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Cat Glasses

by Dolores Dagenais

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1.
Cat Glasses 03:30
You say you can tell by the Coco Channel handbag she's never had a serious thought or a bad hair day You say "look at that one over there" you can tell by the low heeled shoes that she's an intellectual with a lot to say I say well if you're such a good judge of character what do you make of my eyes? you say i've got a good sense of humour and a friendly disposition this is your position oh why, can't you see behind? I can tell by the way you move that your into the blond at the end of the bar and it won't be long before you ask if you know her and slip her your business card Leaving me here alone with your coat as you move closer and put your hand on her thigh and I ...oh I....just roll my eyes behind my... You'd never guess what’s going on benieth this tweed and black lace panties that are filled with need A lace brassier undernieth this turtle neck and I...I would like to get it off my chest. if you're such a good judge of character what do you make of my eyes? you say i've got a good sense of humour and a friendly disposition this is your position oh why, can't you see behind? My cat glasses oh my Cat glasses Oh my Cat glasses Oh my....
2.
In Saltwater 03:18
In Saltwater See the clock, take a walk Down the boulevard See the tide take the snow From the harbour shore There’s more to winter than the freezing There’s more to sorry and appeasing Watch the time change your mind About leaving Watch the waves and the day As it’s receding There’s less here than yesterday Soon all of the snow will melt away If I was angry I let it out to sea In saltwater tears soon dissolve There’s more to the problem Than what we’ve solved Hear the bells, might as well Head on homeward Watch the light slip the sky And head onward The horizon’s a thin blue line And there’s no one at home tonight If I am lonely It’s not you It’s only me In saltwater tears soon dissolve There’s more to the problem Than we have solved See the clock, take a walk Down the boulevard See the tide take the snow From the harbour shore There’s more to winter than the freezing There’s more to sorry and appeasing
3.
Charlie caught a break. Jimmy caught a fish Charlie’s on the stage, Jimmy’s living by his wits They weren’t much different when they were boys They both played guitar but Charlie had the voice Charlie hops a plane. Jimmy hops the bus. Charlie can’t complain But Jimmy’s like the rest of us They both had the talent but there’s no second place They both played the blues but Charlie had the face (Chorus) Life ain’t fair to losers like me and Jimmy Down at the local joint the girls shake and shimmy When Charlie’s on the jukebox Jimmy’ in the corner Charlie’s on the record And Jimmy’s on the scotch and water Charlie flies to France. Jimmy’s out of work again Charlie’s got a new romance. Jimmy gets it when he can They both got the blues down to the very last letter And Charlie he can sing them But Jimmy knows them better Chorus Charlie caught a break. Jimmy caught a fish Charlie’s on the stage. Jimmy’s living by his wits They both got the blues down to the very last letter And Charlie he can sing them But Jimmy knows them better Chorus
4.
Mr.Campaign 02:41
Mr. Campaign Don’t believe for a single second there won’t be a heavy price to pay For broken promises lies and deceptions you’ve been talking out of the side of your face Mr. Campaign in your shirt sleeves You’d like me to believe that you’re like My brother, my lovers, my cousins, my father But the ghettos have echoes the streets are on fire Mr. Campaign Mr Campaign I don’t believe a single word out of the two mouths of your deception And I can see I’m getting nowhere with your limited perception Mr. Campaign in your shirt sleeves You want me to believe that you’re like My brother, my lovers, my cousins, my father But the ghettos have echoes the streets are on fire Mr. Campaign Mr Campaign In your shirt sleeves You‘d like me to believe that you’re like My brother, my lovers, my cousins, my father But the ghettos have echoes the streets are on fire Mr. Campaign Mr Campaign
5.
It wasn’t that long ago I was a girl And I was soft around the edges and thought the world Was a good place Tonight I’m tired and aware of how I miss the way I use to be When I was only slightly green and love could conquer anything I wasn’t that long ago you were a boy And you had sand between your fingers and that was joy As much as anything Tonight you’re tired and you miss, you miss the way things use to be When you were only slightly green and you could laugh at anything Chorus Kiss me Take me back when we were free Before time became our enemy When the world was only you and me And we were slightly green You can’t stop the changing tide where it moves Standing still time rushes by and I feel like I been left behind Tonight I’m tired an aware of everything that’s swept away And every sunlit yesterday seems to cool and turn to grey Chorus
6.
