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City Sleepwalker (Remastered)

from Us Vs by Vina After Dark

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I wrote this song after being inspired by Two Feet's "Her Life" a couple of years ago. His song circled in my head relentlessly for a week, and that's when I knew I had to write something.

City Sleepwalker is currently one of my favourite originals. No matter how I'm feeling, when I sing this song, I'm transported to a moody world where these two lonely people exist within a sleepy, snowy place, full of dreams that are hibernating, waiting to surface to life.

There's a lyric video (and many live videos) of this song on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UC7vkZLgcwOzYC0NabqmFwPg

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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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from Us Vs, released June 30, 2020
Songwriting/Vocals: Vina Nguyen
Instrumentation/Production: Dafydd James

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