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The Birthday Collection

by Kate McGill

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Lawrence Quest
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Lawrence Quest Been listening to this all day, and I love every song. They are all emotional, raw and so unique. When listening to these songs, I can feel what you were feeling when writing them, which is heart-warming/breaking. Thank you, xx Favorite track: Something, Anything.
Hugo Quest
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Hugo Quest Your song writing is so powerful and emotional . I love how raw and beautiful these songs feel! You're inspiring, whether it be in Meadowlark or in your solo music. All the love! x
jasonappleseed
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jasonappleseed Kate, this is amazing and beautiful. Thank you. Happy birthday.
Hassles
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Hassles Kate has always been wonderful, from her You-Tube stuff, solo endeavours, onward to Meadowlark and now this solo re-emergence - fabulous.
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1.
You 03:50
i don't know about love but i know it terrifies me god knows what i felt before but this is different when you call me in the night i wonder how i did this without you when you call me in the night i wonder how i did this without you what is it about you? i can't seem to shake away, i can't i can't seem to shake away what is it about you? i can't seem to shake away, i can't i don't know you that well but i know you're worth it all, you're worth it i can feel myself falling slow and i think you know when you call me in the night i wonder how i did this without you when you call me in the night i wonder how i did this without you what is it about you? i can't seem to shake away, i can't i can't seem to shake away what is it about you? i can't seem to shake away, i can't i'll make excuses up as i go i'm falling hard and you know the worst is that you know
2.
Now 04:28
i've been going over every word walking away, i felt the weight above me losing you can only hurt i've been waking up to darkened days feeling the pain, nothing to gain without you looking for an easier way i think you went around the moon to get to the sun but your heart was in the way so you hit and run and i don't understand but i'm here alone now i think you went around the moon to get to the sun but your heart was in the way so you hit and run and i don't understand but i'm here alone now i'm here alone now i'm here alone now i'm here alone now i'm here alone now i'd be lying if i said i knew why did you lie? why did you let me suffer? was loving me so hard to do? i can't overthink 'cause i won't know what i did wrong, why i did not believe you you and i were meant to grow i think you went around the moon to get to the sun but your heart was in the way so you hit and run and i don't understand but i'm here alone now i think you went around the moon to get to the sun but your heart was in the way so you hit and run and i don't understand but i'm here alone now you said "too much doesn't feel right" can't you at least put up a fight?
3.
Little Boxes 03:57
your tears alight with fear is it so hard to love yourself? you are better off here, I promise you dear why is it so hard to love yourself? you're hiding all your light in little boxes hiding all your light but if you go back but if you go back home home where all of this home where all of this but if you go back but if you go back home home where all of this home where all of this is... it'll take you down your lips are stained with myths people don't know the truth they hold you are better than this i promise you darling one day you will see a heart of gold you're hiding all your light in little boxes hiding all your light but if you go back but if you go back home home where all of this home where all of this but if you go back but if you go back home home where all of this home where all of this is... it'll take you down and I don't know about you but I'll try to see behind your lies
4.
feed my heart you make it brand new with the god that's in you clear my lungs take all of the air, but you leave me with none spare hear me sing these words about you, but don't mention it again hear me cry but keep in another room until the next try stay this far away just watch from a distance as i stand up okay don't get closer to me it won't help the mending and i won't let this be it's all about the one who loved you and the lack of the clues it's all about the silence after the fall the crashing down of it all stay this far away just watch from a distance as i stand up okay don't get closer to me it won't help the mending and i won't let this be even thought i lost the fight i feel there's something inside me i need to thank you for the plight for all that it's made of me stay this far away just watch from a distance as i stand up okay don't get closer to me it won't help the mending and i won't let this be
5.
Counterfeit 03:54
you told me you were going that November knowing we didn't feel time it didn't even align there's something in the glowing that helped us keep it going when the time came there was no one to blame but since you left I feel sadness never gone away six months to live my life in such a different way this feels counterfeit without you in it is there something in a cloud to give a reason why I think about you every time I see the sun? this feels counterfeit without you in it with you over the ocean i feel every emotion i'm so happy when you're coming to life but I can't control my fears as November nears will it be the same? will it be the same? 'cause since you left I feel sadness never gone away six months to live my life in such a different way this feels counterfeit without you in it is there something in a cloud to give a reason why I think about you every time I see the sun? this feels counterfeit without you in it
6.
Weave 04:48
i will force my hand to wade through the thickened sand it will break all my skin and i'll feel it immersing in i will bring it up force myself to love the cup that holds all of my half empty promises i make up tell me i'll get there in the end tell me i'll get there in the end i know you will only do right by me just give me a missing puzzle piece it's hard to believe this weave is woven by your hands but i'll stand on the edge of your sea i get help from them but i have no choice of when one day moves to the next so damn easily i'm not sure it's true but i guess it'll have to do soon i'll realise i'm the one wise enough to love you tell me i'll get there in the end tell me i'll get there in the end i know you will only do right by me just give me a missing puzzle piece it's hard to believe this weave is woven by your hands but i'll stand on the edge of your sea
7.
convulsing fear all day, every way the loss so big no words i can say to cement the us to cement this day i try forcing happy ever more 'cause i know sadness like never before i want this us i want this way you're my oxygen, i'm running low gimme something to fill me up 'cause you feel it and i need it and i know that you can give it to me please i wish i could feel the freedom of knowing that i can't know the outcome but how can i sit idley by? you're my oxygen, i'm running low gimme something to fill me up 'cause you feel it and i need it and i know that you can give it to me please something, anything something, oh anything something, anything

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it's my birthday today - and i wanted to celebrate by putting 7 of my favourite songs that i've written over the last couple of years in a little collection for you all, including a brand new one called 'something, anything' - and giving them away to you at any price you wish! even absolutely nothing. i love you guys, thanks for everything. XXx

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released March 10, 2017

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