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You Can't Carry it Around

from Burn the Tapes by Norma MacDonald

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A trip to Ireland turned into a meditation on the intangibility of experience.
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That accordion is too heavy to take on the train.

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Strangers on a train to a town you never knew
Watching for the greenest oceans of the fields
And you want to take it all and try to pin it down
And you want to sing the notes that ring without a sound
But you can’t carry it around

Talking in a voice like an old cathedral bell
Waiting for a chance to pour your heart not made of stone
And you want to wear it like a jewel in your crown
And you want to shout from mountains all you’ve lost is found
But you can’t carry it around

Dreaming on a plane over water black as night
Someday you’ll paint portraits of castles in the dirt
But you won’t let this moment kick you when you’re down
‘Cause you’ve loosened the chains an inch that held you bound
And you can’t carry it around

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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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