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No More Reprise
03:29
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No More Reprise
No more sleeping in this bed
No more tears about you shed
No more lying to keep me sane
No more playing I’m out of the game
Tried to love you Did my best
You’re no different, you’re no different
You’re just like the rest
Gonna leave you, gonna watch you go away hey hey hey yeah
No more counting on you to change
No more why you acting strange
No more listening to your woes
No more waiting, I’ve packed your clothes.
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J'en Suis Desolee
04:18
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J'en Suis Desolee
J'en suis desolee. Je ne parlez pas francais.
J'en suis desolee. Je ne parlez pas francais.
J'en suis desolee. Je ne parlez pas francais.
J'en suis desolee. Je ne parlez pas francais.
J'en suis desolee. Je ne parlez pas francais.
J'en suis desolee.
Space in the molecular
Indelible spectacular
We ride the Milky Way
Infinitely swayed
Me and the seven sisters
Got seperated, Antiquated
We avoided
The shaded and the jaded
They never created
Only looked for hooks and crooks
While millions die in their cerebral sky
Rationalizing why
Cynics don't cry
They deny
To feel they'd die
Which side of the screen do you live on?
Who milks your thoughts ?
Why are you asleep?
Do you hear me?
CHORUS
To see your own shadow you have to see your own light.
Don't believe the right and everything they hand you
Question everything And if they brand you
Where the label proud and know what you stand for
Believe in something a credo, a vison, a prayer
For when you despair on the horizon
It is still your decision to withstand derision or catacylysm becomes your ism
We the seven sisters we dance and no one catches us
Dance until the fever scratches us
Dance to feel what matches us
We dance to come home
You know what I'm saying?
CHORUS
Walked miles in one's footsteps found the blind can't lead
I looked for wisdom in meanings of words that never cease
I rubbed the belly of the buddha
Wished for luck to meet me in time, one more time
When I dance in the darkness or the lightness moves my soul divine,
One more time,one more time
CHORUS
©Norine Braun All Rights Reserved
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99%
03:46
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99%
I got something
I got it in the bag
Don’t look at me mister
You’d be better off dead
We got busted for planning
It’s in the back of my head
We got morning in the coffee yeah
The blues is back in bed
Mama's in the kitchen
Papa hit the sack
Up all night he’s looking
But no one calls him back
Do we pay for groceries?
Or do we pay the rent?
Scrounging in the garbage
We’re the 99%
Occupy corruption
Overtake and lead
Even Jesus angered
When he tossed away the greed
Lining up for lunch
People’s rights should rule
Lining up for jobs
Corporate wrongs so cruel
Watching our destruction
Or are the 99 ahead?
We won’t lose the world to evil
But to those who watch instead
My gal’s on piano
She playing it real well
Musing on this blues riff
As we drift on down to hell
We dream of baskets and the babies
Dream of corn and the gravies
Living on empties
Living on maybe, maybe, maybes
Nothing to fall back on
On nothing to depend
We got a sweet sense
We got no cents
We got a sixth sense
We got no sense
We got a sweet sense
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Lightning Strikes Twice
03:28
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Lightning strikes, it strikes twice
Yeah lightning strikes, strikes twice
Devil and the deep blue sea Oh my baby and me
We saw lightning strike, strike twice
Devil and the deep blue sea Oh my baby and me
We saw lightning strike, strike twice
Walked from the bayou to the back of the bay
We found ourselves stranded when it started to rain
We had cover in a cabin on cliff where we prayed
A crackling white light and a bellowing boom gave way
CHORUS
Spotted in the distance was a man dressed in red
His hands raised up to heaven, he called on the dead
Floating ‘round in circles was his boat on the bay
A second white lightening connected the red devil’s grave.
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Only One
03:41
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ONLY ONE
After all is said and everything is done
You ask me to come along
Just me out of everyone
I see your eyes wandering and you smile
I catch you looking
Oh I want to be your only one
Yes I want to be your number 1
Want to be your only one number 1 please
When you’ve fallen down
Oh who do you run to
Can’t find a new romance
Oh who do you come to
I tell you baby the time has come
My heart is taken you’re the only one
It’s time now to settle down
These days you can’t be fooling ‘round
You need me honey
I know what’s right
I’ll make you happy oh every night
Do I have to get down on my knees
Beg you baby please oh please
©Norine Braun SOCAN
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GONE TO THE SPIRITS BLUES
Oh he changed me
He took my sex away
Those white devils
Wouldn’t let me play
All their rules and regulations
Tethered emancipations enslaved
I ain’t a woman
I ain’t a woman no more
No I buried her
Below the forest floor
You can call me what you want to
But I ain’t a woman no more
I am Gone-To-The-Spirits now
Oh he made me
Just like him self
But I can see the why’s and how’s
My visions and my boughs brushed down the way
I am Gone-To-The-Spirits now
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Cruel Streak
03:49
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Cruel Streak Am7, D9 E9
I knew you had a cruel streak
But I never knew it ran so deep
I got daggers coming in my eyes
You got words that cut me down in size
Well i knew you had a cruel streak
But I never knew it ran so deep baby, whoa baby
I give you all of the world but it ain't enough
I give you all of loving until you can't get up
I give you all of the world
I give you, I give you all the world
I give you, I give you all the world
Chorus
Guitar solo
chorus
You give me lame excuses
Oh, it's never your fault
Well, I'm on to you
Yes, you've just been caught
All your poor excuses
All your oh, I'm sorry babes
I'm gonna leave you
'Cause I don't want no early grave
CHORUS
Yeah I knew you had a cruel streak
But I never knew it ran so deep Baby
© Norine Braun SOCAN All Rights Reserved.
