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Live In NYC

by Alice Limoges

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1.
Sit alone at the counter Silent phone hour after hour Drunk by the city’s bitter wine Last sip at the end of the communion line But I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas It’s already gone Solaced by the passing car lights The flickers on my ceiling match the whites of your lies Put out like your unlit cigarette An empty ashtray and penniless debt But I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas I’m not losing Las Vegas It’s already gone Who flips back an hour glass? What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past. Who flips back an hour glass? What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past.
2.
Maybe I’m too sick from all this weather Maybe I’m too sick to leave my bed Too sick to fathom now and then or never Too sick to fathom thoughts I’ve never said And maybe I’m just sick of those I run to Or running through the slopes inside my mind Maybe it’s from what I didn’t tell you Honey, I’m just not the telling kind But I’m Laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride Take me for a drive A risk to feel alive I want to feel alive Maybe we’re alone because we want it Abandoned when we’re wondering why we’re sad Life is long but we’re so young and haunted By normality and the things we’ve never had I’m sitting in a room with all my worries But my soul is too full to be afraid If I drop it all and stop and do not hurry I need only me to get away But today I’m laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride Take me for a drive A risk to feel alive I want to feel alive Maybe I’m just sick of pretending Today could be the day my life begins I find poetry in shadows unending I find poetry in soil and in skin But I’m Laying in the park on a sunny day Willing my thoughts away Who thought that they would stay Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride Take me for a drive A risk to feel alive I want to feel alive
3.
Ease 04:09
I left the station yesterday You never knew you never came It’s easier leaving than making a reason to stay And I wouldn’t want to interrupt You never heard when I spoke up Quiet is easy and easy is enough You were all I had When it all went bad I broke myself, it was easy in spite of that So let me be guilty that’s just my kind It’s not you, it’s me; the fault’s all mine. It’s easy to be unhappy most of the time And though I know it’s just pretend I never believe it until the end It’s easy, lie to me still, until then You’d want me back in better health But I’m all hung up on myself It’s easy dying than living for someone else
4.
No one’s ever hurt me a bit It’s on my own legs I trip So don’t you do me right or wrong It’s with myself I can’t get along I play my cards And if I win I’m unsatisfied Until I’m losing again Feels so good when good ends But never again I won’t be my friend, my friend No I won’t be my friend I don’t want to get my way My spectrum’s only grey So don’t you dare put me through hell I can do that myself I’m losing sleep Because I keep My eyes wide Until the brightness, it seems To greet me again I’m never my friend No I won’t be my friend I’m all spent up I’m a bottomless cup It was never enough When I had too much Had it all til then But never again No I won’t be my friend
5.
When I Drive 04:28
6.
Aleppo 03:34
I didn’t let you go yesterday Lost my love in the crimson rain You were my guard now you won’t let me back Who looks out the window when the mirror’s cracked? But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo Stone falling down again. The bright city lights Have burned through their kerosene, the days are black as the nights And deep in my mind you’re a rose in the dust But the colors fade and the petals they turn to rust But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo And I won’t let you go if we meet in the morning No I won’t let you go, a slow, slow earth is turning, turning away But come now my bride, will you take my hand? We walk the divide between us and our homeland Apart we are carried, your heart’s my home Marriage bed buried in the rubble of Aleppo
7.
Sun and Moon 03:07
You are the sun I am the moon Shine for me, I shine for you People know only one of my sides A reflection of you, the rest I hide You are bright and I am blue The best part of me is you But you shine on me and I pretend To be seen but all nights end You are needed, I’m unknown I am seated far from your thrown But some come to me for midnight’s silence Tired of light and of days violence You are warm and I am cold You stay young but I grow old We never stop spinning, spinning I am lost but you say I’m winning You say I’m winning But I feel you from somewhere far away Though we’re different as night and day As things come to pass and come to light Somewhere this night is day, this day is night You are the sun, I am the moon Shine for me, I’ll shine for you Because all darkness needs some light And all days need some night

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Recored at a series of live shows in NYC during the summer of 2014.

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released July 24, 2014

Guitar/vocals/songwriting: Alice Limoges
Violin: Jordan Tetewsky

Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6 recorded live at The Bowery Electric w/ Itamar Gov-Ari on piano; mixed/mastered by Kevin Young; track 5 mixed/mastered by Eric Shekerjian

Tracks 2, 3 recorded live at The Pyramid Club w/ Sara Donnellan on
piano/backing vocals; mastered by Eric Shekerjian

Track 7 violin 1: Edward Hardy, violin II Jordan Tetewsky, violin: Brian Vegh, cello: Molly Aronson; strings arranged by Zach Jackson, produced by Joe Mineo

Album art by Claire Horne

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Alice Limoges Rockport, Maine

Singer-songwriter born in Coastal Maine living in NY. Dark lyrics, lush sounds.

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