Girl Blue

5 albums

If you like Alanis Morissette, Jeff Buckley, and crying in public, you’re going to love Girl Blue. Writing deeply felt songs with strong singable hooks, singer/songwriter/producer Arielle O’Keefe is absolutely one to watch. She’s been featured on top Spotify playlists (New Music Friday) and charts (#2 on US Viral Charts), in national commercials, and on top blogs like the Huffington Post. It’s been said “she…has the kind of spark that makes stars” (The Alt), and most especially as a live performer she has an authenticity that regularly moves audience members to tears. She has based herself in Troy, NY, where she writes and records music.

Music

18 songs
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1
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac Cover - Master Rep) Dreams
03:43

Lyrics:

Now there you go again, you say You want your freedom Well who am I to keep you down It's only right that you should Play the way you feel it But listen carefully to the sound Of your loneliness Like a heartbeat drives you mad In the stillness of remembering what you had And what you lost, and what you had, and what you lost Thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say women they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know, you'll know Now here I go again, I see my crystal visions I keep my visions to myself, it's only me Who wants to wrap around your dreams and, Have you any dreams you'd like to sell? Dreams of loneliness, Like a heartbeat, drives you mad In the stillness of remembering, what you had, And what you lost and what you had and what you lost Thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know Thunder only happens when it's raining Players only love you when they're playing Say, women, they will come and they will go When the rain washes you clean, you'll know You'll know, you will know, you'll know
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Dreams (Fleetwood Mac Cover - Master Rep)(Instrumental)
Instrumental
03:45
2
04:18

Lyrics:

Met you in your shadow dark Absinthe bar You shaved your head It left a scar We bunkered down Windowless room Our hateful sex I love, you lose You bathed me Laid me down clean sheets We took half of that blue pill each Our vacant dates Carnival shows That Ferris wheel Our highest low I should have believed you when you said you felt the rope around your neck Instead I believed you when you said that we were back to back And I've never been one to ask for a hand Never been one to take what was given Never seen love so cold and undressed Never lived life so lifeless Oh, my one and only Only leaves me lonely Only leaves me lonely Oh, if I could only Leave my one and only Read all of your movie scripts with murder scenes Familiar faces all I see My happy made you sad and sly Your honest made me beg for lies A temper tantrum's bloated world Staccato man, limber girl The rippling walls The paper moon The dial tone The dancers doomed And I should have believed you when you said you felt the rope around your throat Instead I believed you when you said you still had hope And I've never been one to ask for a hand Never been one to take what was given Never seen love so cold and undressed Never lived life so lifeless Oh, my one and only Only leaves me lonely Only leaves me lonely Oh, if I could only Leave my one and only Your creeping creature My bloodless heart You fill me up My shadow dark I love you like I love myself Like no one, like nobody else I should have believed you when you said you felt the rope around your neck Instead I believed you when you said that we were back to back Now I've never been one to ask for a hand Never been one to take what was given Never seen love so cold and undressed Never lived life so lifeless Oh, my one and only Only leaves me lonely Only leaves me lonely Oh, if I could only Leave my one and only
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One & Only (Instrumental)
Instrumental
04:21
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Lolita Lolita
04:26

Lyrics:

i was standin' around like one of those girls i had seen in a movie the whole world was a movie back then i had my sunglasses on i wanted to be seen without seeing Shy Lolita i wasn't really in it i didn't really get it i was every single girl, i was nobody else i was so sure of myself i was fifteen and a half he was a hollow laugh and i lost my cool somewhere along the way the nightmare down the hallway i had to learn how to look away i lost my cool no electricity hot rain on the concrete and sweet melting little girl dreams they said oh i want a big life not a 'how sad coulda been' life where are you taking me, where are you taking me i say everything i do i feel farther removed from my old life where is it taking me, where is it taking me i was standin' on my best friend's balcony feelin' a certain kinda wise at seventeen thinking the flare on the lens was the real thing she was with her boyfriend in the back room i was chain-smoking cigarettes and looking at the moon thought i was really in it i didn't really get it i lost my cool somewhere around the bend it started making less sense holding onto all that innocence i lost my cool i found it in a chemical dream the whole world is a movie screen and hudson avenue's melting i say oh i want a big life not a 'how sad coulda been' life where are you taking me, where are you taking me i say everything i do i feel farther removed from my old life where is it taking me, where is it taking me a portrait of my mother she says stay young, stay young, stay young, stay young i see my baby brother i just come undone it's some life i been living you don't know 'til you're in it then all of a sudden you can't get get back back out run run away oh i want a big life not a 'how sad coulda been' life where are you taking me, where are you taking me i say everything i do i feel closer to some kind of new life where is it taking me, where is it taking me
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Lolita (Instrumental)
Instrumental
04:26
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Fire Under Water I Am Not A Star
03:57

