Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel
: One Last Thing Before I Go

From: Camila Dunne

To: Julia Dunne Rodriguez, Susana Dunne, Maria Dunne Date: November 5, 2012 11:41 P.M.

Subject: Your Dad

Hi Girls,

I need your help.

After I’m gone, give your dad some time. And then please tell him to call Daisy Jones. Her number is in my date book in the second drawer of my nightstand.

Tell your father I said at the very least, the two of them owe me a song.

Love,

Mom

CHASING THE NIGHT

Trouble starts when I come around

Everything’s painted red when I’m in town

Light me up and watch me burn it down

If you’re anointing a devil, I’ll take my crown Foot on the gas, add fuel to the fire

I’m already high and going higher

Charging faster, ready to ignite

Headed for disaster, chasing the night

You turn wrong when you turn right

White light at first sight

Oh, you’re chasing the night

But it’s a nightmare chasing you

Life’s coming to me in flashes

Wearing my bruises like badges

Don’t know when I learned to play with matches Must want it all to end in ashes

Foot on the gas, add fuel to the fire

I’m already high and going higher

Charging faster, ready to ignite

Headed for disaster, chasing the night

You turn wrong when you turn right

White light at first sight

Oh, you’re chasing the night

But it’s a nightmare chasing you

Foot on the gas, add fuel to the fire

I’m already high and going higher

Foot on the gas, add fuel to the fire

Look me in the eye and flick the lighter Oh, you’re chasing the night

But it’s a nightmare, honey, chasing you

THIS COULD GET UGLY

The ugly you got in you

Well, I got it, too

You act like you ain’t got a clue

But you do

Oh, we could be lovely

If this could get ugly

Write a list of things you’ll regret

I’d be on top smoking a cigarette

Oh, we could be lovely

If this could get ugly

The things you run from, baby, I run to

And I know it scares you through and through

No one knows you like I do

Try to tell me that ain’t true

Oh, we could be lovely

If this could get ugly

C’mon now, honey

Let yourself think about it

Can you really live without it?

Oh, we could be lovely

If this could get ugly

IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN

Impossible woman

Let her hold you

Let her ease your soul

Sand through fingers

Wild horse, but she’s just a colt

Dancing barefoot in the snow

Cold can’t touch her, high or low

She’s blues dressed up like rock ’n’ roll

Untouchable, she’ll never fold

She’ll have you running

In the wrong direction

Have you coming

For the wrong obsessions

Oh, she’s gunning

For your redemption

Have you headed

Back to confession

Sand through fingers

Wild horse, but she’s just a colt

Dancing barefoot in the snow

Cold can’t touch her, high or low

She’s blues dressed up like rock ’n’ roll

Untouchable, she’ll never fold

Walk away from the impossible

You’ll never touch her

Never ease your soul

You’re one more impossible man

Running from her

Clutching what you stole

TURN IT OFF

Baby, I keep trying to turn away

I keep trying to see you a different way

Baby, I keep trying

Oh, I keep trying

I gotta give up and turn this around

There’s no way up when you’re this far down

And, baby, I keep trying

Oh, I keep trying

I keep trying to turn this off

But, baby, you keep turning me on

I keep trying to change how I feel

Keep trying to tell myself that this isn’t real Baby, I keep trying

Oh, I keep trying

Can’t take off when there’s no runway ahead

And I can’t get caught up in this all over again Baby, I keep trying

Oh, I keep trying

I keep trying to turn it off

But, baby, you keep turning me on

I’m on my knees, my arms wide

I’m replaceing ways to stay alive

Lord knows I’m pleading, pleading

To keep this heart still beating, beating

I keep trying to turn it off

But, baby, you keep turning me on

Baby, I’m dying

But, baby, I’m trying

I can’t keep selling

What you’re not buying

So I keep trying to turn it off

And, baby, you keep turning me on

I’m on my knees, my arms wide

I’m replaceing ways to stay alive

Lord knows I’m pleading, pleading

To keep this heart still beating, beating

I keep trying to turn it off

But, baby, you keep turning me on

PLEASE

Please me

Please release me

Touch me and taste me

Trust me and take me

Say the things left unsaid

It’s not all in my head

Tell me the truth, tell me you think about me

Or, baby, you can forget about me

Please me

Please release me

Relieve me and believe me

Maybe you can redeem me

Say the things left unsaid

It’s not all in my head

Tell me the truth, tell me you think about me

Or, baby, you can forget about me

I know that you want me

Know that you wanna hold me

Know that you wanna show me

Know that you wanna know me

Well do something and do it quick

Not much more I can stand of this

Say the things left unsaid

Don’t act like it’s all in my head

Tell me the truth, tell me if you think about me Or, baby, can you forget about me?