I thought that I was leaving I left the gate wide open I packed a case of better days And threw away the ones I’d broken Somewhere along the line you slipped inside a suitcase on my porch I didn’t notice I took you with me as I got out of the taxi at the airport I know you know this 10000 feet above the planet - just like you planned it A note falls from the novel on my lap Saying “Baby come back” I thought that you’d forgotten That I was leaving this morning I left a note on your doorstep I said goodbye to your answering machine Somewhere alone the line you slipped between the CD’s in my case I didn’t notice I took you with me as I boarded on the place and took my place I know you know this 10000 feet above the planet - just like you planned it A voice over my headset makes me laugh Saying “Baby come back” We landed late Because the snow out on the runway Sit here and wait And think about the time when you were mine Then I’m 10000 feet above the planet - just like you planned it Standing in the airport with a sign Saying “Baby come back” 10000 feet above the planet - just like you planned it Standing in the airport with a sign Saying “Baby come back”
7.
A Young Man 02:24
Listen little one, don’t turn away I’ve lived alone and I know what I’m saying A young man will make you beautiful In your own eyes Like my eyes 20 years of love every night 20 years of husband and wife 15 years between him and I 15 years between him and I Baby, Baby a young man Listen momma don’t close your eyes A day without him is a lifetime Like 20 years of time on my hand 20 years of hourglass sand in my eyes in my eyes 15 years between him and I 15 years between him and I Baby, Baby a young man Baby Baby… A young man
8.
Four Walls 03:21
Four Walls Plaster and paint These are the things home ain’t A roof over head Floor underneath Don’t make it home to me (chorus) The fire raged The engines came But all was ash and rubble But standing like phoenix raised My home, my heart, my family You My home Is you Four walls Of a rented hotel A neon sign Illuminates you Sleeping the sleep Like a warrior beat You’re all the home I need (Chorus) I slip out of the hotel bed I fold my hands and bow my head And I thank God For all that he saved My home, my heart, my family You My home Is you
9.
Sometimes letting go is the only option When you’re falling through the universe with no direction If I hold you will I pull you down? If I let you go will you be found? After the water goes down After the water goes down Like driftwood on a beach Will you be out of reach and carried out to sea This violet wave was unexpected We stood and watched it as it moved across the island It didn’t look strong from the outside But it tore you from my side After the water goes down After the water goes down Wreckage on the shore There’s nothing anymore to stay here for Back in the city I had a dream You called my name in a shell And the waves were soft and clean You were in heaven I’m here in hell Some days merely breathing takes every ounce of concentration If I could go back I’d be stronger and I’d have held onto you longer After the water goes down After the water goes down Would I be where you are so distant and so far? Above it all Above it all
10.
By Your Side 02:44
Don't cry baby Momma's by your side sweet dreams follow if you close your eyes picture green meadows and purple butterflies and don't cry cause Momma's by your side and don't cry cause Momma's by your side and when you wake be happy and give the sun a smile as you grow keep smiling remember all the while that Momma's by your side Dream now baby safe within my arms softly sleeping safe for any harm dream of red vallies and violet autumn skies and don't cry cause momma's by your side and don't cry cause momma's by your side and when you wake be happy and give the sun a smile as you grow keep smiling remember all the while that Momma's by your side Dream now baby Momma's by your side sweet dreams follow if you close your eyes picture green meadows and purple butterflies and don't cry cause Momma's by your side and don't cry cause Momma's by your side
11.
Different 03:20
Didn’t we grow up? To be just like the others Didn’t we learn? To hate our own brothers We were so sure we’d be different We bet our lives on innocence Oh innocence I remember you And idealistic dream come true And if we were subtly abused It didn’t matter Cause we were different Didn’t we learn cold and calculation? Didn’t we learn the mottos of this nation? That we were so sure was different We bet our lives on honesty Oh honesty do you remember me The legends of a cut down tree An agreement just to disagree It didn’t matter that we were different And we learn from the best politicians To blur the lines between truth and fiction And we can justify our lies, hate and addiction We bet our lives on frailty Oh frailty I believe in you Keep the weak beneath our shoes As if there’s nothing else to do That matters Cause they’re all Different
12.
