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Waiting

by Ella Ion

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1.
Need Your Love 02:50
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You don’t want to see The tricks up my sleeve I keep playing them on me And it’s ugly, but it’s free Same tune I keep singing And I know that it hurts you but Somehow I keep watching you squirming See I’m no good alone I need your love I knew I’d met you when I saw the holes were filled I didn’t see you coming but you were always at my heels I keep on digging but you won’t let me free But now I see that I don’t want to be I need your love Don’t set me free I need your love
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Christmas 04:17
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Oh to look inside of my eye And see only stars no planes Makes the world feel faster all the same And its heart feels larger Than my pain Head outside and Get sick as soon as the sun goes down Just to blow up in your face You’ve wasted seven years now Well you know that you should be ashamed You got a few more years to do nothing just the same And if you think You can’t call on me I’ll be so sorry Sometimes I wake up feeling like I might be nothing And if you think You can’t call on me I'll be so sorry Sometimes I just think that I might be nothing They said just like you to get drunk on Christmas Pick yourself up babe, anyway it ain’t nobody’s business Disappeared into your room like a kid If your friend hadn’t died I would’ve probably made you feel like you did And if you think You can’t call on me I’ll be so sorry Sometimes I wake up feeling like I might be nothing And if you think You can’t call on me I'll be so angry Sometimes I just think that I might be nothing Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oh and if you think You can’t call on me I’ll be so sorry Sometimes I wake up feeling like I might be nothing And if you think You can’t call on me I’ll be so sorry Sometimes I think that I might be nothing
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Waiting 02:37
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I’ve been waiting for something Show me where to go My eyes are closed And I don’t know Lay out on the roof i jump, I never climb Say You need to hold me up but Lord knows I’m trying Hmmm hmm Hmmm hmm hmm Hmmm hmm Hmmm hmm hmm
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Ride 03:10
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Haven’t made a sound Why are you dumbing down Just take a little time Oh seek on it babe and then you will find Take a look around Count the pennies on the ground And look me in the eye I can feel that you’re starting to wonder why Feel that you’re starting to wonder why [ instrumental ] So take me for a ride Just to feel the wind rake through my mind All will pass in time For now we can watch it slip right by Give into that childlike high Give it into that childlike high
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Alone 03:00
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We got bored so quickly Had to leave the party And you were disappointed in me I wanted to sleep Alone, alone Alone, alone Alone, alone Alone, alone Alone.. Alone Alone.. Alone Faked my death to kiss you Saw it coming in the rear view Mouth went dry like concrete I keep drinking till I’m on empty I know we’re about to be Alone, alone Alone, alone Alone, alone Alone.. Alone Alone.. Alone.. Ooh alone Mouth went dry like concrete I keep drinking ‘til I’m on empty I know we’re about to be Alone.. alone
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When the Rain Falls Heavy Outside 03:31
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We’re all dragged into this life We’re all dragged into this life You’d think I’d be kicking and screaming But I’m still in limbo I haven’t yet arrived Still think about old times About old lives I wanna leave that behind Because I see stars in your eyes Pollute my mind Pollute my own mind We can sleep in the car When the rain falls heavy outside When the rain falls heavy outside I keep polluting my mind Because I see stars in your eyes Commute to the skies and try to be kind Commute to the skies and try to be kind Commute to the skies and try to be kind I’ll leave this behind I see stars in your eyes I’ll leave this behind I see stars in your eyes I’ll leave this behind I see stars in your eyes I’ll leave this behind I see stars in your eyes And we can sleep in his arms When the rain falls heavy outside
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Red 03:22
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The house was on fire all night, we were scared I covered up your hands with my head We took the first things we saw before we were dead And once the smoke cleared we saw we’d never left And everything was red And everything was red And everything was red Hmm You sang a tune til the end It was the most beautiful I’d ever heard But I was drunk, you were tone deaf My world was changed when you opened up your hands And all your skin was red And all your skin was red And all your skin was red And all your skin was red
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Fixated 02:20
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Oh I’ve been coming off cold I’ve been in a long hold And the shadow it fixates upon you I’m a wired up girl in a tired little world And the shadow it fixates upon you And you suffer the parts of me baby And you suffer the parts of me baby [ instrumental ]
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My Own 04:04
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Taste it all you need I kept pouring it out in the sink Like I’d eaten my share You kept ripping clumps out my hair And times I find myself holding onto my own hand Holding onto my own hand Holding my own hand [ instrumental ] And times I find myself holding on to my own hand Letting go of the good stand Taking the fool’s plan Slipping out of your good hand Takin my fool’s stand Out of your good hand Your good hand
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Hang Me Out 04:37
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For when you looked at me I could not believe When we’re too far from here Lonely in the fear Babe what’s your name again Is it too late to be friends Too late to be men? Chasing down the fame Shooting outside our our range We got beef And nothing in-between Take it as a dream Beg me, beg me to be a woman Beg me like you want it But you’ll have to scream Scream it through the hallways Always such a dark day I cannot see anymore Nothing left to gauge Nothing left to gain Hang me Hang me out to dry A dead thing on the line And beg me Beg me to be your woman Beg me like you want it But you’ll have to scream Scream it through the hallways Always such a dark day I cannot dream anymore Hang me out to dry Till I am refined

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Waiting” is the debut LP by Adelaide-based singer/songwriter Ella Ion. The writing process for this album began in 2019 on a trip to America, where Ion was sparked with inspiration in a tiny L.A apartment to begin writing pieces of music that would reveal fragments of the deep transformation she felt as a young female artist affected by the magnitude of a place like Los Angeles.
Back home in Adelaide, Ion experienced a profound shift as she delved into spirituality and began a journey of faith that turned her views of the world upside-down. “Waiting” has a way of conveying the intense growing pains that come naturally in one’s early 20s, while acknowledging how much more the need for growth persists and gnaws at every life stage.
“Waiting” draws on Ion’s main stylistic influences of post-rock, folk and country, and ranges from soft and melodic to dissonant and heavy.

Themes of deep longing, harsh introspection, questioning and uncertainty embellish the album, with an overall feeling of “identity crisis”, still, however, leaving the listener with the sweet aftertaste of hopefulness and innocent curiosity about the world around them.

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released March 10, 2023

Written & performed by Ella Ion.
Produced by Bjéar and Los Leo.

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Ella Ion is a singer-songwriter hailing from Kaurna Land (Adelaide, South Australia). Creating honest art that touches its audience is the drive behind Ion’s music. She released her debut album, “Waiting” in March of 2023, which encapsulates her ever-shifting dynamic between raw, delicate country-folk and and gritty, post-rock inspired arrangements. ... more

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