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our little place

by redvers and mélissa

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the fat lady sings and the boxing ring bell rings these days we just email she’ll pick up her things and the moon is climbing high in the black twinkling sky my head turns cartwheels a shooting star flies did she run in slow-mo into a new embrace? as I feel as though I lost the human race it's not the ending I expected at all dans la vie la fin est le commencement in a circle we dance we waltz our final waltz she told me i deserve so much better than her that i should be with grace ‘cause she laughs & creates and she said i want babies and you never meditate i said i want that too but it seemed to be too late and she said you got no money since you moved to aldgate but my waters tell the truth from excuses people make there were facts she seemed to ignore we'd be friends if she gave it to me straight said there's someone i love more and this is our final waltz and thank god she did or where would we be? maybe somewhere better it’s impossible to see maybe somewhere worse it’s all turned out great just not as i rehearsed almost time to shoot but you just kicked off your shoes you said I don't want to dance in heels i know how it feels to be safe in your arms and feel your heart by my heart hear that voice enchant me and i said I'm so lucky that life lead me here danced a clumsy pirouette i shed a tear you don't need to explain tears of joy as the ocean bears gifts of love and one more waltz all rights reserved © 2017 redvers and mélissa
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whatever you do in life it all starts with a dream if you travel meet someone or fall in love have children it all starts with a dream a message from my heart broadcast to my head be the light or be the mirror everything starts with... everything starts with a dream i have a little book and i write them down inside and I go down to the streets you might gather or walk by and i sing of where i’ve been and where i started out i had no idea my first step would lead me here everything starts with…. everything starts with a dream ahhh... every story has a start a middle and an end it’ll never be too late provided that i never wait for time or miracle and if I dream of thicker skin it’s because I’m feeling pain but it’s not over till i win it’s a message from my heart broadcast to your head as you’re heading to the bar or maybe meet a friend take a quick look through my lens i’m winning if you smile i’ll sing until I’m cleansed i’m winning when you smile everything starts with…… everything starts with... everything starts with a dream oooohhh everything starts with... everything starts with...... everything starts with a dream ooohh everything starts with a dream
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the priest released doves to power of love frankie goes to hollywood me banging down the church door screaming out your name even the choir cried in a parallel life you married the wrong guy something changed your mind i searched for years one who seeks will find i had kneeled on a florentine chapel floor and watched old stories oozing from painted walls i had never had a god but the atmosphere had me change my prayer for the coming year and a boy soprano in the bright reverb sang hallelujah! we met in berlin at open mic i had a girlfriend at the time you changed your world against my best advice you said, ‘i’ll never change my mind’ i love you more than sharks love blood predictable you always surprise me i'd given up on love i had prayed i never fall in love again but here i am chained to the sacrificial rock i had never had a god but something talks to me when you touch my face, when you are near when i had a hard day and i come home to you hallelujah! hallelujah!! is love the heaven of a false religion? a dance on my own grave? no one sings the hymn as loud as the convert be loved be saved i don't believe in fate it turned on a moment we never knew we had a contradiction i can trace it back i had prayed i never fall in love again but here i am chained to the sacrificial rock i had never had a god but something fills me up biblical rain into a carpenter's cup heavenly feelings in my earthly guts hallelujah! i flew to you across the north atlantic woke up in your arms
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gold ring 05:06
when i was out there driving all alone i often would until i met a certain francophone ghostly apparitions ride there in the shotgun seat softly whisper ideas, hopes and dreams to me through the olive trees by the Adriatic sea you star in my best memories life is a gold ring some funny jewellers look down their nose others know they deal in love and help you choose i chose a single diamond to represent a love remind us of our memories for many moons let us be in tune while we travel sleep and sing facing what life brings let’s deck the barn in bunting i’ll give you this gold ring i asked your papa’s blessing, told him my surprise your sister played detective for your finger’s size our playlist in my ears and old scenes in my minds eye i knew in my heart you’d want to live your life with me we drove through evergreens your surprise to me a night inside an airstream i went down on one knee roses red and pretty i gave you this gold ring life is is a gold ring i give you my gold ring
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this is your life until the moment ends i heard a little voice trying to tell me something i hope you see your friends see your family i hope love is with you and your tree is pretty this is your life until the moment's passed i saw a shooting star there! where the clouds part snow is falling down they’re skating in the park i hope we build a snowman you catch a snowflake on your tongue these are our lives until the moment’s gone i heard a little voice and the voice was trying to ask me something is there someone special there? does sunlight dance upon their hair? before we’re Christmas ghosts can try to make the most i know i’m lucky now i haven’t always been everything can change please don’t change back again this is your life until the moment ends i hear a little voice and the voice is always saying something
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i know a little place it’s close to being free i miss my little sisters and drinking whiskey with their misters but this city sings to me i know a little place the man tried to divide there are places to survive that the guide books can’t describe and a wall that now unites there are tears and the love of lovers these moments are treasures nothing lasts forever don’t leave always on my mind when I’m leaving is coming back again i know a little place where hearts and minds run free alice is here with me she says the people run this city but this city‘s running me there are tears and the love of lovers these moments are treasures nothing lasts forever don’t leave always on my mind when I’m leaving is coming back again again i know a little place there’s music in the streets in summer they sing all hours we call it warschauer come sit drink a beer with me
