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Open Skies Above EP

by Bluebird Avenue

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1.
Up against a hotel lobby wall, red-rimmed eyes, last week's denim, and your name just a sound come off my tongue. You didn't recognise me, just a stranger among strangers, voices clanging off the polished walls like guns. You've been fueling that fire for a while now and it's only burning black. GUITAR SOLO 1 Tread heavy on the sidewalk, step on all the cracks. One, two, buckle your shoe - you won't be coming back. Raise your glass, a drink to health and wealth and whatever else. You can be everything to everyone and nothing to yourself. You've been fueling that fire for a while now and it's only burning black. GUITAR SOLO 2 Open skies above all our bonfire nights of youth, glowing embers, dancing shadows with nothing yet to lose. What choices have been made in times when darkness came to call that left you up against a hotel lobby wall? You've been fueling that fire for a while now and it's only burning black.
2.
idiot kid. 02:47
ran a red light stayed up all night stole a bottle from a bar jagged music cut through cold air in a hand-me-down car when the sun goes down start calling people up days amount to nothing and nights blur to grey it doesn’t mean anything but isn’t that the way? Friday parking lot promise though both of you know you’ll never stay sweet intoxication and its murky old temptations wait ‘til she turns her back then slip away (into the shadows) and though you’re out here always the streets don’t know your name and your days amount to nothing man, your nights blur to grey and it doesn’t mean anything at least that’s what you say dressed up in disregard time will tear you down.
3.
It’s getting late, and I should go home but there’s nothing there for me except being alone She’ll be asleep – or she’ll just pretend We go through this tired routine time and again. It’s nothing different, it’s just how we are So much is unspoken when it comes to the heart It could be we’re afraid of what we might say Maybe there’ll come a time, but not today We raised a family – now the kids are all grown Each one facing life out on their own It gives us something to talk about – we say they’re all doing well You learn in time it’s not just about yourself There’s a song on the radio behind the bar Takes me back to those days – my first love, my first car Out driving towards some future that I couldn’t dream No I’m not a believer, but thank God for small mercies It’s getting late, and I should go home.
4.
three 01:52
5.
Before 02:51
People were strange, and took pleasure in things unusual In the years before you were born Colours all hung muted, and the music strange They had funny haircuts, clothes and silly names Such a world inconceivable that turned, and it turned, and it turned In the years before you were born MELODICA SOLO People were strange, and took pleasure in things unusual But still had families, houses and weekends, laughter and love Though it looked so different, life was much the same In the years before you were born In the years before you were born.
6.
Colder 03:08
The days are getting colder, pushing through the year We gaze out of our windows, praying the rain will disappear It’s feeling so much colder. It’s so much colder this year. The days are getting shorter – light creeps in, then out of here We spend each waking moment seeking warmth and comfort where There’s only rain and windswept hours. It’s so much colder this year. Just as the sun tires, so do I. We all need time to hide. So I don’t mind the rain now and then. It gives me time to start over again. The late nights; so much earlier. One last cigarette in the rain. A tired goodnight spoken. Dim the lights on our fears and our shame. We’re all a little older, and it’s so much colder this year. Just as the sun tires, so do I. We all need time to hide. So I don’t mind the rain now and then. GUITAR SOLO Just as the sun tires, so do I. We all need time to hide. So I don’t mind the rain now and then. It gives me time to start over again. God knows we’re all a little older, and it’s so much colder.
7.
Pin 03:59
It's hard to tell her that it's alright when I just want to hear the same For so long our love was a refuge. Now it's letting in the rain Imaginary conversations; God knows I've had them all And while it breaks my heart to let you down, you stood back and let us fall Don't know what I'll do without you. I'm not sure who I'll try to be. And what of you? Will you be alright? Questions are all I see. Maybe in time we'll revisit these ruins that now we leave. And see not just the bones of a heartbreak, but the shaping of who we'd be. We'll see not just the bones of a heartbreak, but the shaping of who we'd be.

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released November 1, 2013

Music/lyrics/performance by Danny Crocome & Sam Ogilvie.
Cover photo by Mr Leon Taylor (www.mrleontaylor.blogspot.co.nz)
Logo by Clint Slogrove.

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Bluebird Avenue Auckland, New Zealand

Bluebird Avenue is an alternative act from Auckland, New Zealand. Having played music together since 2005, they began writing, recording & performing as Bluebird Avenue in 2011. Since then, their music has been featured in numerous international music blogs, earned them 'Soundclouder of the Day' and has been performed in all sorts of interesting venues. They released two EPs on November 1st 2013. ... more

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