Lesley Roy is a pop / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Balbriggan in Dublin, Ireland. She is signed with Religion Music and is licensed with Jive Records.
Roy's mother is a singer, and she was exposed to the music industry from her youth on. Roy started playing guitar as a seven year old and writing her own songs soon followed. She recorded demos with local producer and musician Rory O'Connor when she was 15, which led to a deal with Glenn Herlihy's independent Religion Music label.Jive Records A&R Jeff Fenster noticed her work at HitQuarters, and the two labels agreed to jointly finance Roy's first album project. Lesley Roy was the opener for American Idol runner-up and hit recording artist David Archuleta.
The debut album, titled Unbeautiful was released on September 30, 2008. It peaked on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart at #5. She described the meaning of the album's name, "'Unbeautiful' is the title of one of my favorite songs on the album. I called the album that because it’s when I hit rock bottom. It’s the question a lot of people ask when they’re in a relationship, and it’s like ‘where was the point where you didn’t find me attractive anymore?’ It’s a universal feeling and an unusual word. A lot of people ask me about it and relate to it. And the world is not perfect right now. Unbeautiful seems like a realistic title for a lot of things that are happening." The song "Slow Goodbye" was written by Katy Perry. Other songwriters for Roy include Max Martin, Desmond Child, Dave Hodges and Brian Howes.
I can read the lines
On your face
And they're telling me
Everything I already know
Yeah
I hold you in my arms
But you're light-years away from me
Slowly sinking
Under alone
Yeah
So I act cool
On the outside
But it's eating me
Alive
Cause when it comes to you
There's nothing I can do
I can't make you love me
When you don't
I see it in your eyes
I'm the compromise
No, I can't take another
Slow goodbye
Sitting in the park after dark
Smoking cigarettes
Biting on the black of my nails
Cuz all I ever wanted was what you took away from me
Trying to make it right but it's too late
I'm a hopeless case
On the inside
And it's eating me
Alive
Cause when it comes to you
There's nothing I can do
I can't make you love me
When you don't
I see it in your eyes
I'm the compromise
No, I can't take another
Slow goodbye
I die
A million times
Every time when you
Look me in the eye
And lie
Cause I've heard it all before
The same game
We go around and around
But I still end up with nothing
But hurting
Cause when it comes to you
There's nothing I can do
I can't make you love me
When you don't
I see it in your eyes
I'm the compromise
No, I can't take another
Slow goodbye
Yeah
There's nothing I can do
I can't make you love me
When you don't
I see it in your eyes
I'm the compromise
I can't take another
I've been losing my mind
I've been living a lie
I've been running away
For so long
I try to put on a face
And cover my heart
But I'm needing it now
So bad
CHORUS::
I don't know
How I feel
Maybe I'm mad
Or maybe I'm proud
Can't find the truth
Can't speak my mind
Don't know what I'll say
I'm just thinking out loud
Thinking out loud
No, no I can't explain
What's happened to me
I feel like I'm right
And wrong
Inside everything's upside down
Everything's spinning around
And it's freaking me out
CHORUS::
I don't know
How I feel
Maybe I'm mad
Or maybe I'm proud
Can't find the truth
Can't speak my mind
Don't know what I'll say
I'm just thinking out loud
Thinking out loud
If only for a day
I could be free
I bet you'd feel the same
If you were me
I'm gonna spit it out
Just let go-
I've been losing my mind
I've been living a lie
I've been running away
For so long
CHORUS::
I don't know
How I feel
Maybe I'm mad
Or maybe I'm proud
Can't find the truth
Can't speak my mind
I don't know what I'll say
I'm just thinking out loud
I'm thinking out loud
Thinking out loud
Can't find the truth
Can't speak my mind
I don't know what I'll say
I can't breathe
I can't sleep without you i'm lost
in this hell alone
so I pray
that I'll find the light
can I change
will I be alright?
