Song List 02 Sheila Tequila All In One

⚠ TRIGGER WARNING — SONG LIST TWO (2) — SHEILA TEQUILA Lead Rating: PG-13 | GX Points: 22 | 12 Tracks Song List 2 is gritty, ironic, vulnerable, and blunt. These songs confront addiction, emotional entrapment, self-destruction, and the impossible task of outrunning yourself. Reckoning comes before healing — and sometimes before hope. The danger here is relentless: every attempt to escape pain drags it deeper inside. THEMES AND POTENTIAL TRIGGERS: - Suicide and death imagery (explicit and implicit) - Emotional entrapment and fatalism - Addiction and substance abuse (alcohol as primary coping mechanism) - Domestic and relational control, identity erasure - Loss of agency and reproductive coercion - Shame, regret, and irreversible decisions - Self-destructive isolation framed as strength - Religious guilt and basement-level faith - Burning possessions as ritualized grief - Failed quest for love with oneself - Escape as illusion — every attempt to outrun pain makes it worse - Long-distance love and absence NOTABLE CONTENT NOTES: "Dead End" frames a friend's death as a direct result of ignoring warnings — suicide/death outcome implied. "Alison's Airplane" portrays Alcoholics Anonymous framing — church basements, higher power, sobriety. "Warmer Waters" depicts addiction through failed spiritual searching — "ended up picking up a bottle." "The Light or the White" contains an explicit cocaine reference — the catalog's first direct drug-choice lyric. "She" depicts female subjugation, domestic control, and reproductive coercion — "barefoot and pregnant." "Bottom of the Lake" uses drowning imagery as paradoxical liberation from a toxic relationship. "You Can Never Run Away from Yourself" closes with death imagery and existential finality without resolution. THIS LIST MAY BE DIFFICULT IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO: Addiction and substance abuse / Death framed as consequence / Domestic control and reproductive coercion / Ritualized grief and loss / Drowning and self-isolation imagery / The impossibility of escape from past choices. Song List 2 does not comfort. It confronts. This is the catalog's first deep look at addiction — where self-destruction wears the face of coping. Listener discretion advised.

SONG LIST 2 — SHEILA TEQUILA 1. Dead End — by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen 2. Alison's Airplane — by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen 3. Warmer Waters — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 4. The Light or the White — by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen 5. She — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 6. Curves of Sorrow — by Tyler Thompson & Tom Jensen 7. Let Down — by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen 8. Table for Two — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 9. Bottom of the Lake — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 10. Trash Can — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 11. Sandcastles — by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen 12. You Can Never Run Away from Yourself — by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen (1) DEAD END by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen I know who you are and who you want to be, I know you're entrapped and you want to be free. You can't put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today. We've had this talk so many times before, there's not much more I can say. When the days become years you'll know it's true, you'll look back and say, "Why didn't I listen to you?" I've been down that road, let me tell you my friend, that sooner or later you'll see a dead end. The road will deceive you with its ups and its downs, it's hard to find direction with your head spinning round. You found a hole in the sky but it's lonesome there, even when you gaze down you still feel no fear. Come on my darling, it's time to turn the page, the only way you're not dying is from old age... Two years later—I'd hoped to see you again, but I couldn't make it, so some flowers I'll send. I tried to convince you but you wouldn't bend, so sorry for you, now you'll never mend. The road has deceived you with its ups and its downs, it's just so sad I'll never see you around. (2) ALISON'S AIRPLANE by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen I find my religion in the basement of churches, never mind a pew. Here I sit trying to learn from my mistakes, God knows I've made a few. If you'd made as many as I have, then you'd probably sit here, too. Here I sit and reminisce it all, biding my time by reading slogans on the wall. Maybe a higher power is what I need, perhaps placing something above myself will set me free. For you can only tell what you're really worth, when you realize you're not the center of the earth. The sun does not rise for you, no matter how much you want it to. Then the rest is up to you, use your better judgment if you want to. (3) WARMER WATERS by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen While looking for a role model, looking for a hobby, ended up picking up a bottle, ended up hurting my body. I tried to save a lost cause, got a little carried away, ended up losing myself and let another one slip away. Looking for the sacred river, looking for warmer waters, ended up a disbeliever and being led to the slaughter. Tried to help them climb out from the valley, tried to bring them to my level. Every time I get close—my God, they introduce me to the Devil. Looking to transcend my existence, looking for Heaven on earth, ended up finding a sign: NO ADMITTANCE. I guess you shouldn't try to be a shepherd when all your sheep jump off the cliff. But you can't see inside my conscience and all the pain I'm living with. Looking at myself in the mirror to see if I could recognize my face, finally seeing everything much clearer and finding the self I had misplaced. (4) THE LIGHT OR THE WHITE by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen It’s the same faces in the same room, only a different night. Just another wasted day, but it’s much more complicated than wrong vs right. Dreams cast aside and soon vanish out of sight. You better choose your side correctly when it’s the light against the white. You can get pleasure through people