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Trying to Try

from In Waves by Norma MacDonald

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Trying to Try

Why’d you get so serious?
Is the weight of the world on your back
I’ve been missing the punch lines
Blaming all the timing that I lack

See the world through rose coloured glasses
Walking around with our heads up our asses
So much left but so far gone
The answer has probably been here all along
In someone’s head
In someone’s head

So once again, here we sit
Hoping to make some sense out of it
So worn down but trying to try
Looking up at a big starry sky
You warned me and I warned you
This won’t be the place that we knew
Don’t think too hard
Every golden age is over way too soon

How’d it get so serious?
I blinked my eyes and we were here
Baking up in the summer sun
Lost control of the ship we’re trying to steer

A mile-long list of good intentions
And songs I song at my friend’s weddings
Such much left but so far gone
Someday my bones will be singing this song
In someone’s head
In someone’s head

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from In Waves, released October 27, 2023

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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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