If I could only clear my mind
leave all this madness far behind
I don't want to want you
but I hate to say I do
I can't help the way I feel for you
I don't need to need you
but what am I supposed to do
I can't help the way I feel for you
We were good
we were doing alright
in those days
there were beautiful nights
but the scars
in your heart blinded you from the start
not a thing I could do
if I could have helped you save your mind
leave all your darkness far behind
I don't want to want you
but i hate to say I do
I can't help the way I feel for you
I don't need to need you
but what am i supposed to do
I can't help the way I feel for you
just can't let go
we can't lose and we can't win
this game we're playing in
look at us now the shape we're in
it's over
over
I guess it's over
it's over
no I don't want to want you
but I hate to say I do
I can't help the way I feel for you
i don't need to need you
but what i am i supposed to do
I can't help the way i feel for you
oh oh
oh no
I don't want to want you
I don't need to need you
but what am I supposed to do
I can't help the way I feel for you
just can't let go
You never close your eyes
You never sleep at night
You're an emotional nightmare
You are, a misfit
You like to hurt yourself
And then you don't know why
You're trapped inside your own hell
No one else knows your name
See the misfit in the mirror
See the freak that lives inside
See the misfit in the mirror cry
See the one nobody wanted
Shattered by a world of lies
See the misfit in the mirror die
You always crash your car
You're like a permanent scar
You're just a walking disaster
You are, the opposite of moving faster
When you've been pushed around
When all your walls fall down
And when they call you misfit
It's so hard to stop the rage
See the misfit in the mirror
See the freak that lives inside
See the misfit in the mirror cry
See the one nobody wanted
Shattered by a world of lies
See the misfit in the mirror die
I see you and I see
Everything that I hate
Darkness all around me
Makes me suffocate
See the misfit in the mirror
See the freak that lives inside
See the misfit in the mirror cry
See the one nobody wanted
Shattered by a world of lies
So sick of hearing your words
All I can hear you say
Is how you want me to live
My life a different way
I'm gonna pack up my things
I'm gonna do it just
Watch me, watch me
I'm like a rat in a cage
About to lose it all
And I ain't gonna give up until I'm standing tall
I'm gonna throw it all in
Just get it over with
Watch me, watch me
'Cause life is way too short
And I can't wait no more
Here I go
I'm gone, I'm going
I'm so over you, and I don't care
And I wont go back
Cuz I know if I do, I wont make it
Forgive me, I can't take it anymore
So sick of falling apart and crawling back again
So sick of playing the games that I can never win
I really had it, just so so sick of it
Watch me, just watch me
'Cause life is just way too short
And I can't wait anymore
Here I go
I'm gone, I'm going
I'm so over you, and I don't care
And I wont go back
Cuz I know if I do, I wont make it
Forgive me, I can't take it anymore
I wont look back
I wont look back no more
Hey (2x)
So here I go,
I'm gone, I'm going
I'm so over you, and I don't care
And I wont go back
'Cause I know if I do, I wont make it
So this is how it is
This is how it goes, I know
That there's not a single word I can say
You'll go your own way
It's you and you alone
I need to feel you close
To me
I long to hold your face in my hands
The heart is hard to understand
Love is a mystery
The truth of it hard to see
O yeah
I'm counting on destiny
To bring you to your senses
I'm counting on destiny
Come to your senses
Words cannot explain
What it's like without
You here
And the never-ending rain, how it falls
Drowning me, drowning me
Love is a mystery
The truth of it hard to see
O yeah
I'm counting on destiny
To bring you to your senses
I'm counting on destiny
Come to your senses
Come to your senses
'Cause there’s nothing I can do
Nothing I can say
To break your defences
Come to your senses
Love is a mystery
The truth of it hard to see
O yeah
I'm counting on destiny
To bring you to your senses
Love is a mystery
The truth of it hard to see
O yeah
I'm counting on destiny
To bring you to your senses
I'm counting on destiny
If this is how it ends, if this is how it goes
He tried calling the number I gave him
The tide covered him up, I can't save him
Heaven open, he's halfway to Hell and back
The clouds,the darkness came right before him,
The world threw him some courses and warnings
Heaven open he's halfway to Hell
Now that you sleep, you won't come back to me
Come back, come back, you've left us all alone
Secrets you kept them
Now you're lying in the stone
No you'll never come home
Your pain carried your mind somewhere else
And that day, nobody came to your help
Now I'm sorry the angels weren't there
Now that you sleep, you won't come back to me
Come back, come back, you've left us all alone
