B i o g r a p h y (by Fred Thomas)
Bedouine is the stage name of Syrian-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter Azniv Korkejian, who draws on '60s and '70s folk and country influences for her glimmering yet intense songs. Korkejian began crafting her retro-fitted indie folk as Bedouine in the mid-2010s, releasing her eponymous debut album in 2017. Her sound changed subtly on subsequent releases, such as the revisited demos and completion of long-unfinished ideas on 2021's Waysides, and her nostalgia-steeped fourth album, 2026's Neon Summer Skin. Korkejian was born in Aleppo, Syria and spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia before relocating to the U.S. in early childhood, living in various places throughout her early years before arriving in Los Angeles as an adult. She studied sound design and eventually landed work editing music and dialogue for film, crossing paths with active players in both the movie and music industries as she developed her sound. She found herself making various connections with a growing community of supportive peers and began working with producer Gus Seyffert -- almost by accident when Korkejian stopped by his studio to ask advice about a piece of gear, moving casually from talking shop to recording a demo of one of her songs in the span of an afternoon. Bedouine's self-titled debut album was released in the summer of 2017 on the Spacebomb label; its ten tracks were the best selection of about 30 songs she worked on over a three-year period. Widely hailed by critics, the album put Korkejian on the map and she set about working on a follow-up release. A late-2018 two-song single saw her covering Elton John and Linda Perhacs in her typically hushed, introspective style. Bedouine re-emerged in June 2019 with her Billboard-charting sophomore album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy. Early 2021 saw the arrival of the singles "The Wave," "It Wasn't Me," and "The Solitude" ahead of the release of her third long-player, Waysides, which appeared later that October. Waysides was created through the process of Korkejian returning to some of her earliest song ideas and demos rather than writing brand-new material. The next Bedouine album would arrive five years later with 2026's Neon Summer Skin, a more pop-forward rendering of the artist's usually folky sound that was informed by memories and nostalgia. Production on some of the album's tracks was handled in part by Jonathan Rado.
Bedouine Nice And Quiet After all isn't it The time that we make And all the innocence We give and we take I've tried so hard To be there for you It seems it may mean Disappearing for you I don't want to run I don't want to try to fight it Every time I try I find new ways to deny it I will try my best to Keep my head nice & quiet For you I don't want to hide I don't want to make it right Anything you're losing Should you really try to find it When I'm on my way I'll keep my feet nice & quiet For you After all isn't it The fear that we face And all the bitterness We try and erase All of the reasons To keep me at bay Are the same reasons That I should stay I don't want to run I don't want to try to fight it Every time I try I find new ways to deny it I will try my best to Keep my head nice & quiet For you I don't want to hide I don't want to make it right Anything you're losing Should you really try to find it When I'm on my way I'll keep my feet nice & quiet For you One Of These Days Always looking for your next climb The things I want don't take time Or money, honey you'll get it One of these days One of these days our love ignites We're gonna get it and get it right One of these days If I'm talking sweet to you You know I'd like to hear it too It's funny, honey to think It's a passing phase But if I feel alone in the morning dew I start to see New shades of blue One of these days You know I'm gonna set our hearts ablaze If it's my last living deal If I feel our loving fade You may as well turn the blade It's running, honey my mouth I know, for days But robin's singing The same old song I ain't doing nothing wrong One of these days You know I'm gonna set our hearts ablaze If it's the last thing I do One of these days You know I'm gonna set our hearts ablaze If it's the last thing I do If it's true that I feel More for you than you do for me It's stunning, honey how love Has some delays 'Cause one of these days Our love takes flight We're gonna get it And get it right One of these days Back To You Like a lamp in the light of day Drowning in summer rays I can hardly feel unrequited California city parks They talk in exclamation marks I'm still dying to know what's exciting I do with little, don't need a lot I get with what I got It may seem brittle But it's the truth Always come back to you Though I've enjoyed the cafe haze They play it as it lays Can lives so designed be sustained I do with little, don't need a lot I get with what I got It may seem brittle But it's the truth Always come back to you Dusty Eyes Your dusty, your dusty eyes They leave me pale and wondering Have I swam too far this time To make it back on my dime The city, the city lights The lampposts burn the night But they don't come close No, they don't come close To the way that I feel about you now To the way that I feel about you now Someday, someday, maybe soon You'll tell her how this all was given to you But it's all the same Yeah, it's all the same When you're high You could have been some other guy You could have been some other guy Oh, the way that I feel about you now Oh, the way that I feel about you now Oh, the way that I feel about you now Oh, the way that I feel about you now Solitary Daughter With the conviction of the woman you made me I find blades of grass from the island you lent me I find on every floor, in every drawer Though I'm not an island, I'm a body of water Jeweled in