Lyrics:

Yes, I remember how I met you But we will not talk about it Reminiscing’s what we left behind To get where we are now To get where we are now Yet, sometimes it feels like we are still Those young and stunning strangers You threw a shadow in my spotlight I had a song called danger I had a song called danger But now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my side I got nothing to hope for, honey I got nothing to hide Now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my mind And that ocean’s endless deep And that ocean’s endless wide, but Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water I go down, down, down, down, down But I come up burning every time Yes, I remember how I met you The serendipities and details It’s these kinds of moments that Give me a reason to believe Give me a reason to believe Every ship that I had captained Had been lost to stormy weather Until you came along and I thought we just might get home together I thought we might get home together But now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my side I got nothing to hope for, honey I got nothing to hide Now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my mind And that ocean’s endless deep And that ocean’s endless wide, but Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water I go down, down, down, down, down I go down, down, down, deep down I go down, down, down, down, down I still come up burning every time
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Fire Under Water (Instrumental)
Instrumental
04:02
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Because It Moves Me (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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04:36

Lyrics:

I don't know what to do with these hands of mine It looks like I’ve got twenty fingers, way they’re shaking all the time I am a child, I know that always But I'm a daughter, and that I constantly forget I’ve got a head that's like a bomb just threatening to detonate And a heart that pumps as well as any other but still aches I'm in love with an unforeseen version of a person I've already met And I am humbled and afraid of all the things that I know that I don't know yet They say work hard They say play They say work hard They say play But they think hard work is a montage from a movie And I keep playing the same song because it moves me Sometimes I feel the way I light the room It’s as warm as any sun but shines like only can the moon Yet for all that I can be I am more when I can see how bad he wants to be my fool And I'm learning to get over feeling small Yeah, most people, when they meet me now, they treat me really tall Yet for all that I may be I am nothing so quickly when he don't call And I am humbled and afraid to break a thing that I have never touched at all They say love hard They say don't stay They say love hard But don’t give it all away But they think true love is a montage from a movie And I keep sticking to this man ’cause he still moves me I don't know if I’ve missed the point by now If the winds I kept at bay have finally blown my house right down I put all my energy toward saving one thing To watch everything else drown But there's got to be a fire that burns above Even with my shaking hands I can still grasp that kind of love It is safe and it is real It's the kind that makes you feel forever young And I am humbled and afraid that I won't know it when it finally shows up They say work hard They say play They say love hard Then run away Maybe life is just a montage from a movie But I’ll keep repeating the same song long as it moves me
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Because It Moves Me I Am Not A Star
04:19

Lyrics:

I don't know what to do with these hands of mine It looks like I’ve got twenty fingers, way they’re shaking all the time I am a child, I know that always But I'm a daughter, and that I constantly forget I’ve got a head that's like a bomb just threatening to detonate And a heart that pumps as well as any other but still aches I'm in love with an unforeseen version of a person I've already met And I am humbled and afraid of all the things that I know that I don't know yet They say work hard They say play They say work hard They say play But they think hard work is a montage from a movie And I keep playing the same song because it moves me Sometimes I feel the way I light the room It’s as warm as any sun but shines like only can the moon Yet for all that I can be I am more when I can see how bad he wants to be my fool And I'm learning to get over feeling small Yeah, most people, when they meet me now, they treat me really tall Yet for all that I may be I am nothing so quickly when he don't call And I am humbled and afraid to break a thing that I have never touched at all They say love hard They say don't stay They say love hard But don’t give it all away But they think true love is a montage from a movie And I keep sticking to this man ’cause he still moves me I don't know if I’ve missed the point by now If the winds I kept at bay have finally blown my house right down I put all my energy toward saving one thing To watch everything else drown But there's got to be a fire that burns above Even with my shaking hands I can still grasp that kind of love It is safe and it is real It's the kind that makes you feel forever young And I am humbled and afraid that I won't know it when it finally shows up They say work hard They say play They say love hard Then run away Maybe life is just a montage from a movie But I’ll keep repeating the same song long as it moves me
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Because It Moves Me (Instrumental)
Instrumental
04:23
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Call Me Home I Am Not A Star
05:10

