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The City
03:05
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THE CITY Suzanne de Bussac 2018
Let’s all go down to the heart of the city
The girls are proud and the boys are pretty
Let’s go downtown to get some energy
I feel it rising through the souls of my feet
In the city
Sweet city
City
Give me the sound of a streetcar that’s rolling
Give me the crowd at the festival
Give me the lovers who are kissing and hugging
They’re making out in the middle of the park
Free - I love to be free in the city
Free - I love to be free alone in the crowd
Take me to the city
Where all my faces are allowed
In the heart of the city, I‘m calling you
I’m calling to you man – can you hear my sound?
I’m summoning the spirits from the present and past
Take me through the maze show me your heart
Take me I am free for just one night
In the city
Sweet city
City
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2. |
Running Race
03:38
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RUNNING RACE Suzanne de Bussac 2018
The time is here I hear the wind
It’s calling me to a higher understanding
I kick my fear into a foxhole
Must ensure the road’s prepared
For the running race
The running race
I’m running in a running race
It’s crystal clear the ball is rolling
Down the hill and gaining speed
Step aside I need momentum
If I’m going to keep my place
In the running race, the running race
Running from you, running to find some truth
Well I don’t expect an easy time
But I’m so tired of running on anxiety
Its wearing me down robbing me of all my energy
I’m not a machine I’m just a human being
And I’m stepping out of the running …
Regulate my breathing
Isolate the actions
Gaining some momentum
Gaining my momentum
Run!
Running from you
Running to find my truth
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3. |
Through The Back Door
04:23
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THROUGH THE BACK DOOR Suzanne de Bussac 2018
Dreamy monday and I stroke my guitar
Misty water coloured memories….drifting
Hear that magic mountain music
Call from the upper floor
Through my back door
Let me linger in this secret abyss
I love the way it feels when the strings cut me
Helps me realize there’s more to this
Than I was bargaining for
Through the back door
I climb up that hill and I slide down again
And I roll with the punches, I get up again
And I sing for my soul to the Gods and the legends
I will not offend you…..at least I promise...
I'll try my best
Through my back door.
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4. |
Lazy Bones
03:53
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LAZY BONES Suzanne de Bussac 2018
The breeze feels like a cool hand on my burning cheek
Brushing off the roughness from the freshly finished week
The sky is grey and hazy like my memory
Lately I’ve been chasing dragons
Scattered like the leaves
Oh please release me from my lazy bones
Wake me up, baby turn the heat up
Lazy bones wake me up, save my soul
The politics are bugging me
Election day is soon
Politicians calling names like spoiled children do
I find it so embarrassing I want to hide my face
Has it really come to this?
This is our human race
Oh please release us from our lazy bones
Wake us up, baby turn the heat up
Lazy bones wake us up, save our souls
She says “it’s not he who falls who fails at all….
But he who cannot rise above it all
Get up! Shed your tears and shed your skin…move on
Move on…brush the dust off say your prayers
Brush the dust off say your prayers
Get up…GET UP!"
I believe that we all know exactly what we do
Some of us can face ourselves and other others can’t bear to
It’s hard to face those faults and it’s easy not to care
Especially when those lazy bones are in that easy chair
Oh please release me from my lazy bones
Wake me up, baby turn the heat up
Lazy bones wake me up, save my soul
Lazy bones ….get up!
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5. |
Wake Up Elaine
02:27
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WAKE UP ELAINE Suzanne de Bussac 2018
She drinks all day, don’t sleep at night
I think she’s on a useless plight
She’s wishing that her life would change
Without an ounce of fear or pain
She’s thinking it’s going to get better
She thinks that it’s going away
She hopes, thinks, cries, screams, shouts and prays….