the evening, a solitary daughter If picked at by noon, by midnight I'm ruined Leave me alone to the books and the radio snow Leave me alone to the charcoal and the dancing shadow If each blade of grass was meant here for me Split apart, sliced, and wedged in for me Who's gonna treat it I'm not going to need it Leave me alone to the books and the radio snow Leave me alone to the charcoal and the dancing shadow I am a lake Don't need to be watered I am an ocean I don't need to barter I play with the moon My only friend It pushes it pulls me I don't pay rent I don't need the walls To bury my grave I don't need your company To feel saved I don't need the sunlight My curtains don't draw I don't need objects To keep or to pawn I don't want your pity Concern or your scorn I'm calm by my lonesome I feel right at home And when the wind blows I get to dancing My fun is the rhythm of air When it's prancing I play with the moon My only friend It pushes it pulls me I don't pay rent I don't need the walls To bury my grave I don't need your company To feel saved I don't need the sunlight My curtains don't draw I don't need objects To keep or to pawn I don't want your pity Concern or your scorn I'm calm by my lonesome I feel right at home And when the wind blows I get to dancing My fun is the rhythm of air When it's prancing Leave me alone to the books and the radio snow Leave me alone to the charcoal and the dancing shadow Summer Cold Catching a summer cold All through the evening You say, what have they Done to you friend You say Is this the end I don't want anything Ever to do with them Why must they get involved What on earth could this solve I've had enough of your guns And your ammunition Mind's Eye Dark velvet skylines I've gotten my hands tied In debt digging deeper still Now in my mind's eye I'm trapped and I can't find My way out of crippling doubt Sun is always shining through Shapes of the night sky Don't you even let them believe You're not the light They'll try to frighten you Into needing more than You agreed to Now that I'm here I can steer you Far away From the evil From those who Feed off you You Kill Me Some nights I get into the car and drive Nowhere really could keep me satisfied I'll leave it to the road to be honey in my tea Let my teeth get rotten through the fields of floating cotton Don't you think I know, old friend It's not really the way that things end Typically you're supposed to be staring right into me But something about the way you see Honey, babe, you kill me Fading, my eyelids weigh one million miles Of dotted roadways And passing through the county lines And just a wagon in the night Without a railway to fight Got no tracks to lose, got no fruit to bruise Don't you think I know, old friend It's not really the way that things end Typically you're supposed to be staring right into me But something about the way you see Honey, babe, you kill me I was a girl on the country for now One foot in and one foot out Didn't care for what I wore Or know what I was looking for But something about the way you see Honey, babe, you kill me Something about the way you see Honey, babe, you kill me Heart Take Flight Never thought I'd see the day That I would be at ease to say That everything around me is exactly as it should be And any more than what I have Would be too much for me to feel free I feel so free Not wanting to know any more than that That's been bestowed upon me I feel so free Heart take flight I give you every right When he's around Heart take sight Don't you forget the light He brings about Each time I go to look for him He's just around the corner And every time I go to look for him I feel a little bolder Not having to ask where or why Or what have you been up to My faith a little stronger My wings a little longer Heart take flight I give you every right When he's around Heart take sight Don't you forget the light He brings about Skyline Everybody calling me Today wasn't you Guess I must be hanging Out here in the blue by my lonesome Babe I wish you'd phone some Alone on the train I'm as free as a bird But out there in the world it's like You're in the earth May not be the first And I'm sure not the last I've got a craving for a Thing of the past and It's hitting me hard I don't know, I could be bored The Santa Ana's blowing And it's calming me down but it's like You're in the air when I get into town When we were young Did we know the difference I can't recall The weight of my words And we're both older now Hanging our heads to the ground But you're still in my skyline And I think I'm in yours I grew a garden for the both of us It turned into weeds, dirt, and dust I tried but I knew I couldn't stay there for you I'm pushing down the line and No matter my will It just wouldn't bend And I couldn't stand still Maybe slowing down with a heavier heart But you don't want me begging you into the dark When we were young Did we know the difference I can't recall The weight of my words And we're both older now Hanging our heads to the ground But you're still in my skyline And I think I'm in yours You're still in my skyline And I think I'm in yours
Louise
