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Is This Heartbreak?

by Sarah Dooley

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1.
my body is champagne my insides float on a bed of bubbly my blood froths frosty and chilled but pour me out too fast i spill oh sure, i’m good at a party but sip more than a nip and you’re quick to get sick of me all i need’s a garnish a little bit of zest in me won’t you be my garnish you little raspberry? ‘cause i’m about to pop i’m about to pop i’m about to pop right out of my skin i’m about to-- all i need’s a garnish a little bit of zest in me won’t you be my garnish you little raspberry? ‘cause i’m about to pop won’t you look at me? i’m about to pop won’t you tell me please i’m about to pop are you ready? ready for me? i’m about to pop won’t you look at me? i’m about to pop won’t you tell me please i’m about to pop are you ready? ready for me? ‘cause sure, i’m good at a party but when the party is over will you still want me? will you still want me?
2.
My Party 04:16
why did you go home after my party? is it ‘cause i kissed you in the dark? i’m sorry why did you go home? don’t you like my party dress? don’t you want my body anymore? it wasn’t a thing but it wasn’t nothing it wasn’t a thing ‘til you said those words it wasn’t a thing but it wasn’t nothing it wasn’t a thing ‘til you said those words and i don’t go with boys like you ‘cause i don’t cry and wait around but you are on your way home and some girl’s tears are on the ground why did you go home? are my friends not funny am i not that funny anymore? why did you go home? who’s there for you at home? was i weird on the phone was i too weird on the phone? ‘cause it wasn’t a thing but it wasn’t nothing it wasn’t a thing ‘til you said those words and now it’s a thing maybe a good thing now it’s a thing ‘cause you said those words and i don’t go with boys like you ‘cause i don’t cry and wait around but you are on your way home and some girl’s tears are on the ground i lie awake i’m still awake i sit and wait and for nothing why won’t you stay why won’t you stay am i pushing you away am i pushing you away and i don’t go with boys like you ‘cause i don’t cry and wait around but you are on your way home and some girl’s tears are on the ground ‘cause it wasn’t a thing
3.
Twisted 02:59
you are what i’m looking for and you know it and you know it you came my way and i had to go and blow it i had to go and blow it when you left i was a mess started walking everywhere hoping i might see you there you said our love is so twisted we’re so twisted but you came back think you might have missed it i think you missed it you said my head is always in the gutter and we’re bad for each other but if you want what i want then how can we be wrong? and i’ve waited for so long you said our love is so twisted that’s what you said but you came right back think you might have missed it i think you missed it i think you missed it
4.
when you go away i will be fine i’ll use a secret weapon called my mind when you go away i will be fine i may miss you bad but i’m not going back i am stronger than that i can bounce right back and i will be fine when you’re gone when you’re gone i am at a crossroads in my life except all of the street signs have been vandalized and i don’t know where to go but i’m not going home i’m not going home i am stronger than that i can bounce right back and i will be fine when you’re gone when you’re gone when you’re gone i may miss you bad but i’m not going back and though i feel so sad i know that it won’t last i know that it won’t last ‘cause i was more than that than that i am stronger than that i can bounce right back and you you’ll feel it too when i’m gone when i’m gone i am stronger than that i can bounce right back and you’ll feel it too when i’m gone when i’m gone when i’m gone
5.
Two Marbles 03:03
when you said “your eyes are like two marbles” when you said “they’re the kind i could look at for hours” well, i died i died i died i died yeah, i died i died i died inside when you said “your hair is just like an otter’s” but you said that’s a good thing ‘cause they live in really good water well, i died i died i died i died yeah I died i died i died inside what you said what you said doesn’t make much sense but to me and the otters what you said what you said means more to me than all the others so i said “your head looks just like a pumpkin” and i said it’s the kind i would put on my porch and make pie with and you died you died you died you died now we’re dead now we’re dead now we’re dead yeah, we died yeah, we’re dead yeah we’re dead yeah we’re dead yeah, we died yeah, i died yeah, i died yeah, i died
6.
Only Child 03:38
