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Hard to Get Back

from Burn the Tapes by Norma MacDonald

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Some days I want to move home to Cape Breton.

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I’m going back somehow
Through the forests where I used to hide
Where the grasses they have grown so high
They can’t see how fast we’re running
I’m saving up my words
To use as currency against the wind
When it tries to blow us back again
You know it always tries to blow us back

Back in the day we used to say
You can’t stand still if it’s not in your bones
And we were right
And chased the lights
But I never thought it’s be so hard to get back home

I know I’ve been somewhere
Places that I never dreamed I’d go
Silent rivers never seen the snow
But we never were the wiser
And now the years take hold
And I need you to remind me
To erase or to define me
Take me to that lonesome hillside by the sea

Back in the day we used to say
You can’t stand still if it’s not in your bones
And we were right
And chased the lights
But I never thought it’s be so hard to get back home

And you defended this ideal
While I raged against the setting of the sun
Now that I finally know how it feels
Take the bullets from your gun and say that I’m the only one

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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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