Deep Space Deep Space Dark water Look to a mirror Feel something familiar My limbs Are all in knots It's plain to see My skin is just a shell for all this electricity Night sky Gilded veil Glamorous fool Don't do what I am told Unknown Glittering ether I'll never leave her Studded like the earlobes of a newborn baby girl I feel in But I steal it Always such a mess, I can't give it a rest Disbelief I turn another leaf All the time I buy, now I see the other side Deep space Dark water I feel like fodder I'm looking to a mirror just to feel something familiar Look into a mirror something familiar I'm looking to a mirror just to feel something familiar Bird Songs Of A Killjoy Under The Night One, two, three Oh, Kentucky, I miss you Your night sky, black and tired But wild like a live wire The horse is never leaving the barn on its own You got to open the gate and let it loose to run Faster than the clouds on a wind-blown dawn Faster than you left me alone to long And why shouldn't I 'Cause when I'm alone We're still looking at the same moon Under the night Are we two people never getting together I will follow your roads As wide as the air As wild as a storm Painted blue eyes Dripping wet like the rain Do you still open your eyes With me on your mind when you wake Slower than the sap leaving the trees Slower than the color turning into leaves Take me to the track, I want to lose all my cash This beating in my chest is all I need to stash And why shouldn't I 'Cause when I'm alone We're still looking at the same moon Under the night Are we two people never getting together I will follow your roads As wide as the air As wild as a storm 'Cause when we're alone We're still looking at the same moon Under the night Are we really two people never getting together I will follow your roads As wide as the air As wild as a storm Sunshine Sometimes I don't need to stay out Hanging with the gang at all hours If I had your love That'd be enough, wildflower Don't always feel like throwing back I'd like a quiet night with you in sight Without catching flack It's alright if we put out a light It's not sunshine sometimes You're still on my mind If you change yours You'll know where to find me Lazy, baby, but I'd still like to see you tonight Wonder where you been I been staying in, but it's hard Don't have much to say I just trade the day for the dark Don't always feel like throwing back I'd like a quiet night with you in sight Without catching flack It's alright if we put out a light It's not sunshine sometimes You're still on my mind If you change yours you'll know where to find me Lazy, baby, but I'd still like to see you tonight Even if we're just at home It's nice to get you alone And if we're entertaining Sure, it may be tame It's not the same It's alright if we put out a light It's not sunshine sometimes You're still on my mind If you change yours you'll know where to find me Lazy, baby, but I'd still like to see you tonight When You're Gone Walking circles 'round the room Playing verses from the same old tunes When you're gone When you're gone Drag my finger around the rim Drag around a phantom limb When you're gone When you're gone Ain't it a shame Always the same old game we play I love you You love how much I love you Living like a fool in love The more I do, the less it does When you're gone When you're gone Ain't it a shame Always the same old game we play I love you You love how much I love you Ain't it a shame Always the same old game we play I love you You love how much I love you I love you You love how much I love you When you're gone When you're gone I love you You love how much I love you One More Time I don't think I could really say Leaving has felt different from staying I head to bed most nights alone And with the light, there's still no one I'm on an island with no one else around Waves will roll in and melt back out I anchored you, but in the drought Am I to you, some sort of chain Are you a bird, am I your cage Am I a bar breaking under notes you play One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna set you free One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna let you be I'm gonna let you be I'm just the shore, you're just the waves You will roll in every few days I'll try to draw lines in the land But you will wash away the sand If you move me out, I can't move back again One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna set you free One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna let you be I'm gonna let you be Oh, turning little circles in the tiny shoebox Oh, windows for display Oh, putting on a show, The Last of the Lonely Oh, because I'm always saying One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna set you free One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna let you be One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna set you free One more time, honey One more time I'm gonna let you be I'm gonna let you be Dizzy Apparently the nighttime doesn't bind me I'm lucky if the daytime doesn't blind me What am I to do I barely have enough of this to lose I close my eyes and my mind starts to crawling Set its sight on something and starts gnawing The never-ending scroll Imagined conversations take their toll I'd dig my toes into the Grecian beaches Soar over the desert mountain creases All the sights that I would see If each time that I'd pretend I'd fall asleep Dizzy, you got me Dizzy again Feels like I'm falling Bird I kept the bottle we drank from together I don't know, is that insane It's just every once in a while You've got to remind yourself That it's you against the rain And I'm not sure yet who will win If there's a heaven and if there's a hell I'm sure that we'll wind up there together And dine there as well In the eyes of the other Breaking bread over anecdotes Of what, I don't know But something funny, I'm sure And bird, if I held you too tight Bird, if you were warm through the night I will let go As wide as the storm that does brew I will let go of you I will let go of you Some days are harder than other days As I wait like strings to be plucked To the tune of a song you sang to me one day Riki Tiki Tavi And bird, if your wings have gone clipped As I pressed myself to your lips I'll release you With what is left of your wings I will leave you to sing I will leave you to sing And bird, if love went awry Each time I looked too deep in your eyes I'll look away so that you can fly away I'll even lead you astray I'll lead you astray I will lead you astray I will lead you (astray) (Lead you astray) (Lead you astray) (Lead you astray) (Lead you astray) Bird Gone Wild Daddy