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Old Song

from Burn the Tapes by Norma MacDonald

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"We'd be wise to question why we hold a grudge as if it were going to make us happy and ease our pain. It's rather like eating rat poison and thinking the rat will die" -- Pema Chodron

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Heaven knows I’d take the blame for you
For every lonesome streetlight you shot out
Nothing’s really been the same for you
Since you put your faith in someone who walked out

But there’s something I been trying to say
Please don’t take it the wrong way

It’s an old song you’ve been playing too long
So why not try to lead with something new
It’s an old song you’ve been playing too long
It’s time you put to bed
That tunes been in your head
And wake up easy singing something new

Heaven knows your kind of circumstance
Keeps kicking at your heart night after night
But my darling I think it’s time we danced
To something a little more upbeat tonight

I’m not saying you should burn the tapes
I’m just saying let’s see what difference that it makes

It’s an old song you’ve been playing too long
So why not try to lead with something new
It’s an old song you’ve been playing too long
It’s time you put to bed
That tunes been in your head
And wake up easy singing something new

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from Burn the Tapes, released June 8, 2015

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Norma MacDonald Halifax, Nova Scotia

The opening chords of In Waves set the record spinning in January, but the mood is wholly autumnal: lush, then resolute. A harvest and a hope.

On her sixth album, Norma MacDonald explores new songwriting tactics, reimagines old demos, and conducts sound experimentations that expand her folk and country influences into 60s pop, Motown harmonies, and jangly early millennium indie-rock.
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