Lyrics:

Morning after nauseous half disasters The calm is not so quiet in my head It says you drink too much You're not in love with anyone You'll never say the things you never said Oh it all seems really simple in a picture Somebody you don't know always works hard And you're always just nursing some hangover Guilt tripping over homeless works of art I've been lost, lost, lost brother I've been blinded by the sun and the father I've got more, more, more than I can shoulder But I'll be fine, when I find my way home Morning after nauseous half disasters And I swear I'll get my act together soon Cause this is not at all what I imagined, no When I thought of all the things that I might do Oh it all seems really simple when you're little Naivety is such a fuzzy friend I'm not saying I'm wrecked or I am ruined no I just mistook the beginning for the end And I got lost, lost, lost brother I got blinded by the sun and the father I've got more, more, more than I can shoulder But I'll be fine, when I find my way home Look, sometimes love is the reflection of a building in the water On a night when everybody stays at home And sometimes love's a puddled puzzle piece, obsolete and soggy That becomes a whole new picture on its own So we can bitch about how fast the world is spinning Or we can use the orbit for a whole new view I know love will be the answer to my wandering Maybe I got lost so I could find you I think I got lost so I could find you So when you're lost lost lost brother When you fly too close to the sun and the father When the world is more than you can shoulder You come and find me, you can call me home Come and find me, you can call me home Come and find me, call me home
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Call Me Home (Instrumental)
Instrumental
05:15
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03:08

Lyrics:

Suck the last drip up Drink the bottle dry Close my eyes Lies line up execution style Set the fuse in place Light the match and wait Light the match and wait You're a batter up I'm an empty cup Fill it up just don’t Push your luck 'cause I, I, I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when we're drunk I, I, I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when we're drunk Drowning out our lungs Feel the stomach flood Liquor loves me hugs me I unfreeze Turn over and touch me That last drip really got me Now I'm all shook up And I want your love Fill it up just don’t Push your luck 'cause I, I, I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when we're drunk I, I, I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when we're drunk I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when we're drunk I only love you when we're drunk You only love me when I'm kinda soulless and stupid You're kinda reckless and ruined I try to tell myself there must be something there Put down these desperate epiphanies They don't really mean anything You're not even a friend to me really honey I, I, I only love you when we're drunk. drunk You only love me when we're drunk, drunk I only love you when we're drunk, drunk, drunk You only love me when we're drunk, drunk, drunk I only love you when we're drunk, drunk, drunk You only love me when we're drunk, drunk, drunk I only love you when we're drunk, drunk, drunk You only love me when we’re
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Wishing Well (Explicit Lyrics) (www.themusicplayground.com)
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03:48

Lyrics:

every mirror even rearview i gaze into wishing well for you tryna find me every time i look away it’s a hard reset please so i’ve arrived now at this hotel lounge i eat meat beyond my means until my stomach sours all these people they got money bunch of real deals and i wanna spit in the flowers there’s a bar fly he’s got my name on him i got his eyes on me he wanna take me home in my mind’s eye i watch him chew me up i watch me spit you out oh no no no i gotta go you chased me down there for a good twenty miles back in Charleston man i was just passing through but i remembered that night we were laughing in bed and i realized this will all end i squeezed your hand til it burned red now i’m just trying not to see my grave in every goddamn mile ahead so tell me how now did we get here to this place where we don’t dance no more i can’t see straight i been driving too long i need space now but once we had a home we had a home and i said “I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I”
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I Am Not A Star (Explicit Lyrics) I Am Not A Star
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02:51