was an electrician, fingers to the bone Mama was a seamstress, stitched everything she owned Crossing the Atlantic, a dream over the tide Soldiers, we were ready there, approaching the front line Don't let me down I'm beating 'round a cage like a bird gone wild Come back around Strong hands, pull back the wire Strange thoughts and images of what awaited me My mind was painting pictures only I could see A traitor, I was too far gone to belong to either side Now I'm alone, they've returned way behind the tide Don't let me down I'm beating 'round a cage like a bird gone wild Come back around Strong hands, pull back the wire Don't let me down I'm beating 'round a cage like a bird gone wild Come back around Strong hands, pull back the wire Don't let me down I'm beating 'round a cage like a bird gone wild Come back around Strong hands, pull back the wire Pull back the wire Hummingbird Hummingbird will fly From flower to flower Each passing hour But the sweet is too few And far between But still we try Not ever knowing why Or what could be up ahead It's too new, a bar to reach I know it won't always be up in the air Still I can't help but care I know it won't always be up in the air Still I can't help but I know it won't always be up in the air Still I can't help but care Matters Of The Heart How am I to know You love me to pieces How am I to know You'll love me tomorrow I see you come, but I feel you run And I know there's no guarantees In matters of the heart I know there's no make believe No ladder to the top Oh, matters of the heart Call me like a phone Just ring to me, baby Subtleties at play They're driving me crazy Wear you like gold that I'm afraid to hold 'Cause I know there's too many thieves In matters of the heart I know there's no make believe No ladder to the top Oh, matters of the heart And I know there's no guarantees In matters of the heart I know there's no make believe No ladder to the top Oh, matters of the heart Echo Park Sun is rising on another cafe Weekends in Echo Park don't make a difference So it seems 'Cause the writers in a booth They're still working out their arc Oh, on weekends in Echo Park While my love's away at work I bob and weave through the styled streets Oh, Sunset Boulevard Where everybody's avant-garde And questioning remarks Of the oligarch Oh, on the streets and in the yards I wouldn't have it any other way Oh, I'd stay as long as I can bear Revolving faces of the storefronts Corporate coming in to bore us But the winter's fine Long as my rent won't climb I'm be living in Echo Park I wouldn't have it any other way Oh, I'd stay as long as I don't tire From the rising cost of coffee The skyline inching higher But the sights are free Oh, I long to be At the fountain and the lake Circled by the lark That I walk (That I walk) Each night at dark Tall Man The tall man with the doll eyes He does what he likes He don't think twice or compromise Is it so bad to be with someone like me I'm soft to the touch Don't ask for much He tried, but he laughed 'til he cried Circling words, him and I Till we tangled our lines First thing in the morning The last thing at night I tried to imagine If he weren't mine And someone else watching him gently sleep And some other hands Pawing at me He tried, but I laughed 'til I cried Circling words, near and far Tiil we tangled our hearts Waysides The Solitude Navy blue, your eyes are on my mind I never viewed The solitude As something to avoid until you left The thoughts I hold Close to the chest For the most part I'm unchanged But there's some things that are terribly strange Like baby when you're gone The night's too quiet Dinner table It's one sided Too many pillows Too big a bed Can't decide where to lay my head There's no denying, I'm trying Some things will never change Sometimes the silence can be cruel I wait alone Hear the neighbors phone Your keys are swinging on the rack We're hanging here 'Til you get back Moments alone uninterfered Can be so sweet but it's awfully weird When baby, you're gone The night's so quiet Dinner table It's lopsided Too many pillows Too big a bed Can't decide where to lay my head And when you're gone My mind's divided Every choice left undecided I tend to linger I drag my feet Stillness is bittersweet There's no denying I'm trying Some things will never change A fool, couldn't ask for more I lost my cool, it's so easy to do But baby when you're gone The night's so quiet Dinner table It's one sided Too many pillows Too big a bed Can't decide where to lay my head And when you're gone My mind's divided Every choice left undecided I tend to linger I drag my feet Stillness is bittersweet There's no denying I'm trying Some things will never change Never change It Wasn't Me I saw him shutting away from the pain Like some cold scene he stood there in the rain And when I'm thrown off board he carries three soft words It wasn't me It was the fountains It was the light The moon didn't help when it shone Brightly in your eyes Brightly in your eyes And I can deny the truth But now I'm just racing through All the red lights All the red lights We've got nothing Got nothing to prove As long as there's nothing And there's nothing To lose Our rusted words are not worthy to pawn The drinks we bury ourselves in 'til dawn By god, they make is so much easier To believe It wasn't me It was the fountains It was the light The moon didn't help when it shone Brightly in your eyes Brightly in your eyes And I can deny the clues But now I'm just racing through All the red lights All the red lights We've got nothing Got nothing to prove As long as there's nothing And there's nothing To lose It wasn't me It was the fountains It was the light The moon didn't help when it shone Brightly in your eyes Brightly in your eyes And I can deny the clues But now I'm just racing through All the red lights All the red lights We've got nothing Got nothing