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Requiem for the Night
04:16
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REQUIEM FOR THE NIGHT
Music & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (April 2018)
Slanted shadows cross my mind,
Silver whispering through the pines,
Is this blindness, is this night?
When the stars are starved of light?
The ocean roars.
My heart soars...
Tesselating broken hearts in the dark.
Irridesence in the waves drift apart.
We are vines searching blindly without arms,
We are parallel lines in the dark.
But I know,
I won't let go...
Moon hangs lonely in the sky.
I sing for you this lullaby.
A requiem for this night.
A hovering song at our sides.
The ocean roars.
My heart soars...
Tessellating broken hearts in the dark.
Iridescence in the waves drift apart.
We are vines searching blindly without arms,
We are parallel lines in the dark.
Tessellating broken hearts in the dark.
Iridescence in the waves drift apart.
We are vines searching blindly without arms,
We are parallel lines in the dark.
But I know,
I won't let go...
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2. |
Black Coffee
04:18
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BLACK COFFEE
Music & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (November 2019)
All this waiting and your
Black coffee's gone cold.
There's slack in this conversation
Oh, another lack of comprehension.
I play with the clouds in my
Coffee. Oh, I see those
Headless ghosts,
Chasing every bold note.
So, you tell me that you wanna see
Eye to eye, but those
Feelings that you prescribe are
Another way for you to just hide.
So, tell me, tell me,
What you gonna do?
Can't see through dirty windows,
Can't see it all through.
Tell me, tell me,
What you gonna say
To your own reflection when
You've given up the day?
Tell me, tell me,
What you gonna hear
With four empty walls
Whispering in your ear?
Tell me, tell me,
What should I tell you
In these heavy moments when your eyes
Speak more than you?
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3. |
Sifting Sand
04:14
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SIFTING SAND
Music & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (December 2019)
Here I am, in this space
You don't understand
A gulf of time sits between us
We're holding silence in our hands.
Wait with me, wait and see,
Shadows lifting off our wings.
Wait with me, wait and see,
Butterflies swarming at the brink...
Sifting sand...
Shift the weight with buried legs,
Choke our thirst sifting sand...
Run away through tunnels, gates,
Mirage is gone, sifting sand...
Our desert glow now ends with no,
So let us go... Sift... the sand...
My outline fades
Things you'd rather leave
From your memory
Your time with me, I understand.
So, wait with me, wait and see,
Shadows lifting off our wings.
Wait with me, wait and see,
Butterflies swarming at the brink...
Sifting sand...
Shift the weight with buried legs,
Choke our thirst sifting sand...
Run away through tunnels, gates,
Mirage is gone, sifting sand...
Our desert glow now ends with no,
So let us go... Sifting sand...
Sifting sand...
Sift... the sand...
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4. |
Satellites
04:12
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SATELLITES
Music & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (July 2018)
He sang alone with his guitar
Quietly humming to his heartbeat.
I watched, glowing in the sun,
Wishing I could be someone
Dear to him, kissing him,
Loving him the way he wants.
Needing him, oh, missing him,
Regretting things we didn't want.
Perhaps I'm his satellite,
I'm his moonlight, missing sunshine.
Perhaps he's my satellite,
He's my moonlight, not my sunshine...
Oh...
When the snow came
The days grew cloudy and short
With his eyes reading mine and his
Hands holding warmth.
On that day we both knew, we're
Two halves of a heart,
Wishing on those airplanes
Alone in a park...
Perhaps I'm his satellite,
I'm his moonlight, missing sunshine.
Perhaps he's my satellite,
He's my moonlight, not my sunshine...
Perhaps we are satellites,
We are moonlight, chasing sunshine...
Oh...
Perhaps I'm his satellite,
I'm his moonlight, missing sunshine.
Perhaps he's my satellite,
He's my moonlight, not my sunshine...
Perhaps we are satellites,
We are moonlight, chasing sunshine...
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Vina After Dark Calgary, Alberta
Lianne La Havas meets Kan Wakan at a Portishead concert.
Vina After Dark’s warm siren vocals
will raise goosebumps across your skin as you head-nod to chilled out drums, groovy bass, and ethereal, crying guitar lines.
And if you’re lyrically focused, you’re in luck: think Emily Haines’s poetic acuity with Nina Simone’s tender sparseness.
Meet broody trip-hop x contemporary pop.
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