucky hand

CH
Oh I believe you and I could make a good bit of fun
So why don’t we make a little company,
We'll say goodbye to the sun
I’ll bring the wine, let’s meet by the sea,
We can be love to one another.

V3
We’ve weathered all of the love songs.
The only thing that makes them new is you.
So let’s go stir a little trouble,
There’s nothing I’d rather do than love this world with you

CH

Bridge
It’s a monster, a myth, a mystery
I’m surrounded by beauty but still fight to see
Love has convinced my heart to believe
That everything is better when you’re holding me
Track Name: If You, I May (few steps back)
Key of E

V1 / V2
If you write me, I may write you back.
If it’s two words, mine are too
If you call me I may call you back
But I will wait as long as you

If you send me letters signed with love,
I may share a piece of my heart
Oh I’ll draw you one above my name,
It’s what I can give you to start

CHORUS
But if you leave my words unanswered,
I will leave yours too
I’ve learned to take a few steps back,
A few steps back from you

V3 / V4
Once I changed your name to not yet,
To wait a little while
To create more space between us
On top of two thousand miles,

So if I start to feel taken for granted I will fade
Oh I told you once I told me twice
I wasn’t looking for charades

CHORUS
Track Name: Make Believe (sway back)
Key Am

VI
I’m convinced that you’re intrigued,
By what you seem to think you see
It’s a shame how the lights deceive.
Truth be told you nothing of me

CHORUS
Sway back, sit back and relax
Sway back, sit back and relax
It’s just make believe

V2
It’s the same, we both see
Something that we wish we could be
And oh, that’s how we
Can sit so closely and play make believe

CHORUS

V3
You on your ivories watch how we
Compose ourselves into melodies
You make me beautiful in ways I’ve not seen
Oh it’s a shame you know nothing of me

CHORUS (w/extended ending)

Outro
Track Name: Be My Life
Key: Cm

CHORUS
You have my heart, you have my mind
Take all you can of me please,
Please be my life

V1
You always find your way back into my heart
Why do I always find ways to let us part

CHORUS

V2
The darkness is ravenous for a good soul
The more I feed the monster, the stronger it grows

V3
I think I was made for you, I think I am yours
Do what you will with me...

CHORUS (repeat)
Track Name: You Again
Key: G

VI
Hush those voices in your head
They breathe to life when you give in
All the worries you have seen
Are nothing more than illusions

V2
Let the tears roll from your eyes
Keep them from burying inside
Stop the noises from outside
This melody is for you, dear sunshine

CHORUS
Ooh, Ooh

V3
The rain and tears will subside
Caving in from all your light
A peace is waiting for your soul
Borrow some to make you whole

CHORUS
You can give it back when you are you again

V4
The beauty of this delicacy
You know your eyes have seen
Stop the noises from outside
This melody is yours dear sunshine

CHORUS
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh

This melody is yours dear sunshine
Ooh…
Track Name: Your Storm
C Major (6/4)

V1
I wrote the melody that you are trying to play
And all your dissonant sounds,
They just get in my way

Oh the things I’ve learned
From those too many drinks we’ve made

CHORUS
If my intentions, get trampled by your fire
Ill learn to fade, and I’ll walk away
I can’t keep running circles
To calm your storm, your storm

V2
I can do this alone with just one on my side
I figured this out before,
I know peace in this life

V3
I hope this melody will find it’s way
Through all the dissonant sounds
That just get in your way

CHORUS
You can’t keep running circles,
You can’t keep running circles
You can’t keep running circles
To calm your storm, your storm
Track Name: Give it Time
Key: B

V1
Give it time, get it right
Get yourself rest tonight

V2
Give it time, look at you’re life
There are pieces you’ve yet to find

CHORUS
Ooh…

V3
Give it time, keep in mind
A greater love is yours to find

CH: Ooh… (repeat)

V4
In time, you will find
Love will keep you, love will keep you
Love will keep… you… satisfied

CHORUS
Track Name: Worth Fighting
Key: C

V1
If a woman never does you any wrong
If her melody is nothing but an honest song
Then I believe she is worth fighting for

V2
If the strength she possesses makes you stop and stare
If her beauty is another kind of rare
Then I believe she is worth fighting for

PRE CHORUS / CHORUS
Some swear there is someone for everyone,
I see one for one not always add up
And just how much does my belief in love
Change what is to come

Oh...

V3
If you’re the kind of woman that looks down on fear
While your heart waits patiently through painful tears
Then I believe you are worth fighting for

Oh…

V4
If the wisdom she whispers puts your mind at ease
If her love is the kind that could bring world peace
Then I believe she is worth fighting for,
Yes I believe she is worth fighting for
Oh I believe I am worth fighting for

Yes I believe I am worth fighting for
Track Name: Wake Up
Key: C

V1
Wake up, you’ve been dead.
Use your legs, get out of bed
Write your dreams down in a box
So you can temporarily move on

Say hello to the sun or gloom,
Say a prayer to help get you through
Get yourself all fresh and new,
This could be the last day for you

CHORUS
Oh do you wonder where you could be,
If you followed your call of love in thee
Oh child, believe that you could be free

V3
Look up, you’ve been down,
Force a little smile to break through your frown
Let the light come shining in,
Fill you deep into your bones and through your skin

Stand up, use your feet,
They only go as far as you let yourself dream
You’ve been wandering, it’s been nice,
But you swear there’s got to be more to your life

CHORUS

Ah-Ooh...
Track Name: Home to You
Key: C

V1
She wakes up every morning,
All along with the same old story
Makes a cup of coffee,
It feels like home but a piece is missing

PRE CHORUS
If she could sing out a song,
To get to where she belongs
To her love, a thousand miles away
She would sing a hundred times for you today

CHORUS 1
I believe it’s time that you’re arms find their way to mine
I believe it’s true, I’ve been waiting a long time for you
So please come on home, it doesn’t matter where we go
As long as I can be with you, I would leave it all behind

V2
Finding patterns, cutting pieces,
Sewing dresses just to pass the time by
All her papers neatly filed,
Somehow all the pages help her hide and pass the time

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS 2
Oh I believe that you were made for me and
I believe it’s true, I’ve been waiting so patiently for you
So please come on home, it doesn’t matter where we go
As long as I can be with you,
I would leave it all behind to come home to you

BRIDGE
In her dream she can feel so close, so real.
But all alone she wakes, praying

CHORUS 1 and 2
Track Name: Lead You Home
Key of E

V1
Oh it’s time to come home to you,
To come back to me, chance everything
A thousand thoughts have run through,
Analysis just won’t do I’m moving on blind
With all my faith in you

V2
It’s time, I’ve got to let this go,
And learn to believe in all the truth I know
As I travel on my way, if I find that I’ve lost faith
Lead me home, let my heart be whole

CHORUS
Believe in everything that you know is true
Go on and find your home,
If you need I’ll be right here for you
So go spread your wings,
Find the love that makes you whole
Oh just believe that your heart will lead you home

MID BREAK
Everything is gonna be alright,
Everything is gonna be just fine in time (repeat)

BRIDGE
As real a chance is as real as a dream is as real as this song that you hear me sing (repeat)
Oh I’m moving on (x3)