Lyrics:

I am not a star, only shining in the dark How can you work so hard and still always miss the mark? When the thoughts inside cannot outsmart the dart I change the design of my divine genetic bars I wanna fly Somebody send me up to space I wanna go Get me away from my own race I am bleeding from a hole that I cannot find But when you touch it I feel infinitely inspired The clowns and crazies are all around us baby And you cry At night Yeah I cry sometimes At night Cause I wanna fly Somebody send me up to space I wanna go Get me away from my own race I wanna fly Baby make haste I wanna go Get me away from my own face Cut me dry Bleed my bed Rock and roll it stole my head Cut me dry Bleed my bed Rock and roll it stole my head Cut me dry Bleed my bed Rock and roll it stole my head It stole my head It stole my head, head, head, head, head I am not a star I'm a whole fucking galaxy I don't subscribe to your mediated fantasies I’m crouching in crop circles avoiding voices saying tell me every mistake you've ever made and I'll decide if you're insane I gotta fly Somebody send me up to space I gotta go Get me away from my own race I, I gotta fly Baby I can't stay I gotta go, oh Get me away from my own face (Get me away from my own face) Get me away from my own face (Get me away from my own face) Get me away from my own face
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Eyes On The Horizon (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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05:09

Lyrics:

we’re breaking through or we’re breaking down it’s hard in the dark now to figure it out and i can be clever and i can be cool but i’m trying to be honest with you ‘cause you glitter at night like a lightning parade while i thunder and hunger for some kind of savior we are so clever, the coolest of cool but i’d rather we tried to be true and if i ever told you what you had to do if i made you feel as if you had to choose well it’s only because i’m the one here with something to lose so maybe i went and i broke my own heart i’ve been thinking it’s time that i ripped it a part ‘cause i’m getting tired of ending up back where i started and now i got my eyes on, on the horizon it’s calling me now calling me now i rolled a pair of dice they landed on paradise and baby i’m taking it i got my eyes on, on the horizon it’s shining all around me now imagine the churches where people go pray and imagine the houses where all of them stay if i’ve been in one, i’ve been in them all they are buildings, some day they will fall but deeper inside is a heart that’s alive it may quit its beating, but it will always survive it is tied by the strings of our whole history we are blind, but someday we will see and i will always be grateful for the dumb shit you’ve done and i will never hate you for giving me less than none this kind of a war it is never so easily won and so maybe i went and i broke my own heart i’ve been thinking it’s time that i ripped it a part ‘cause i’m getting tired of ending up back where i started and now i got my eyes on, on the horizon it’s calling me now calling me now i rolled a pair of dice they landed on paradise and baby i’m taking it i got my eyes on, on the horizon it’s shining all around me now
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Fire Under Water (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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04:07

Lyrics:

Yes, I remember how I met you But we will not talk about it Reminiscing’s what we left behind To get where we are now To get where we are now Yet, sometimes it feels like we are still Those young and stunning strangers You threw a shadow in my spotlight I had a song called danger I had a song called danger But now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my side I got nothing to hope for, honey I got nothing to hide Now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my mind And that ocean’s endless deep And that ocean’s endless wide, but Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water I go down, down, down, down, down But I come up burning every time Yes, I remember how I met you The serendipities and details It’s these kinds of moments that Give me a reason to believe Give me a reason to believe Every ship that I had captained Had been lost to stormy weather Until you came along and I thought we just might get home together I thought we might get home together But now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my side I got nothing to hope for, honey I got nothing to hide Now I’m swimming in nothing Only blues are on my mind And that ocean’s endless deep And that ocean’s endless wide, but Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water Every time you look in my eyes It’s like fire under water, fire under water I go down, down, down, down, down I go down, down, down, deep down I go down, down, down, down, down I still come up burning every time
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Heavy Heart (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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04:27

Lyrics:

