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Inland

by Leif Vollebekk

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1.
-- Lyrics -- You don't belong here It's your broken heart I hear Please don't stand there With your wrists and ankles bare The moon's behind the mountains Sun's beneath the sea A cloud that is crazy You commit to memory Day in, day out Stay in, stay out You see, you'll see me Day in, day out Stay in, stay out You see, you'll be free Please, don't fall apart It won't stop once it starts Don't follow me down You can't turn things around I saw you in the morning, you weren't wearing shoes This town is so small, if you play you can't lose Your timing or your lover, but quick you'd better choose Or else start thinking of some excuse And how, without knowing, can you just go by chance? The young ones pulled together, a harmonica's silver trance Its echo is not a shadow, it casts a second glance While the wind outside is blowing, but it don't dance Go on, eat your heart out, pull it up a chair Go on, go and ask it, if the queen is ever there When you know deep down inside, you shouldn't even care But you saw her in the morning, and her feet were bare
2.
-- Lyrics -- You couldn't lie to me in Paris You wouldn't want to embarrass Yourself in front of the fathers of the fellas Who'd raise their eyebrow umbrellas Never one for a fuss Unless it is just the two of us We started getting into trouble, you see When we started loving in degrees The coming and going spirit's in the door hinges And I'm sitting peeling Suzanne's oranges Nothing I ever do is ever good enough for escaping The love that we've been making For what I put into question, you put into bed Just like you put those wicked thoughts into my head Tell me, when are you leaving town? The sight of you makes me teary-eyed Your body's been honest But here again it lies So I'm going to that city saved by paper and not soul Which judging by those standards could've been a letter that you wrote Sur ce, très chère, adieu Voilà trop causer Le temps qu'on perd à lire une missive  N'a pas valu la peine qu'on l'écrive Oh, tes paupières parapluies
3.
-- Lyrics -- It's time you start packing up It's time you start packing up It's time you start packing up Pack your clothes and your guitar Pack your clothes and your guitar Pack your clothes and your guitar On the bench, it's harvest time Hunched over the danglin' keys Got my hands in the ivory earth I’m working the brass with my feet I’ve been living by you so long Does that make it so wrong That the world that I loved bears your name? I’ve been living by you so long Does that make it so wrong That the world that I loved bears your name? Now, it don't have to be Don't go cryin' to the sea That my tears are floodin' over the plain It don't have to be Don't go cryin' to the sea That my tears are floodin' over the plain Don't think it's all your fault I don't sew the soil with salt It’s just my tears are floodin' over the plain It don't take years to get over this sort of pain
4.
-- Lyrics -- Dark-eyed priest sitting in a wooden room  Outside the window stares the yellow moon Reading letters by candlelight That plays upon the page, that plays upon his sight Blue-eyed sister's asleep downstairs In a rocking chair by the oil lamp's glare Sisters of mercy asked her to stay Said the young priest'd been looking lonesome these days Young boy confessed today I can't keep my head straight I'm tangled up with two ladies And I'm afraid these sins ain't gonna go away Move on, make amends You got a good heart And he sends him on his way Priest puts down his glasses Outside he sees the grass is Frozen under moonbeams The rocking chair, it ceased to creak And in the silence, someone began to speak The curtains were her evening dress The black breeze was her breath Goosebumps where her fingers left Their marks upon his chest Sister wakes up, goes upstairs Calls through the door, you alright in there? She waits but there's no answer She hears the footsteps of a dancer The sleeping of the wild swans Begins not with a song but a whisper
5.
Quebec 04:06
-- Lyrics -- Love love my baby, but my baby, she don't feel the same Love love my baby, she don't feel the same Probably ain't love, but if it isn't how can I explain? When a woman moves on, it's best she just move away When a woman moves on, it's best she just move away When she fancies your friend, now that's twice the price to pay Yeah, I heard you baby, you said you never felt so free Yes, I heard you baby, you said you never felt so free You threw off your chains and then they landed on me Seen your legs wrapped around Mr. Salamander's bedpost Seen your legs wrapped around Mr. Salamander's bedpost Bust open the door, I almost catch you, almost You see, my heart's in the ashtray, soaking in the yellow light Yes, my heart's in the ashtray, blood dripping off the sides And my pulse is throwing up the ashes, up into the night When a man used to get the blues, he could hop a train When a man used to get the blues, he could hop a train What am I supposed to do, I cannot just hop a plane I’m gonna pack my bags, and I’m gonna go to Montreal I'm gonna pack my bags, gonna head off to Montreal I know a woman there, she's got a couch against the wall Said I’m gonna take that bridge that'll lead me to Quebec Gonna pack my bags, take that bridge, it'll lead me to Quebec Step onto that bridge, I swear, I ain't coming back Gonna take my bags, and go to Quebec Gonna pack my bags, and go to Quebec Step onto that bridge, I swear, I ain't coming back
