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I Won't Let Me Down

by Stolen Jars

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Reality TV: I don’t want to fall in love, so I won’t this time But we’ve been living in your house for days, and it feels like it’s mine Close the windows now, it’s a one-room kind of world Where our arguments will just slip beneath the floor I don’t want to fall in love, I’m doing just fine I’ll spend my life inside a torn up van with this band of mine Screaming “windows down” – play the iPhone radio Singing “All My Friends” when I left them back at home But I don’t want to waste my time, reality TV inside my head Watching life when I should live in it instead I’m too scared to hold someone -- Are you in love? You’re not. Are you in love? You’re not. Cause I don’t want to fall if you’ll run -- Are you coming back? You’re not. Are you coming back? You’re not. Oh no I don’t want to fall in love, I think I’m done Got 150,000 songs and I can’t finish one But if you asked me now I’d sing “I won’t let you go” Cause every note I write I’m afraid I’ll be alone But I don’t want to waste my time, reality TV inside my head Watching life when I should live it instead I’m too scared to hold someone -- Are you in love? You’re not. Are you in love? You’re not. Cause I don’t want to fall if you’ll run -- Are you coming back? You’re not. Are you coming back? You’re not. I don’t want to fall in love, so I won’t this time But when I write you into all my songs, it feels like I might Close the windows now, it’s a one-room kind of world Where I’m falling now cause I cannot let you go
2.
Adeline 02:38 video
Adeline: come back find me when i’m 17 tell me i’m not ugly and write me poetry found out you’re leaving, hold me in your skin break down all the echoes of places we have been Adeline the good stuff’s always over or i just never went i stare into my iphone but i can’t find my friends why then do i wait here drowning in my skin, i’m always making mountains out of all the could’ve beens Adeline you’re fading you’re losing all your colors i wish i’d called cause I don’t want you to change anymore i don’t want you to change anymore but what would I even say anymore what could I even say anymore come back find me when i’m 70 tell me you remember the words i used to sing and we’ll watch life in reruns that play beneath our skin hold me for the moment, forget the could’ve beens Adeline Adeline
3.
Austin 03:05
Austin: Last night I couldn’t find myself So I’ll be home tonight. Cause I don’t see myself in Austin I don’t see myself in Austin And sometimes I feel like reticence Is keeping me alive As these cars they roll right by me With their drivers in the backseats Well the fog is out in droves tonight, Guess the world just wants me blind. But I can see your face in front of me – I can see your face in front of me And I can’t memorize my lines But it’s the same song every night With your name across the melody Now I’ve forgotten what you meant to me Call me home tonight, stay on the line Call me home tonight, stay on the line Cause last night I couldn’t find myself So I’ll be home tonight. Cause I don’t see myself in Austin I don’t see myself in Austin And we’re singing along to Phoebe now To remember how to cry When I see myself in front of me – And I look just like my dad to me Singing “Blue Chair” in the living room in 1995 With a reminder in the melody: There’s somewhere I’m supposed to be. Call me home tonight, stay on the line Call me home tonight, stay on the line Call me home tonight, stay on the line
4.
Won’t Stay Gone Forever: Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone I barely knew your name at the time… But New York seemed to fit you just right. And on the day you died I thought I heard you come back home, To that bench in Central Park where they – carefully scrawled your name Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone The fireworks are sounding off tonight, in the city that cannot sleep A man outside is singing to me – “you made it here, you’ll make it anywhere” But the street’s on fire and I just want to come back home To the town you’d loved so desperately… it’s gone now with your memories… We fucked up, our lives flew over our heads So I guess we’ll lay low instead I missed New York when out on the road Now I’m here and I miss it from home I spend my time like Bill on replay I wake up each day and Brooklyn’s still changed Cause all my friends live in video games I facetime them to remember their names Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone forever Won’t stay gone Just meet me back in New York someday Just meet me back in New York someday…
5.
