Stone Cold World - Lyrics - Caroline Herring
Caroline Herring is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician. Born in Canton, Mississippi, Herring now lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children. She started singing professionally when she was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. While there she co-founded Thacker Mountain Radio, a literary and musical hour broadcast from Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and still syndicated on Mississippi Public Radio. Herring began her solo career when she moved to Austin, Texas, in 1999. She has released six commercial albums, starting with her 2001 debut Twilight, which earned her 2001-2002 Best New Artist award at the SXSW Austin Music Awards. In 2012 Texas Music magazine named Twilight in its Top 50 Essential Texas Albums list. Her 2003 album Wellspring includes the song "Mistress," which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed as one of the Top 100 Songs About the South. Texas Music magazine included "Mistress" in its 2012 listing of the Top 50 Classic Texas Songs in recorded history.
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I'm a selfish girl
In a selfish world
Each town has her selfish ways
And each girl has her selfish days
Especially me
Longing to be free
From all the old complaining crew
And all the new ones moaning, too
Then there was you
Smiling when I couldn't smile
Drawing me to tears
Feeling out these aches and pains
Because nothing here comes easy
In this stone cold world
For a selfish girl
You're a pioneer
Headed for Newfoundland
Each land has his newfound joys
And pioneers must be big boys
Especially you
Longing to be true
To what your people came here to do
And who your mama said you could be
Then there was me
Crying when I wasn't sad
Slouching in my shoes
Damning expectations
Because nothing here comes easy
In this stone cold world
For a selfish girl
I saw the tip of an iceberg explode
But I'm no tourist in this deep blue sea
Off that hard rock shore
In this stone cold world
For a selfish girl