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8. |
Wounded Little Bird
03:27
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WOUNDED LITTLE BIRD
You're a wounded little bird
Can you risk to share your hurt?
For a winged one that can't fly high
Is a bird that's doomed to die
[repeat]
You've soared the skies
Justified there's no dream that dies
You're just a bird girl
Smashing in walls to get away
You're just a bird girl
Smashing through glass to get away
Above it all you seemed
No one could reach your stars
Above it all you dreamed
The measure of your scars yeah
chorus
You hop around
Unaware, never leaving the ground
You're just a bird girl
Whose hunted heartbeat flutters fast
Find the mercy seat at last
Lifted by hands you join
The birds of a feather flight
Lifted by hands unseen
Delivered from your plight yeah
CHORUS
© Norine Braun SOCAN All Rights Reserved.
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9. |
Hanna To Hollywood
03:42
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Hanna to Hollywood
I went from Hanna to Hollywood
Nobody told me that I could
I looked for myself in other's eyes
Held back honesty for lies
I searched fortune and fame
But no one knows my name
I'm still the same
I longed for something to make me high
Feel freedom, touch the sky
Feel passions stir inside
Let me know that I'm alive
I thought fortune and fame
But no one knows my name
I'm still the same
I tried to make life happen
It's hard to make things stay
I need to let life happen
It's easier that way or so they say
I wanted someone to climb inside
Show me how to work this ride
I kept waiting for my life to glide
But I find that now is the time
It's not fortune and fame
It's all in the game of believing
There's a reason
I tried to make life happen
It's hard to make things stay
I need to let life happen
It's easier that way or so they say
I went from Hanna to Hollywood
Nobody told me that I could
I looked for myself in other's eyes
Held back honesty for lies
I searched fortune and fame
But no one knows my name
I'm still the same
©Norine Braun All Rights Reserved. SOCAN/ASCAP www.norinebraun.com
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10. |
Frontliner Blues
04:02
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FRONTLINER BLUES
Working on the frontline
I get handed down the news
Working on the frontline
Well I never pick andchose
Just working on the frontline
I get handed down the news
Oh working on the frontline
I got those forntliner blues
They say I should be happy
About my frontline job
9 to 5 with most weekends off
And achance
To advance
I cleared security
I got my pass
Now meet the boss
And go kiss his ass
Don't want no rebel
We're a company team
Don't want no trouble
Just do as we deem
Don't give us opinion
Well now how could you know
You're just a frontline
Another Jane Blow
And the minute your out honey
Another one's in
I wear my suit I comb my hair
I count my paycheques
Before they're there
Obey the memo
Sign on the line
Evaluation means
You're wasting my time
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Christmas cards are written
Candle light a glow
Looking out my window
Watching silver snow
Hidden in the corner
Lies a photograph of you
Smiling eyes looking at me
The way you used to do.
I'll put a wreath on it
From the dark closet
Deck it all out to see
Cedar and holly
Fat man jolly
Twinkle yuletide tree
If you want me
You can find me
I'll be home Christmas eve
Empty stockings hang in firelight
Through the cracks cold winds breathe
©Norine Braun SOCAN All Rights Reserved
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Truth and Dares
03:32
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TRUTH AND DARES
© N.BRAUN SOCAN All Rights Reserved
Never needed anyone
She always did it on her own
Life seemed always black and white
People get there on their own
Willful youth she sacrificed
Her glass filled half way
In the night, in the night
She plays truth and dares
She wakes up living on the street
She’s hungry can’t find enough to eat
She’s lonely, drunks lie at her feet
Downtown, she lives downtown
She looks at me with vacant eyes
I worry that she might recognize
My interest or my empty lies
Downtown, she lives downtown
Garbage in her livingroom
She threw her pearls to the swine
World’s my oyster anyways
You see I manifest divine
Mystic visions watching me
I get connected all the time
In the night, in the night
She knows truth and dares
I walk past her most everyday
She asks for change I give away
I give my penance for the day
Downtown she lives downtown
I stand corrected in front of truth
My mind unravels the naked ruse
The spirit moves me into use
Downtown she lives downtown
REPEAT FIRST VERSE
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Norine Braun Vancouver, British Columbia
Her signature funky folk-blues sound simply cannot be matched. Best listened to as loud as your neighbours will tolerate.
Abortmag
Her music sounds like the union of Nick Cave with Patti Smith & City and Colour deep in the Canadian forests.
MTM
An imaginative display of fine musicianship, potent vocals and heartfelt lyrics, talent like hers doesn't exactly come around too often. Music Emission
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