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The Blues Is A Game
03:35
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Does it make you feel good as you get on the stage?
Say you’re singing the blues so you’d better behave
But it isn’t your truth, you’ve no right to the name
It’s all whiskey and cigarettes in your eyes
Honey, I’ve been marching most all of my life
And you sit and make jokes about men in white cloaks
Then whip up a twelve bar refrain
When you woke up this morning
What went through your mind?
When you woke up this morning
Did you fear for your life?
Just candidly explain my existence away
‘Cause the blues is a game
So you pack up your notebook
And you tune your guitar
And you never once worried
If you’d make it this far
But you’re ready to play
So you shout your cliches
‘Cause the blues is a game
You ain’t got the blues you’re just a sad, sad man
You ain’t got the blues you’re just a sad, sad man
But you’re ready to play so you spout your cliches
‘Cause the blues is a game
I’m a good, good woman
With a good, good heart
I’m a good, good woman
But you make it so hard
‘Cause I’ve got something to say
And it burns like a flame
But the blues is a game
When you woke up this morning
With the world on your side
Tell me did you read the news boy
Before you sat down to write
Digging deep for that pain
But it don’t hit the same
‘Cause the blues is a game
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2. |
A Hundred Lovers
02:50
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My lover he calls out to me across the sea
He knows that I won’t come to him
He does this quite deliberately we both agreed
I would not get too close to him
But this is what I love the most
The push, the pull, the play
I have a hundred lovers and none of them stay
There is a man who comforts me from time to time
I will admit I call for him
He tells me that I’m beautiful and that by and by
Someday I will fall for him
But I fall in and out of love
Like a wave
I have a hundred lovers and none of them stay
Some people speak of one great love
The stars above have certainly aligned for them
But what a gift it is to love and love again
A hundred different kinds of men
I learned how to hold and to let go
And to be okay
‘Cause I have a hundred lovers and none of them stay
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Betting On You
03:30
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I fell in love with two dozen white boys
Playing sad songs on guitars
Gave it all up; it’s not enough
Oh these boys only get you so far
They say, “who'd you think you are?”
Well I’m just a chick in some bar
They told me to play like a woman estranged
So I screamed from the top of my lungs
Got them confused when I sang them the Blues
‘Cause a woman can’t choose what she wants
They say, “who have you become?
And could you do that all along?”
If I needed someone I could rely on
I wouldn’t be betting on you
If I needed something I could believe in
I don’t think your washed up dream would do
Some of them tried to make me one of the guys
But I guess I’m too shapely for you
So some instead tried to take me to bed
And I’d smile but never follow through
They say, “why the attitude?
Got something better to do?”
If I needed someone I could rely on
I wouldn’t be betting on you
If I needed something I could believe in
I don’t think your washed up dream would do
I fell in love with two dozen white boys
Playing sad songs on guitars
Gave it all up; it’s not enough
Oh these boys only get you so far
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4. |
Fucking Her
02:33
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5. |
Make It Romantic
05:05
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I want you to kiss me slowly like a movie, watch me as I go
Think of me when you’re lonely, speak kindly of me
And don’t tell no lies, no
Just sing of the girl always running
Trying to find some truth, some something
Make it romantic, don’t let them know that I’m out of my mind
And when you hear my name I want your heart to skip a little
Just enough to let you know you’d have a bit of trouble
If you ever tried - if you ever tried to forget me
Keep me magical and charming when you keep me in your memory
And keep on telling everyone that I’m alive and I’m free
And that I dance to my own tune, and that wildflowers in bloom ain’t got nothing on me
Just sing of the girl always running
Trying to find some truth, some something
Make it romantic, don’t let them know that I’m out of my mind
Sing of the girl always running
Trying to find some truth, some something
Make me romantic, brush of my tragic state of mind
Sing of the girl always running
Trying to find some truth, some something
Make it romantic, don’t let them know that I’m out of my mind
I want you to kiss me slowly
Like a movie
Watch me as I go
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Simeon Hammond Dallas London, UK
“wickedly-badass pint-sized powerhouse”
Simeon Hammond Dallas is a singer-songwriter from London’s
Camden Town. An overactive mind and a desire to live a life like a travel montage from a rom-com provide the inspiration for her music; a folky bluesy country-soul amalgamation. An enemy of dichotomy, her music is soft and vulnerable while packing a punch at the same time.
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