Secrets you kept them
Now you're lying in the stone
No you'll never come home
You were young, shone like the sun
We will never forget you
You passed on, it was so wrong
Come back, come back, you've left us here alone
Secrets, you kept them
Now you're lying in the stone
Come back, come back, you've left us all alone
Secrets you kept them
Now you're lying in the stone
come back, come back, you've left us all alone
Secrets you kept them
Now you're lying in the stone
Secrets, you kept them,
Now you're lying in the stone
and you'll never come
Well, it finally had to end this bitter way
We had no more left to give no matter what we said
'Cause I worried every night and slept all day
I was lying to myself pretending to be someone else
You love me so but it's over
Just let me go, we're going nowhere
I feel like I'm dead but breathin'
I know because my heart is beatin'
Just let me go 'cause it's over
So you try to work it out and get some help
You've been fooling everyone but I know what's going on
I can't hold your hand through this again
We keep lying to ourselves pretending to be something else
You love me so but it's over
Just let me go, we're going nowhere
I feel like I'm dead but breathin'
I know because my heart is beatin'
Just let me go
I'm sorry that I couldn't stay to fill your empty space
It's alright, you'll be fine
I know that you'll be better off in a different place
It's alright, you'll be fine
You love me so but it's over
Just let me go
I feel like I'm dead but breathin'
I know because my heart is beatin'
You love me so but it's over
Just let me go, we're going under
I feel like I'm dead but breathin'
I know because my heart is beatin'
Oh No
It's bad
Got me feeling so weak
When your holding my hand
You smile I die
Cause I don't wanna feel what I'm feeling inside
It's to much it's to late
I'm so into you
I'd be crushed
If you walked away
I'd be lost
I'd be drowning in gray
I'd be rooted beyond repair
If you weren't there
I'd be crushed
I swore
I would be in control of myself
What have you done with me
Your lips (your lips)
My skin (my skin)
I don't know where ya end
And where I begin
I hate you
But I love you
So don't ever leave
I'd be crushed
If you walked away
I'd be lost
I'd be drowning in gray
I'd be rooted beyond repair
If you weren't there
I'd be crushed
You got me falling
And I never wanted to feel like I do
I'm so into you
Oh No
It's bad
CRUSHED!
If you walked away
I'd be lost
I'd be drowning in gray
I'd be rooted beyond repair
If you weren't theerrree
CRUSHED!
I'd be lost
I'd be drowning in gray
I'd be rooted beyond repair
If you weren't theerrree!
Yeeaaahhh
I'd be crushed
Don't hang up, can we talk?
So confused, it's like I'm lost
What went wrong? What made you go?
Don't pretend you don't know
This is me, I?m unchangeable
When did we fall apart?
Or did you lie from the start?
When you said it?s only you
I was blind, such a fool
Thinking we were unbreakable
It was you and me against the world
And you promised me forever more
Was it something that I said?
Was it something that I did?
'Cause I gotta know what made me unbeautiful
I?ve been told what?s done is done
To let it go and carry on
And deep inside I know that's true
I?m stuck in time, stuck on you
We were still untouchable
It was you and me against the world
And you promised me forever more
Was it something that I said?
Was it something that I did?
?Cause I gotta know what made me unbeautiful
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
?Cause I?m only dreamin'
Get out, get out, get out, get out
Get out of my head now
Because we're much better all together
Can't let go!
It was you and me against the world
And you promised me forever more
Was it something that I said?
Was it something that I did?
?Cause I gotta know what made me unbeautiful
It was you and me against the world
And you promised me forever more
Was it something that I said?
Was it something that I did?
?Cause I gotta know what made me unbeautiful
Made me unbeatiful
Is it fair to say you played me for a fool?
Is it fair to say you used me, that's the truth?
You've been lying all the time and now I'm mad
You drove me to the vodka shots and knocked them back
I bet you never thought that I would be a basket case
I'm going crazy 'cause your hooked on someone
And that someone isn't me
Bet you never thought that I would be a psycho bitch like
The kind of girl that's gonna smash your headlights
No, that someone isn't me
Is it fair to say you went and hit the lock?
Do you think that I should say it to the cops?
When they ask me where I was the seventeenth
Should I be like you and say it wasn't me, yeah?
I bet you never thought that I would be a basket case
I'm going crazy 'cause your hooked on someone
And that someone isn't me
Bet you never thought that I would be a psycho bitch like
The kind of girl that's gonna smash your headlights
No, that someone isn't me
Does she do what I don't?
Is she beautiful or
Will she go where I will go?