Somewhere Else: I don’t want to be in this house My blood is slowing me down It’s Saturday night and I’m “singing for the lonely” With you and “Thunder Road” on zoom karaoke So we, we sing along, we sing along with ourselves Cause now the zoom delay keeps you away from my house (from my house, my house) Oh it isn’t safe in my head I can’t figure out How to live in silence instead When the world doesn’t make a sound I don’t want to be in this house Trust falling to catch myself My blood is slowing me down Running circles to somewhere else (x2) Phones down and dance with me, oh won’t you dance with me We’ll make a comeback – Cause I just want to feel, oh I want to feel everything Oh no, but I, I keep lying, I keep lying - “everything’s alright” When I know It’s not fine – our whole lives stuck in the blue light (in the blue light, the blue light) Oh it isn’t safe in my head I can’t figure out How to live in silence instead When the world doesn’t make a sound I don’t want to be in this house Trust falling to catch myself My blood is slowing me down Running circles to somewhere else I don’t want to be in this house Trust falling to catch myself (I can’t keep catching myself) My blood is slowing me down Running circles to somewhere else (I can’t get anywhere else) Oh it isn’t safe in my head (I don’t want to be in this house) I can’t figure out How to live in silence instead (My blood is slowing me down) When the world doesn’t make a sound
6.
In The Bad Times: When I texted you last night, I told you I was floating away And I wished someone would tether me down, and that’s when you wrote back – “same” In the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I know you’ll stay When you heard that he left me, you called me a car to your place And we talked shit about him until I’d forgotten his name In the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I know you’ll stay You don’t know what that meant to me You don’t know what that meant to me We can’t stay sad all the time You got my back in memories You don’t know what that meant to me We gave each other names to go by I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times I love you more in the bad times
7.
South 03:42
South: It was dark when you said we should go Too late for mistakes, we can pack on the way When a voice on the car radio Said what you couldn’t say - a fragile refrain And it’s calling out – “Let’s drive south until we’re underground We need some space to see ourselves” I saw your eyes on the side of the road They’re blue just the same, though your face has changed Now there’s a part of you no one else knows And you’ll never say, you never would say Will you say it now? “Let’s drive south until we’re underground We need some space to see ourselves Where you can scream out loud Until your voice cuts out And then the silence speaks for itself” Hold me, why’d you have to leave me? Did you say you want me? Do you want me? Hold me, why’d you have to leave me ? Did you say you want me? Do you want me? No. “Let’s drive south until we’re underground We need some space to see ourselves Where you can scream out loud Until your voice cuts out And then the silence speaks for itself” It was dark when you said we should go Now you’re not around Who will hide from me now…
8.
Smoke in the House: It brings me down when you get in my head It brings me down when you get in my head Sitting on the couch by every single word you said I’m not alone when you get in my head I wrote this song with the last of your pen From the hotel where you were fired again Cuz you were always late – kept sleeping til eleven am It brings me down that you’re stuck in my head You can smoke in the back, Smoke in the house -- Do it with them Do it yourself Cause I’m not there to put it out Have a pack for the day As you pack up my clothes Brosé le dents so your mom doesn’t know I’m sorry I took it out on myself I bring you up like im picking a scar So I take a pill to get out of the dark You told me all the stories you won’t tell all your friends at the bar It brings me down just to know who you are You can smoke in the back, Smoke in the house -- Do it with them Do it yourself Cause I’m not there to put it out Have a pack for the day As you pack up my clothes Brosé le dents so your mom doesn’t know I’m not gonna take it out on myself I’ll get drunk on songs my sister loves I tried to write one About the dream with my dad You’re on his girlfriend’s lawn -- The perfect setting for my conditional love song I won’t let me down, So I’ll sing it now. Jack says I’m changing, It’s not just the lexapro: I stopped crying on zoom calls and dating scorpios. I know in my letter I said I’d see you again But, oh, you let me down. Glad you let me down. Bet you’d like me now.
9.
Run It Wild 02:44
Run It Wild: Calling my bluff – I’m running back home like I just saw the light. I’ll get a dog the size of my apartment, that’s fine. And this could be my whole life – Coffee at night and I never get tired I don’t want darkness, I just want to lie here… Run it wild Run it wild There’s a life for you Run it wild Run it wild Hold the light for you Run it wild Run it wild There’s a life for you But I can stay left behind if you want me to… I can’t find the time, yeah, It’s getting tough pushing through subway lines You’re cool in the shade – it’s hot on the train, but I’m fine. I’ll sift through my whole life to figure out why I don’t want be anywhere else Am I a liar? I just want to lie here… But if you don’t feel the same, Build your life miles away – I don’t mind, I don’t mind, I don’t mind, I don’t mind Run it wild Run it wild There’s a life for you Run it wild Run it wild Hold the light for you (x3) Ok, lock myself out – cut to your house on the side of the road Ok, tear it all down – now your not around, we can let this all go…