to prove As long as there's nothing And there's nothing To lose I Don't Need The Light Some days I don't ever draw the curtains I don't mind a dark afternoon And why should I keep from the hurting I don't need the light if I'm not looking at you Oh, I don't need the light No, I don't need the light Just leave me to the endless night Moonlight still shines and never a bother No more than a simmer It shimmers the skin of the water It's sad, but I'm calm and it's quaint When a dull pain sets in Everyone's talking 'bout hope but it's faint Just a sound that you hear yet again So I don't need the light Oh, I don't need the light Just leave me to the endless night Oh, I don't need the light Oh, I don't need the light Just leave me to the night Oh, I don't need the light Oh, I don't need the light Just leave me to the endless night Easy I can't let my baby be Tried to turn him to a shape That would fit well with me Now my baby's all alone Ever since I up and gone I can't let my baby be I can't let my baby sleep I wake him in the wee small hours Of the morning breeze Or I'd choke up on the tears Like a faucet without gears I can't let my baby sleep How do you leave behind A love that hasn't died He says to me and frowns And I can't let my baby down I can't let my baby down Easy I can't let my baby drown If he sinks below the line of sight I best be bound To a life in debt To sadness and regret I can't let my baby drown How do you leave behind A love that hasn't died He says to me and frowns And I can't let my baby down I can't let my baby down Easy Where do I go If I got no road ahead Where do I hide If I can't find nothing to stand behind 'Cause I can't find nothing to stand behind I can't let my baby leave If he's gone I won't go on Knowing how to believe That love's some kind of dancer If you call it, it'll answer I can't let my baby leave This Machine I felt the doubt Twenty years from now I'd be walking out Missing the point all along And no one would know where to point me to Baby blue If you knew all the thoughts in my head You would lose all your own But you would just lose Nothing Sticks to This machine Calling Quitting Elated And I can't stop it But I know my head Used my hands just to keep you in bed Hoping the warmth was enough Keeping the gears from the rust I can't take much more My Kentucky is weaker than yours Tailored with seams, so they bust Breaking the ties between us Nothing Sticks to This machine Calling Quitting Elated And I can't stop it No, I can't stop it The Wave Well of tomorrows flow over for you Not really a well, may as well be the sea I tease the leaves of days gone by But turned, and looking to the sky I try to borrow I cannot contain the way I feel for you Or anything I ride the wave Bells of sorrow ring the horizon Sky blue sky burning pink Though the fire is silent Are you waiting way out there As all I can do is stare Out from this island I cannot contain the way I feel for you Or anything I ride the wave I'd break my bones to swim out past the wave I'd break my heart to see a different way You Never Leave Me Sleepers on the bench Racing in the street My face is at the glass Never missing a beat In the velvet gutter You can get real low But you're the freest kind Because you know We're just here to wander Don't have nowhere to go The sleepless ocean The timeless shore Here before me and when I'm no more You can't take your gold When you cross that door Of a sawtooth coast To the ocean floor You're just here to wander Don't have nowhere to go And even on other side of the world You're right beneath me You can feel so far but you never are You never leave me You never leave me Sweet and tough The shore wind blows The lighthouse light Like a UFO Do you see those clouds They are just like us They get light and dark And then dissolve They're just here to wander Don't have nowhere to go And even on other side of the world You're right beneath me You can feel so far but you never are You never leave me You never leave me I can't sleep sometimes When I'm on my own And when you're here We stay up till dawn Your crooked smile Your crooked lips I don't need to sleep After taking a sip Those clouds are us They are always up They come together They blow apart I'm empty now As I should be All I need now Is to feel free We're just here to wander Don't have nowhere to go And even on other side of the world You're right beneath me You can feel so far but you never are You never leave me Even on other side of the world You're right beneath me Sonnet 104 To me, fair friend, you could never be old As you were when your eye I eyed Is your beauty still three winters cold From the forest shook three summer's pride Three beautiful springs to autumn turned In process of the seasons seen Three April perfumes in hot June burned Since first you were fresh which yet are green Those unborn, who will never be Witness to summer's beauty Your beauty like a dial hand From his figure, no pace perceived Your sweet hue, I feel still does stand Moves and my eyes have me deceived Those unborn, who will never be Witness to summer's beauty Those unborn, who will never be Witness to summer's beauty Forever Everette Oh, how I wish that I could just lie to myself No cards have been played and no cards have been dealt Convince myself nothing is here, there's nothing to fret 'Cause you leave me out here in the cold, Everette And if you want To try me again I'll be out my door for some time 'Cause I can't wait my whole life I can't be sure if I'll ever pay my debt You can't be sure what they say behind your back They say you're too slow for holding off a breath And so they call you Forever Everette And if you want To try me again I'll be out my door for some time 'Cause I can't wait How do you shoot those arrows off your tongue Why would you let the hate get in your lungs Why would you aim at me Gaming and trading my heart for