Bet you never thought that I would be a basket case
I'm going crazy 'cause your hooked on someone
And that someone isn't me
Bet you never thought that I would be a psycho bitch like
The kind of girl that's gonna smash your headlights
No, that someone isn't me
Bet you never thought that I would be a basket case
I'm going crazy 'cause your hooked on someone
And that someone isn't me
Bet you never thought that I would be a psycho bitch like
The kind of girl that's gonna smash your head lights
Fall down
Yeah, you're falling on your knees
And you're begging me please to help you
The sound of your screaming on the ground
'Cause the demons on your head have found you
I don't wanna hurt you
I just wanna fix you
I know I can make it right again
I want you to see me
I need you to feel me
That's all that I wanted in the end
Hey you, take a look around
I'm beside you
I'm right here for you now
Hey you, it's hard enough to be what you want to
I'm right here for you now
Right here for you now
Stand back getting closer to the edge
Just turn around and walk away now
Come back stop putting on the act
Can't I have ya just the way that I found ya?
You don't wanna hurt me
You gotta believe me
I know I can make it right again
I'll always look after
Don't care that I have to
That's all that I wanted in the end
Hey you, take a look around
I'm beside you
I'm right here for you now
Hey you, it's hard enough to be what you want to
I'm right here for you now
Right here for you now
(ah ah)
'Cause I remember you
(ah ah)
And how you used to be
(ah ah)
Do you want to waste it all for them?
Hey, hey you, hey you
Take a look around
I'm beside you
I'm right here for you now
Hey you
It's hard enough to be what you want to
I'm right here for you now
Hey you
Take a look around
I'm beside you
I'm right here for you now
Hey you
It's hard enough to be what you want to
I'm right here for you now
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
You're the kind of guy
Kind of guy that a girl like me goes for
Everywhere you go
Everywhere you go
People wanna know
Why you're alone hanging out on the dance floor
Ripped up jeans, tattoo sleeves
So James Dean but you got it
'Cause you're so hot
I could die
Cause when I look at you
I wanna get a room
I wanna get a room
Under all that cool
I know you want it too
I know you want it too
What's a girl gotta do
To get you out of her mind
and into the grove?
Cause when I looked at you I knew!
I've been waiting all night
Waiting all night
For the right time
Right sign just so I can finally make a move
Cheesy lines from the wrong guys
Drinking cheap wine wasting time
Til the moment I can get to you
I walk over now we're getting closer
I'm trembling
I see heaven in your eyes
Cause when I look at you
I wanna get a room
I wanna get a room
Under all that cool
I know you want it too
I know you want it too
What's a girl gotta do
To get you out of her mind
and into the grove?
Cause when I looked at you I knew!
I knew I knew
Cause when I look at you
I wanna get a room
I wanna get a room
Under all that cool
I know you want it too
I know you want it too
What's a girl gotta do
To get you out of her mind
and into the grove?
I was blinded by you
I got lost in your eyes too afraid to find you
And too late to read the signs
To read the signs
I was young and foolish
Didn't know how to love
Now I see the truth in
All that's left undone
Now I know that I need you
Only hope is just to see you
Scream your name through the silence
See your face in the distance
'Cause I'm crawling and falling
Whatever I must do to make it back to you
Feel you with me always
In everything I do
Now a day is dawning
We can make it through
'Cause I know that I need you
Only hope is just to see you
Scream your name through the silence
See your face in the distance
'Cause I'm crawling and falling
Whatever I must do to make it back
Praying for a second try to be in your arms
Now that I have realized just who we are
You're the one who makes me feel alive
Now I know that I need you
Only hope is just to see you
'Cause I know that I need you
Only hope is just to see you
Scream your name through the silence
See your face in the distance
Now I know that I need you
Only hope is just to see you
Scream your name through the silence
See your face in the distance
'Cause I'm crawling and falling
Well it finally had to end this bitter way
We had no more left to give, no matter what we said
'Cause I worried every night and slept all day
I've was lying to myself, pretending to be someone else
You loved me so, but it's over
Just let me go, we're going nowhere
I feel like I'm dead but breathing
I know it 'cause my heart is beatin'
Just let me go, 'cause it's over
So you try to work it out and get some help
You've been foolin' everyone, but I know what's goin' on
I can't hold your hand through this again
We keep lying to ourselves, pretending to be something else
You loved me so, but it's over
Just let me go, we're going nowhere
I feel like I'm dead but breathing
I know it 'cause my heart is beatin'
Just let me go
I'm sorry that I couldn't to fill your empty space
It's alright, you'll be fine
I know that you'll be better off, in a different place
It's alright, you'll be fine
You loved me so, but it's over
Just let me go
I feel like I'm dead but breathing
I know it 'cause my heart is beatin'
You loved me so, but it's over
Just let me go, we're going under
I feel like I'm dead but breathing
I know it 'cause my heart is beatin'