Credits — Wila Frank

LYRICS:

Tonight

I can see you standing on the gravel drive

First you look down, then you look up at the sky

Half alive, something’s weighing on your mind

Pacing up and down in some crooked kind of line

Are you lost? Are you a lost cause?

With that light in your pocket and that ember in your eye

Are you alone? Do you want to be alone?

Will you let me walk with you

We could both be lost tonight

I think I know how you’re feeling

Pain without tears, age without years

It’s a long and lonesome road out here on our own

But I am with you now and you can call me home

Are you lost? Are you a lost cause?

With that light in your pocket and that ember in your eye

Are you alone? Do you want to be alone?

Will you let me walk with you

We could both be lost tonight

Tonight

Oh, Fate

Oh, Fate I can feel you now, put me down

Oh, Shadow I can see you now all around me

I would give up my comforts, I would give up my crown

I’d give up my voice, no I don’t need to make a sound

Oh, Fate release me, I wanna run free

And I’d give you anything if you would let me be

I keep finding myself in your arms again, and again

You’re an old lover, you’re a cold fighter, my friend

I would give up my comforts, I would give up my crown

I’d give up my voice, no I don’t need to make a sound

Oh, Fate release me, I wanna run free

And I’d give you anything if you would let me be

Whatcha gonna do with me? What can I do to make amends?

Are you gonna take me with you, or are you gonna leave me here in the end?

I would give up my comforts, I would give up my crown

I’d give up my voice, no I don’t need to make a sound

Oh, Fate release me, I wanna run free

And I’d give you anything if you would let me be

Fire

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I find you

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I have you

What’s gonna happen to me if I don’t get to hold you?

Meet me in the night with mud in your hair

Take me to the river get me out of here

We could get drunk on my lack of fear

And I could tell you something that you wanna hear

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I find you

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I have you

What’s gonna happen to me if I don’t get to hold you?

Just because I look like I’m falling apart

Doesn’t mean I don’t know what I want

I think I might have something to prove to you

And I’m gonna do it if it’s the last thing I do

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I find you

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I have you

What’s gonna happen to me if I don’t get to hold you?

Oh, you’re my little star, you’re my shining star

You’re my golden star, you’re my morning star

You’re my northern star, you’re my dark star

You’re my shining star, you’re my little star

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I find you

There’s a fire in my head that’s gonna burn until I have you

What’s gonna happen to me if I don’t get to hold you?

Burning Up

Something’s gonna make me suffer bad

Then it’s gonna pull me under

Darling don’t be mad

Darling I’m in a race car

I’m going round and round and round

When it crash won’t you take my body from the flames?

Darling I hit the gas

I push it down, down, down

Going faster than I ever gone before

Darling I can’t help it

When I hear that sound, sound, sound

I gotta get in the game even if it takes me down

I’m burning up x4

Darling I’m in a race car

I’m going round and round and round

When it crash won’t you take my body from the flames?

Darling I hit the gas

(Something gonna make me suffer)

I push it down, down, down

(Bad)

Going faster than I ever gone before

(Then it’s gonna pull me under

Darling don’t be mad)

Darling I can’t help it

(Something gonna make me suffer)

When I hear that sound, sound, sound

(Bad)

I gotta get in the game even if it takes me down

(Then it’s gonna pull me under

Darling don’t be mad)

I’m burning up x4

(Something’s gonna make me suffer

Bad

Then it’s gonna pull me under

Darling don’t be mad)

Obsession

Three years I followed you from the crowd

You could make the darkness call to me somehow

And I thought this must be love

Through the gravel alleys we would walk away (walk away)

And I would fall ten thousand feet to hear you say what you’d say

And I thought this must be love

And I’ve come a long way from my obsession with you, it’s true

Yeah but I’m afraid, if you loved me I’d let you

I wanted something in you that you couldn’t share

I tried so hard to tell you but you couldn’t hear

And I thought this must be love

Did you see the light that bent through my eyes? No

Did you see the shadows that I tried to hide? No

Did you know that I thought this must be love?

And I’ve come a long way from my obsession with you, it’s true

Yeah but I’m afraid, if you loved me I’d let you

And I’ve come a long way from my obsession with you, it’s true

Yeah but I’m afraid, if you loved me I’d let you

Ohhh

Black Cloud

Close the curtains, pull the strings

Drop like a dove with metal wings

Undo your collar, it’s okay

Red like the war, skin torn away

I don’t ever want to see you hurt again, promise me

When it comes for us just leave

Don’t think of me, don’t wait for me

Oh, you’ll never see through my empty eyes

Just how broken I can be

I saw the black cloud rise

And I can’t help it I won’t breathe

I’d rather die than see you long for anything

And it’s too late for me to change

You’re like the darkness, all that remains

Oh, you’ll never see through my empty eyes

Just how broken I can be

I saw the black cloud rise

Oh, you’ll never see through my empty eyes

Just how broken I can be

I saw the black cloud rise

I saw the black cloud

Ghosts and Guitars

Here we are with our ghosts and guitars

We’ve been suffering in silence so long

I can see where you’ve been torn apart

I can see into your broken heart

Lying out in the sun

We are troubled, we are young

We’ve got nothing much to do or say

Dive into the cool, clear water

The splash it will make us smile

Ahhh

I love you for your sadness

I don’t know you, but I love you for being sad

Is that bad?

I love you, it’s some sort of madness

Lay your head on me

And we’ll laugh about everything

Watching the stars come out one by one

Wishing you were here with me

You sure know how to have a good time

Running around the world without a dime

I love you for your sadness

I don’t know you, but I love you for being sad

Is that bad?

I love you, it’s some sort of madness

Lay your head on me

And we’ll laugh about everything

Executioner

I’m in love with my executioner, baby

There’s something so sweet about his eyes

I think he’s such a revolutionary, baby

I can hear him crying as he sharpens his knife

Maybe I should run away, maybe I should get away

But I wanna see the sun go down in the morning

In the morning

Oh I wanna see the sun go down in the morning

In the morning

Oooh I’m in love and it’s a blissful disaster, baby

I can’t even tell my fingers from my toes

I’ve never felt my heart beat faster, baby

And I wanna see how fast it can go

Maybe I should run away, maybe I should get away

But I wanna see the sun go down in the morning

In the morning

Oh I wanna see the sun go down in the morning

In the morning

Ohhh

I’ve known this feeling before

Like a hollow shell

Where the nights are a tender heaven

And the days a strange sort of hell

When you breathe I hold my breath

When you speak I listen well

If only I could know you

Then maybe I could know myself

Black Cloud Album CREDITS:

All songs written and produced by Wila Frank

Guitars, Violins, Synth- Wila Frank

Bass, Vocals (Burning Up, Ghosts & Guitars, Executioner)- Royal Masat

Drums- Wendy Killman

Double bass (Black Cloud)- Paul Kowert

Recorded and edited by Jake Stargel

Drums recorded by Jérémy Rassat

Vocals recorded at Blackbird Studio

Mixed by Sam Petts-Davies

Mastered by Calbi/Fallone at Sterling Sound

Guitar tech and gear by Matthew Clinkenbeard

Photograph by David Piñeros