You’re embodied I’m embarrassed I should go but I stick around I know you won’t Want me later Anymore than You do now Down the hall there Is a girl who They’ve been calling Anyone And anyone will Do anything That you ask her Just for fun And like a memory Of a teardrop In a red cup I dream on And I see you And how you see her Like nostalgia Like a song Now I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart All these nights I Keep on going To the party By myself Just to sit by Knowing full well You’ve got eyes on someone else But I can’t leave ‘cuz You like the record That my dad plays In his car And I can feel you Like that bass line I know who you really are Now I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart I’ve got a heavy heart
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Home Movies (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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03:18

Lyrics:

sweet little angel lights up the camera sweet baby brother calm little lamb yes we were young then can you remember sweet baby brother i’m holding your hand and i go back now all of the time emerald grass ice blue sky we were running really flying there were no ropes that could tie us now i live up in the attic with the soft projector light i’ve got home movies always playing in my mind games only we know friends only we see you were the best one always be with me so forget what they tell you forget what life does to a child we know the real truth children are wilder and wiser and i go back more all of the time to that emerald grass and that ice blue sky where we were running really flying there were no ropes that could tie us now i live up in the attic feel the soft projector light i’ve got home movies always playing in my mind i’ve got home movies always looping in my mind
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03:37

Lyrics:

you stood there right in front of me like destiny mhm or maybe a portent of that death at 28 i dreamed dilated and clean mhm into the mirror on mushrooms they say don’t look at your face but i did it anyway who was i kidding i wasn’t ready for you you stood there right in front of me with my naivety spilling held to the light, a sad brass melody ran down my cheeks i was singing to you shadow divin’ deep into the mirror dirty bathroom i could barely see my face but i kept staring anyway yeah who was i kidding i wasn’t ready for you you stood there right in front of me like an acid dream mhm this time there were six moons and five of them began to gleam one stayed dark and lost i think it’ll always be and in the mirror where our eyes bloom i said don’t look at my face but you saw me anyway man who was i kidding i wasn’t ready for you who was i kidding i wasn’t ready for you
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04:12

Lyrics:

we’ve been in the woods now i don’t know how long the sun don’t come up here the night stretches on everyone told us the dangers that lay but young and emboldened we went anyway we saw the signs there hung from the trees we wanted to capture what we couldn’t see but i’d take it all back now if we could only leave oh lover i hate to say it but i think we’re done i don’t think we’re surviving this one but please know that i loved you like sunlight like that sweet dream sun coming up there’s something here with us i know you feel it too the farther we try to run the darker our doom yeah we walked in circles until we came to that house where many before us have never been found i’ll follow you in there but i’ll be chasing a ghost around oh my lover i hate to say it but i think we’re done don’t think we’re making it out of this one but god knows i loved you like sunlight like that sweet dream sun coming up
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I Don't Know (Unplugged - No Instrumental) Home Movies
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03:04

Lyrics:

i got a reason to go out and a reason to stay home i got a picket fence heart round an abandoned soul i got a liar tied up in the basement down there i take my big light out and i ask him where he’s been he says oh i don’t know maybe you’ll find i’m being honest if you ask a different question of me oh but i don’t know i don’t know i got a million ideas i got a hole in my bag i got a shadow called fear and it’s a bitch to drag i got a plan for my life and another for my self i wish they knew about each other but that would make me someone else so i say oh i don’t know maybe it all will just reveal itself if i ask a different question now oh but i don’t know i don’t know and maybe it’s just me and i could be wrong but i can’t wake up from the tug of this dream i been stringing along i don’t know ‘cause what if i go out there and find out i’m made of nothing after all
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Dear Depression I Am Not A Star
04:04

Lyrics:

I try to hold on But there's no use The burn under my skin Starts the abuse And I'm gone And I'm gone I lose all I know I am controlled By somebody else I wrestle myself And I'm Gone And I'm Gone And I'm Gone And I'm Gone Oh dear depression you've got me on my knees Once more Oh please can't you see This is not me Dark devils inside Can't always fight it off And I'm gone Gone Oh dear depression you've got me on my knees Once more And I hate everything that I love And I hate that I love anything Doctor please don't pull the plug 'Cause I'm such a sweet girl when I'm me Meet my depression she’s got me on my knees Once more (Once more)
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Dear Depression (Instrumental)
Instrumental
04:06
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