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Break The Balance

by Chloe Charles

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1.
Business 03:28
there’s a hole in her middle and she can’t seem to fill it up there’s a hole in her middle and my heart can’t fill it up (CHORUS) But why does she try to find an occasion to mend it up when all the while search and hide an identity that she’s not Cuz girl I like your business I like your business Girl I like your business whoa Let’s have a good time, time There’s a crack in the ceiling And we see right through the top There’s a crack in the ceiling And the sky won’t fill it up (CHORUS) Ohhhhhhh Tell her that it’s allright I think that she’s just fine We like her just that way And we want her to stay because Girl I like your business I like your business I like your business Girl I like your business whoa Let’s have a good time Do do do…
2.
Find Her Way 02:47
pensive and glaring shes staring right through me dreaming and wandering will she find her way, hey its the future shes watching cant quite see the frames choppy and blurry scenes are missing will she find her way will she find her will she find her will she find her way the same old story never in the presentence the little silence killed with distractions will she find her way Dont think too hard Cause you can't force life That lady you bumped into could one day be your wife but you're too busy drawing blueprints to set aside a little time for the present and a little sweet surprise a sweet surprise Will she find her way
3.
Tarot 03:33
Do daoo daoo Nothing that you could say Could make me feel this way I’m walking slowly into blue Nothing that you could do Could make me feel so doomed I’m falling slowly into you (CHORUS 1) But the poppies grow at the base Of the tree that screams my name The light in the water leaves a trace On the leaves in the ripples That read my fate Do daoo daoo The time that we bought Just to pay off our costs Is a tidle wave We can’t delay The oceans, the tables The life course we enable Acquires bumps and character Dents and strength that’re visible Miles and miles of travel And meetings of souls (CHORUS 2) But the poppies grow at the base Of the tree that screams my name The light in the water leaves a trace On the leaves in the ripples That read my fate Only time can tell the end of my days In the tarot cards The gypsies bend (INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE) da da da da da X4 oooooo oh X3 aho aho aho aho aho aho aho aho o
4.
My Child 03:03
Give child Go world Wait place Pain take Place Go my child Find your way The world may be misleading But you’ll make it just the same I give you my wisdom I give you my days But it’s you who’ll make it something It’s you who’ll give it meaning So trek on Ooo Go my child Find your place The world will give you nothing Only you will give you pain You can turn it to nothing Or be better off instead Ist you who’ll make it something It’s you who’ll give it meaning So trek on Ooo Live your life with pace Take it day by day Give it what you can Make it what you may Brave it through the pain Give yourself a break Find yourself a place Take it day by day Do not hesitate to create Give child Go world Wait place Pain take
5.
REFRAIN FROM FIRE Seven years of rain and ice and snow I gave you my heart but you ran away to Rome We hid our lives behind the covers The story thickens and the plot begins to grow Say it aint so Pictures of dry land, a heat you did not know Fire in our skin, water to warm to cool We set aside our lives behind the covers The story it thickens and the plot begins to grow Refrain from fire Refrain from fire I tried to stay far from the heat The burning flames took over me And now the fire’s in my soul It whispers sparks up through my throat I choke on coals that burn my tongue And taste the memories of what I’ve done An ember burns right through my chest How can I live in such unrest
6.
Soldier 03:45
Since you came You are less than you were And since you became You are what they want (CHORUS) And I am waiting For you to brave it And you are begging Just to be who you are When we were young We knew who we were And as we grew older We became soldiers (CHORUS) (BRIDGE) Slowly discreatly It comes through It's sneaky From being to being Shall we run away From the robots We became Or shall we stay the same As our younger selves Who remain (CHORUS)
7.
Captive 03:29
you are quickly growing older the tops of your shelves are acquiring dust the books you've read pages turning yellow the lampshades cracking give hint to the life you've made The junction on your wooden floorboards the place where we met is wearing to dust comments on the page cutouts of the news are the thoughts that you had that we'll never lose you live in my head your words hold me captive the little things you've said your words hold me captive everything you said to me has a special place in my memory I'll carry it on even when you're gone and the messages you left for me in the columns of the books you read to me I'll carry it on even when you're gone
8.
Although it seems far away The hole you walked through is shrinking Oh Grandma will teach me how to do what you've never done? Shouldn't this be fun?
9.
I could share you with another one To give you what I can’t do But want to show you (CHORUS) Do you need more love Do you need more love Demons rock me From the inside of my body They broke in and robbed me And you of our intimacy 1000 nightmare compete with your daily caress my body and show me that you love me 1001 times just to break the balance (CHOURS) From the inside of my eyes I saw the repetition of our demise The things I didn’t do That my eyes can’t remember Made me weak Turned us into embers (BRIDGE) oooooooo Too many cocktails With double vision One I ran to The other made me quiver He gave me drugs And you gave me love But you’re still the one I’m beating up Do you need more Do you need more Do you need more Love (X2) I could share you with another one To give you what I can’t do But want to show you
10.
Amulet 03:29
Faster than the rain came down Hands cradled me from the ominous clouds I took those hands For me to keep A treasure unto me I bequeath I lent you to my amulet And locked you safe inside of it I wear you close to my chest And grasp those hands for remembrance of (CHORUS) hands that touched my skin of hands that opened of hands that made me grin cuz those hands couldn’t go away cuz I locked them in my amulet little hands on my chest in my amulet never come out cuz I starved you to death you deserved a body you deserved a soul but I took you for keeping greed made you my own (CHORUS 2) (INSTRUMENTAL) (CHORUS 1)
11.
And old lady came to me With a golden face and golden teeth A crinkled eye and a furrowed brow Oh the things she said and how She taught me of things I’d never seen She told me of you and me She told me of the secrets The secretes that we’d keep (CHORUS) Oh the sound The silence we buried underground Oh the deeds The secrets that we’d keep Her voice it cracked Her voice it croaked She said our lives would be no joke With a piercing eye she stared through you Said I’d shake the earth you stood Right through (CHORUS 2) Your bones The silence we buried underground Oh the deeds The secrets that we’d keep (Repeat) (BRIDGE) The hole that we made is swallowing the ocean The hole that we made is swallowing the sea The hole that we made is swelling before us The hole that we made is just big enough for me (Repeat) I hushed (Repeat)
12.
Faith Has got me this far Not by the standards of your god But in the little things And in the crickets And in the toads (CHORUS) Sitting with a bottle that’s draining Sitting with a bottle of wine Sitting with a bottle that’s fading And your gods not mine Sitting with a bottle that’s draining Sitting with a bottle of wine Sitting in a pond that fading And your gods not mine Heaven Can I come to where you are? But my heavens not yours It’s in the little things And in the crickets And in the little things That we are So heaven When I’m dreaming in the city Will you bring me Some sanctuary (CHORUS)
13.
We'll walk with the cats and girraffs tonight Give me your hand and we'll all take flight Let's all grow some wings, any colour you'd like So come on get naked cause we're furry tonight