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there’s a boy in your heart or a girl if you feel that sees the world with eyes of wonder eats with you sleeps with you that boy’s your soul boy that girl’s your soul girl we can’t be separated soul my little soul little boy take me places give my friends smiles on their faces do the right thing not just for me be leader be good company that boy’s your soul boy that girl’s your soul girl we can’t be separated soul my little soul listen if you listen where there’s will there’s a way where there’s will there’s a way show me the will i’ll show you the way where there’s will there’s a way where there’s will there’s a way show me the will i’ll show you the way where there’s will there’s a way where there’s will there’s a way show me the will i’ll show you the way that’s what my soul would say that boy’s your soul boy that girl’s your soul girl we can’t be separated
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daddy 03:07
i'm leaving for a couple of weeks please stay with us and when i'll be back i'll tell you beautiful stories and you'll travel through them too oh daddy would you take the road with me? let's pack the car and drive unto the sea like we used to do all the family we always went crazy when the breeze turned salty you taught us how to see the good in everything in everyone you told me help your little sisters you'll always be there for each other oh daddy would you take the road with me? let's pack the car and drive unto the sea like we used to do all the family we always went crazy when the breeze turned salty life would be so empty without a family life would be so empty without a family life would be so empty without a family how my life would have been without my family?
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daydreaming about us our future getting carried away a ride in my brain our first date first kiss first christmas first holiday our first place i turned my head and you were staring at me was i dreaming out loud or were you right here with me? i look at you and i hope that i look like you look when you look at someone when you like them i like you and i'm looking for a sign that if i say hi you won't avert your eyes love is blind dreamer here is blind you look my way but i was busy in my daydream ahhhh love is blind i drink so much coffee to see you in your cafe i go out of my way love is fine art it all starts with a pencil outline saying hi works just fine i turned my head and you pretended to work i pretended too i was looking at the woodwork i look at you and i hope that i look like you look when you look at someone when you like them i like you and i'm looking for a sign if i ask you on a date it's appropriate love is blind casanova here is blind you looked my way but i was busy in my daydream ahhhh love is blind
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with your ginger hair and your green blue eyes what did I do in my previous life to deserve to find the girl of my dreams at the tender age of fifteen and now i’m seventeen my heart’s been full since the day we met at the outdoor pool i love your smileand your voice is like chimes and when i pray to god i praise your design caroline the times I spend with you feel so right caroline I dream I spend my day with a girl like you every night it’s so special when we meet i’m the luckiest guy in germany the luckiest guy in the world when i’m with you my beautiful girl when you give me a hug or say hello (hello) i don’t know where my worries go when we’re in the same room it feels so nice you’re the best ever thing about my life caroline the times I spend with you feel so right caroline I dream I spend my days with a girl like you every night
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i wake up in the morning and i go to the fridge there’s something yummy in there can you guess what it is? they’re so versatile you can prepare them a hundred ways they make me smile they are sunshine on cloudy days eggs for me and a piece of toast eggs for me and a piece of toast i can scramble i can boil i can fry in olive oil i can poach i can bake they never give me tummy ache i want a runny one dribbling down my piece of toast my girl wants a hard one she's got a bun in the oven eggs for her eggs for me eggs for you what a treat!?! organic free range eggs and toast to start the day! eggs for me and a piece of toast eggs for me and a piece of toast eggs for me and a piece of toast eggs for me and a piece of toast yeaaaah!
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i’m sorry that I stood you up i said i’d meet you at the coconut i was gridlocked in the evening rush near shepherds bush i should've turned back up the junction so I couldn’t come i couldn’t come but listen i really tried i really tried i was on my way but i was sucked into this vortex i’m sorry that i didn’t go to your brother's roller disco you made out to me i had to go so i didn't show 'cause i won’t follow orders if i have them so i couldn’t come i wouldn’t come but listen i really tried i really tried i was on my way but i was sucked into this vortex oooooh i’m sorry that i didn’t come to our wedding or reception i was captured by some aliens with their laser guns and they’d have melted my brain had i tried to run so I couldn’t come I couldn’t come but listen i really tried i really tried i was on my way but i was sucked into a vortex i really tried i really tried i was on my way but i was sucked into a vortex
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you can tell 03:36
yes i’ve sometimes hurt the ones i love doing things i think i need to you can tell so much about a person by the way they leave you everyone leaves eventually evidently you’re ghosting me and i wouldn’t care but i’d like to share the love with an amiga you can tell so much about a person by the way they leave ya our lives are brief and some die young so i’m asking for redemption and i know you’re listening to my pleas please call and break the tension everyone leaves eventually evidently you’re ghosting me but it’s hard to win when you can’t convince your foes to discontinue you can tell so much about a person by the way they leave you i have so much i’d like to tell you everything i’ve been through you can tell so much about a person by the way they leave you

credits

released November 15, 2020

all songs by redvers bailey except daddy by mélissa brouillette

all tracks performed by redvers bailey and mélissa brouillette except:
1. one more waltz
redvers bailey, mélissa brouillette and catherine laurin on violin

7. listen to your soul
redvers bailey, mélissa brouillette and marc-andré rouillard, bashu, annamaria dosseva, gareth dicker and elsa leblanc on background vocals

8. daddy
mélissa brouillette and antony carle, elsa leblanc on background vocals

produced, engineered, mixed by redvers bailey in the bedroom in montréal except gold ring, to carolin from lukas and eggs and toast recorded in michel's basement in trois-rivières canada

mastered by peter beckmann at technologyworks mastering london

artwork by marbles at sea marblesatsea.tumblr.com

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thanks to ronald for the inspiration behind everything starts with a dream, lukas for the inspiration behind to carolin from lukas, max for eggs and toast, hannah for the inspiration behind you can tell, thanks to my daddy michel for everything, marjorie for babysitting. also thanks to pete, siméon, alain, evanjack, matteo, grace, alice, the neighbours and everyone who still buys cds.

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