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Man Time

by Pollyanna

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1.
I crossed a frontier And flew over here To come to you But you don’t seem to care On Columbus Square Ain’t it true? Your smile is cold And self-controlled Your smile is cold No street paved with gold No one to hold Your smile is cold I delved into my heart I needed a new start It was you But your life here is so alike And as tired as mine Ain’t it true? And maybe you just lied When you said that you missed me What failures do you hide In this land of opportunity?
2.
Love Twice 03:18
These days are like deserts to cross I know damn well what they have in store Thirst and hunger, we know the cost Of broken hearts, but we wanted more Up and down, high and low It’s our rollercoaster, fast and slow So we had the drinks we had the talks We had the coffees in the morning And slowly felt a minor change That turned a bit hard to ignore Up and down, high and low It’s our rollercoaster, way to go! Almost a century of a lifetime That’s enough to love me twice If it’s too late, if it’s too soon Shall we have another try? Up and down, high and low It’s our rollercoaster, don’t you know? How much for another ride How long until the day I die We’re off the track but we can slide What’s the point of learning to swim If you don’t want to take a dive LIVRET-
3.
Four seasons 03:45
Like a dead limb our love had become You had to cut it off to move on And you told me that it would be fine All we needed was just a little time You didn’t help me at all With your strange arrangement Now a year has flown like a rocket And your silent storm’s driving me nuts I would never have taken your hand If I had known I would lose a friend Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle Like the river sliding mud From the top of the mountain to the sea We got so deep, see how low we can be But oh! Our desire! It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire! Like the shine of a diamond ring Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle Now we share all the darkness Or it’s just that it’s harder to hide Like the scars left by all our missing ones But oh! Our desire, It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire, Like the shine of a diamond ring, It promised to last for ever I’m a coal miner With my pick and my shovel I dig the ground Looking for a sense of life Where carbon turns to light I wanted to see you closer How you believed in unbreakable vows But weight is bringing me down Gravity is our only bond But oh! Our desire, it was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire, like the shine of a diamond ring, Oh! Our desire ! It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire ! Like the shine of a diamond ring It was pure and born in the flames of hell’s fire You didn’t help me at all With your strange arrangement La la la Like a dead limb our love had become You had to cut it off to move on And you told me that it would be fine I should have known that it was a lover’s lie
4.
Diamond Ring 04:11
Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle Like the river sliding mud From the top of the mountain to the sea We got so deep, see how low we can be But oh! Our desire! It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire! Like the shine of a diamond ring Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle Now we share all the darkness Or it’s just that it’s harder to hide Like the scars left by all our missing ones But oh! Our desire, It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire, Like the shine of a diamond ring, It promised to last for ever I’m a coal miner With my pick and my shovel I dig the ground Looking for a sense of life Where carbon turns to light I wanted to see you closer How you believed in unbreakable vows But weight is bringing me down Gravity is our only bond But oh! Our desire, it was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire, like the shine of a diamond ring, Oh! Our desire ! It was such a beautiful thing Oh! Our desire ! Like the shine of a diamond ring It was pure and born in the flames of hell’s fire
5.
Man Time 04:02
I am walking outside in the middle of the night The pavement is gleaming in the silver moonshine And shutters crack like bones in the dark Glowing windows watching And shutters crack like bones in the dark Watching us like ghost eyes They just want to talk, they say They’re just a little too drunk, they say They’re just a little lonely, they say It’s just a little fight, it’s just a little blood So don’t you worry too much In a minute they’ll be in love So don’t you worry too much It’s nightime, mantime outside, And it’s not only because it’s late It’s nightime, mantime outside, Because for us it’s always too late It’s always too late for us Always too late to be left alone It’s always too late for us Always too late to be left alone
6.
Railroad Boy 03:54
She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother said Her mother, she went upstairs too, Said «Daughter, oh daughter, what’s troubling you?» «Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell, It’s that railroad boy I love so well He’s courted me my life away And now at home he will not stay There is a place in London town where my love goes and he sits there down He takes a strange girl on his knee, And he tells her what he won’t tell me» Her father he came home from work, Said «Where’s my daughter, she seems so hurt» He went upstairs to give her hope And he found her hanging by the rope He took his knife and he cut her down, And on her bosom these words he found : «Go dig my grave both wide and deep, Put a marble stone at my head and feet And on my grave put a snow white dove, To tell the world that I died of love»

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released November 4, 2022

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Pollyanna Paris, France

A (French) indie-folkster. Her honest songwriting and her heart-warming voice has led her to share the bill with riot grrrls stars (Sleater Kinney), sophisticated indie pop (Wilco), chanson (Françoiz Breut), rootsy folksters in Tennessee and shanty choirs in Germany. Her experiences as an outsider (in Europe and the Americas) open up her musical field to all things pop, rock, folk and folklores. ... more

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