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Carriage Bell

from Music for the Moon by Mars

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Words and Music by Mars
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Vocals, Harp - Mars
Glockenspiel - N0rth
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Produced and Mixed by N0rth
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Recorded in St Didace QC
May 2019

lyrics

Be sweet
I can’t afford a carriage

I had a dream
that you were me
except we just switched hands and not bodies

I went to work your job
but I was calm
because I’d felt your hands on me like a balm
relieving all my aches in one

I watched your face
as I appeared
I could not read there what I’d feared

You asked to know so I turned my back
so you could fold me in and hold me there intact

I don’t always swear
I’ve never danced this step
but oh we’re dancing now
we’ll live to dance it yet
what I mean to say
is something feels brand new
when I ring that bell that hangs there
inside you

I felt dizzy
with a false remorse
as if I hadn’t met you
at the source
as if you didn’t wait
and I couldn’t try
and you had had to ask me softly not to cry

but Awake you led me down some secret lane
I lost my breath
with you it must remain
those sovereign sights
a flight forthwith
to follow

and you held me ’til
I could not hold my sorrow

I don’t always moan
at the making of the morning
I don’t always
swallow my words
as they are forming
whether the darkening dusk
or in the breaking day
in that silhouette sun
I’ve got something to say

I’ll meet you
where we break apart
just to show you
my bitter salt-worn heart
and you’ll unfold yours
like a fern
and if we’re lucky
we’ll catch fire and burn
and burn, and burn, and burn

I don’t always weep
at the winter coming
I don’t always sing out loud to keep from humming
whether a song in my heart
or one I’ve already sung
it’s the spring of something
something’s just begun
what I mean to say
is something feels brand new
when I ring that bell
that hangs there
inside you

I can’t afford
I can’t afford
I can’t afford a carriage

But you’ll look sweet
upon the seat

credits

from Music for the Moon, released August 25, 2019

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Mars Gabriola, British Columbia

Mars is an experimental folk singer, songwriter, and harpist currently living and working on the traditional ancestral lands of the Snuneymuxw people. Using voice, harp, loops, and her imagination, Mars strives to create a dreamlike state in which to tell soothing stories and bring nightmarish shadows into the light. Mars has created one full-length album project, entitled Music for the Moon. ... more

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