a bigger defeat Give it all up for your place at a better seat You have to protect the side of you that made this bet But what about the other side of you, Everette But what about the other side of you, Everette Songbird For you, there'll be no more crying For you, the sun will be shining And I feel that when I'm with you It's alright, I know it's right To you, I'll give the world To you, I'll never be cold 'Cause I feel that when I'm with you It's alright, I know it's right And the songbirds are singing like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you like never before And I wish you all the love in the world But most of all, I wish it from myself And the songbirds keep singing like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you like never before Like never before Like never before Neon Summer Skin On My Own Woke up with a heavy heart Cradled it like it was a baby Watered all the plants and spent the afternoon Watching them inflate What can I say and what can I do Passing time can be so cruel On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind Carrying the burden with a safety box Buried in the bank Children's souvenirs Laughter into tears and all the sadness I should be glad, or should I feel free From all the distant memories On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind Brothers in a brawl Pinned up to the walls It's awfully quiet Without the chatter in the halls Guess I'll go it all alone Towing all the trouble like a task Towing like a task Color in the darkness Color in the darkness Top it with a smile like mask Top it like mask, oh On my own, on my own On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind Guess I'll go it all alone I'll go it on my own And for a while I'll know what is and isn't mine On my own On my own again In my mind On my own, on my own On my own again In my mind On my own, on my own On my own again On my own again In my mind On my own, on my own On my own, on my own On my own again On my own again In my mind On my own Two feet I stumble, weight of it Dance in the street I knew it was you, I knew Long Way To Fall Edge of a cliff, the party is over You needed a lift. Is anyone strong enough Feels like a long way to fall I wanted to be there but I didn't know If I'd be any help at all Feels like a long way to fall You don't know how it feels After the lights go down You don't know how it feels To be the only one When the day is done Time slows down to a crawl It's a long way to fall Up and away I wanted to get you Out of that place where the feelings are fake and all All of the tales are tall And if I'd just stay still for Long enough you had something to hold onto But I'm barely one that can talk You don't know how it feels After the lights go down You don't know how it feels To be the only one When the day is done Time slows down to a crawl It's a long way to fall When the day is done Time slows down to a crawl It's a long way to fall It's not that I'm stronger, just Been here a little bit longer Me, I'm on my way now I'm on my way now And no, it's not too late For you, you don't have it straight Look at me, I'm on my way now I'm on my way now Always On Time If you feel the world's against you It's as though the world has fenced you In and just about Everyone but you Has got it figured out If you feel you've lost the thrill Nothing left to thaw the chill You're feeling tardy to the grind Dear we're always right on time If you feel the trouble's all around The trouble's drawn around Someone else's frown It's fine We're always on time We're always on time If you feel you've dropped the ball It's as though it's curtain call You wonder what's the point Think you may have met Your very last hurrah If you've got to climb that hill Wonder if you fit the bill Your feeling as though you're behind Dear we're always right on time If you feel, the hurry's all around And worry at all costs Before everything is lost It's a crime To not take your time We're always on time One Thing Right You, you, I did one thing right It's you, you, I'm doing one thing right Lately I don't have my head on straight And typically the things that people love or hate I don't Honestly sometimes just feeling something counts and Who am I to pretend to know what anybody wants I don't, but I do Have some clue And it's you, you I did one thing right It's you it's you, I'm doing one thing right Sometimes I get so confused And as far as having that much to lose I don't Always have the latest news They said when I was older I would know the truth I don't, but I do have someone I choose And it's you, you I did one thing right It's you it's you, I'm doing one thing right One thing right Be careful what you wish for As the saying goes I don't really know about The things that I've been told Be careful what you wish for As the saying goes I don't really know about The things that I've been told I don't but I do Have some clue And it's you, you I did one thing right It's you it's you, I'm doing one thing right I'm doing one thing right I'm doing one thing right Neon Summer Skin I swear it wasn't long That I was just someone's little fool Stepping out the pool To a towel wrapped around my tired arms I was so small Yet nothing at all Could alarm me But, oh, everybody's older now Oh, everybody's older now Wrangled in the bath Beads of water Down my tangled hair And my neon summer skin Chalky eyes still blushing from the chlorine It never portend It ever would end But, oh, everybody's older now Oh, everybody's older now And so it goes We'd never know Never suspect Tucked into her room Heavy as my hand My sleepy daughter Never thinking once Of her safety only Twilight in the water Canopies (Intro) Okay, your mom put you in a orphanage To protect you Mhm, yeah, yeah Because dad said whenever I'll be seven years old He will take me from her So mama send a Beirut քնած (asleep) Orphanage այս կողմ, հետո գարդը Հալեփքի կնածք (this way, then the guard near Aleppo) Cleaned the house, pan Երբ սկսեցի գալ Բեիրության (When I started coming to Beirut) Canopies I loved you Too much to keep you All to myself So I committed a crime A committee of clones said To treat you as one of a kind Surely no one would meet you And think of someone that came to their mind Of all of the flowers that come to rise You had the softest eyes And eyelids outbid Only by canopies
