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The Wrong Side of Blue

by Elise Cabrét

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1.
The Calling 04:49
She lures them in with a song it begins the ocean calms and the wind falls silent They hear in the fog a music it charms the sailors rush to the decks and she’s calling and she’s calling Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Irresistible The captain cannot turn away She’s enchanting and she’s asking for him to come alone How he longs for the warmth of a woman takes him home Oh he’s aching and he’s breaking Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh He orders his men to fill their ears with wax “And then you must tie me You must bind me to the mast!” The sailors obey The ship it starts to pull away And she’s crying And he’s begging “Let me go!” Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh He struggles enchained He’s calling after her Her song its is fading She stands on the reef and casts herself into the sea And she’s drowning and she’s drowning And he’s begging and she’s drowning and he’s crying as she’s dying Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
2.
Winter 04:15
Caught up for coffee at the corner shop We had a laugh just like we always have But I know there was something on your mind You’ve been acting kind of different now You touched your hair and you looked to the ground That was the last time I saw you for a while Oh its a winter and it’s taken all your light You told me not so long ago You said you want to go traveling You want to see the world See the world But now you’re just like everyone else round here On a beaten path, and the ice is oh it’s creeping under your skin Oh its a winter and it’s taken all your light Oh it’s a winter I can see it in your eyes And now the days are getting darker And there’s no colour in the garden at all, no When the ones I love crumble and fall I am sick and I’m tired of this cold How it steals and it scars everyone that I know Oh its a winter and it’s taken all your light
3.
I had a friend back in high school We were close, yeah we used to walk back to hers and talk about boys and music I knew that house like a second home I learnt guitar on the living room floor In front of that dusty old TV Those days are long gone and I feel like I’m on the wrong side of blue I had a crush on her brother We’d go upstairs under covers and kiss just the way you do when you're fourteen I’d stay up late with her old man Felt like I could really talk to him On that moonlit balcony Some nights he’d get drunk talking shit, he’d say to much Tell me all his deep regrets He made me promise not to tell And with the eyes of a broken man He confessed his love for me Those days are long gone and I feel like I’m on the wrong side of blue Her old man got sick that year The doctors said too many years of using, I guess we knew it was coming Her sweet sixteen, he wasn't there Watched his speech on an over-head She never held my hand so tight We went out that night Sinking shots, we both got high But hell, we danced the night away Met some guys much older Now I wish I would have told her ‘no’ I saw her climb into the back of their truck Those days are long gone and I feel like I’m on the wrong side of blue The house went up on the market And we threw out all the toys that used to keep us safe in her big bed I drive past the gate sometimes see us hanging christmas lights but nothing lasts forever She knows all my fears and we’ve been holding hands through all these years I don’t see her much these days It’s funny life gets in the way Coz those days are long gone and I feel like I’m on the wrong side of blue Those days are long gone and I feel like I’m on the wrong side of blue the wrong side of blue
4.
There was a riddle written in his skin of a sneaky-eyed snake and an old violin Fresh out of Pentridge he came to my door He said ‘I need a woman who knows how to roar’ So we got down to business with an old fashioned kiss as slowly he tasted the flesh he had missed I lifted his shirt, his heart-beat within Thats where I noticed that old violin Now I’ve been with gangsters cheaters and thieves but I ain’t met a man with a famous mystique He must of noticed the look on my face when I saw that fiddle and that beady-eyed snake and then Johnny The Killer pushed me on the bed he said "Darling you wouldn't make a bad man mad!" He was a viper, yes, he was a snake and I was the call-girl they found in the lake But there was no witness to call to the stand so Johnny he walked, no justice for the dammed, no But there will be a sentence, that I caught from a syringe I will be the final song, for that old violin
5.
So I’m gonna meet with him tomorrow Well, I hope that I am not diving in too soon Still I gotta find some love to borrow just for the night, and that will be enough for me yeah oh just for the night And now I’m waiting at the bar He introduces himself to me He tells me I look beautiful and he asks me what I drink Sit down, in the corner I’m trying to think of what to say and I wish I could tell him what the hell I’m doing here anyway Meeting with a stranger In a strange place I’m not looking for love coz loving is much too much for me You see, I’ve got a lot going on right now and I don’t need anyone to mess it up for me And I say, right away to him that “I like to sleep alone” and he laughs with a drink in his hand and he says “baby it’s all good, it's all good" Take a walk outside it’s kind of late and its kind of nice We talk about how our friends are all settling down He really don't know that much about me and I really don’t know if there is much to him but He puts his arms arounds me and I I give myself to him To a stranger in a strange place
6.
You can show me how to hold a gun with blank rounds Take a shot, it makes a hole in me I hit the ground Hey now that’s alright Hey now that’s alright I don’t wanna go to school today This is not my story I don’t know who I am I am down in myself You know I want to get better somehow but it’s hard to get out when your finger’s on the trigger Hey now that’s alright Hey now that’s alright I don’t wanna go to school today This is not my story I don’t know who I am and I can’t think with you around Hey now that’s alright Hey now that’s alright Hey now that’s alright Hey now that’s alright

credits

released December 11, 2015

All tracks written and performed by Elise Cabrét
Produced by Trevor Carter / Studio 52 (Tracks 1 & 4)
Simon Grounds (Tracks 2 & 5) and Andy White (Tracks 3 & 6)
Featuring Terry Bartholomew (acoustic guitar on track 1 and electric guitar on track track 5), Doug McDowell (bass on tracks 1 & 4), Lore Burns (cello on track 2) Luke Kosanski (electric guitar on track 4) and Joel Hodges (piano on track 6)
Front cover photo by Keith Persall (www.keithpersallphotographer.com)
Back cover photo by Matt Goldby. Design by Elise Cabrét and Sebastian White

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Alluring and soul-stirring. Melbourne alt folk artist Elise Cabrét is a modern Joni Mitchell.

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