Julie paints her eyes and lips as red as lies In silk stockings her legs are walking With a silicone shake a mink eyelash She fakes a smile But there’s gold in them hills – boys will pay the bills She’s a deep valley to rest their heads She says “it’s just the way it is…it’s just the way it is” Julie slips inside a corset made of iron She can’t remember when breathing was free She has nothing comfortable but a lot to see She has a lot to see But there’s gold in them hills – boys will pay the bills And if it takes her scars and pills She’s living high still…she’s living high still Look at me – I could be Julie easily Not such a leap to see the truth behind the trickery But there’s gold in them hills – boys will pay the bills And if you ask if she has a happy life She’s likely just to lie…she’s likely just to lie But there’s gold in them hills – boys will pay the bills And if it takes her scars and pills She’s living high still…she’s living high still Julie paints her eyes Julie paints her eyes
13.
What do you see? On battlefield Earth We’ve been crossed, we’ve been cursed Mute all of the innocent pleads and label me conspiracy The garden is burning History's repeating The serpents have gathered a faith of defeating And we are so eager to believe this blue TV That says the smell of peace is a wicked perfume of ashes and tombs and all of the lives we have lost Who decides when it’s too great a cost? The garden’s in ashes Jesus is crying The snakes in the orchard And everyone’s lying And we are so eager to believe The mouth of deceit And where are the artists? Where’s Joni? Where are the painters the poets the black beret protests? Where are cigarettes burned down to fingers? Of conversations Of conversations We shouldn’t be having What do you say? While the wire records all the views that are yours Can be twisted into terrorist Are we silent or do we resist? And where are the artists? Where’s Dylan? Was he really a junkie or did they just kill him? Where are hot night spent under bright lights Burned down to filaments of conversations of conversations We’re not allowed having this conversation.
14.
Lady from White Horse You were beautiful once, I can tell This isn’t what your mother wanted for you This is your father’s hell Don’t take the bottle Take the bus back to where you belong Don’t take the bottle Take the bus back to where there are missing you Or who you use to be You are a lot like me and we are lost We are lost so easily Lady from White Horse Lady from White Horse I see you I see you shining when you were young I don’t know what disappointed you so much Look what you’ve become (chorus) I’m alone tonight and the city is so big And I’m so small And every neon light’s a beckon to the call Oh God I hope I don’t fall (chorus)
15.
I Missed You 04:54
I followed my dream right down to the city I it wrapped in velvet and electric neon Then out the east gate I set it on fire And sent up a smoke signal to the dawn (Chorus) Cause I missed you I missed you I missed you I missed you Peyote purple and cannabis blue And the wolves came to drink from my body I laid in the sand and cried out for you (Chorus) All of this great self destruction is only a remedy for the cure this great self destruction I knew all along It was you (Chorus) Follow my footsteps down through the village You’ll find all my skin shed there on the grass And if you walk out into the desert I’ll be home at last Cause I missed you
16.
The world leaders are getting along dismantling every bomb and gun under a secret sky There's a caravan rolling toward the hungry and the homeless, refugees of war and mouths are being fed the bread of human kindness we have left all of the poison behind us won't you be... part of this peace conspiracy? Won’t you be...part of this peace conspiracy? I know it seems a lot to expect when a million miles is only the first step and oh...oh what a tired sigh a spinning star is shining above the heartless and the lost, the broken and unloved minds are being changed by words of love in ears lives are being saved as anger disappears won't you be... part of this peace conspiracy? Won’t you be...part of this peace conspiracy? All we need is to take responsibility and it's time to live up to our ability and we can change the tide upon the sea Won't you be...part of this peace conspiracy? Won't you be...part of this peace conspiracy?