Waves waves fold over And send her scent to me From the rugged cliffs of the Mediterranean To the bars of my balcony Of all of the stones to leave unturned On the sea shores of Lebanon To my kin and my sin These inconsolable tears
Deghma Cheega Yes abretza, deghma cheegar Deghma cheegar ertaloo Yes abretza, deghma cheegar Deghma cheegar ertaloo Alevas eskatzee Vor ahmenmartee Deghma cheega, degma cheega Hankeestee Oorvor ertas Oorvor chertas Ahmenmart kezee bid nayee Oorvor ertas Oorvor chertas Ahmenmart kezee bid nayee Alevas eskatzee Vor ahmenmartee Deghma cheega, degma cheega Hankeestee Meg, yergoo, yerek, chorse Chorse, yerek, yergoo, meg Yes abretza, deghma cheegar Deghma cheegar ertaloo Yes abretza, deghma cheegar Deghma cheegar, deghma cheegar ertaloo Alevas eskatzee Vor ahmenmartee Deghma cheega, oorvor ertas Degma cheega, oorvor tarnas Deghma cheega ertaloo Na Na Na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Aren't we always waiting for the paint to dry So we can peel it back, never wonder why Aren't we always wanting to step off the wheel So we can figure out why we're sitting still And who doesn't is just a liar So, I'm a liar Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Aren't we always wanting Aren't we always waiting Aren't we always waiting Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Every move, something's happening always Na, na, na Something's happening Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Every move, something's happening always Na, na, na Aren't we always waiting for the paint to dry Just so that we can peel it back After all those days we wondered why All of the days never knowing why, never knowing why Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Every move is something that'll be Giving and giving, everything we're giving Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na Na, na, na White Patent Leather Blood of the lamb Like the breaking of a dam Even a trickle to a child, so mild Eyes like ice Paralyzed For turning down to my shoes White patent leather Mary Janes In the weather White patent leather Mary Janes In the weather Spotted in light The groom and then the bride Quickly surrounded by handfuls of lace The heavy train with the crimson stains 80s' stilettos setting the pace And that white patent leather Mary Janes In the weather White patent leather Mary Janes In the weather Watching the guests arrive And get to the other side Of an empty little lamb Innocent eyes of a sacrifice Plotting my way Non Albums Tracks All My Trials (Joan Baez) Had a little book, was given to me And every page spells liberty All my trials, Lord Soon be over There is a tree in paradise And the pilgrims call it the tree of life All my trials, Lord Soon be over But it's too late, my friend Too late But never mind All my trials, Lord Soon be over If living were a thing that money could buy Well, the rich would live and the poor would die All my trials, Lord Soon be over All my trials, Lord Soon be over Can You Tell (Feat. Sylvie) Can you look into my face And see the change that has taken place Can you tell, can you tell I love you From the look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) I'm not sure my feelings show Maybe you'd be the last to notice the change Can you tell I love you From the look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) From the look in my eyes Do you know how badly I want to tell you all about it There's a smile that I can't hide Because loving you the way I do Makes me feel good inside Even if we never touch If you knew, it would mean so much to me Can you tell, do you see Can you tell I love you From the look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) The look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) From the look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) The look in my eyes (Look in my eyes) (Look in my eyes) (Look in my eyes) Come Down In Time (Elton John) In the quiet silent seconds I, I turned off the light switch And I, I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left While a, a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune A mantle of bright light shone down from a room Come down in time I still hear her say So clear in my ear like it was today Come down in time was the message she gave Come down in time and I'll meet you half way Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet But a, a true love like hers is a, a hard love to get And I've, I've walked most all the way and I, I ain't heard her call And I, I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all Come down in time I still hear her say So clear in my ear like it was today Come down in time was the message she gave Come down in time and I'll meet you half way There are women, women, and some hold you tight While some leave you counting the stars in the night
