Blow

Heather Nova Blow Lyrics
1.Blessed

Tonight my life is moving fast
I sit and watch the demons pass
A world I know but never seen
A fear that ripped the colour from me
I lit a candle for the dead
Saw the light around your head
Walked where angels never go
Saw them shining from below

It's easy when you're blessed
With money, love and sex
You're not like all the rest
It's easy when you're blessed

And did your mother lie to you?
You got God and death confused
I can't blame it on your soul
There was nowhere else it could go

It's easy when you're blessed
With money, love and sex
You're not like all the rest
It's easy when you're blessed
It's easy when you're blessed


2.Sugar

On the Vermont Transit Bus
I leaned my arm into a little chink of sun,
Going somewhere older than I was,
Strapped into something tight, keeping me small.
I dug into you like rock climbing;
Too scared of coming down,
Too scared of going up,
Too scared of rockface.
I should've split my sides or spilled my guts or hit you or
something,
But I was good, and your father's little pancakes
So round and perfect and me sitting up too straight,
Laughing in wrong places, kissing you,
Kissing up, kissing too soon.

When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?

And when you got me pregnant I stopped the party and
I stopped the typewriter and I stopped your dumb ball game in
the red barn and I
Stopped your father and bled instead.
And I felt the lie - something sticky on the inside,
A bitter wind in my throat,
Stopping me wanting,
In my stomach, in my head and you said

Sugar sugar, you couldn't come come
Sugar sugar, without your mother
Sugar sugar, you couldn't taste it
Sugar sugar, in my throat.

When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?


3.Maybe An Angel

I put my hands where your wings should be,
I put my feet where the earth should be
And I can't see very far
And when you said that you were dead I hung on.

Something I feel,
You are an angel, or maybe you could've been
Something out here
You are an angel or maybe you could've been.

I've got this light hangs over me
I've got this fear cuts into me
And I can't see very far
And when you said that you were dead I hung on.

Something I feel
You are an angel, or maybe you could've been
Something out here
You are an angel or maybe you could've been.

See how they run
And nobody said you would go
See how they fall
And I can't see very far
And when you said you were dead I hung on.

Something I feel
You are an angel, or maybe you could've been
Something out here
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
See how they run
See how they run
All the same, all the same
Something out here
You are an angel


4.Doubled Up

I saw a mountain from higher above.
I held your hand and I was doubled up in love.

Big sky above me, a river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love.

You're watching your step but you fall as you're walking.
You take it in stride but still you fall as you're walking.

Big sky above me, a river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love.

Feels good it feels like poetry
Don't ask me to explain it just
Feels good, like poetry,
I'm doubled up again.

Look at the sky,
Lift off like an aeroplane,
Watch the ground come up to meet you.

Big sky above me, a river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love.

Feels good, it feels like poetry,
Don't ask me to explain it just
feels good, like poetry.
I'm doubled up again.


5.Light Years

You found me
Drifting,
Big motion like a bird,
Strangest song I ever heard.

Now, now that you're here
Stay with me light years,
Light years, light years.

No paper, no ring
In the trees where frogs sing.
I brought lilies for you,
Think of all the things were gonna do.

Now, now that you're here,
Stay with me light years.

I give you a thousand hours,
Making love in the tall sunflowers.
I give you a thousand feet
Down where the water's deep.

Sleepy storm, sleepy head,
Limb for limb on my bed.

Now, now that you're here,
Stay with me light years,
Light years, light years,
Light years, stay with me,
Stay with me, stay.


6.Talking To Strangers

I'm talking to strangers
To see what I feel
Your face is changing now
And nothing seems real
These things I know
Are like a baby how they grow in me
I pull them out
Just like a baby for you to see them all

I'm talking to strangers
To see what I need
This love between us now
How it's twisting in me
I want to get it out
I want to feel the breathing
I want to really love
I want to know the meaning
I want to share all these things

These things I know
Are like a baby how they grow in me
I pull them out
Just like a baby for you to see them all


7.Shaking The Doll

Oh I won't be your pretty baby
I won't eat from your hand again
And the man in the white says it's alright
He says, come on girl give up the fight
You'll go to sleep, there will be no pain
Well I want to live with myself again

Well, where we lived there was a lighthouse
Throwing a white beam into our house
Over my body when I was sleeping
Over the secrets I was keeping
I could tell myself there would be no pain
But I have to live with myself again

I'm digging up, I'm digging up
I'm digging up, I'm digging up
I'm digging up, I'm digging up
I'm digging in the earth

I'm looking for signs
And I'm shaking the dolls
And the fairy-tales lied
And somewhere, back there
I didn't understand
Man and woman and woman and man
And I'm shaking the dolls
I'm shaking the dolls

Ooh - the dream isn't coming through
I can't feel for you

Well somewhere, back there
I didn't understand
Man and woman and woman and man
And I'm shaking the dolls
I'm shaking the dolls
Ooh I have to live with myself again
I want to be with my body again
You can't make me hollow again

Ooh - the dream isn't coming through
I can't feel for you.

Love, shooting up, through my veins
I gotta get a hit again


8.Frontier

Sometimes I'm an indian
Caught only by the sky
I can't go further
I'm going inside
See it's like a ride
it turns you out in the night
You're far from the road now
But it's getting brighter

If you don't believe it
then loose yourself and feel it
This is the bright frontier
right now, right here
This is the bright frontier
right now, right here

Taking hold of what we have
it's easy now
We're splitting it open
to eat the seeds
Looking in at what we've found
it's easy now
this big horizon
It's you and me

If you don't believe it
then loose yourself and feel it
This is the bright frontier
where the love runs free
This is the bright frontier
the sky is the limit for you and me

When you get to the top of something
Do you get that feeling?
do you get that high?
When you get to the top of something
do you get there, you want to jump off?
Oh - we're going to keep on stretching out
We're going to ride on...


9.Mothertongue

I got my daddy's eyes
but you gave me your double vision
I got my daddy's stride
Now I'm walking blind with double vision

And I can almost see your face now, in me
And I can almost feel the weight you carried

You had to break the skin
To put the blood between us
You did the dirty work
To put the blood between us

And I can almost see your face now, in me
And I can almost feel the weight you carried

Oooh rocking the seed in me
learning to speak the mothertongue

Sometimes between the lines
I crashed, I could've killed you
I tried to go too fast
I crashed, I could've killed you

And I can almost see your face now, in me
And I can almost feel the weight you carried

Ooh-rocking the seed in me
learning to speak the mothertongue