do you ever get lonely? you say you are an only child i guess that’s a no, then but i wish you could teach me how you say you can only be lonely if you know what not being lonely feels like well i know what it feels like and now i know never fall for the only child never fall for the only child he doesn’t care if you live or die so don’t fall for the only child never fall for the only child but wasn’t it nice when we were kissing on the train? wasn’t it nice when you were holding my hand? or how bout the morning we were singing Joni Mitchell and laughing didn’t that feel good? didn’t that feel good? well now i know never fall for the only child never fall for the only child he doesn’t care if you live or die so don’t fall for the only child never fall for the only child ‘cause in the night the only child doesn’t know how to share a bed and in the night the only child is all elbows into my head don’t ever ask him to need you ‘cause he can’t the only child can’t even keep a potted plant a potted plant so when i am lonely i’m not gonna go to you i’ll call someone with brothers and maybe a sister too ‘cause i deserve someone who cares what the hell i’m up to and that isn’t you that isn’t you never fall for the only child never fall for the only child he doesn’t care if you live or die so don’t fall for the only child never fall for the only child never fall for the only child never fall for the only child he doesn’t care if you live or die so don’t fall for the only child never fall for the only child don’t fall for the only child never fall for the only child
7.
you make my heart soar but not like a bird like an overworked muscle i’m tired you make my heart sore but not like a bird like an overworked muscle i’m tired but i love you and i always do i always do and i love you and i always do i always do i made your heart break but more like a car my foot was on the pedal before we got too far if i could go back i’d do it again ‘cause now i know it’s never good enough nothing, no one is ever good enough and i loved you and i always do i always do and i loved you ‘cause i always do i always do
8.
i shocked myself this morning on a lightbulb i was unscrewing my arm was someone else’s for a fraction of a second in the fixture little bugs lay and i washed them out of their luminous grave but then the light was much too bright and i gave them a second mourning last night you were in my dream you were you and i was me then you were Alex Trebek and i was still me then there was a sex part i stole either yours or Alex’s heart but goodness knows i hope it was you and i hope it was me i hope it was you and i hope it was me i flossed my teeth for the first time this morning after hearing a very scary orthodontist’s warning i watched Three's Company until you called me but you never called me when will we go when will we go out? i’ll go to your show go to your show and give you a chance and then a second chance and we’ll wake up in the morning last night you were in my dream you were you and i was me then you were Alex Trebek and i was still me then there was a good sex part i stole either yours or Alex’s heart but goodness knows i hope it was you i hope it was you and i hope it was me
9.
Shut Up 04:15
out in the forest i did not have to talk but at the table it was not knowing how to walk so i just shut up i just shut up i just shut up and stared at my spaghetti but when i shut up nobody looked up so if you shut up make sure that you are ready but i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you and in that moment i’m coming to save you so you don’t shut up too i’m telling you i could avoid it for about 22 years but then the world, it it started hating on my ears and it wouldn’t shut up it wouldn’t shut up it wouldn’t shut up and i could not afford ear plugs so if you shut up get ready to stock up ‘cause when you shut up you’re going to get an earful but i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you i dare you and in that moment i’m coming to save you so you don’t shut up too i’m telling you i’m telling you i’m telling you doors they shut up drawers they shut up windows they shut up too jars they shut up banks they shut up cellars they shut up but not you! they didn’t shut up they didn’t shut up they didn’t shut up we didn’t shut up! we didn’t shut up so why should you? now you’re up
10.
i look at you what do you wanna do? i look at you and i smile you look at me and who can tell what you see couldn’t you give me a try? is this love? is this heartbreak? is this love? is this? is this heartbreak? i think that we could be something good, you see or am i just living a lie? ‘cause when i see you around i just stare at the ground ‘cause it gets me so high is this love? is this heartbreak? is this love? is this? is this heartbreak? take me back to the way that we were yesterday take me back to the way is this love? is this heartbreak? is this love? is this? is this heartbreak? is this heartbreak? is this heartbreak? is this heartbreak?

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released October 23, 2020

All songs written by Sarah Dooley

Producer: Evan Johnston
Engineer: Yale Yng-Wong
“My Body Is Champagne” arranged by Solomon Hoffman

Musicians:
Sarah Dooley (vocals/piano/mandolin), Evan Johnston (vocals/piano/mandolin/synths/additional electric bass), Jesse Chevan (drums), Robbie Klein (electric bass), Austin Mendenhall (guitars), Joanna Sternberg (upright bass), Audrey Hayes (violin), Kevin Kuh (violin), Georgina Rossi (viola), Susan Mandel (cello), Bill Todd (flute), Blair Shepperd (bassoon), Evan Honse (trumpet), Cameron West (horn), Rachel Meirs (viola), Eric Allen (cello).



Recorded at Doctor Wu’s and Mozart Street Studios.

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Sarah Dooley New York, New York

Sarah Dooley is a Brooklyn-based musician and comedian. Her album Stupid Things was profiled on NPR and hit #16 on the iTunes pop charts. Her cover of But Not for Me was recently in CBS's The Good Fight. Her original comedy book 'Are You My Uber?' was published by Running Press. In 2011 she wrote and starred in a web series "And Sarah" that was featured in the New York Times. ... more

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