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Halifax Girl
01:50
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My mother she told me as I left for the coast
Oh you better come back to Ontario
She knew that I would find a nice Halifax girl
With a saltwater heart
She’s got eyes as blue as the tides of the ocean
Cape Breton in her blood and a fiddle under her chin
We bought that house on Harbour Lane
Work all week to get away
And I see it now on the marquee
Its playing live “her and me”
And suddenly I wake up from my dream…
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2. |
Driftwood People
03:23
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Funny how sometimes we take off
To our own realties
Cut all our ties and dream up
Someplace nice
where we want to be
Maybe it’s not how you were taught
When you ask someone how they’re doing
Expect just fine when they answer with a lie
If we all tried a lot more talking
Then we can start to make amends
put an end to the standby
Maybe its not how you grew up
So unfamiliar with the human touch
Never the first and we wont be the last
Makes you wonder what’s left to discover
We’ve got a lot to learn from our past
So leave no stone unturned
Let’s get to know each other
Maybe its not how you grew up
Can’t we stop for a second and realize what we got
We keep on drifting
We keep on drifting through
We’re driftwood people
Never growing roots.
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3. |
Dawson City
03:12
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I feel it in my veins
The heat of the rush
Oh the gold it runs
Through my blood
Through my blood
We worked in the dark
The wintery days
Through silt and sand
We dug our graves
Just let me go
Take me back to Dawson, take me back to the mountains
Where the sun never sets
I know
I’ll be back to the city; I’ll be back where the river runs free
Once you see, you never will leave
The spell of the North
Catching on like a cold
For I found my fortune
In the call of the wild we followed
The call of the wild we followed
Just let me go
Take me back to Dawson, take me back to the mountains
Where the sun never sets
I know
I’ll be back to the city; I’ll be back where the river runs free
Once you see, you never will leave
Somehow life’s not what I thought and,
The gold’s not all we got
There’s a land, have you seen it?
Have you seen it?
Just let me go, take me back to Dawson
Take me back to the mountains
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4. |
Maya
03:16
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I was waiting for the weekend oh she said oh my oh my
Raise a glass to the past and do it all again oh my oh my
I’m not trying to fit the mold
I’m trying to break out
I take one step forward you’re taking one back oh my oh my
I’m not looking down from eyes like that oh my oh my
I’ll just stay here against the wall
So you wont need to catch me when I fall
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I’m not trying to throw you (Oh my oh my heart)
Can we take it slow?
Who are you besides the dancing queen oh my oh my
You can tell it to me straight or just lie through your teeth
Oh noo, Whatcha you gonna do
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I’m not trying to throw you (Oh my oh my heart)
Can we take it slow?
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
This empty cup, and these empty arms
Wont you fill me up, don’t go sound the alarm
We can talk wont you tell me again
Where do you wanna go and where have you been
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I just want to know you (Oh my oh Maya)
I’m not trying to throw you (Oh my oh my heart)
Can we take it slow?
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
Oh my oh Maya
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5. |
On My Way Home
03:59
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I don’t know If I can go without you my love
I’ve been trying to make it, oh make it on my own
My head is strong but the road is long, I’ve given it my best
Well I’m done with living my way, I’m not going on like this
Oh I need you to get through the day
You’re my coffee in the morning
You’re the songs that I sing
Oh I need you you’re the end of the road
Be waiting at the doorstep
I’m on my way home
Been on the run since I was young I didn’t give a shit
Well this kind of town will let you down if you never get out of it
When I left trying to forget the man I’d become
were all I regret and I was my father’s son
Oh I need you to get through the day
You’re my coffee in the morning
You’re the songs that I sing
Oh I need you you’re the end of the road
Be waiting at the doorstep
I’m on my way home
Oh life it takes my breath away one blink and you’re gone
Time tends to age us, but you haven’t changed at all
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6. |
Into the Light
03:15
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My heart wasn’t hurt, that lay in my mind
All the words that you kept, was I that blind?
From the shade you throw oh oh oh oh
You meant what you said, and you called it time
So why did you look back, as you left me behind?
There she goes oh oh oh oh oh
There she goes oh oh oh oh oh
Come into the light, into the light and maybe then you’ll see
what loves for
Tell me what is wrong and what is right and baby then were free
from the dark
You keep running, running back, but that wont change what you regret
The shade you throw
I tried to get to know you, but you never let me in
These walls that I broke down, you built them up again
There she goes oh oh oh oh
There she goes oh oh oh oh
Come into the light, into the light and maybe then you’ll see
what loves for
Tell me what is wrong and what is right and baby then were free
from the dark
You keep running, running back, but that wont change what you regret
The shade you throw
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Braden Lam Halifax, Nova Scotia
Blending authentic songwriting with modern indie flare, Braden Lam is forging the path to a new 21st century folk. The young ECMA-nominated artist from Halifax, NS sounds like if The Lumineers and Phoebe Bridgers met at a campfire in Canada.
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