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Midnight
04:14
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We’re driving to darkness with elevated risk.
The fauna’s getting bigger and so are the things we miss.
This moon was full, but it wasn’t about me.
I’ll never be able to express the way I see you in the trees.
In dreamed up spaces I have given some of my life.
But, my sweet darling, you know you are my favourite midnight.
In the evening we broke the table with the weight of all our friends.
We ate dinner in pieces and told all our stories in ends.
We pushed around the stars with the grace of our ballpoint pens.
And, my darling, you know I felt you then.
There are spaces I have given some of my life.
But, my darling, you know you are my favourite midnight.
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Stranger Song
04:45
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Baby’s got eyes like magnets
in a frozen sea.
But oh, they feel warm
just spiking all my metals up.
And baby’s got an ear for the soul
that I’ve been drinking of all these years.
And oh, he’s drunker than me,
his breath even smells just like drippy love,
oh drippy love.
But strangers, they never meet.
They just walk on down the same and sometimes different streets,
they never meet.
They wouldn’t be strangers then.
They never meet, no.
And, baby’s got a mind like winter
in a tea cup.
Wild, and always stirring up
all of the dreamy stuff, the stuff I love.
But stranger, we can’t seem to meet.
We just walk on down the same or sometimes different streets,
we still don’t meet.
Though we might pass through each other’s dreams,
we never meet, no.
Stranger, I think I know you,
in my imagination.
Stranger, I think I know you,
it’s just about goddamn time we meet.
I don’t want to walk by you anymore on the street, no.
I could show you my door and we could try, we could try.
I swear I will work on my opening line.
We could try, and then one day, I would say,
hey you know that Stranger Song?
I think I wrote it just for you
and you would say,
That’s so very nice. It’s not creepy baby, it’s just sweet.
And we’d be fine, you’d like my style and I’d like yours
we’d be fine baby, just fine, if we try.
So baby, take your ears, take your eyes, and your sweet mind,
and baby, just try
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Neighbour Song
03:43
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I want to be your neighbour.
I want to sometimes steal your Sunday newspaper –
just for the crosswords.
I want to run into you, in the hall.
I’ll say, ‘Hey, this building sucks,
when’s the landlord going to clean his shit up.’
I want to pick up your mail when you leave town.
I want to turn on your lights so it seems like you’re still around.
And I can pretend like I don’t hear it
when you and your lover get kind of funky.
And I can pretend like I don’t know what it sounds like
when you make love –
I’ll look you in the eyes, and stuff.
If you need some sugar –
I mean the baking kind –
just knock on my door, you can have mine.
And I don’t want to be the one
to smell your body decompose.
I want to be the one who calls when I hear a boom bang on the floor.
We’ll say, ‘Hi,’ in the stairs,
and we’ll put those little felt tips on the feet of all our chairs –
it’s what good neighbours do,
I think of you.
If I’m having a party,
won’t you come on by.
And if we’re getting too loud and bawdy,
don’t call the cops just steal our wine.
That’s just fine for you.
It’s what good neighbours do:
I think of you, you think of me, we think of we.
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Underlight
04:58
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Under the underlight of the night
and under the ground and out of the moonlight.
You know, the subway writing reads as it lives
and I'm going home alone, once again.
Anyone I might have called has already gone to bed.
Anyone I might call 'you' is already with someone else –
is already with someone I call, else.
I know you steal my blankets.
I know you kick me in my sleep
but it's so goddamn cold in here
and I don't want to pay for my heat.
When I was a mermaid, I could be shallow or deep.
I could be the same temperature in my fins and my feet.
I never had to worry about where I might sleep
because the space is all just shared down there in the deep.
The mermen that you meet, they're really something sweet:
they always know just what you need
and they're always so damn proud to please –
it's really nice.
I could use one tonight.
I know you steal my blankets.
I know you kick me in my sleep
but it's so goddamn cold in here
and I don't want to pay for my heat.
Where are you deep sea D'Angelo?
Where are you my young-man-underwater-Marlon-Brando?
I could use you tonight.
I know you steal my blankets.
I know you kick me in my sleep
but it's so goddamn cold in here
and I don't want to pay for my heat.
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Sugar Booze
04:39
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Glass of wine and sugar booze,
here is something I raise with you.
Glass of wine and sugar booze,
here is something we all could use, tonight.
I moved in here when I got dumped.
I sat around and thought a whole lot about loving.
But I didn’t fall here, not that way.
And here’s the kitchen where I kept my socks.
And here’s the floor where I wrote most of my songs.
Here’s this space, but it’s just not mine anymore.
And here’s the home where I lost my shit.
And here’s the home where those goddamn mice lived.
And here’s the home where the sink fell off the fucking wall.
So glass of wine and sugar booze,
to the pocked up walls we toast to you.
Glass of wine and some sugar booze
to the noisy fan, we drink to you,
and the door that wouldn’t close,
then wouldn’t open once we got it closed
and subsequently wouldn’t close again once we opened it.
You know I made out in every room, except for one.
And I slept in every room, except for a different one.
So glass of wine and sugar booze
Here is something we all could use.
Glass of wine and sugar booze,
I guess it’s time,
it’s time to move.
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Lou Laurence Montreal, Québec
Singer. Songwriter. Siren.
Lou Laurence is a soul singer hailing from the bottom of
the ocean and claiming Montreal as her new territory. Lou combines soul vocals with elements of folk, blues, pop, jazz and all that is glorious in music.
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