City Sleepwalker (Single)

by Vina After Dark

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There is a remastered version of this song on our EP, Us Vs.

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

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.

Cover art by: Steeve Savignac IG: @steuve

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CITY SLEEPWALKER
Music & 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…

credits

released September 17, 2019
Songwriting/Vocals: Vina Nguyen
Instrumentation/Production: Dafydd James
Drums: Deifante Walters

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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. ... more

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