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Lucky One 02:56
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Tidal Waters 04:08
My father and I were relative strangers He was married to the bottle Momma married to the danger Of life lived beside That pale amber glass You could see him through the bottom but he couldn’t see you back (Chorus) Daddy did you know My eyes are green Daddy did you know Everything they seen Like cold tidal water The sins of the fathers Visited the sons And the daughter Hot summer days Heavy with inaction Bleeding out the heat He was drinking to distraction Tension in the air Like the sweat inside my palm And no one had to tell me Everything that could go wrong (Chorus) But cool summer nights The sound of guitars Laughter in the kitchen Laughter that was ours The moan of the strings On a red violin These are the things that I’ll keep remembering (Chorus) Daddy did you know My eyes are green Daddy did you know I inherited your strings Like cool tidal water The sins of the fathers Visited the sons And the daughter… and the daughter
19.
I bring you coffee in the morning it’s like an offering I make I have had the sweetest dream while lying wide awake To listen to you breathe, I believe…you love me And in your rest you curl around me, you wind me up inside the sheets I have had the sweetest dream while watching as you sleep Watching as you breathe, I believe…you love me And all of the others who’ve traveled in and out our doors I’m glad that their gone now cause now I’m completely yours And I can’t explain just what your name means to me Except to say, you are my sweetest dream Now the light spreads her wings out and rises up in the sky I have had the sweetest dream lying sleepless at your side To listen to you breathe, I believe…you love me Although the day will part our ways for a time I know when it’s done that you are completely mine And I can’t explain just what your name means to me Except to say, you are my sweetest dream
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On the Sand 02:50
On The Sand July is hanging hot over this town of mine again It wrings the perspiration from my hand The ocean is no refuge it’s at low tide again Starfish tokens on the sand On the sand You said you’d love me for all time You traced a heart around your name and mine On the sand Where only fools and lovers stand Building their foundations in the tide On the sand You had written our love story on this ever changing shore And watched the waves devour every word and punctuation The ocean is no critic and it hungrily took more Until you could not remember what you carefully had scrawled there On the sand You told me you would never leave You claimed to be as constant as the sea On the sand You asked me to believe That castles built on air can sometimes stand On the sand The tide is coming in now Like velvet tongue upon my skin The night is drawing curtains And the sun is gone to slumbering The ocean’s disappointed and throws driftwood at my feet The land it was her lover In that narrow place they’d meet On the sand Until he was lost beneath her leagues Dissolving into inconsistency On the sand Where you begged me to be free Saying time had eroded every plan On the sand
21.
Red Clay Man 03:10
He was born by the sea, saltwater in his hand The wind was wild the day he came It tore across the island Red clay man – play that song again It’s prettier by far than anything Red clay man When it came his time to leave He kicked the red dust from his shoes But in time he would believe It was more than innocence he’d loose Red clay man – go on home again It’s prettier by far than where you’ve been Red clay man I’m telling stories about place that I’ve never been And I’m drowning faces in the bottom of the gin His cold cold beauty keeps me coming back to him No love or duty only this melodic whim Red clay man He’s traveled in my ears All across this broken land When the wind froze my marrowed bones He was comfort in my hand Red clay man – I’m going home again It’s prettier by far than anywhere I’ve been Red clay man
22.
PMS 02:36
Went to the doctor said “Doctor please I got this aching in my head” “Feel like a gained twenty pounds in one week” I said “and if my man don’t learn to shut up I’m gonna put a fist right through his head” “oh Doctor what is wrong with me?” She said You got the PMS, woman you’re a mess You got the PMS Cold comfort, hot chocolate When to my momma said “Did you ever feel like standing in the rain…” “and laughing out your guts and then screamin’ out your brain” “On top of the world one day then you want throw yourself under a train” She said You got the PMS, Baby you’re a mess You got the PMS Cold comfort, hot chocolate Ben & Jerry are my secret lovers And Sarah Lee’s a soul mate Crying over telephone commercials And movies on the “Late Great” Swinging hard from salty to sweet Thank the lord it only lasts a week I got the PMS, Baby I’m a mess I got the PMS Cold comfort, hot chocolate You got the PMS, woman you’re a mess You got the PMS Cold comfort, hot chocolate

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Originally released in 2007
it's interesting to see the develoupment throughout the years. It's not perfect but it's all me. :)

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released February 15, 2012

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