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Blood Brother

from New Ways by Leif Vollebekk

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"There was a period of a few months where I listened to nothing but Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak. I couldn't get enough of that rock n roll shuffle. And so when I wrote this piano ballad, I guess I just kept hearing these polyrhythms over it. I played it to Olivier and it ended up being this whole other thing. Not a ballad at all.

Back in high school, I think the first song I ever played with a band was Last Nite by the Strokes. That was in a half-empty high school cafeteria in Ottawa. But it felt like such a release. You don't forget that feeling. I think that snuck in there on this song.

I was in Newcastle, playing a gig with Margaret Glaspy and she covered that Paul Simon tune with the line "My love for you is so overpowering, I'm afraid I'm going to disappear."  Well, when she sang that line, it was like a bolt of lightning. I wrote this song a few weeks later." - Leif Vollebekk

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-- Lyrics --

Coincidence is piling up, don’t know if it’s a sign
Sometimes you got no choice in the matter
You gotta shake the tree of time
You see I finally found another that I’d like to introduce
Do you know what I’m thinking, can you tell me who I am
Do you think that I am doomed?
 
You’re my blood brother
What am I gonna do
You’re my blood brother
She’s just like me and you
 
I really fell hard for you baby, I won’t fall for that again
With my mind twisted and turned in all directions til I don’t know who I am
You know your lips whenever they kiss me it’s like a gun against my skin
But if ever they cut you down with a dagger, only I would feel it going in
 
She’s my blood brother
What am I gonna do
She’s my blood brother
What am I gonna do
 
My life is on the radio, they’re saying it’s a dream
I can tell that the lights are fading but it’s just a change of scene
You know sometimes it’s like
I’m weightless and it’s just like I ain’t here
In fact for my next performance,
I’m gonna plain disappear
 
She’s my blood brother
It’s just like I ain’t here
She’s my blood brother
I’m gonna plain disappear
It’s just like I ain’t here
I’m gonna plain disappear

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from New Ways, released November 1, 2019
Leif Vollebekk - guitars, bass, synth, vocals
Olivier Fairfield - drums

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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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