Heartache (Lowell George cover / Sweet Long Distance Love: A Sweet Relief Tribute To Lowell George LP) I'm here out of love and I wish I could stay But I know you, heartache, you'll stand in my way There's no use in wishing 'cause I ain't satisfied I'm fit to be a misfit when you're at my side Heartache, find another place to be I'm tired of being your best friend Look to another for your companion And when you do, my pain will end I'm nowhere at all, I'm feeling no pain My body is sickly and my mind is insane I call on you, heartache, to come show me how I can't get no lower than the hole I'm in now Heartache, find another place to be I'm tired of being your best friend Look to another for your companion And when you do, my pain will end Hey, Who Really Cares Been coming down for a long time Changes coming down on me Can't seem to carry them all now Been wishing there was someone else I could be Hey now, who really cares Hey, won't somebody listen Let me say what's been on my mind Can I bring it out to you I need someone to talk to And no one else would spare me the time I used to think of ferris wheel light sounds The friday hum of neons and blue But now they're like circular cages Of graded tin and rusted wind Hey now, who really cares Hey, won't somebody listen Let me say what's been on my mind Can I bring it out to you I need someone to talk to And no one else will spare me the time The Hum (Margo Guryan) The heat is down and the lights are low The East is buried in an icy snow The West is following crisis rules They can't go swimming in their swimming pools And the tapes go hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm The prices rise and the Market falls The trucks go slow and the Congress stalls The V.P. left with the dough he took And the P. tells the world he's not a crook And the tapes go hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm The A.G. said he'd do anything To help the president become the king The kingdom then became cold and empty All except for San Clemente And the tapes go hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm The rich save money and the poor save gas We vote for an elephant and get an ass He hires and he fires, he appoints and sacks But he can't figure out his income tax And the tapes go hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Oldest Trick in the Book (Matt Maltese feat. Bedouine) I cannot follow us Like a persistent worm That's not a thing that I can do You are a lake of love A raging genius And you don't want the things I do The first time we met up Asked you in for coffee You said, "That's the oldest trick in the book" And when I think about you, often I picture you smirking When I used the oldest trick in the book Cute if not pitiful, so unoriginal And yet it's how it all begins If I'm a lake then you You're a deep diver, and who Can say if that's enough to win The first time we met up Asked you in for coffee You said, "That's the oldest trick in the book" And when I think about you, often I picturе you smirking When I used the oldеst trick in the book The first time we met up Asked you in for coffee You said, "That's the oldest trick in the book" And when I think about you, often I picture you smirking When I used the oldest trick in the book
People Take Pictures Of Each Other (Steady Holiday feat. Bedouine) People take pictures of the summer Just in case someone thought they had missed it And to prove that it really existed Fathers take pictures of the mothers And the sisters take pictures of brothers Just to show that they love one another You can't picture love that you took from me When we were young and the world was free Pictures of things as they used to be Don't show me no more, please People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed Just to prove that they really existed People take pictures of each other And the moment to last them forever Of the time when they mattered to someone People take pictures of the summer Just in case someone thought they had missed it Just to prove that it really existed People take pictures of each other And the moment to last them forever Of the time when they mattered to someone Picture of me when I was just three Sat with my ma by the old oak tree How I love things as they used to be Don't show me no more, please Don't show me no more, please Don't show me no more, please Don't show me no more, please
That You Are (Hozier feat. Bedouine) One, two, three It's the sound of it that brings me there This city locked into the song of prayer That finds no melody Every moment of the working day The twitching muscles in each step I take The prayer is all of me That I'd be Anywhere that you are, that you are That I'd be Anywhere that you are, that you are Maybe I have yet to venture out See the places that I hear about Planes and trains and cars Carve their lines into a curve like blades All I get to are mistakes half-made Leave the door ajar But I'd be Anywhere that you are, that you are That I'd be Anywhere that you are, you are The prayer Is all of me, all of me The prayer Is all of me, all of me That I'd be Anywhere that you are, that you are That I'd be Anywhere that you are, that you are Thirteen (Feat. Waxahatchee & Hurray for the Riff Raff) Won't you let me walk you home from school Won't you let me meet you at the pool Maybe Friday I can Get tickets for the dance And I'll take you Won't you tell your dad get off my back Tell him what we said about "Paint It Black" Rock and roll is here to stay Come inside where it's ok And I'll shake you Won't you tell me what you're thinking of Would you be an outlaw for my love If it's so then let me know If it's no, well I can go I won't make you
Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Nick Drake cover / Norah Jones & Bedouine / Norah Jones Is Playing Along Podcast) Who can know The thoughts of Mary jane Why she flies Or goes out in the rain Where she's been And who she's seen In her journey to the stars Who can know The reasons for her smile What are her dreams When they've journeyed for a mile The way she sings And her brightly coloured rings Make her the princess of the sky Who can know What happens in her mind Did she come from a strange world And leave her mind behind Her long lost sighs And her brightly coloured eyes Tell her story to the wind Who can know The thoughts of Mary Jane Why she flies Or goes out in the rain Where she's been And who she's seen In her journey to the stars