Please, please, don’t forget about me

Please, please, don’t forget about me

YOUNG STARS

A curse, a cross

Costing me all costs

Knotting me up in all of your knots

An ache, a prayer

Worn from wear

Daring what you do not dare

I believe you can break me

But I’m saved for the one who saved me

We only look like young stars

Because you can’t see old scars

Tender in the places you touch

I’d offer you everything but I don’t have much Tell you the truth just to watch you blush

You can’t handle the hit so I hold the punch

I believe you can break me

But I’m saved for the one who saved me

We only look like young stars

Because you can’t see old scars

You won’t give me a reason to wait

And I’m starting to feel a little proud

I’m searching for somebody lost

When you’ve already been found

You’re waiting for the right mistake

But I’m not coming around

You’re waiting for a quiet day

But the world is just too loud

I believe you can break me

But I’m saved for the one who saved me We only look like young stars

Because you can’t see old scars

REGRET ME

When you look in the mirror

Take stock of your soul

And when you hear my voice, remember

You ruined me whole

Don’t you dare sleep easy

And leave the sleepless nights to me

Let the world weigh you down

And, baby, when you think of me

I hope it ruins rock ’n’ roll

Regret me

Regretfully

When you look at her

Take stock of what you took from me

And when you see a ghost in the distance

Know I’m hanging over everything

Don’t you dare sleep easy

And leave the sleepless nights to me

Let the world weigh you down

And, baby, when you think of me

I hope it ruins rock ’n’ roll

Regret me

Regretfully

Regret me

Regretfully

Don’t you dare rest easy

And leave the rest of it to me

I want you to feel heavy

Regret me

Regret setting me free

Regret me

I won’t go easily

Regret it

Regret saying no

Regret it

Regret letting me go

One day, you’ll regret it

I’ll make sure of it before I go

MIDNIGHTS

Don’t remember many midnights

Forgotten some of my best insights

Can’t recall some of the highest heights

But I’ve memorized you

Don’t remember many daybreaks

How many sunrises have come as I lay awake

Don’t dwell on my worst mistakes

But I always think of you

You’re the thing that’s crystal clear

The only thing that I hold dear

I live and die by if you’re near

All other memories disappear

Without you

Without you

Don’t remember how I was then

Can’t keep straight where I was when

What is my name, where have I been

Where did I start, where does it end

You’re the thing that’s crystal clear

The only thing that I hold dear

I live and die by if you’re near

All other memories disappear

Without you

Without you

Don’t remember who I used to be

Can’t recall who has hurt me

Forget the pain so suddenly

Once I’m with you

You’re the thing that’s crystal clear

The only thing that I hold dear

I live and die by if you’re near

All other memories disappear

Without you

Without you

A HOPE LIKE YOU

I’m easy talk and cheap goodbyes

Second-rate in a first-class disguise

My heart sleeps soundly, don’t wake it

A hope like you could break it

I’m lost deep in crimes and vice

Can’t get to the table to grab the dice

My heart is weak, I can’t take it

A hope like you could break it

It doesn’t matter how hard I try

Can’t earn some things no matter why

My heart knows we’d never make it

A hope like you could break it

People say love changes you

As if change and love are easy to do

My heart is calling and I can’t shake it

But a hope like you could break it

Some things end before they start

The moment they form, they fall apart

My heart wants so badly just to say it

But a hope like you could break it

Told myself this story a thousand times

Can’t seem to break the wants free from my mind So much of my world goes unnamed

Some people can’t be tamed

But maybe I should stake my claim

Maybe I should claim my stake

I’ve heard some hopes are worth the break

Yeah, maybe I should stake my claim Maybe I should claim my stake

On the chance the hope is worth the break

AURORA

When the seas are breaking

And the sails are shaking

When the captain’s praying

Here comes Aurora

Aurora, Aurora

When the lightning is cracking

And thunder is clapping

When the mothers are gasping

Here comes Aurora

Aurora, Aurora

When the wind is racing

And the storm is chasing

When even the preachers are pacing

Here comes Aurora

Aurora, Aurora

When I was drowning

Three sheets and counting

The skies cleared

And you appeared

And I said, “Here is my Aurora”

Aurora, Aurora

To Bernard and Sally Hanes, an honest love story if ever there was one

BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID

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