about

Hold me for the moment, forget the could have beens

The past is irretrievable, the future deeply uncertain. Somewhere in between, if we’re lucky enough to find it, is a glimmer of recognition: the only thing that matters is here in this exact moment. I Won’t Let Me Down, the latest full-length from Stolen Jars, inhabits the present so vividly that it feels infinite.

Exuberant in its melancholy, kinetic in its longing, I Won’t Let Me Down is a record of self-discovery, the open space between losing love and finding it again. Lead vocalists Cody Fitzgerald and Sarah Coffey sing to each other across the gap — on “Reality TV,” they align for each chorus, on “In The Bad Times,” they’re literally split in the stereo field. In melody and harmony, their perspectives intertwine — as the band put together the record, Fitzgerald was beginning a new relationship while Coffey was exiting an old one. There are no contradictions here: every moment of acceptance erupts with energy, every moment of tension passes with peace.

The good stuff’s always over, or I just never went

On I Won’t Let Me Down, Stolen Jars arrive as a full band of collaborators. What began as the personal project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cody Fitzgerald now flourishes in collaboration with co-lead vocalist and songwriter Sarah Coffey, guitarist, co-producer and songwriter Elias Spector-Zabusky, drummer Isaiah Hazzard, and keyboardist Grant Meyer. Mixed by Hop Along’s Joe Reinhart and with further collaborations from Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline, I Won’t Let Me Down channels its contributions into the most crystalline music the band has made to date.

I Won’t Let Me Down builds on the band’s history. “Ghost Towns” from their last record, A Reminder, was featured in The New York Times as one of their top tracks of the week and as the lead track on David Byrne’s Indie Pop Playlist alongside Bon Iver and Billie Eilish. Their previous work also earned placements in an Apple iPad commercial, on NPR, Stereogum and more. And right before the pandemic, Stolen Jars played their first full 30 show US tour, with multiple sold-out nights.

Run it wild, there’s a life for you

Cody Fitzgerald, the band leader, also does film scoring, including for the Disney movie Noelle, for which he co-wrote all of the songs and score. When not working with Stolen Jars, Fitzgerald produces for other artists, including past work with soul-pop band Lawrence, and upcoming songs with Tim Atlas and Aaron Taos. Sarah Coffey, the band’s co-lead singer, has gone viral on Tik Tok, where she now has over 200k followers. She recently starred in Stapleview, which The LA Times called the SNL of Tik Tok.

credits

released August 4, 2023

Credits:
Music and Lyrics written by Cody Fitzgerald, Sarah Coffey and Elias Spector-Zabusky
Lyrics on “Run It Wild” co-written by Greta Kline
Additional vocal melody and lyric writing on “Run It Wild” by Warren Heller

Stolen Jars is Cody Fitzgerald, Sarah Coffey, Elias Spector-Zabusky, Grant Meyer, and Isaiah Hazzard

Cody Fitzgerald - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Drums, Banjo, etc.
Sarah Coffey - Vocals
Elias Spector-Zabusky - Guitar, Bass, Keys
Grant Meyer - Keys
Isaiah Hazzard - Drums
Greta Kline - Vocals on “Run It Wild”
Joe Reinhart - Guitar, Bass
Sumner Becker - Saxophone
Dorothy Carlos - Cello

Recorded and produced by Cody Fitzgerald and Elias Spector-Zabusky
Co-produced by Joe Reinhart and Grant Meyer
Additional Vocal Recording by Sarah Coffey
Additional Drum Recording by Grant Meyer, Peter Enriquez, and Isaiah Hazzard
Additional Guitar Recording by Jonny Koh
Additional Guitar Re-amping by Nolan Thies
Pre-mixed by Jonny Koh
Mixed by Joe Reinhart
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

Recorded mostly in Cody's home studio with additional recording at Short Stack, Headroom, The Bunker, Sarah's apartment, and Elias and Jonny's home studio

Album and Single Photography by Tonje Thilesen
“Reality TV” Single Cover by Haoyan of America
Music Videos by Haoyan of America
Moon Drawing by Marianne Koo
Spotify Canvasses for "Run It Wild" and "Smoke in the House" by Ariel Bold

Clothes for Press Photos and “Adeline” Single Cover by Thank You Have a Good Day
Styling for Press Photos and “Adeline” Single Cover by Jorge Guevara

Special thanks to Felicia Hung, Clyde Lawrence, Gracie Lawrence, Hannah Margolin, Kimball Farley, Naomi Rand, David Fitzgerald, Travis Fitzgerald, Sara Maeder, everyone who listened to early versions of these songs, everyone who has listened to our music over the years, and especially our friends and our families for making our lives as good as they are

Lots and lots of love - thank you for listening :)

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