or pleasure through things, but when the ship starts sinking, it’s time to cut your strings. Time to cut the lines and make up your mind, either lead the pack or else follow behind. The white or the light, it’s the fight of your life, you better choose right. Either life-saving surgery or else amputation, it’s a full-time job and there ain’t no vacation. (5) SHE by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen She gently sighs and then she softly cries, she still denies that there's a void inside. An only child but not a lonely child, her horses were chained so they never ran wild. An early life full of distractions and they all offered protection, but all of her paths were paved in stone, she could never find her way alone. She... oh she... she... could not break free. A child cloned from her environment, told what not to do without ever trying it. She was barefoot and pregnant and now she regrets it, never dreaming her past would come back to haunt her. The man paid the bills and shattered her wills, and broke her down to her simplest form. She bended and kneeled, her fate forever sealed, a true-self never truly revealed. After he left her wounds never healed, just a sheep left defenseless. So she hides the pain away, has forgotten any other way. Today's reflection still mirrors yesterday, yet May is another month away. She... (6) CURVES OF SORROW by Tyler Thompson & Tom Jensen The smell of beer still lingers in the air, better leave now while the coast is clear. A wasted life recaptures the past, little does he know that a shadow has been cast. Another drink, soon it fills his glass, he sits and he wonders which road that he passed. The road that would have led him far from here, the road that could have put a smile on his face. Deep down he knows new roads lie ahead, if he misses his next turn he'll probably be dead. He only knew of just one taste, his lips around the bottle, and the lines on his face... they drew a line of sorrow. (7) LET DOWN by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen Who’d have thought that a pair of faded blue jeans could bring me to my knees? Who'd have thought that after I let her in, she'd do just what she pleased? An angel on the outside, the devil within, I would soon discover. Well I guess they're right, you can never judge a book by its cover. I've done something I told myself I'd never do, before you proved your love I put my trust in you. I believed your lies and dried your eyes and to my surprise you took me for a ride, a ride I'll never take again. Can you see me frown? As you're leaving town, the truth's been found, you let me down again. Such a beautiful smile yet eyes full of deceit, you said that you loved me all the while you were lying through your teeth. (8) TABLE FOR TWO by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen The coffee's on... I used to have coffee with you, but you're gone... and now I'll have to find someone new. No, I don't like to drink my coffee alone, so I'd call and hope that you'd pick up the phone. And we'd talk until the kids came home, and we'd talk until my coffee it turned cold. And we'd talk some more when the kids ran off to play and we'd talk... that's how we'd spend our day. Then you'd cook with the phone held to your ear, as you set the table for only two. You knew that I was there... even though I was here. You knew that I was there, even though I was here. Table for two... table for two... table for two. (9) BOTTOM OF THE LAKE by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen My heart is now my best friend, no longer my enemy, I've finally said goodbye to you and said hello to me. The path we walked was winding, at least we weren't alone, but when yourself you're finding, sometimes you walk alone. I swim through my memories as you're drowned by waves, tears roll off your eyes over love that couldn't be saved. When it's time to sink or swim, it's already too late, bubbles float up through the water, I'm at the bottom. Don't call for a rescue whatever you do... I jumped in the water to free myself from you. This boulder shackled to my ankle has become my friend, we'll be soul mates forever until the very end. As heavy as my new friend is, he's just a feather compared to you. I'm at the bottom of the lake. (10) TRASH CAN by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen Here is where I stand beside a burning trash can, found a way to relieve my pain. Gathered everything that reminds me of your name. Every picture of you and I and all of the possessions that you left behind. As if a priest I now preside in leading the funeral procession. My tears over these lost years have replaced the wine. Since I am already pale, having found I lost my host, I find no further reasons to invoke the holy ghost. Here is where I stand next to everything that you left. Beside a burning trash can, it's the only way I'll forget. (11) SANDCASTLES by Klaus Bluetner & Tom Jensen Just when I thought the tide had turned, I played with fire and I got burned. Then reality shattered me, no longer listen to flattery, find out what she wants and erase her from my memory. Love is bound to come back if we were meant to be, traveling busily across the deep blue sea... Only adults know the rising of the tide and the pressures we call time could never withstand. Build a sandcastle and watch it wash away, try to defeat the tide and return the next day. Wave after wave after wave / wave after wave after wave. Watch your work, what we call play, slowly see your structure fade away. For the waves rolled in and washed away our love, I'm sure somewhere up there God is laughing from above. I'll add your name onto the list of pretty faces I couldn't resist. In all my rhymes and verses, sweet words of love have been changed to curses. (12) YOU CAN NEVER RUN AWAY FROM YOURSELF by Justin Justice & Tom Jensen I lay on the ground as I feel death’s cold eyes, even in defeat I am not taken by surprise. I am my own rock, by no man’s law I abide, in desperate times you can look for a place to hide. But you can never run away from yourself, in good times and bad times, in sickness and health. There’s no escape when trouble has already come, for you can never take back anything that you have done. Never run away from yourself... Read the full lyrics on the Song List 2 page →