6.
-- Lyrics -- Midwinter's eve, midweek in October A churchyard, green stardust blowing over Then it snowed all over the city Streetlamps fog so pretty Snow all over the city We were so warm inside She showed she had nothing to hide By the window by the bed There was something said The morning was coming so, so soon With her orchard breath in bloom It was coming so soon So soon I was standing there, at the top of the stairs You did up your coat, how should I know We were going nowhere? When we said goodbye, I saw some look in your eyes Which was not like the skies Which were being so indecisive Walking away without turning around I’m struggling to make it all seem so profound I must've been lost around the time that I found you, Eva Eva Maria Ave Maria Ave Maria Ave Maria
7.
-- Lyrics -- A light once lit your apartment number When something came over me While you were standing under It I took things too far lightly And far too lightly When I heard and felt it coming It was like thunder, and yet I wondered If it just might be Nothing But then a dozen mares came up the stairs With your hands you combed their hair I could see nothing would ever compare With beauty, nothing's fair Very soon I would see They came not for you But for me And I tried to calm them gently But they went wild at the sight of your bare hands Your earrings on the nightstand It's nothing you would ever understand They chased me from the land Taxis light up along the street What a sight for sore feet
8.
1921 04:17
-- Lyrics -- I'm tired of being reasonable I'm tired of waiting for Some sign of the old land To wash up on the shore In the city's afternoon Behind the buildings, a white moon Watched us look for a room that night But we could not find a room The key to you ever since we met Is that you don't lock any doors I'm climbing up your snowy steps My shoes on the wet wood floor Now, she's in the shower, I hear the pipes creaking Groaning like the traffic outside She comes down and sits next to me My mouth was open wide Your picture is a portrait The portrait's never done I don't know how it got here But I know where it's from
9.
-- Lyrics -- You've got the world in you We slept again in the nude Sky's bruised in pinks and blues Daybreak's barely breaking through You awake not to know the end of it Don't go to Klaksvik I hear those birds of dawn Keep my mind off what I was sleeping on The curtains by the bath are drawn Out the windows, onto the lawn And the neighbors’ children step on it Don't go to Klaksvik Now, the pearl up on the hill Won't move unless you will See, the fiddler takes his bow and brings It to the heartstrings That moor the pearl to your fingertips Don't go to Klaksvik Never felt so foreign and free as before You took me to your room and locked the door There's a lot to be said for leaving things unspoken of It's something else to leave me unawoken, love Don't go to Klaksvik The town sleeps soundly below Just like a baby in sheets that grow Half-soaked fishermen standing somewhat together Miles from the shore, in the fog lamp weather They’re calling, yes, they’re calling from their ships Don't go to Klaksvik
10.
Ladyland 01:44
-- Lyrics -- Heroes would've fought for you And poets would've thought of you Had you lived back when they did those sorts of things And seeing as how I long for you I thought maybe I'd write a song or two for you If I could only say your name Now, I know you said you couldn't But does that mean I shouldn't tell you? Ladyland died that afternoon Before your Pulitzer eyes and those of a drunken lunatic Or maybe he was just in love Ladyland fell beneath our feet Not long after a waltz we wreathed As if it was a one-sided Japanese love suicide As if it was a one-sided Japanese love suicide As if it was a one-sided Japanese…

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Vollebekk's debut album, « Inland », was released in 2010. Recorded and mixed in only ten days, Inland was the first record to be recorded on Breakglass Studios' newly-acquired 1968 Neve console, the very same board used on Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. Leif’s first album was described as "beautiful, memorable and moving" by NPR, "timeless and monumental" by London's Independent.

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released January 19, 2010

2010 Leif Vollebekk under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.

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Leif Vollebekk Montreal, Québec

Some artists go on feeling like secrets long after they've started being told. Leif Vollebekk is one of these treasures. Born in Ottawa in 1985, he taught himself music using instruments inherited from his grandfather: harmonica, guitar, piano, an old fiddle. Leif has release 3 albums so far : Inland, North Americana and Twin Solitude. ... more

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