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Bright Embrace
03:34
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bring your ear close to me little girl
slow and stay those pounding feet
a symphony a song a little pearl
what you are is what you wish to be
raise your eyes and see me little girl
you can wear this bright embrace
see the sky go like a tilt-a-whirl
what this is, is your own shining face
reach your hands down deep into the dirt
feel my heart as your own beats
i made you and you are making me
isn’t that how we really meet
there could be no bigger love
there could be no bigger love
there could be no bigger love
there could be no bigger love
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2. |
To Hawaii, With Love
04:24
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ran due south on tracks you made
lay my head on dirty shoulders
this mayhem maker is your new urban lore
i howl and roar, fur taker
your geometry a well-laid plan
grid lock, i have the keys to
these city races with charges as the prize
i eat fowl/foul and rise, game keeper
i live in the moon
i rule the ravine
will you shoot me down?
i straddle the worlds
seen and unseen
will you shoot me down?
fly by night in a canoe
months of stores, of stars of plenty
you keep going faster, you captives in lockdown
i’m lost and found, hobo master
this beautiful song’s full of terrible things
this beautiful song’s full of terrible things
this beautiful song’s full of terrible things
this beautiful song’s full of terrible things
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3. |
Songbird's Lament
04:58
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i thought you knew me
i’m a songbird high in a tetris game
bricks close out all the light i’m blinded by
money
while the real green sea boils over
you thought you were free
but you’re just a ghost of you
you’re haunting yourself
through and through
with these handfuls of dirt
come the towers of pride
how you harvest the dreams from the sky
and the cloud-lands above
bereft of their love, cry
i’m all sung out
too much window pane/pain
i reflection of what i want so i
hit it again
you’re in there somewhere
oh such a pale disguise
living a life without being alive
turn out the lights! let the stars steer me right
take me far from the city night, far from the city night
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we fly west we slip between
northern showers southern beams
she’s got fox gloves i’ve got double halo dreams
and we ride, hidden
only children see us there
reach up to our coats to stroke our russet hair
in plain sight we dare to love and love to dare
and we hide, forbidden
we’re going to the end of the line
two forest brides
oak trees hold their hearts and pine
now i’m your’s and you’re mine
and the choir sings “YAY!”
rolling back to bollywood
as only foxes on an east-bound trolley could
dance loose from the rails, it’ll do you good
we’re alive, smitten
bangles sarees jasmine nights
the 506 twice made it right
into the woods! then back to city lights
we arrive, heaven
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meet me in the lost land, fox bride
where the bird houses drift
and rainbows collide
traffic don’t stop it spills down every side
but our love is loud, our love is wide
meet me in the hinterland, dear ones
raindrops on our coats set alight by the bright sun
hands and eyes eager, hoping and intertwined
all hearts beating to life in the same time
meet me in the lost land, fox bride
nothing is so precious
when there’s nothing to hide
when the world closes in, don’t forget the green inside
our love is loud, our love is wide
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6. |
Hazel May
03:35
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you came like a hurricane
tore me down, carved me deeper
flooded me, dismantled days
i won’t forget you, hazel may
showed me how the tears can fall
can fill us up, can make us better
sadness can live, she’ll be ok
within the joy, if you just let her
i stood with you, i didn’t run
saw through the rain, til you were done
still my heart was swept away
oh my darling hazel may
i take delight down in the deep
where traffic slows and songbirds sleep
where you’ve gone i couldn’t say
i won’t forget you, hazel may
oh my darling, oh my darling
oh my darling Hazel May
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7. |
Peregrine Sky
02:38
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come close, further be
watch me fly ‘round these glass trees
feed, feed my hunger games
why do you think you know my name
on your spectacle screen
is a peregrine sky
come out from behind, claim your own high
i’m one, i’m mean with the concrete
you’re a satellite, we will never meet
we’re both slaves to numbers games
i want to survive you want fame
i’m the true queen
you serf/surf/serve bay street
i fly you scurry underneath
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8. |
Golden Holiday
03:07
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fly like a day fairy, to the apiary
to the middle, to the middle of the sweet
past all the hives and dives to the so alive
to the place where you’re complete
colours churned from
flowers turn to love
your heart your heart is a golden holiday, honey maker
and i for one wouldn’t want it any other way, honey maker
go through the portal til you’re immortal
right in the middle, in the middle of the sweet
better than the best, better than the rest you’re nothing
nothing but complete, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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9. |
Northwind, Absence
02:33
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northwind, you’re turning me down
northwind, you’re turning me down
waiting for her to come ‘round
but she don’t come ‘round
winter, you’re burying me
winter, you’re burying me
waiting for the love to be found
in this northwind
in this absence
in this cold whistling heart with no substance
what’s to be gained?
what is the cost for what’s lost?
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10. |
Glass Brigade
04:09
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you are my brightest lights
so wild and smart
oh city-ful of lights
make a child of my heart
you are my roads true
straight as arrows
oh city-ful of truth
make a child of my marrow
and we run, searching for the sun
falling for the sky, you and i
you are my glass brigade
reflecting all you’ve made
oh city strong and brave
make a child of my heart
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shelleyobrien Toronto, Ontario
Since the release of her debut album in 2009 and her sophomore record Vivarium (2011), Shelley O’Brien has taken her
electric ukulele and her haiku lyrics to festivals in Helsinki, Melbourne, Tokyo and Rome, and has toured in Iceland, Holland, Japan and Germany.
O'Brien's elemental and lush third album, Turn The Dark, delves into the inner workings of the human heart.
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