credits

released February 13, 2013

All songs written by chloe charles, chloe charles Publishing (sOcAN) except My child written by chloe charles & davide santi.
Musician List: Lead vocals by chloe charles, classical guitar by chloe charles except on My child where guitar is played by davide santi, cello by Amahl Arluanandan, violin by Kelly Lefaive, drums by Justin craig except for refrain from Fire where Andrew Mullin plays, bass by sam McLellan, electric guitar by Niel Whitford, piano by Matt duncan, Korg by Gordon Hyland. Harmony on soldier by Aly tadros. Bass har- mony on refrain from Fire by Andrew Mullin.
string arrangements were a collaboration between Mackenzie Longpre, Andjelika Javorina, sam McleLellan, Kelly Lefaive, Amahl Arluanamdan and chloe charles. “Girl i like your business” inspired by Jay Aymar’s song, rock On. Arrangements for tarot were a collaboration between sam McLellan and chloe charles.
engineered by Andrew Mullin @ triceratone Audio and Junction studio Mixed by duane Lundy @ shangrila Productions
cover photograph: carrie Lee @ clee images Makeup: Natasha Kudashkina cover concept: chloe charles
Management: evelyn cream, Athena Music international.

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Chloe Charles Toronto, Ontario

Soul, pop, and classical? Put the 3 together and you get music for your head, your heart and your feet. Take Billy Holiday's sultry poise, mix in some Amy Winehouse grit, Adele's hooks and the quirky intelligence of Joanna

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