To a man that she’s hoping is real
To the earth and the stars and the sun and the trees
And she prays to whomever will listen today
Wake up wake up wake up Elaine
Wake up wake up wake up Elaine
Her lover is falling to pieces
Found six empty bottles today
But she can’t say shit though her mouth is full of it
And she’s thinking it’s going to get better
And she thinks that it’s going to change
But it’s the same damn thing day after day
And she drinks Chardonnay with the moon and the stars
And she pines for the times when it wasn’t this hard
And she staggers to bed in her drunken denial
Wake up wake up wake up child
Wake up wake up wake up babe
Wake up wake up wake up Elaine
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6. |
Shiver Stories
05:51
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SHIVER STORIES Suzanne de Bussac 2018
Darling leave the light on
Night has awoken in morning
I see light rising up from the water
I hear the voices of those shiver stories in the dark
She loved and bore him children
Hoped that the love would be cherished
Instead he choked left her broke and embarrassed
I hear the voices of those shiver stories
They haunt the universe
Embossed into the energy
Like fossils carved in stone
Those are Shiver Stories that you feel
They catch you on a cosmic ferris wheel
Chill you to the bone and raise your hair
Shivers of awareness everywhere in the air
Secretly they trickle in
They’re in the energy
We cannot un-see all the things we’ve seen
Darling turn the light on
Night has awoken in morning
I heed advice from those old shiver stories
Suzanne de Bussac copyright 2017
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7. |
Blasting Away
05:02
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BLASTING AWAY Suzanne de Bussac 2018
Every now and then I hear a distant conversation
Saying meet me at the station at half three
Bring some luck and twenty bucks we’ll have a conversation
Talk is cheap these days and time is free
We’ll settle into nowhere get our heads around this minute
Stay until we’re finished versus late
Get outside the neighbourhood, become a stranger’s visit
Get drunk fall down and cry until we’re straight
Blasting away … leave it for another day
Blasting away … blasting past this frantic state
The great escape
Leave the rings the rugs the rabbits foot and paraphernalia
Leave all the creature comforts that you clutch
Leave the books the cars the keys
The carpets, cards and planners
Because where we’re going things won’t get you much
We’ll get onto that train and take a trip out to the desert
Ride into the sunset…disappear
Head out to the wilderness, get naked with the Maker
Gonna find out what the hell we’re doing here
Blasting away … leave it for another day
Blasting away … blasting past this frantic state
The great escape
Yeah baby let’s take a train ride to the other side
Release ourselves from here
Hit the lonely old road we will roam all alone
We will roam and we’ll roam until we find our way home
And the lonely old road disappears
Every now and then I hear a distant conversation
Saying meet me at the station at half three
Bring some luck and twenty bucks, we’ll have a conversation
Talk is cheap these days and I am free
Blasting away
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8. |
Keep Dancing
03:48
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KEEP DANCING Suzanne de Bussac 2018
So happy to meet you dear
Lovely and sweet you’re like the cool summer breeze in my hair
I’d really like to get to know you
I’m hoping that you’ll hang out until tomorrow
I don’t want to say sayonara
I just want to hold on to you …. can we go dancing?
Don’t want to say sayonara
I just want to hold on to you ... let’s go dancing
Baby where did you get those baby blues
Tell me what’s your secret
How do you keep so well and un-bruised?
This life is like a vat of tacks and fables
How do you keep yourself so phat and able Mable?
She says “I get up I walk I fall down all the meanwhile I keep on dancing …“I get up I walk I fall down all the meanwhile I keep on dancing …
Yes dear you’re going to stumble again
You’ll take a U turn instead of sticking on your path through it
You will get spooked and feel scattered
Like a young horse with some talent, but without the experience
Yes…. success is built upon train wrecks
The trick is how to survive them
I get up I walk I fall down all the meanwhile I keep on dancing …
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9. |
Scar Clan Cape
05:49
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SCAR CLAN CAPE Suzane de Bussac 2018
Sebastian was lost
He didn’t know what he was thinking
Been counting the cost
Of all he lost while he was sinking
if he had a nickel for every price he’d paid
Sebastian’s been shining the medallions on his scar clan cape
Been tattered and tossed
Been dragged across the burning cinders
Lost all of his trust
And now his heart is cold like winter
He was never fickle until he lost his faith
Sebastian’s been shining the medallions on his scar clan cape
Sebastian was lost
He stumbled off his path while wishing
For another shot at making his a life worth living
And if he had a nickel for every drop of rain…
Sebastian’s been shining the medallions on his scar clan cape
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10. |
Mean Old Wind
05:59
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MEAN OLD WIND Suzanne de Bussac 2018
Come and take a little walk with me baby
Time to cool yourself right down
Time to step outside and breathe
Come and have a little talk with me
Maybe it’ll help to lay your burden down
You can lean on me until you need
You’ve got to put one foot in front of the other baby
Plant the other down bolt it down into the gutter
So that mean old wind won’t blow you down
C’mon and kick one heel high into the clouds
Then plant the other down deep into the ground
Don’t let that mean old wind blow you down.
I am on a search for tranquility
maybe I’m going to find it after the seven billionth time
I’ve kissed that cold concrete
Some say that humour is made up of emotional chaos
Remembered in times of inner peace
As fleeting as they seem to be
C’mon and kick one heel high into the clouds
Then plant the other down deep into the ground
Don’t let that mean old wind blow you down
You’ve got to take your lumps, they’re going to come around
We all make mistakes, you can’t let them keep you down
Don’t let that mean old wind blow you down.
I say…don’t let your fury leave you all blurry
In fact, I bet if you wait ten more seconds you might find some kind of clarity
Measure your words, your momentum, it’s all a part of your story
Measure your words your intentions and strive to find inner peace
Inner peace ……..
You’ve got to put one foot in front of the other baby
Plant the other down , bolt it down into the gutter
So that mean old wind won’t blow you down
C’mon and kick one heel high into the clouds
Then plant the other down deep into the ground
Don’t let that mean old wind blow you down.
Oh what’s your story morning glory?
Have I told you that I love you yet today?
Cmon baby
I know you’re gonna make it through just one more day
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Suzanne de Bussac Calgary, Alberta
Suzanne’s music and live performances have turned heads and sharpened ears with its wonderstruck style and unshakable intensity for or over 25 years. She's released 2 full length albums, 6 singles and soon to be a series of 4 EPs. "Anyone who can appreciate the fine art of songwriting accompanied by fleeting moments of Kate Bush brilliance should become intimate with Suzanne de Bussac,” Exclaim! ... more
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