1. |
Not Enough
05:29
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NOT ENOUGH
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (May 14, 2018)
You blow smoke in my face,
flick the ash and you turn.
You turn, you turn to walk
away.
Blue streetlight filters in.
I’m staring up at the ceiling.
No birds, no birds were out
today.
I pull away brick by brick,
cut the trees and I ask:
Did we really, did we really try
hard enough?
Maybe it was not enough
and I just couldn’t give
up who I
am.
Maybe it was not enough
and you just couldn’t give
up what you
need.
You blow smoke in my face,
flick the ash and you turn.
You turn, you turn to walk
away.
Blue streetlight filters in.
I’m staring up at the ceiling.
No birds, no birds were out
today.
I saunter across the empty street,
hear your voice, missing your heat.
Did we really, did we really try
hard enough?
Maybe it was not enough
and I just couldn’t give
up who I
am.
Maybe it was not enough
and you just couldn’t give
up what you
need.
Maybe we were not enough
when we’re broken and in
love, now I
see.
Maybe we were not enough,
break me down, set you free.
Oh, that’s what we
need.
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2. |
Stardust
06:06
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STARDUST
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (September 5, 2018)
I’m
sitting here sipping my coffee on a
sunny balcony. Not
wondering where I gotta go or
who I’ve got to be. The
autumn wind carries the smell of
earth and dirt and leaves.
Ooh,
birds swooping,
children laughing,
the moon is swaying,
streetlights drooping
across a canopy of
a city sleeping and
I am dreaming of
stars and galaxies
swirling around me.
The particles I breathe are
deep within me. I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust… I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust…
I’m
reaching out my window catching
drops of silver rain, like
shooting stars they fall as arrows and
revive once again. The
rhythm of my heart fades and
swells to your name.
Ooh,
birds swooping,
children laughing,
the moon is swaying,
streetlights drooping
across a canopy of
a city sleeping and
I am dreaming of
stars and galaxies
swirling around me.
The particles I breathe are
deep within me. I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust… I’m
stardust, we’re
stardust…
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3. |
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CITY SLEEPWALKER
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (February 9, 2017)
She’s so clear she’s like night and day
got no balance oh, and got no sway
up to her ears in doubt she ain’t okay
with all the colourful lies she spins every day
Hear the hum and the drum in her heart just
fade away fade away
all the roots and the truths she would find just
never came never came
Walking half-asleep
Sleepwalking city sleep
Walking half-asleep
Sleepwalking city
dreams
He’s got friends yet none to talk to
can’t stand silence swigs the beer at noon
got a broken heart work-work is all he do
and he knows it too it’s more than feeling blue
Hear the hum and the drum in his heart just
fade away fade away
all the roots and the truths he would find just
never came never came
Walking half-asleep
Sleepwalking city sleep
Walking half-asleep
Sleepwalking city dreams
Walking half-asleep
Sleepwalking…
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4. |
Belief
03:18
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BELIEF
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (December 22, 2016)
Swim-swim up to the silky fog of dawning
Whisper-whisper all the things that leave us wanting
Slipping away are the sunny days that we have left
Many things we want to know and learn fill us with regret
Down-down the dusty road I see us sweating
Run-run into the shade I see us begging
The pages turned and burned not long ago
All the sins of the small world we’ve hurt to know
I believe my mind is vast
I believe my hope can last
I believe we create the truth
I believe you believe it too
Wage-wage the war that we can win
Kill-kill ourselves or kill our twins
Everything is swallowed down the rabbit hole
Sometimes I ask myself what do we live for?
I believe we change from pain
I believe what we want might be the same
I believe we know what we lose
I believe it might not change what we choose
Oh…
I believe my mind is vast
I believe my hope can last
I believe we change from pain
I believe what we want might be the same
I believe we know what we lose
I believe you believe it too
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5. |
After the War
03:20
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AFTER THE WAR
Song & lyrics: Vina Nguyen (May 26, 2019)
The burning room now
gutted black and you
said you were
holding back, and we saw the
flames that
whipped the
sky,
tongues of violence holding lies.
Was it just the
alcohol, the
broken mirrors and
empty malls, or the
afternoon
nightmares
after the war that
left you quiet and small?
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Vina After Dark Calgary, Alberta
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